GB-Cu Buxton MSS Box 96 (music fragment)

University Library, Cambridge, England

fragment: Late 15th or Early 16th century

Archive University Library, Cambridge, England (GB-Cu)
Shelfmark Buxton MSS Box 96 (music fragment)
Surface Parchment
Numbering System None
Format portrait
Measurements 420 x 315; original probably c. 625 x 400 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: CambriU Bux. 96
Relationships
Provenance
  • England
Contents 1 pieces from 2 composers
General Description

A single fragmentary folio containing bassus part of 'Stabat mater' setting. Apparently not a remnant of a bassus partbook, and large size of surviving bassus fragment indicates it was never part of a manuscript in choirbook format. Probably copied from a choirbook by a bass singer who wished to study his own part (FenCM). Possibly copied at St. Mary's College, in Mettingham, Suffolk (Roger Bowers). By 1600, fragment was incorporated in cover of book relating to manor of Banyard's Hall in Bunwell parish, Norfolk (inscriptions on verso). Later became part of miscellaneous collection of Buxton family papers deposited in Cambridge University Library in 1902.

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Binding

Fragment now preserved loose in modern paper folder within modern cardboard box labelled 'BUXTON MSS. / Box / no. 96.'

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Notation

not indicated

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Ruling

Staff height 15-17 (not consistent).

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Foliation

r+v

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Decoration

Some letters of text decorated in red.

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Surface

Parchment

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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1 motet (fragmentary) J. Browne

1 fragmentary parchment folio, ca. 420 x 315 (original size probably ca. 625 x 400), containing bassus part of "Stabat mater" setting. Apparently not a remnant of a bassus partbook, and large size of surviving bassus fragment indicates it was never part of a manuscript in choirbook format. Probably copied from a choirbook by a bass singer who wished to study his own part (FenCM). Fragment now preserved loose in modern paper folder within modern cardboard box labelled "BUXTON MSS. / Box / no. 96." Staff height 15-17 (not consistent). Some letters of text decorated in red.

Late 15th or early 16th century. Possibly copied at St. Mary's College, in Mettingham, Suffolk (Roger Bowers). By 1600, fragment was incorporated in cover of book relating to manor of Banyard's Hall in Bunwell parish, Norfolk (inscriptions on verso). Later became part of miscellaneous collection of Buxton family papers deposited in Cambridge University Library in 1902.

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

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
r Stabat mater dolorosa -
Browne (II), John (ca. 1480–ca. 1505) (?)
Browne (I), John (?)

Stabat mater dolorosa

Browne (II), John (ca. 1480–ca. 1505) (?)
Browne (I), John (?)
Appears on: r
Genres: Motet, Stabat Mater
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Stabat mater
General Note

O553
Composer Compositions
Browne (I), John
Browne (II), John (ca. 1480–ca. 1505)
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Stabat mater dolorosa
Browne (II), John (ca. 1480–ca. 1505) (?)
Browne (I), John (?)
r

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‡ denotes primary source study

Hamilton, Elizabeth Patricia Kathleen. 2009. A Study of Early Sixteenth-Century English Music Fragments from the DIAMM Database. University of Ottawa, MA. http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/en/handle/10393/20241.

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.

Fenlon, Iain (editor). 1982. Cambridge Music Manuscripts, 900-1700.  Cambridge. Pages: 114-7.

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

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NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description