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.
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) |
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| Shelfmark | Saxilby PAR 23/1 (Saxilby Fragment) |
| Surface | Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Format | portrait |
| Measurements | 430 x 325 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 2 compositions, 2 are anonymous. |
General Description
Physical Description
First folio mutilated; upper left corner of verso cut out for decorative initial, with loss of some music.
Notation
stroke, with proportional passages in red ink (notation discussed in BentSF)
Date
Ca. 1450-75 (BentSF).
Ruling
Red staves; staff height ca. 20
Foliation
unfoliated.
Decoration
Gothic initials painted in blue, with red ink tracery; texts in red ink.
Surface
parchment
DIAMM Note
moved to Lincoln, Lincolshire Archives and Record Office, Saxilby PAR 23/1
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.
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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, 27: 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: 1-27.
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. 1968. New and Little-Known Fragments of English Medieval Polyphony. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 21: 137-56. Pages: 149.
Reaney, Gilbert. 1961. Some Little-Known Sources of Medieval Polyphony in England. Musica Disciplina, 15: 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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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