Unstemmed semibreves with dot of division

10v

Parchment

RISM Supplement: ii + 234 + ii fols, (music added to item 2, foliated 5-222). Parchment. Now 235 x 140 mm, trimmed from perhaps c. 270 x c. 170 mm. Written space now 213 x 130 mm (fol. l0r-v); 120 mm wide (fol. 222v). Ruling: eleven freely-ruled red five-line staves (12-14 mm); frame rules (fol. 10v); three freely-ruled red four-line staves (7-8 mm), frame rules and text guides (fol. 222v). Collation: I/8 wants 1-3 and 8 (fols. 1-2 are conjoint), 2/8 wants 7 and 8 (? blank), 3-7/12, 8/12 + a bifolium and a slip (fols. 73-75) inserted after 2, 9-19/12, 20/6 wants 6 (? blank) after fol. 222, 21/12. Quires 3-19, the main text of the Lumiere, are numbered at the end in red I-XVII. Script: anglicana formata (fol. l0v). Notation: unstemmed semibreves, with dot of division, used syllabically. 2° fo. Naueit.

Written in England. All musical items are additions, made in blank spaces, in the second main item of the manuscript (fols. 5-222), a copy s. xiii ex. of the Lumiere as lais of Pierre of Peckam; this item is bound with an incomplete calendar (fols. 1-4), and a copy of the Anglo-Norman version of the Disticha Catonis in rhyming couplets by Everard (fols. 223-234; for details see MMBL, I, p. 276, IV, pp. 747-748). The calendar was used in the diocese of Norwich, perhaps at the church of St Mary, Burwell, Cambs.; see sub 30 May, 'Dedicatio ecclesie beate marie virginis de burwele' (fol. 2), and 24 September, 'Dedicatio ecclesie Norwici' (fol. 4). The other items in the manuscript do not, however, share this origin (for discussions of this point see Bowers, Lefferts and Legge). Items 2 and 3 may have been together from an early date, but it can be shown that Item 1 was a later addition to the collection, since earlier sewing-holes in fols. 1-4 do not match those of fols. 5-234. Marks and indentations from an early binding, probably s. xiii/xiv (cf. Pollard, p. 57, figs. 3-4) remain on fol. 234v. A colophon relating to the date of compilation of the Lumiere (fol. 222 'Les quatre livres de cest romaunz furent fetz a nouel lyu en surie E les deus dreyns a oxneford. Si fu comence a la pasche a nouel lyu. e termine a la chandelure apres a oxneford. le an nostre seygnur Mil. e deus cenz. e seisaunte setyme') is accompanied by a note, 'This Boke is this yer 1563 of ye age of iiic lakinge iiii yeres. William Sutton Ihon Clarkson ther wyfis present'. This was one of the manuscripts sent for rebinding in 1815 or 1816 (MMBL, IV, p. 748). Bound in 'crimson velvet' over pith boards; edges of leaves gilded. A brief description of the contents of the manuscript, by H. Pétrie, made at Stockwell, 1816, and by Paul Mayer, including a note on the musical items, is on fol. iiv. Owned: Marmaduke Fothergill (1654-1731); included as 'Catechism MS.' in the catalogue of his library (see Lycett, III, p. 1026), and his pressmark, 'F.8.173', appears on fol. 1. Given by his widow, 1737. 'iii. E. 49' in the York Minster library catalogue of 1774.

NOTES ON CONTENTS

1 Tr and T only; three-voice version, with Mot text Reor nescia, ed. PMFC 15, No. 14. Also in Lbl, MS Sloane 1210, fols. 142v-143. Zelo tui also appears with music, intended possibly to depict the polyphony, on a roll in a historiated initial to Psalm 97 (Cantate Domino), in Lbl, Arundel MS 83, fol. 63v (the Howard Psalter; see plate 25); the illumination of this book is dated c. 1310-c. 1320 in L. F. Sandler, Gothic Manuscripts, 1285-1385, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1986), II, pp. 58-59. 2 Tr only; three-voice version, with Mot text O livor anxie and T, ed. PMFC 1, No. 22. Also in F-Pn, MS français 146, fol. 21v; in index of F-Pn, MS n.a.fr. 23190 (No. 72); I-TRmn, MS 87, fols. 231v-232. A monophonic sequence, set polyphonically in Cgc, MS 512/543, fol. 230r-v, Ad rose titulum (AH, XXXVII, p. 72), is added on fol. 222v.

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