Manuscript contains the Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine, with additions; text and pen trials have been copied on f. 217v, together with the inscription 'Rychardus … Dei gratia rex anglie qd hault este.' (CCM). Margaret Bent has surmised that the inscription 'Rychardus Dei gracia Rex Anglie quod hault este' was later than the musical jotting. The mention of King Richard places this early use of void notation before 1400, possibly the earliest datable use of void notation. Assuming this is the same book (Legenda aurea), it is not a mass fuit homo (as was once believed) but pen trials 'fuit homo', and a textless musical jotting or sketch on a two-line stave with void notation and flagged semiminims. There is no reason to think it is from a mass. Copied in England. Purchased from Sotheby in 1966.
US-DMurl MS Latin 98
Duke University Libraries, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Durham, N. C., United States
non-music MS with interpolated music: late 14th century (1390s)
| Archive | Duke University Libraries, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Durham, N. C., United States (US-DMurl) |
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| Shelfmark | MS Latin 98 |
| Image Availability | DIAMM does not have images of this source. |
| Surface | Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 190 x 145 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 1 composition, 1 is anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
English covers of red doeskin over boards; original red leather thong with metal clasp
Notation
black void mensural notation
Foliation
Modern foliation.
Foliation
217v
Surface
parchment
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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1 Mass (fragmentary)
Anonymous
217 parchment folios, 190 x 145. Modern foliation. 14th-century English covers of red doeskin over boards; original red leather thong with metal clasp. Manuscript contains the Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine, with additions; a fragment of a Missa Fuit homo, in white mensural notation, has been copied on f. 217', together with the inscription "Rychardus . . . Dei gratia rex anglie qd hault este."
Ca. 1300 (the book itself); the fragment of music is from the late 15th century. Copied in England. Purchased from Sotheby in 1966.
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‡ denotes primary source study
Tirro, Frank P. 1981. Review of "Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music, 1400-1550, Vol. I: A-J" in Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 431-432. Pages: p. 432. Notes: Corrects entry.
Hamm, Charles E, and Herbert Kellman (editors). 1979-1988. Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550. Renaissance Manuscript Studies, vol. 1-5. 5 vols. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag.
‡ Bent, Margaret. 1969. The Old Hall Manuscript: A Paleographical Study. Cambridge University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: p. 207, note 3.
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Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550
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