US-NYcub Smith Western Add. MS 21

Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New York, United States

fragments: c. 1460-70

Archive Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New York, United States (US-NYcub)
Shelfmark Smith Western Add. MS 21
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Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements c.260-70 x 165-80 (one is 135 x 75) mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: NYorkC 21
Notations
  • black void mensural
Copyists
Relationships
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Provenance
  • Lille, France
Contents 10 pieces from 4 composers
General Description

Contains three antiphon settings of English origin; hymn Dulcis Jesu memoria for Feast of St Bernard (20 August), antiphons Inviolata, Regina celi, Magnificats.

Copied in France, c. 1460-70, for Confraternity of Notre-Dame de la Treille, Collegiate Church of St Peter, Lille. Copied by one or two scribes, including possibly the organist Jacques Hourier. (Cf. a chapel endowment of 8 May 1461 (Edmond Hautcoeur, Cartulaire de l'Eglise collegiale de Lille, (Lille, 1894), vol. 2, 1030 ff. - see Strohm 1993).

Later incorporated into binding of record of rents and revenues of cure of Saint-Julien (Lorraine), dated 1515. Owned in 20th century by David Eugene Smith, Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University and a collector of mathematical rare books and manuscripts; Smith collection donated to Columbia University in 1931. Discovered in 1980 by Stephen Bonime in a box of uncatalogued fragments from the David Eugene Smith Collection in this library. Formerly part of binding of Western MS 28; now enclosed in plastic protective envelopes.

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Watermark

Bishop's crook (Midoux # 229).

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Notation

black void mensural

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Foliation

Modern pencil foliation, 1-7. Re-foliated A1-3, B1-2, C1-2 recognising continuity of pieces across fragments, and reversing the view of recto-verso for some fragments..

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Decoration

inked calligraphic initials.

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Surface

Paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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3 Magnificats, 6 motets = 9 (all incomplete)

(Dunstable/Power)-1, (Frye?)-1, anon-7

7 fragmentary paper folios, ca. 260-70 x 165-80 (one folio measures 135 x 75), discovered in 1980 by Stephen Bonime in box of uncatalogued fragments from David Eugene Smith Collection in this library. Formerly part of binding of Western MS 28; now enclosed in plastic protective envelopes. Modern pencil foliation, 1-7. Copied by one or two scribes. Inked calligraphic initials. Watermark: bishop's crook (Midoux # 229).

Mid or late 15th century. Probably copied in northeastern France. Later incorporated into binding of record of rents and revenues of cure of Saint-Julien (Lorraine), dated 1515. Owned in 20th century by David Eugene Smith, Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University and a collector of mathematical rare books and manuscripts; Smith collection donated to Columbia University in 1931.

We thank Dr. Stephen Bonime, who is writing an article on the manuscript, for his assistance in the preparation of this entry.

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

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
A1r (7v) Salve regina mater misericordiae -
Power, Leonel (–1445) (?)
Dunstaple, John (ca. 1390–1453) (?)

Salve regina mater misericordiae

Power, Leonel (–1445) (?)
Dunstaple, John (ca. 1390–1453) (?)
Appears on: A1r (7v)
Genres: BVM, Motet, Salve Regina
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Salve regina
A1v (7r)–A2r (3v) O pulcherrima mulierum -
Lantins, Hugo de (fl. 1420-30) (?)

O pulcherrima mulierum

Lantins, Hugo de (fl. 1420-30) (?)
Appears on: A1v (7r)–A2r (3v)
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: O pulcherrima mulierum surge propera
A2v (3r)–A3r (1v) Dulcis Jesu memoria - Anonymous

Dulcis Jesu memoria

Anonymous
Appears on: A2v (3r)–A3r (1v)
Genres: Hymn, Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Dulcis Iesu memoria
A3v (1r) O gloriosa genitrix - Anonymous

O gloriosa genitrix

Anonymous
Appears on: A3v (1r)
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: O gloriosa genitrix
B1r (5r) Inviolata (O benigna o regina) - Anonymous

Inviolata (O benigna o regina)

Anonymous
Appears on: B1r (5r)
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: O benigna o regina
B1v (5v)–B2r (2v) Regina caeli laetare alleluia - Anonymous

Regina caeli laetare alleluia

Anonymous
Appears on: B1v (5v)–B2r (2v)
Genres: Marian antiphon, Motet, Regina caeli laetare
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Regina caeli laetare alleluia
B2r (2r) Resurrexit sicut dixit - Anonymous

Resurrexit sicut dixit

Anonymous
Appears on: B2r (2r)
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Resurrexit dixit
C1r (4r) Magnificat (I) - Anonymous

Magnificat (I)

Anonymous
Appears on: C1r (4r)
Genres: BVM, Canticle, Magnificat

Item Bibliography

Strohm, Reinhard. 1993. The Rise of European Music 1380-1500.  Cambridge. Pages: 438.

C1v (4v)–C2r (6r) Magnificat (II) - Anonymous

Magnificat (II)

Anonymous
Appears on: C1v (4v)–C2r (6r)
Genres: BVM, Canticle, Magnificat
C2v (6v) Magnificat (III) - Anonymous

Magnificat (III)

Anonymous
Appears on: C2v (6v)
Genres: BVM, Canticle, Magnificat
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Dunstaple, John (ca. 1390–1453)
Lantins, Hugo de (fl. 1420-30)
Power, Leonel (–1445)
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Dulcis Jesu memoria Anonymous A2v (3r)–A3r (1v)
Inviolata (O benigna o regina) Anonymous B1r (5r)
Magnificat (I) Anonymous C1r (4r)
Magnificat (II) Anonymous C1v (4v)–C2r (6r)
Magnificat (III) Anonymous C2v (6v)
O gloriosa genitrix Anonymous A3v (1r)
O pulcherrima mulierum
Lantins, Hugo de (fl. 1420-30) (?)
A1v (7r)–A2r (3v)
Regina caeli laetare alleluia Anonymous B1v (5v)–B2r (2v)
Resurrexit sicut dixit Anonymous B2r (2r)
Salve regina mater misericordiae
Power, Leonel (–1445) (?)
Dunstaple, John (ca. 1390–1453) (?)
A1r (7v)

‡ denotes primary source study

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.

Strohm, Reinhard. 1993. The Rise of European Music 1380-1500.  Cambridge. Pages: 241, 438. Notes: contents (partial); discussion.

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.

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Reinhard Strohm

Tuesday, 18 May, 2021

Description of fragments updated; provenance corrected and detail added; bibliography updated.

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Monday, 23 January, 2017

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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