Michael Cuthbert
Thursday, 9 August, 2018
Credo is a concordance of one by Hubertus de Salinis; presented at AMS Vancouver, 2016 and the San Lorenzo 2211 conference, 2017
Archive | Harvard University Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass., United States (US-CAh) |
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Shelfmark | MS Typ 122 |
Surface | Parchment |
Numbering System | None / Unknown |
Measurements | 257 x 180 (= 1 bifolio, c. 257 x 360, trimmed from original size of c. 257 x 410) mm |
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Contents | 3 pieces from 2 composers |
A bifolium, now pasted inside back cover of missal. Apparently the only surviving remnants of a liturgical music manuscript. Copied by a single scribe. Music copied in northern Italy; missal copied in diocese of Narbonne. Missal apparently in northern Italy by 15th century, where it was rebound, using music bifolio as back pastedown. Bookplate 'Ex libris Franc Com a Thun Hohenstein Tetschen' Deposited by Philip Hofer, 1967; bequeathed, 1984.
black mensural notation on red staves
red staves; staff height 16.5mm
No original foliation visible.
No initials or decoration on music folios; missal has gold-leaf initials and marginal ornaments in French style, with later overlay of Italian decoration, including unidentified coats of arms on f. 1 and f. 145.
Parchment
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French Missal, with polyphony on flyleaves:
1 Credo, 2 motets = 3 (fragmentary)
Anonymous
2 parchment folios, ca. 257 x 180 (= 1 bifolio, ca. 257 x 360, trimmed from original size of ca. 257 x 410), now pasted inside back cover of missal. Apparently the only surviving remnants of a liturgical music manuscript. No original foliation visible. Black mensural notation on red staves. Copied by a single scribe. Staff height 16.5. No initials or decoration on music folios; missal has gold-leaf initials and marginal ornaments in French style, with later overlay of Italian decoration, including unidentified coats of arms on f. 1 and f. 145.
Ca. 1409-15? (music); late 14th century (missal). Music copied in northern Italy; missal copied in diocese of Narbonne. Missal apparently in northern Italy by 15th century, where it was rebound, using music bifolio as back pastedown. Manuscript now owned by Philip Hofer; presently deposited in Houghton Library.
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Folio / Pages | Composition / Item title | Source attribution | Composers (? Uncertain) |
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A | indecipherable | - | Anonymous |
indecipherableAnonymous
Appears on:
A
Genres:
Motet
Voice:
[no designation]
Languages:
none
Voice Text:
[End of an Italian motet]
General NoteFacsimilesBENT, Margaret. 'New sacred polyphonic fragments of the early Quattrocento', Studi musicali, IX (1980), plate 2b. Editions1. BENT, Margaret. 'New sacred polyphonic fragments of the early Quattrocento', Studi musicali, IX (1980), p. 186. 2. Italian Sacred and Ceremonial Music, edited by Kurt von Fischer and F. Alberto Gallo, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1987. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XIII, p. 250. |
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Av | untexted work | - | Anonymous |
untexted workAnonymous
Appears on:
Av
Genres:
Motet, textless
Voice:
[no designation]
Languages:
none
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B–Bv | Patrem omnipotentem [Credo] fragment [3vv] | - | |
Appears on:
B–Bv
Genres:
Credo (patrem omnipotentem), Mass Ordinary
Voice:
[no designation]
Languages:
Latin
Voice Text:
Credo fragment [3vv]
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Composer | Compositions |
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Salinis, Hymbert de (ca. 1378–) |
Composition | Composers (? Uncertain) | Folios / Pages |
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indecipherable | Anonymous | A |
Patrem omnipotentem [Credo] fragment [3vv] | B–Bv | |
untexted work | Anonymous | Av |
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‡ denotes primary source study
Cuthbert, Michael Scott. 2006. Trecento fragments and Polyphony beyond the codex. Harvard University, Ph.D.
Bent, Margaret. 1992. Motets Recovered from a Binding (fMS typ 122). The Marks in the Fields: Essays on the Uses of Manuscripts, edited by Margaret Bent, 16-19. Cambridge, MA: The Houghton Library.
Bent, Margaret. 1980. New Sacred Polyphonic Fragments of the Early Quattrocento. Studi Musicali, 171-89.
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