GB-LIa Saxilby PAR 23/1 (Saxilby Fragment)

Lincolnshire Archives and Record Office, Lincoln, England

fragment: c. 1450-75

Archive Lincolnshire Archives and Record Office, Lincoln, England (GB-LIa)
Shelfmark Saxilby PAR 23/1 (Saxilby Fragment)
Surface Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Format portrait
Measurements 430 x 325 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: SaxB s.s.
  • olim (Former shelfmark): Saxilby, Parish of St Bodolph Archives, MS s. s.
Notations
  • coloration in red
  • stroke
Relationships
Provenance
  • Lincoln? England
Contents 2 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

2 folios, perhaps once a bifolio but now separate. Apparently the only surviving remnants of a liturgical choirbook. Credo and Sanctus found as part of complete Ordinary cycle in I-Bsp MS Fragment E. Copied by a single scribe, except for a few text emendations by a different but contemporary scribe and a later (17th century?) hand. Possibly copied in Lincoln (BentSF). Folios removed from original context c. 1551; probably used as covers for account book of Saxilby parish. Subsequently removed from account book; now preserved as separate item.

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Physical Description

First folio mutilated; upper left corner of verso cut out for decorative initial, with loss of some music.

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Notation

stroke, with proportional passages in red ink (notation discussed in BentSF)

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Date

Ca. 1450-75 (BentSF).

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Ruling

Red staves; staff height ca. 20

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Foliation

unfoliated.

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Decoration

Gothic initials painted in blue, with red ink tracery; texts in red ink.

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Surface

parchment

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DIAMM Note

moved to Lincoln, Lincolshire Archives and Record Office, Saxilby PAR 23/1

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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1 Credo (fragmentary), 1 Sanctus = 2

Anonymous

2 parchment folios, ca. 430 x 325. Apparently the only surviving remnants of a liturgical choirbook. First folio mutilated; upper left corner of verso cut out for decorative initial, with loss of some music. No foliation. Stroke notation on red staves, with proportional passages in red ink (notation discussed in BentSF). Copied by a single scribe, except for a few text emendations by a different but contemporary scribe and a later (17th century?) hand. Staff height ca. 20. Gothic initials painted in blue, with red ink tracery; texts in red ink. Credo and Sanctus possibly part of complete Ordinary cycle.

Ca. 1450-75 (BentSF). Possibly copied in Lincoln (BentSF). Folios removed from original context ca. 1551; probably used as covers for account book of Saxilby parish. Subsequently removed from account book; now preserved as separate item.

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

2v

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
1–2 Missa: Patrem omnipotentem [Credo] - Anonymous

Missa: Patrem omnipotentem [Credo]

Anonymous
Appears on: 1–2
Genres: Credo (patrem omnipotentem), Mass Ordinary
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Patrem omnipotentem (fragment)
General Note

incomplete
2v Missa: Sanctus - Anonymous

Missa: Sanctus

Anonymous
Appears on: 2v
Genres: Mass Ordinary, Sanctus [& Benedictus]
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Sanctus (fragment?)
General Note

fragment
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Missa: Patrem omnipotentem [Credo] Anonymous 1–2
Missa: Sanctus Anonymous 2v

‡ denotes primary source study

Bent, Margaret, and Andrew B Wathey. 2022. Fragments of English Polyphonic Music ca. 1390–1475: A Facsimile Edition.

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: 355 (n.280), 356, 388, 590-91. Notes: Identified the concordance with I-Bsp MS Fragment E.

Bent, Margaret, and Roger Bowers. 1981. The Saxilby Fragment. Early Music History, 1-27.

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.

Bent, Margaret. 1968. New and Little-Known Fragments of English Medieval Polyphony. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 137-56. Pages: 149.

Reaney, Gilbert. 1961. Some Little-Known Sources of Medieval Polyphony in England. Musica Disciplina, 15-26. Pages: 23.

Collins, H B (editor). 1927. Missa "O quam suavis".  The Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society. Pages: xxxv.

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NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Physical Description Note; Notation Note; Date Note; Ruling Note; Decoration Note; Surface Note

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