GB-Cu Nn.6.46

University Library, Cambridge, England

manuscript of polyphony: Very early 16th century: c 1500

Archive University Library, Cambridge, England (GB-Cu)
Shelfmark Nn.6.46
Surface Mixed Paper and Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Format portrait
Measurements 583 x 443 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: CambriU Nn.6.46
Notations
  • black full mensural
  • red mensural
Relationships
Provenance
  • England
Contents 7 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

Copied for the court of Henry VII (CollM).

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Binding

Modern cardboard covers with brown leather spine

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Notation

Black/red mensural notation

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Foliation

Modern pencil foliation

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Foliation

i+ 18 + i, r+v

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Decoration

Painted initials. A portrait of an English king, probably Henry VII, holding the Tudor rose is found on f. 2; another portrait, of a man holding a set of keys, may be that of the composer Lloyd.

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Surface

i paper + 18 parchment + i paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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1 Mass, 3 puzzle canons = 4

(Lloyd)-1, anon-3

i paper + 18 parchment + i paper folios, 583 x 443. Modern pencil foliation. Modern cardboard covers with brown leather spine. No index. Black/red mensural notation. Painted initials. A portrait of an English king, probably Henry VII, holding the Tudor rose is found on f. 2; another portrait, of a man holding a set of keys, may be that of the composer Lloyd.

Ca. 1500. Copied for the court of Henry VII (CollM).

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

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
1 Puzzle canon - Anonymous

Puzzle canon

Anonymous
Appears on: 1
Genres: Canon
Voice: Canon
Languages: none
1v Hoc fecit ... maris Cantus / In teudas rei hic Contra-Tenor - Anonymous

Hoc fecit ... maris Cantus / In teudas rei hic Contra-Tenor

Anonymous
Appears on: 1v
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Hoc fecit ... maris (Cantus) / In teudas rei hic (Contra-Tenor)
2 Regina caelorum multiplex - Anonymous

Regina caelorum multiplex

Anonymous
Appears on: 2
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Regina celorum (multiplex)
3v–6 Hominibus bone voluntate = Gloria - Anonymous

Hominibus bone voluntate = Gloria

Anonymous
Appears on: 3v–6
Genres: Gloria (et in terra pax), Mass Ordinary
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Hominibus bone voluntate (= Gloria)
6v–10 Patrem omnipotentem [Credo] - Anonymous

Patrem omnipotentem [Credo]

Anonymous
Appears on: 6v–10
Genres: Credo (patrem omnipotentem), Mass Ordinary
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Patrem omnipotentem
10v–14 Sanctus & Benedictus - Anonymous

Sanctus & Benedictus

Anonymous
Appears on: 10v–14
Genres: Mass Ordinary, Sanctus [& Benedictus]
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus (with Benedictus on. f. 12v-13)
14v–18 Agnus Dei - Anonymous

Agnus Dei

Anonymous
Appears on: 14v–18
Genres: Agnus Dei, Mass Ordinary
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Agnus dei
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Agnus Dei Anonymous 14v–18
Hoc fecit ... maris Cantus / In teudas rei hic Contra-Tenor Anonymous 1v
Hominibus bone voluntate = Gloria Anonymous 3v–6
Patrem omnipotentem [Credo] Anonymous 6v–10
Puzzle canon Anonymous 1
Regina caelorum multiplex Anonymous 2
Sanctus & Benedictus Anonymous 10v–14

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‡ denotes primary source study

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.

Russell, Theodore C. 1967. Cantus Firmus Technique in the Music of Fifteenth Century Manuscripts of English Provenance. Student Musicologists at Minnesota, 52-77. Pages: 59, 66.

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn. 1958, second ed. 1963. Music in Medieval Britain.  London: Routledge. Pages: 267-8; plate 20.

Dart, Thurston. 1955. Cambrian Eupompus. The Listener, 497.

Collins, H B (editor). 1927. Missa "O quam suavis".  The Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society. Pages: vii-xxxi; iv-v; 1-82.

Davey, Henry. 1921. History of English Music.  London. Pages: 90.

Frere, Walter Howard. 1894-1932, repr. Hildesheim, 1967. Bibliotheca Musico-Liturgica: A Descriptive Handlist of the Musical and Latin-Liturgical Mss. of the Middle Ages Preserved in the Libraries of Great Britain and Ireland. 2 vols. London: The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society. Pages: II, 118, #859.

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