US-CAh Inc 8948 (32.5)

Harvard University Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass., United States

fragment: mid 15th century

Archive Harvard University Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass., United States (US-CAh)
Shelfmark Inc 8948 (32.5)
Surface Parchment
Numbering System None
Measurements 283 x 205 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: Cambri(Mass.)H 8948
  • olim (Former shelfmark): CurtisWathey: (incorrectly) Inc. 8949 - both leaves are from 8948
Relationships
Provenance
  • England
Contents 4 pieces from 2 composers
General Description

Bound as flyleaves in Speculum Exemplorum, a collection of religious fables and historical incidents printed at Deventer, The Netherlands, in 1481. The two folios, originally measuring c. 330 x 220, are similar but not identical to one another in details of layout and calligraphy. Copied in England. The incunabulum itself was a gift to Charles Eliot Norton in 1905; purchased in 1913 with the Norton Fund, to be added to the library of Charles Eliot Norton. The polyphonic music on the flyleaves was first noticed by James Walsh, Keeper of Printed Books.

Houghton Library Catalogue, 2009
Physical Description

The front flyleaf, containing the Kyrie fragments, is badly faded and practically illegible.

Houghton Library Catalogue, 2009
Notation

not indicated

Houghton Library Catalogue, 2009
Ruling

not received yet

Houghton Library Catalogue, 2009
Foliation

1-2v

Houghton Library Catalogue, 2009
Surface

Parchment

Houghton Library Catalogue, 2009
Census Catalogue of Music Description

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Several Kyries (fragmentary), 3 Glorias (fragmentary)

(Dunstable)-2, anonymous

2 parchment folios, 283 x 205, bound as flyleaves in Speculum Exemplorum, a collection of religious fables and historical incidents printed at Deventer, The Netherlands, in 1481. The front flyleaf, containing the Kyrie fragments, is badly faded and practically illegible. The two folios, originally measuring ca. 330 x 220, are similar but not identical to one another in details of layout and calligraphy.

Mid-15th century. Copied in England. The incunabulum itself was a gift to Charles Eliot Norton in 1905 and was given to the Harvard library in 1913. The polyphonic music on the flyleaves was first noticed by James Walsh, Keeper of Printed Books.

Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550

rear flyleaf 2r (original verso)

Click an entry to see more information about that item.

Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
1–1v fragments of several (three?) Kyries - Anonymous

fragments of several (three?) Kyries

Anonymous
Appears on: 1–1v
Genres: Kyrie eleison, Mass Ordinary
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin, Greek
Voice Text: fragments of several Kyries
rear flyleaf r Et in terra pax [Gloria] [Tro] Spiritus et alme -
Dunstaple, John (ca. 1390–1453)

Et in terra pax [Gloria] [Tro] Spiritus et alme

Dunstaple, John (ca. 1390–1453)
Appears on: rear flyleaf r
Genres: Gloria (et in terra pax), Mass Ordinary
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Gloria Da gaudiorum premium [fragment]
General Note

fragment: tenor and contratenor only
rear flyleaf v Missa Da gaudiorum praemia: Gloria (fragment) -
Dunstaple, John (ca. 1390–1453)

Missa Da gaudiorum praemia: Gloria (fragment)

Dunstaple, John (ca. 1390–1453)
Appears on: rear flyleaf v
Genres: Mass Ordinary, Troped Gloria
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Gloria Da gaudiorum premium [fragment]
General Note

fragment: discantus and tenor only
rear flyleaf v Et in terra [Gloria] fragment - Anonymous

Et in terra [Gloria] fragment

Anonymous
Appears on: rear flyleaf v
Genres: Gloria (et in terra pax), Mass Ordinary
General Note

fragment: tenor only on last three staves of the folio. Listed in Curtis-Wathey as G59.
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Dunstaple, John (ca. 1390–1453)
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Et in terra [Gloria] fragment Anonymous rear flyleaf v
Et in terra pax [Gloria] [Tro] Spiritus et alme
Dunstaple, John (ca. 1390–1453)
rear flyleaf r
fragments of several (three?) Kyries Anonymous 1–1v
Missa Da gaudiorum praemia: Gloria (fragment)
Dunstaple, John (ca. 1390–1453)
rear flyleaf v

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‡ denotes primary source study

Wright, Peter (editor). 2013. Fifteenth-Century Liturgical Music, VIII: Settings of the Gloria and Credo. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer and Bell for the British Academy. Notes: edition of one of the glorias.

Curtis, Gareth R K, and Andrew B Wathey. 1994. Fifteenth-Century English Liturgical Music: A List of the Surviving Repertory. Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 1-69.

Wolff, Barbara Maehrenholz. 1992. Music Manuscripts at Harvard: A Catalogue of Music Manuscripts from the 14th to the 20th centuries in the Houghton Library and the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library. 52. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Library.

Hamm, Charles E, and Herbert Kellman (editors). 1979-1988. Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550. Renaissance Manuscript Studies. 5 vols. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag.

Kovarik, Edward. 1968. A Newly-Discovered Dunstable Fragment. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 21-33.

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Margaret Bent

Saturday, 5 January, 2019

Problems with inventory disentangled. Leaves re-designated.

Margaret Bent

Thursday, 3 January, 2019

number of Kyries now altered to "several (three?)" Dunstaple Glorias updated & third Gloria (tenor only) added. I haven't swapped v/r as indicated above (old r = new v, etc) partly because images are labelled with old r/v. If this is a problem we will need to change image titles too. (Dunstaple's Gloria Spiritus et alme on back board not changed.)

Peter Wright

Wednesday, 17 January, 2018

bibliography updated

Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550

Monday, 23 January, 2017

NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description