US-CAh MS Typ 122

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

flyleaves (pasted down): c. 1409-15?

Archive Harvard University Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass., United States (US-CAh)
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
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: Cambri(Mass.)H 122
Notations
  • black full mensural
Relationships
External Links
Provenance
  • Italy
Contents 3 pieces from 2 composers
General Description

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.

Houghton Library Catalogue, 2009
Notation

black mensural notation on red staves

Houghton Library Catalogue, 2009
Ruling

red staves; staff height 16.5mm

Houghton Library Catalogue, 2009
Foliation

No original foliation visible.

Houghton Library Catalogue, 2009
Decoration

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.

Houghton Library Catalogue, 2009
Surface

Parchment

Houghton Library Catalogue, 2009
Census Catalogue of Music Description

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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.

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

Bv

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
A indecipherable - Anonymous

indecipherable

Anonymous
Appears on: A
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Voice Text: [End of an Italian motet]
General Note

Facsimiles BENT, Margaret. 'New sacred polyphonic fragments of the early Quattrocento', Studi musicali, IX (1980), plate 2b. Editions 1. 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.
Av untexted work - Anonymous

untexted work

Anonymous
Appears on: Av
Genres: Motet, textless
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
B–Bv Patrem omnipotentem [Credo] fragment [3vv] -
Salinis, Hymbert de (ca. 1378–)

Patrem omnipotentem [Credo] fragment [3vv]

Salinis, Hymbert de (ca. 1378–)
Appears on: B–Bv
Genres: Credo (patrem omnipotentem), Mass Ordinary
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Credo fragment [3vv]
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Salinis, Hymbert de (ca. 1378–)
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
indecipherable Anonymous A
Patrem omnipotentem [Credo] fragment [3vv]
Salinis, Hymbert de (ca. 1378–)
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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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

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Monday, 23 January, 2017

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