GB-Lbl Cotton Fragment xxix

British Library, London, England

fragment: 14th century: c. 1300

Archive British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl)
Shelfmark Cotton Fragment xxix
Surface Parchment
Numbering System None
Format portrait
Measurements now c 190 x 140 mm
Other Identifiers
  • RISM: Lo 29
Notations
  • English mensural
External Links
Provenance
  • England
Contents 2 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

A single folio containing polyphonic music (f. 36) in a miscellany of burnt fragments of Cotton manuscripts which escaped the fire. It was apparently a flyleaf in Cotton MS Titus A XVIII. I. Probably from Adel (Addle in Yorkshire). The work on the recto appears to be a motet. The script is a typical minuscule as often found in musical manuscripts of this period.

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Notation

English mensural notation. There are no minims or Ars Nova traits in the notation, which suggests a date c. 1300.

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Date

dated 1349 in a document at the bottom of the recto side

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Ruling

five-line red stave

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Foliation

36, 36v

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Surface

Parchment

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RISM Description

RISM B/IV 1: The volume is a 19th century miscellany of burnt fragments of Cotton manuscripts which escaped the fire. The folio containing polyphonic music is f. 36 and now meas. c. 190 x 140 mm. It dates from the 14th century and was apparently a flyleaf in Cotton ms Titus A XVIII. It is dated 1349 in a document at the bottom of the recto side and is probably from Adel (Addle in Yorkshire). The notation is English mensural notation on a five-line red stave. The work on the recto appears to be a motet. There are no minims or Ars Nova traits in the notation, which suggests a date c. 1300. The script is a typical minuscule such as we find so often in musical manuscripts of this period.

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
36 Salve, mater gratie, stella claritatis / Dou way, Robin - Anonymous

Salve, mater gratie, stella claritatis / Dou way, Robin

Anonymous
Appears on: 36
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: [c3]
Voice Text: [S]alve, mater gratie, stella claritatis
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: English
Clef: [c4]
Voice Text: Dou way, Robin
General Note

The first word of Mot could be 'Ave'.

Layout

parts

Item Bibliography

Dobson, Eric J, and Frank Llewellyn Harrison (editors). 1979. Medieval English Songs.  New York, London. Pages: [facs.] no. 18.

36v Angelus ad virginem subintrans - Anonymous

Angelus ad virginem subintrans

Anonymous
Appears on: 36v
Genres: Cantilena
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c2
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c4
Voice Text: Angelus ad virginem subintrans
Layout

score

Item Bibliography

Wooldridge, Harry Ellis, and H V Hughes (editors). 1897 and 1913. Early English Harmony from the 10th to the 15th Century. 2 vols. London: The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society. Pages: (1), [facs.] plates 34, 46-47.

Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Angelus ad virginem subintrans Anonymous 36v
Salve, mater gratie, stella claritatis / Dou way, Robin Anonymous 36

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‡ denotes primary source study

Bukofzer, Manfred F. 1960. Popular and Secular Music in England (to c. 1470). New Oxford History of Music, edited by Manfred F Bukofzer,  London: Oxford University Press. Pages: 112, 116 (transcription of no. 1; also no. 2 after Cambridge, Add. 710); 111f, 115ff.

Hughes, Dom Anselm, and Gerald Abraham (editors). 1953. The History Of Music In Sound Vol III: Ars Nova and the Renaissance, 1300-1540 . Pages: 24f (transcription of no. 2 after Cambridge, Add. 710); 26.

Levy, K J. 1951. New material on the early motet in England. A Report on the Princeton MS. Garrett 119. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 220-239. Pages: 225.

Reese, Gustave. 1940. Music in the Middle Ages: With an introduction on the music of ancient times.  New York: W.W. Norton & Co. Pages: 244, 390, 404f.

Ludwig, Friedrich. 1923. Die Quellen der Motetten ältesten Stils. Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 185-222, Vol. 5 (1924) 273-315. Pages: 277.

Wooldridge, Harry Ellis, and H V Hughes (editors). 1897 and 1913. Early English Harmony from the 10th to the 15th Century. 2 vols. London: The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society. Pages: pl. 46-47 (facsimile of no. 2 after Cambridge, Add. 710).

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