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SOURCES OF THIRTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH POLYPHONY:

CATALOGUE WITH DESCRIPTIONS

Peter M. Lefferts

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Contents:

Introduction
Table
Bibliography
The Catalogue
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INTRODUCTION
The intent of this document is to describe the sources of thirteenth-century
English polyphonic music that are of thirteenth-century English origin. The few major
exceptions will be detailed below. Given the paucity of written sources of any kind of
polyphony from before ca. 1200, and the few examples of thirteenth-century English
polyphony in manuscripts of non-insular origin or in sources from after ca. 1300, this is
close to being a record of all the known English polyphony composed before ca. 1300. I
am indebted to Profesor William J. Summers of Dartmouth College for many of the
particulars of the descriptions to follow.
As an area of scholarly research, thirteenth-century English music, whether
sacred or secular, monophonic or polyphonic, has long languished in the shadow of the
admirable achievements of musicians in thirteenth-century France. Yet it was precisely
in this century that the homogeneity of Anglo-French intellectual and high art culture
across northern France and England most decisively began to fragment in a process of
"subregional differentiation."1 This process is much better understood in respect to
manuscript illumination, sculpture, stained glass, architecture or the academic

1See Thomson (1983), 4. For more detailed discussion of the relationship of French and English repertoires, see
especially Everist (1992) and Losseff (1994).
achievements of the nascent English universities, for instance, than in respect to music.
In the thirteenth century, particularly in the realm of sacred polyphony, the music of
English high culture achieved its autonomy, developing into a polyphonic corpus of
brilliant diversity and singular musical value as it diverged from the common
international (i.e., Anglo-French) repertoire in respect to most features of this art form:
texture, melody, harmony, counterpoint, rhythm, constructive devices, form, genre, and
notation.2
Neglect of the thirteenth-century polyphonic English repertoire in favor of the
French has many causes, including the anonymity of its insular composers, its religious
subject matter and performance milieu, and the vagaries of academic fashion in the
twentieth century. Above all, however, has loomed the problem of sources of English
music, which are large in number but extremely fragmentary as a rule. They yield few
clues about size, ordering of contents, provenance, or age. Moreover, only a small
fraction of the musical compositions they document are integral works or damaged but
restorable; the great majority are represented by isolated pages or smaller strips and
patches containing tantalizing but unperformable portions of single voices or irregular
segments of works in score. Fortunately, reproductions of most of these sources are now
available as highly detailed color digital images stored in the Digital Image Archive of
Medieval Music (DIAMM) at Oxford University, accessible on the internet, as of this
writing, at [Link]. One caution, though. The DIAMM identifications of
individual leaves, where it differs from those used here, have yet to be entered into this
document’s manuscript descriptions.
Manuscript descriptions are for the most part presented below in order by
library and shelf mark, as in RISM or DIAMM, with bibliographic references mostly to
material that post-dates the relevant RISM entry. The descriptions aim to make more
emphatic than heretofore those instances when two or more distinct medieval sources
are housed under a single modern shelf mark (as for example, in London, British
Library, Harley 5958 or Princeton, University Library, Garrett 119). Further, re-analysis

2Recent broader overviews of English musical developments in this period include Crocker (1990), Caldwell
(1991), and Lefferts (1991). More specialized studies include Wibberley (1976), Lefferts (1986), Malyshko (1989),
and Losseff (1994). PMFC XIV (1979) is a recent edition of the restorable pieces and major fragments. For a
succinct typology of polyphonic genres, see Sanders (2001d). Lefferts (1986) has lists of thirteenth-century
polyphonic motets, conductus-rondellus, voice-exchange pieces, and troped chant settings. Losseff (1994) has tables
and appendices cataloguing sources, pieces, and concordances.
of the sources has sometimes necessitated amendments to previous inventories and
descriptions. We occasionally reverse recto and verso, re-arrange folios (as in F-Tours
925, D-Göttingen Theol. 220, and Reconstruction III) or conflate leaves from different
locations or hosts (as in Canterbury, Cathedral Library128/8 + 128/71; Oxford,
Bodleian Library, Rawlinson C. 400* + Lat. liturg. b.19; and Reconstructions I, II, and III)
in order to re-associate leaves or even to reconstruct a dismembered or disordered
original as best as possible. This will always be signalled explicitly.

EXCLUSIONS
Omitted here by definition are all English sources of polyphony from before the
thirteenth century. These are indeed few in number: the late tenth-century organa of the
Winchester Troper (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 473)3; a late eleventh-century
discant setting from Canterbury (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 572)4; and a twelfth-
century discant setting from Winchester in the Downpatrick gradual (Oxford, Bodleian
Library, Rawlinson C. 892).5 Also not described is the 'Younger' or 'Later' Cambridge
Songbook (Cambridge, University Library, Ff. i. 17 (1)), a source of ca. 1180-1230 the
question of whose provenance has been controversial, but whose most recent editor
(Stevens 2005) decided in favor of English origin.6 See also Hartzell (2006), a catalogue
of manuscripts written or owned in England up to 1200 containing music.
Sources of the thirteenth century that are excluded are more diverse. The most
significant are some Notre-Dame notation, above all. Passed over silently are some
Notre Dame ghosts, which are books now lost but for which documentary evidence
exists.7 Nor will further mention be made of two significant British manuscripts of
conductus and motet texts, both without musical notation, in the Bodleian Library at
Oxford, namely, Additional A 44 and Rawlinson C. 510. At the same time, the famous
“Notre Dame” manuscript W1 (Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf.

3RISM B/IV/1, 453-64; facs. Frere (1894), EEH, pl. II-VI, Rankin (2007).
4RISM B/IV/1, 532-33; facs. EBM III, pl. XVI and EEH, pl. I.
5RISM B/IV/1, 573; facs. EBM III, pl. LXIV.
6RISM B/IV/1, 485-86; facs. PMMM 17, and also EEH, pl. XXV-XXX. See also Lütolf (1970), 1:46-77 and note
the remarks by John Stevens in Fenlon (1982), 40-44 and Stevens (1986), 514. Stevens (2005) is an edition and
commentary with full facsimile.
7For Notre Dame ghosts of probable English origin or ownership, see Baltzer (1987) and Wathey (1988).
628 Helmst.), from St. Andrews, which is the only almost-integral British music codex to
survive from the century, is included below only in a kind of “stub“ entry.
No more will be said about the Bridport ghost (which may have been in any
event a fourteenth-century source).8 Also set aside are the four thirteenth- and fourteen-
century polyphonic settings of the hymn Nunc sancte nobis in English sources:
Cambridge, St. John’s College, 102 (D.27), fol. 141; London, British Library, Harley 4664,
fol. 182; London, British Library, Royal 2. D. XXII, fol. 109; and Oxford, Corpus Christi
College, 134, fol. 73-73v.9 And also omitted are two sources of mass ordinary settings
generally regarded as continental, but that Luther Dittmer or Max Lütolf have
suggested may be English, namely, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, lat. 11411
and lat. 15129.10
Another category of sources not further identified or described here is those
sources of similar age but foreign provenance that contain relevant English polyphony,
such as the Montpellier Codex (Montpellier, Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire, Section
Médecine, H196). Thus if a piece has hallmarks of an English origin but does not
survive in any English source, we do not enter it here. While that does not affect too
many possible candidates among motets surviving solely in non-insular sources, the
impact is significant for the conductus. The issue of how many conductus surviving
exclusively in non-English sources may be of insular origin rapidly gets very
contentious, and will not be further developed here, so suffice it to say that there may
be 13th-century English conductus surviving only abroad that are not to be found
below.
Finally, we omit fourteenth- or fifteenth-century sources transmitting later copies
of thirteenth-century music.11 One lesser known example is a fragment, now in

8On Bridport, see Wathey (1988) and Wathey, RISM suppl., 25-26.
9On the voice-exchange hymn Nunc sancte nobis in general, see RISM B/IV/I, 21-22. On these sources
individually, see the same volume, pages 482 (Csjc 102), 508 (Lbl 4664), 511 (Lbl XXII), and 580-81 (Occ 134).
For a facs. of Lbl 4664, fol. 182, see EEH, pl. XXXIX. For a description of Csjc 102, see also Fenlon (1982), 81-84,
with facs. on 82.
10For Pn 11411, see RISM B/IV/1, 414-16; facs., PMMM 4; and see also Lütolf, 1:244-47. For Pn 15129, see RISM
B/IV/I, 418-19; Lütolf, 1:248-54; and facs. Lütolf, pl. XXXI-XXXII.
11For thirteenth-century polyphony surviving into the fifteenth century, see the music examples on fols. 34v-36 of
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 410, in a fifteenth-century copy of Walter Odington's De speculacione musice,
particularly in respect to the characteristically English three-voice rondellus Ave mater domini (fol. 34v). On this
Cortona, that is likely of fourteenth-century continental origin, which contains an
English motet on Becket that, judging by its notation, may have been composed in the
late thirteenth century.12

INCLUSIONS
At the earlier boundary, we include three sources of the late twelfth or earliest
thirteenth century---London, British Library, Burney 357, London, British Library,
Harley 524, and Dorchester, Dorset Record Office, PE/NBY/MI 1---although the
Younger Cambridge Songbook, of similar age, is not included here (as noted above).
There are no firm guidelines representing a scholarly consensus on how to draw
the line ca. 1300.13 For inclusiveness, two manuscripts of the late thirteenth or early
fourteenth century (precise dates controversial) which were reproduced in EECM 26 as
fourteenth century sources---London, Westminster Abbey, 33327 and Oxford, Bodleian
Library, Rawlinson liturg. d. 3---are inventoried below. Also at the later boundary,
described here are a major sources of the turn into the fourteenth century surviving in
Canterbury, Wisbech, Tours, Dublin, and Wolfenbüttel---some relatively recently
uncovered---that are complementary to the earliest sources of fourteenth-century
polyphony reproduced in facsimile in EECM 26. All are primarily sources of motets or
motet-like troped chant settings.
For the sake of the comprehensiveness in the descriptions, they include
fourteenth-century music when it is directly associated as a later addition to relevant
material in an earlier source, such as the later pieces in London, British Library, Harley
3132, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Mus. C 60, and Reconstruction III.
A separate comment is in order here regarding the so-called Worcester
fragments, which consist of the remains of nine or more codices. The continuous
numeration of pieces followed in the pioneering edition of most of this material by
Luther Dittmer14 tends inadvertently to disguise the number and variety of sources
represented in these sadly fragmentary remains, and the complexity of the situation has

source, see Hammond (1970), Fenlon (1982), 107-110 and RISM B/III/4. For a facs. of fol. 34v, see EEH, pl. XLI;
for fols. 34v-35, see Fenlon (1982), 108; for fols. 35v-36, see Hammond (1970), between 146 and 147.
12For the Cortona fragment, see Ziino (1981), Ziino (1985), and Di Bacco and Nádas (1998).
13For more on this boundary, see Lefferts (1986) regarding chronology and style, notation, and motet typology.
not been ameliorated by its confusing presentation in RISM B/IV/1. These nine or more
sources need disentangling, and one solution is offered here. Most of the fragmentary
codices are separately treated in order by their call numbers at Worcester Cathedral
Library, while the more substantial remains of three manuscripts that can be partially
reassembled from leaves at Worcester and elsewhere are presented immediately
following, as Reconstructions I, II, and III, comprising the small-format or motet book,
the large-format volume, and the conductus book, respectively, as they have been called
since the earlier part of the twentieth century. This treatment of Worcester material
accounts for five new relevant fragments that were uncovered in the late 1990s in
Worcester Cathedral Library codices F. 44, F. 45, F. 120, F. 175, and Q. 19. These, with
the exception of the Q. 19 flyleaf, have been removed to Worcester Cathedral Library,
Additional 68 and have been given a new "Fragment" number (Frags. xxxix, xl, xli, xlii).
Three of the new fragments, two of which still bear original folio numbers, come from
Reconstruction I.

SOURCE TYPES
The largest division that one can make among source types represented in this
document is threefold, distinguishing purpose-copied rotuli and books of polyphony
from music fascicles in commonplace books or miscellanies, and from isolated music
entries on blank pages or flyeaves of otherwise unrelated material.15 These three
categories distinguish sources of very different origin and purpose, and need to be kept
distinct. When it is said, for example, that W1 is the only British source of polyphony to
survive (nearly) complete from the 1200s, its exceptional status must be understood in
respect to professionally manufactured and, in general, carefully ruled and ordered
codices of mensural music. Commonplace collections and isolated entries may indeed
survive "complete."
Although some of the fragments of purpose-copied rotuli and books of
polyphony testify to an eclectic, ad hoc approach by the copyist to the entering of
repertoire, most reveal traces of quite systematic organization and contain a fairly
narrow set of musical genres. Compositions might be entered liturgically, by genre and

14 Luther Dittmer, ed., The Worcester Fragments, Musicological Studies and Documents, 2 (Rome: American
Institute of Musicology, 1957).
number of voices, or alphabetically. Extant foliations, or the projection of implicit
manuscript organization to naturally suggested limits, sometimes reveal codices of
substantial length. Reconstruction I has foliations up to cxxxix, for example, and
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 8 has paginations up to 558. It appears that
purpose-copied sources were mainly corporately owned, and often, when they had
become musically outdated, they soon were thereafter turned over to the book binder to
serve as scrap. However, a thorough reconsideration of Worcester bindings during the
1990s recataloguing of the cathedral library has yielded the important result that
Reconstruction II only went under the binder's knife in the mid 1400s, and that
Reconstruction I and Reconstruction III were only broken up in the later 1520s by
Worcester monk-binder John Musard.16 Another exception to a story of quick
destruction and re-use is represented by those few chant manuscripts where polyphony
was directly entered in the main hand (e.g., Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawl. liturg. d. 3,
or London, British Library, Additional 28598); these tended to be longer-lived books.
Commonplace books are private compilations of material, assembled for
entertainment, study or devotion out of public sight. Here the owner might include
independent fascicles of music and might deliberately leave space at the ends of extracts
of all kinds for later additions, related or unrelated, which might include monophonic
or polyphonic music. Understanding this, we recognize that many of the extant
miscellanies survive complete as such, including, for example, London, British Library,
Harley 978 and Arundel 248, or Paris, Bibliothèque National de France, fr. 25408. These
sources tend to be more informally copied and more diverse than any book of
polyphony (except for the similarly eclectic Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 8),
mixing monophony and polyphony, works in English, French, and Latin, sacred and
secular song, and instrumental music.
The same informality and diversity, including examples of musical settings of
English texts, exists in the more isolated entries opportunistically set down on a blank
page or flyleaf amidst unrelated material, such as those in Oxford, Bodleian Library,
Douce 139, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson G. 18, or Oxford, Corpus Christi

15For greater detail, see Losseff (1994), esp. 25-51 and 144-46, from which the following two paragraphs are
principally drawn.
16 See Thomson (2001). At a roughly similar date, an English choirbook comparable to Old Hall was dismantled by
an early sixteenth-century Cambridge stationer, Nicholas Spierinck. See Bent (1984).
College, 59. The line between these entries and those of a commonplace book can be
easily drawn on the basis of the contrast between isolated compositions and small
collections. When the principal codex is apparently not a private book but rather a
communal volume like a collection of documents (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 139)
or a library book, the random music entries would be of our third type. The distinction
is less clear when the host may have been a book for private use, like a diminutive
psalter for private devotions (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson G 18), or perhaps a
textbook from the personal library of the master of a grammar school (Oxford, Corpus
Christi College, 59). It is impossible to gauge the loss of music that was copied into
commonplace books and more isolated leaves, but at least what has disappeared of
these kinds of sources will have suffered the usual depredations that befell medieval
books in later centuries, rather than the indignity of quick obsolescence that befell most
purpose-copied polyphony.

MANUSCRIPT FORMATS
Textual descriptions inevitably minimize physical differences between the
sources in respect to size, ink color, density and texture of parchment, and the like. As
one acknowledgement of the rotulus or book as physical object, and of the activity of
the scribe in laying out and executing its design, some figures for the size of page and
written area of sources are given in the Table that follows this essay, adding the
dimensions of some other well-known codices for comparative purposes. All
dimensions reported there are given in millimeters (mm). In this table the sources are
ordered from large to small, reporting first width, then height (w x h) for the written
space and the entire page. Staff gauge data is for five lines in most cases. Tabulated
order is governed by the width of the written space because this measurement is by far
and away the most significant dimension governing book production and comparison.
Some of these measurement are speculative estimates, and some are exact, at
least to within 2-3 mm or so. Of course, writing blocks may vary even in an apparently
consistently ruled manuscript. Further, in the case of overall dimensions, figures may
only be reliable to within a few centimeters, since we may report the current
dimensions of manuscripts that have obviously been trimmed, and other times we
report estimates based on, for example, a trimmed upper margin but intact lower
margin, where we project the latter dimension back onto the former. Thus all of these
numbers are "circa," and details should be sought in the manuscript descriptions and in
the facsimile images themselves, most of which have been photographed with a ruler.
In any event, it will be apparent from the data that variability to within a few
millimeters has virtually no impact, except very locally, on the relative order of
manuscripts by size.
The data on formats provides only the broadest of overviews. It mixes purpose-
copied rotuli and books of music, whose dimensions were dictated by standard formats
for polyphonic music, with manuscripts in which music was an addition within already
fixed boundaries. It also mixes pages of different formats (nine or twelve independent
staves, three or four three-staff systems, etc.). Two reliable and unsurprising tendencies
emerge. First, purpose-copied rotuli and books of polyphony tend to be larger than
either commonplace books or those with more isolated music entries. And second,
purpose-copied rotuli and books tend to increase in size over the course of the century.
Organizing the data around the width of written space generates a series that appears
to be in the large chronological, as it corroborates chronologies based on other,
independent criteria, such as changes in handwriting, musical notation, counterpoint,
genre, and constructivist devices. Books of the generation of W1, of ca. 1240, are of the
first generation of purpose copied books of polyphony in Western Europe. They tend to
be small volumes, on the order of about 6" x 4" (160 x 110 mm) or just slightly larger. By
the end of the thirteenth century, within the span of only some fifty to sixty years, music
codices had steadily increased to two and three times the previously normative height
and width of written space, and thus of overall dimensions. One of the very largest,
London, Westminster Abbey, 33327 had exterior dimensions of at least 490 x 345 mm
(or about 19" x 13"), for example, making it a bigger book than Old Hall. The surviving
rotuli seem to have been about thirty inches long, and dimensionally, the younger rotuli
are simply wider, with taller staves.

PROVENANCE
This document describes over sixty sources, representing at least that many
medieval rotuli and books and perhaps up to a dozen more on account of those
instances where a modern source may preserve leaves from more than a single
manuscript. For only about half of the total is there any information at all concerning
provenance. As a rule that information pertains to the host manuscript rather than to its
musical binding material, and may on occasion signal local ownership only, rather than
a local point of origin. Thus at best what we know about provenance is circumstantial.
Nonetheless a fairly consistent picture emerges in which sacred polyphony is associated
primarily with the larger Benedictine monasteries and monastic cathedrals, and other
major abbeys and churches.17
If we generously allow binding fragments in a given locale to count for that
location, even if they can no longer be identified with specific books in the library (a
situation we find at Westminster Abbey, Canterbury, and Worcester, for example),
then---to cite some of the better represented institutions---from Bury St Edmunds Abbey
there survive Cjec 1, Csjc 138, and Cul 29; from Canterbury Cathedral, CAc 128/2, CAc
128/8 with 128/71, CAc 128/62, Ob 271, and Wisbech; from Durham Cathedral, Cjec 5
and Lbl Cotton xxix; from Reading Abbey, Lbl Harley 978, Ob 257, Ob 400* with Ob 19,
and Owc 213*; from Westminster Abbey, Lwa 3 and Lwa 33327; and from Worcester
Cathedral, at least nine sources. Lesser establishments are more often represented by a
commonplace book or isolated entry than by a purpose-copied book of polyphony.
Close scrutiny of the evidence in any individual case reveals how shaky some of these
ascriptions of provenance are, but this does not topple the entire edifice.18 In the face of
not only external evidence for provenance, but also internal textual evidence, especially
derived from motets, Christopher Hohler's contrarian argument for London and the
court as centers of polyphonic composition, with Oxford as the center of dissemination
to the rest of England,19 has not yet found acceptance.
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17The inclusion of fourteenth-century sources only strengthens this picture. See Lefferts (1986), 9-10, 155-85, with
the same information consolidated in Lefferts (1992).
18Losseff (1994), 53-93.
19Hohler (1978).
TABLE of MS dimensions
w x h, in mm; staff gauge is for a five-line staff

Rotulus Written space Overall page size Gauge

US-PRu 119/A 295 x 620 330 x 750 17-18

Ob 400*/C 165 x 630 200 x 700 11-13
Ob 400*/B 134 x 775 155 x 775 13.5-14

Codex Written space Overall page size Gauge

Cgc 820 260 x 333 300 x 400 14

Lwa 33327 250-55 x 365-400 345 x 490 20
D-W3 215 x 317 280 x 360 22
Aberystwyth 215 x 290 250 x 360 15-19
Ccl 200 x 350 290 x 430 21-24
WOc frag. xviii 193 x 306 260 x 380 16
Lwa frag. 3 185 x 370 260 x 430 18.5
Csjc 138 180 x 315 240 x 350 13
Ccc 8 180 x 270 265 x 340 14-15.5
WOc frag. xii 173-5 x 260-70 230 x 350 17
US-PRu 119/B 172 x 360 210 x 400 13.5
Recon II 170-80 x 267 223 x 330 13-14
Cjec 5 170 x 260 230 x 340 18
CAc 128/62 164 x 300 190-200 x 325-60 11-13
DRu 13 162 x 268 200 x 300 16
Lbl 3132 160 x 300 180 x 330 15-16
Cjec 1/B 160 x 260 230 x 300 12.5-15
WOc frag. xx 156 x 220-60 212 x 288 19-24
CAc 128/8 155 x 244 200 x 300 13
Recon III 155 x 220 203 x 277 14-17
Recon I 155 x 205 200 x 280 13-15
Ob 60 A 154 x 240 190 x 280 18.5
Ob 139 151 x 225 178 x 243 17
Ob 25 150 x 306 180 x 350 13
CAc 128/2 150 x 245 180 x 280 13.5
Cjec 1/A 150 x 205-15 227 x 295 14
Ob 343 147-54 x 232 200 x 308 7-9
US-Cu 654 145-50 x 235 200 x 300 13.5-17
Occc 497 143 x 178 220 x 290 9-10
Ob 257 142 x 225 215 x 320 13
Lbl 5958/A 140 x 268 240 x 370 14
F-Tours 140 x 200 185 x 250 11
Ob 400*A 140 x 200 180 x 240 ---
Ob 60/B 135 x 200 180 x 250 15.5
Ob 60/C 134 x 175 170 x 300 10-11
Lbl 5393 130-55 x 179 180 x 250 7-17
Lbl 5958/B 125 x 210-15 160 x 250 12
WOc frag. xxix/b 125 x 210 170 x 240 12-13
D-Gu 125 x 190 160 x 230 10
Lbl xviii 125 x 179 160 x 215 9
WOc frag. xxix/a 122-27 x 171 170 x 240 9
Occ 489 122 x 187 150 x 243 9.5-10.5
Ob D.3 122 x 167-86 166 x 251 9
Cul 29 121-22 x 172-79 200 x 290 8
Lbl 248 115-25 x 180-90 150 x 207 6, 7-7.5
Owc 213 115-20 x 185 175 x 213 10.5-11
Lbl xxi 115 x 178 160 x 235 7-10
Lbl 524 115 x 148 150 x 207 8
Occc 59 114 x 162 135 x 199
WOc frag. xxx 112 x 150 142 x 190 8-9
Aberdeen 109 x ---- 160 x ---- 7-8
Ob 1225 105 x 130 168 x 235 12
Llp 752 104 x 131 134 x 190 10-13
F-Pn 25408 104 x 120 135 x 180 8
Lbl 357 103-7 x 180 115 x 200 10
Llp 457 102-7 x 160-72 133 x 195 10-12
Lbl 978 102 x 163 130 x 190 11-12.5
Ctc 102 x 158 165 x 225 9
Cgc 803/807 102 x 155 158 x 225 8.5-9
DORcro 100 x 120 140 x 160 9.5
Ob Rawl 18 93 x 143 112 x 163 8
Ob 591 92 x 155 162 x 221 8
W1 80-85-90 x 155-160 150 x 210 9
Lbl 1580 80-88 x 126-30 114 x 167 7
WOc Q.19 80 x 120 110 x 164 9

COMPARISONS:

Codex Written space Overall page size

Eton Choirbook 345 x 500 425 x 595

Old Hall 235 x 345 276 x 416

Ba 136-160 x 189-212 186 x 263

Hu 130-32 x 153-235 180 x 260
FL 92 x 149 157 x 232
LoA (Lbl 2615) 92 x 149 139 x 220
Ma 90 x 122 115 x 166
F-MO 77-81 x 127-131 130 x 192
Lbl 30091 75 x 107 105 x 155
W2 73-74 x 104-122 130 x 180
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CATALOGUE AND DESCRIPTIONS
Aberdeen University Library, 2379/1 s. xiii med.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

A fragmentary parchment rectangle forming a horizontal strip cut from the bottom of a
bifolium (folios a, b); perhaps once the outer bifolium of a gathering. Now about 53 x
260 mm; width of original page ca. 160 mm; width of written space ca. 109 mm. Freely-
ruled red five-line staves of gauge 7-8 mm. Text hand is gothica textualis semiquadrata
and musical notation is of Notre-Dame type. Extensive later pen trials. The visible
portion of fol. b verso is ruled for music but not notated.
II. HISTORY
No info. on this frag. Apparently once used as a strip to protect the end quire in an
unidentified book, possibly one in the Aberdeen University Library. Now the first item
in a folder compiled from binding fragments and other materials in that library.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wathey, RISM Suppl., 3-4; Chew (1978); Losseff (1994), 53-55
IV. CONTENTS
1. . . . [Te]nor.
fol. a; frag. motet tenor; facs. Chew (1978); ed. Chew (1978), 336
2. Alleluia [V. Iustus germinabit]
fol. a verso; frag. organum duplum from the Magnus Liber Organi [M53 in
Ludwig's numeration]; concordance to W1, fol. 41-42 and F, fol. 140v-141; facs.
Chew (1978); ed. Waite (1954), 240-45, Chew (1978), 333-36, Tischler (1988), ii,
1484-98
3. [Rex virginum amator] . . .-tus maria matre eleison. Christe eleison. Quem ventre
beato maria . . .
fol. b; frag. Kyrie plainchant, or perhaps the tenor of discant setting a2; facs.
Chew (1978)
Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, 22857E, fol. 4 s. xiii, 3/4, [Link] in.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Single parchment leaf housed in a modern guardbook and foliated 4; now 360 x 250
mm, with a written space of 290 x 215 mm; ruled in a single column of ten (recto) or
eleven (verso) freely-ruled red five-line staves of gauge 15-19 mm. Major initials in blue
and red with blue and red flourishing. Two text and music hands, the first pair
responsible for no. 1 and the other for nos. 2 and 3. Both text hands are in gothica
textualis quadrata. Musical notation of no. 1 is EMN with paired rhomboid breves;
musical notation of nos. 2 and 3 is later and essentially Franconian, with declamation on
long and breve. Possibly from an alphabetical grouping in the letter R.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaf. The notation of no. 1 suggests a date in the third quarter of the
13th century, with subsequent musical additions ca. 1300. Later it was the wrapper for
some slim document and then used in the stuffing of the cushion of a 16th-century chair
in Machynlleth. Given to the National Library of Wales in November 1991. For pen
trials and other scribbles on the verso, see Wathey, RISM Suppl.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wathey, RISM Suppl., 6-8
IV. CONTENTS
1. . . . resurgentem regem hodie . . . deum patrem adorate/T. Resurgentemque de morte
[. . .] adorate
fol. 4; frag. troped chant setting of part of the verse Crucifixum in carne of the
Eastertide processional antiphon Stetit angelus
2. Regem hodie collaudet gloria/T. Regnum tuum [solidum]
fol. 4; duplum and tenor of troped chant setting a4 of Gloria trope Regnum tuum
solidum with prosula O rex glorie; concordance preserving triplum and tenor in
Oxford, New College, ms. 362, fol. 82v [EECM 26, pl. 93; ed. Lefferts (1983), 875-
79]
3. Rex excellentissime/Rex regnorum omnium
fol. 4v; frag. troped chant setting a3 of Gloria trope Regnum tuum solidum with
prosula O rex glorie; missing chant tenor was middle voice by range
Cambridge, Clare College, Archives Acc. 1988/17 [Link]/xiv
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Single parchment leaf with no foliations; trimmed on top, bottom, and outer edge with
loss of one bottom staff; now 305 x 215 mm, perhaps originally 430 x 290 mm; written
space now 260 x 160 mm, perhaps originally 350 x 200 mm; originally nine (now eight)
red five-line staves freely ruled in a single column, with frame rules and text guides on
verso. Staff gauge of 21-24 mm. One-staff capitals in red and blue, flourished in red and
blue. Text script is gothica textualis quadrata, musical notation is Franconian.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaf. Formerly the rear pastedown in an unidentified binding
probably from the Clare College Fellow's Library. Removed in the 20th century and
preserved in a guard book in the Fellow's Library; transferred to the College Archives in
1988.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wathey, RISM Suppl., 10-11; Lefferts and Bent, 277-281; PMFC XIV
IV. CONTENTS
1. O paraclite regens corpus
recto; frag. voice of troped chant setting a3 of Kyrie Rex virginum amator; facs.
Lefferts and Bent , 279
2. [Lux polis refulgens] . . . egregia que candoris/Lux et gloria regis celici/T. K[yrie]
recto-verso; frag. troped chant setting a3 of Kyrie Lux et origo; concordance to
Recon I, no. 2; facs. Lefferts and Bent, 279-80; ed. PMFC XIV, no. App. 21
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 8 [Link] end
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Parchment bifolium opened flat, trimmed at the bottom and on the right, and inserted
sideways to serve as a rear flyleaf, plus additional stubs and strips. Each folio originally
measured perhaps ca. 340 x 265 mm, now trimmed in height to 305 mm, while the
second page has been cut away along the outer margin to a width of 159 mm; original
written space of ca. 270 x 180 mm ruled in twelve red five-line staves, with staff gauge
14-15.5 mm. The four pages are paginated 547, 548, 557, 558, indicating two interior
bifolio are missing from the original gathering structure. Additional small fragments
presumably from the same music manuscript are used as binding material in the
present host. Notation is a square mensural notation of the second half of the 13th
century with paired semibreves and c.o.p. ligatures. Red and blue initials. Texts in
English and Anglo-Norman.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaves, which judging from their pagination came from a very large
ms of diverse contents. The host ms of 270 folios is an early 14th-century copy of the
Speculum historiale, books 1-14, of Vincent of Beauvais.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 451-53; Page (1976); MES; Fenlon (1982), 59-62; Wilkins (1983); Everist
(1986); PMFC XVII
IV. CONTENTS
1. . . . in lyde ioye and blisce bringet me to bride
p. 547 (fol. 270); frag. setting a2 in score (unique instance with English text); facs.
Fenlon (1982), 60; ed. Bukofzer, NOHM III (1960), 111
2. Worldes blisce have god day/T. [Benedicamus Domino]
p. 547 (fol. 270); c.f. motet, perhaps complete a2; facs. Fenlon (1982), 60; ed. MES,
no. 17, PMFC XVII, no. 53
3. Volez oyer le castoy cum Gynot
p. 548 (fol. 270v), single-texted conductus-like setting a3 of an Anglo-Norman
text; facs. Fenlon (1982), 61, Wilkins (1983), pl. 16; ed. PMFC XVII, no. 64, Wilkins
(1983), pl. 16, Everist (1986), no. 3
4. Secundus li puis dy
p. 548 (fol. 270v); fragmentary single lower texted voice, presumably for a motet
on the missing (facing) recto, perhaps belongs with no. 5; facs. Fenlon (1982), 61
5. Primus
p. 548 (fol. 270v); fragmentary tenor-like supporting voice, presumably for motet
on missing (facing) recto, perhaps belongs with no. 4; facs. Fenlon (1982), 61
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6. [A nobis]/A nobis/T. A nobis
p. 557 (fol. 270v); frag. textless hocket clausula a3 in parts
7. Ne dampnemur
p. 557 (fol. 270v); frag. triplum of textless hocket clausula a3 in parts
8. [Notum] fecit do[minus]/[Notum] fecit do[minus]/T. [Notum] fecit do[minus]
p. 558 (fol. 270); frag. textless hocket clausula a3 in parts
9. [In odorem] suavitatis
p. 558 (fol. 270); frag. tenor of a textless hocket clausula a3 in parts
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PLUS very fragmentary strips (binding stubs), with texted music in parts:
after fol. 27: . . . ne qui de luy partis
after fol. 256: a small strip of the tenor of F-MO 32 (Rok. 40): Mellis stilla maris stella/T.
Domino
after fol. 262: . . . ce nest mie de quer pur moy deporter kant lesser mestut mamie e hors
du pais aler ci ad . . .
. . . cele freche de colur de grant lynage queyte sage mut de grant valur. Tenor de
iue pens
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 410 [Link]
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
The last four pages of a 15th-century copy of Walter Odington's De speculacione
musice, containing the music examples.
II. HISTORY
NOT a 13th-century source. Two mss of music theory bound together; English 15th
century copies. Included here because one music example is a 13th-century rondellus.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM theory vol.; Hammond ed., CSM 14; EEH; Fenlon (1982), 107-110
IV. CONTENTS
1. Ave mater domini
fol. 34v; rondellus a3; facs. EEH, pl. XLI, Fenlon (1982), 108; ed. Fenlon (1982), p.
110
Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, 803/807 [frag. 32] [Link] med.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Single parchment leaf ca. 225 x 158 mm with written space of ca. 155 x 102 mm; ruled in
six systems of two red five-line staves each with staff gauge 8.5-9 mm; alternating blue-
red initials. Music has Notre-Dame style notation with no particular English traits.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaf. Preserved in a collection of fragments; once a flyleaf, now
removed, from Cgc 345/620, de Groete's ms, a 14th-century ms of 98 fols. containing
mainly medical treatises.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 471-72; James cat., I, 388-90 and Suppl., 43; Lütolf (1970), 1:234-236;
PMFC XIV
IV. CONTENTS
1. Mundum salvificans
recto (fol. 1; frag. 32 verso); Agnus trope a2, facs. Lütolf, pl. XXVI; ed. Lütolf, no.
71, PMFC XIV, no. 13
2. O felix mortale
recto-verso (fol. 1-1v; frag. 32 verso-recto); Agnus trope a2; facs. Lütolf, pl. XXVI-
XXVII; ed. Lütolf, no. Anh. 7
3. Rex eterne glorie
verso (fol. 1v; frag. 32 recto); Agnus trope a2; facs. Lütolf, pl. XXVII; ed. Lütolf,
no. 72, PMFC XIV, no. 14
Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, 820/810 (frag. L) [Link] med.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Two parchment folios, now ca. 215 x 290 mm but cut down from an original of ca. 400 x
300 mm, possibly from a rotulus; each side ruled for music in two columns of red five-
line staves, of which eight and a fraction are visible while at least eleven were originally
drawn; written space originally ca. 333 x 260 mm, with each column ca. 333 x 125 mm
and staff gauge 14 mm. Incomplete notation includes text and music on recto of fol. 1,
and text only on recto of fol. 2. The versos were ruled for music but lack text or notation.
Musical notation not Petronian, as stated in RISM, but a mixture of sections with square
breve in long-breve motion and English paired rhomboid breves in long-breve-breve
motion.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaves. Formerly front and rear flyleaves of the first item in Cgc
327/527, an early 13th-century copy of the Summa Ottonis Papiensis de edendo
(incomplete) and the Summa Brocardi.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 472-73; James cat., I, 369-70; PMFC XIV; Anderson edn.
IV. CONTENTS
1. Equitas in curia subrogatur
fol. 1; conductus a3 written in parts; ed. PMFC XIV, no. App. 10, Anderson edn.,
vol. 9, no. O43
2. Fulget ecclesia prelatis singulis
fol. 2; staves drawn and text underlaid for a single-texted work a3 written in
parts, of which texts of Triplum and Motetus are mostly preserved
Cambridge, Jesus College, QB 1 [Link] med.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Four flyleaves and 33 strips comprising all or part of twelve folios and including all or
part of seven conductus for three voices (nos. 1-5, 8-9), plus staves and text but no
musical notation for two others on the flyleaves (nos. 6-7), and eight for two voices (nos.
10-17) on the strips. Only six folios, C-H, are continuous. The front flyleaves (now fols.
1a-1c), with conductus a3, and the strips, with conductus a2, appear to be from different
gatherings of the same manuscript and will be identified here as fragment A. This
repertoire is primarily international in circulation. Fol. 2, originally the back flyleaf, may
be from a different source than the others (Losseff (1994), 26), although evidence of
sewing holes may indicate that it comes from a later layer of the same ms as the
conductus (Fenlon (1982), 51). It contains distinctively insular genres and notation, and
will be identified here as fragment B.
Fragment A
Overall dimensions ca. 295 x 227 mm, with written space of ca. 215 x 150 mm for the
polyphony a3 and 205 x 150 mm for the polyphony a2, staff gauge ca. 14 mm. Items 1-9
are ruled in four systems of three red five-line staves per page; items 10-17 are ruled in
five systems of two red five-line staves per page. Notre-Dame style music notation, with
red-blue initials.
Fragment B
Recto ruled in four three-stave systems of red five-line staves; verso ruled in five similar
three-stave systems. Written space of the recto is 220 x 160 mm (extended to 190 mm in
the bottom system), and of the verso is 260 x 160 mm. Freely drawn staves of gauge ca.
12.5-15 mm. Musical notation is English mensural notation with rhomboid breves,
predominantly in long-breve motion.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaves. From Bury St. Edmunds? They were front and rear flyleaves
and binding strips removed in 1955 from Cjec 1, a 15th-century paper manuscript of 273
folios containing a miscellany of letters and documents from Bury St. Edmunds. The
musical materials were first reassembled by Manfred Bukofzer. Best available
description of the music leaves is in Fenlon (1982).
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 472-76; James catalogue, 16-19; Anderson edn.; PMFC XIV; PMFC XVII;
Fenlon (1982), 47-51; Losseff (1994), 26-27, 56-58
IV. CONTENTS
Fragment A
1. [Procurans odium effectu proprio] . . [con]trarium ab hoste nescio
fol. 1a; frag. conductus a3 (Anderson cat., no. E9, Falck no. 274, Szöverffy, 248-
49); ed. Anderson edn., vol. 1, no. E9
2. Si mundus viveret mundus pecunia
fol. 1a; conductus a3 (Anderson cat., no. E10, Falck no. 327; Szöverffy, 286-87); ed.
Anderson edn., vol. 1, no. E10
3. Fas et nephas ambulant fere passu pari
fol. 1a verso; conductus a3 (Anderson cat., no. F7, Falck no. 119, Szöverffy, 133);
ed. Anderson edn., vol. 2, no. F7
4. Leniter ex merito ferendum quod patimur
fol. 1a verso; frag. conductus a3 (Anderson cat., no. E2, Falck no. 195, Szöverffy,
187); ed. Anderson edn., vol. 1, no. E2
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5. [Fulget Nicholaus gemma pontificum] . . . [ponti]fex egregie decus
fol. 1b; frag. conductus a3 (Anderson cat., no. E7, Falck no. 135, Szöverffy, 143);
ed. Anderson edn., vol. 1, no. E7
6. Ve[ra] fides geniti
fol. 1b-1b verso; staves and text only for setting a3 of a Communion
7. De pia virgo . . . viciis sit labile ne cordum . . . stella per equor
fol. 1b verso; staves and unidentifed frag. text only for setting a3
----------------------------
8. [Premii dilatio . . . Qui suspendunt pre]mium
fol. 1c; RISM no. 6; frag. conductus a3 (Anderson cat., no. E3, Falck no. 270,
Szöverffy, 246-47); ed. Anderson edn., vol. 1, no. E3
9. Crucifigat omnes domini crux altera
fol. 1c-1c verso; RISM no. 7; conductus a3 (Anderson cat., no. D3, Falck no. 70,
Szöverffy, 96); ed. Anderson edn., vol. 1, no. D3
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10. [O crux ave spes unica signum] . . . demon cedat numini
fol. A-Av; frag. conductus a2 (Anderson cat., no. H4, Falck no. 230, Szöverffy,
214); ed. Anderson edn., vol. 3, no. H4
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11. A deserto veniens gravis
fol. B-Bv; conductus a2 (Anderson cat., no. J3, Falck no. 1, Szöverffy, 43); ed.
Anderson edn., vol. 5, no. J3
12. Genitus diuinitus idem quod a genitus
fol. Bv; frag. conductus a2 (Anderson cat., no. I25, Falck no. 144, Szöverffy, 149);
ed. Anderson edn., vol. 4, no. I25
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13. Gloria in excelsis deo redemptori meo
fol. C-D; conductus a2 (Anderson cat., no. H1, Falck no. 145, Szöverffy, 149); ed.
Anderson edn., vol. 3, no. H1
14. D[e]duc Syon ube[rrimas velut torrent]em
fol. Dv-F; conductus a2 (Anderson cat., no. G8, Falck no. 85, Szöverffy, 107); ed.
Anderson edn., vol. 3, no. G8
15. [A]ge peni[tentiam m]emor unde cecideris
fol F-Fv; conductus a2 (Anderson cat., no. H31, Falck no. 11, Szöverffy, 52); ed.
Anderson edn., vol. 3, no. H31
16. Anni favor iubelei pe[narum] laxat
fol. Fv-H; conductus a2 (Anderson cat., no. J25, Falck no. 16, Szöverffy, 58-59);
facs. Fenlon, 48; ed. Anderson edn., vol. 5, no. J25
17. Novi sideris lumen resplenduit
fol. H-Hv; conductus a2 (Anderson cat., no. P1); facs. Fenlon, 48 (H verso); ed.
PMFC XIV, no. 15, Anderson edn., vol. 10, no. P1
Fragment B
1. . . . coronata . . . agmine sanctorum regnat/T. [Alleluya] V. Hodie Maria virgo
fol. 2; RISM no. 8; end of duplum and tenor of frag. troped chant setting a3 in
parts, with no. 1a below as concluding Alleluya
1a. Ave maris stella dei mater/Stella maris parens paris/T. Alleluya
fol. 2; concluding Alleluya to no. 1, in score (RISM no. 8a); ed. PMFC XVII, no. 64
2. A laudanda legione/ A laudanda legione/ T. Alleluia V. Ave Maria gracia plena
fol. 2-2v; RISM no. 9; troped chant setting a3; ed. PMFC XIV, no. 69
Cambridge, Jesus College, QB 5 [Link], 4/4
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Two parchment bifolia, now unfolded and used as rear flyleaves (fols. 138 [a, b] and 139
[c, d]); not apparently continguous or forming the center of a gathering; overall
unfolded dimensions ca 292 x 170 mm. Thus, parts of eight pages survive, but they have
been cut across the middle with the loss of the top half, and with the first (left) folio
trimmed vertically down to a stub; width of original folio ca. 221/237 mm, with width
of written space ca. 167/175 mm. Only four-and-a-half red five-line staves per page
survive, all ruled in single columns of staff gauge 16/18/21 mm. If the original was
ruled for nine staves, the height of the page would have been originally ca. 340 mm and
the height of the written space ca. 260 mm. Source consisted of motets and motet-like
troped chant settings in parts, some in single column format and some laid out in
double-column format. Tenor text in red.
II. HISTORY
No info on music leaves. Written for Durham? Host manuscript of 139 fols. is a noted
Gradual (cantatorium) of Durham Cathedral variously dated from ca. 1300 to ca. 1500.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 476-78; James cat., 23-24; Lefferts (1981); Cooper (1981); Lefferts (1983)
IV. CONTENTS
1. . . . gracie don . . .prudencie . . ./Tenor d[e] . . .
fol. a recto (fol. 138v); RISM no. 4; frag. upper and a lower voice of motet
2. Tenor . . .gina . . .
fol. a recto (fol. 138v); RISM no. 5; frag. motet tenor
3. . . . et dileccio Iam . . . calbaccio O grauis
fol. a verso (fol. 138); RISM no. 1; frag. upper voice of motet on St. Thomas of
Canterbury; frag. concordance in D-Gu 220, no. 2
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4. T. V[irgo flagellatur] . . . manet lux celica . . . celi agmina laudes
fol. b recto (fol. 138); RISM no. 2; frag. whole-chant tenor of motet-like troped-
chant setting for St. Katherine
5. . . . a quo fecundata/ . . . [ar]changelorum quam pie caterue
fol b verso (fol. 138v); RISM no. 3; frag. upper voices of motet to BVM
----------------
6. . . . ria misera . . . gloria Amen/Tenor . . . Maria
fol. c recto (fol. 139v); RISM no. 8; frag. upper voice and tenor of motet to the
BVM
7. . . . nobi . . . ctoris virgi . . .
fol c verso (fol. 139); RISM no. 6; frag. upper voice of motet
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8. [Salve Symonis quia hic]/S[alve Symon Montisfortis]. . . prostratu gentis anglie . . . in
terris extiteris/Tenor de Salue Symonis quia hic
fol. d recto (fol. 139); RISM no. 7; frag. pes motet a3 on Simon de Montfort;
transcribed Lefferts (1981), 224-25; ed. as canon a2 over pes in Cooper (1981), 86
9. [Sospitati dedit egros] . . . sospes regreditur
fol. d verso (fol. 139v); unnumbered in RISM; staves ruled and one text entered
for motet in double-column layout on St. Nicholas; text is the well known prose
for this saint
Cambridge, St. John's College, 138 (F.1) [Link] med.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Single leaf, probably a page from a rotulus, once folded to form two rear musical
flyeaves (fols. 127-128) but now housed separately, unfolded and flattened, in a brown
manila folder. The recto is ruled in two columns, each of width 85 mm and staff gauge
13 mm with fifteen fully visible red five-line staves; a partially visible sixteenth staff
mostly trimmed from the top completes the upper two voices. A seventeenth staff is
partially visible below the left hand column only and has no notation. The verso has
fifteen complete staves with another partially trimmed away; the small amount
surviving from its first item indicates that there was at least one preceding leaf to the
rotulus. On both sides, the written space for 16 staves was originally ca. 315 x 180 mm
inside overall dimensions of ca. 350 x 240 mm; overall dimensions are now 310 x 210
mm. The recto is finished with blue and red initials, while the verso is unfinished: the
second item lacks initials and notation for the French-texted triplum. Notation is EMN.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaves. Written for Bury St. Edmunds? Former host manuscript of 125
fols. is a 13th-century copy of William Peraldus, Summa de vitiis, in its original binding,
with a Bury St. Edmunds pressmark.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 480-81; James catalogue, 174-75; Lefferts (1981); Losseff (1994), 99-100
IV. CONTENTS
1. O sancte Bartholomee plebs fidelis/O sancte Bartholomee plebs deuota/
T. O Bartholomee miseris
recto; RISM no. 3; frag. pes motet a3; ed. PMFC XIV, no. 45
2. Miles Christi gloriose Symon/Plorate ciues anglie
recto; RISM no. 4; frag. pes motet a3 for Symon de Montfort; partial ed. in
Lefferts (1981), 219-20
3. . . . /T. [Benedica]mus domino
verso; RISM no. 1; two frag. voices of a chant setting; unidentified cf.,
contrapuntally a middle voice, is laid out in double cursus and has internal
double versicle
4. En averil al tens/O Christi clemencie/T.
verso; RISM no. 2; incompletely notated motet a3; tenor begins at left hand
margin of second staff from bottom
Cambridge, Trinity College, O. 2. 1 [Link] med.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Two parchment bifolia, neither the center of a gathering; evidently from the same
source but with no continuity from one to the next; foliated I-II, 215-216 [229-230]; page
dimensions 225 x 165 mm, with written space of 158 x 102 mm ruled in six systems per
page of two red five-line staves with staff gauge 9 mm and red-blue initials. Notation is
EMN in virga-rhomb patterns.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaves. Probably from Ely Cathedral Priory. Host manuscript of 256
fols. consists of a calendar and two late 12th-century volumes from Ely, the Liber
Eliensis and the Inquisicio Eliensis, bound together. The music leaves serve as flyleaves
before and after the first of these volumes and evidently served previously as flyleaves
and pastedowns when it was independent. The two books were probably joined by the
15th century, when they received a continuous foliation which does not include the
preceding calendar; the present binding is of the 17th or 18th century. Best available
description in Fenlon (1982), 44.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 482-85; PMFC XIV; Fenlon (1982), 44-47; Sanders (2001b)
IV. CONTENTS
1. . . . lix vita salus hominum . . . David arreptus solvitur . . . /T.
fol. I-Iv; frag. conductus motet a3; RISM counts this piece as two items [nos. 1-2]
2. Regina clemencie mater et filia/T.
fol. Iv; [RISM no. 3]; frag. conductus motet a3
3. . . . virtutum spolia . . . mundo profuit/T1. [Et confitebor]/T2.
fol. II; [RISM no. 4]; frag. conductus motet a4, unique for having two supporting
voices, one c.f. and one free, which survive intact; facs. Fenlon (1982), 46; ed.
PMFC XIV, no. App. 25
4. Stilla mellis vellus rorifluum/T.
fol. II-IIv; [RISM no. 5]; frag. conductus motet a3; facs. Fenlon (1982), 46
--------
5. O Maria singularis stella/T.
fol. 215-215v [229-229v]; [RISM no. 6]; conductus motet a3; ed. PMFC XIV, no. 75
6. Salve sancta parens christi
fol. 215v [229v]; [RISM no. 7]; frag. conductus motet a3
7. [In veritate comperi quod sceleri] . . . totum orbem inficit . . . /T. [Veritatem]
fol. 216 [230]; [RISM no. 8]; frag. conductus motet a3; continental concordances in
F-MO 48 (Rok 57), etc.
8. Virgo decus castitatis/T. [Alleluya]
fol. 216v [230v]; [RISM no. 9]; frag. conductus motet a3; variant continental
concordances in F-MO, 49 (Rok 58), etc. but this insular conductus-motet version
and triplum not otherwise known; ed. PMFC XIV, App. no. 24
9. Agmina milicie celestis omnia/T. [Agmina]
fol. 216v [230v]; [RISM no. 10]; frag. conductus motet a3; continental
concordances in I-FL 29, no. 835, etc.
Cambridge, University Library, Ff. ii. 29 [Link] med.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Two parchment front flyleaves, from the same ms but not originally continguous;
overall dimensions 290 x 205 mm with written space of 179 x 121 mm (172 x 122, acc.
Ludwig) ruled in twelve red five-line staves of staff gauge 8 mm. Initials in red, blue,
green, and violet. Notre Dame style musical notation.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaves. From Bury? Lütolf argues for French provenance. Host
manuscript of 96 fols. is a 15th-century collection of documents from Bury St. Edmunds,
the Red Vestry Register, Part I, running from Richard II to Henry VI.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 486-88; EEH; Lütolf (1970), 1:213-18; PMFC XIV; Losseff (1994), 55-57
IV. CONTENTS
1. Alleluia. V. Dies sanctificatus illuxit no[bis]
fol. i-i verso; frag. chant setting a3; Notre Dame concordances for one clausula
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2. [Sanctorum exultacio] . . . honor. Cui dulci iubilo
fol. ii; frag. chant setting a3 of Sanctus Sar 5 and trope; facs. EEH, pl. XXXVII; ed.
Lütolf, no. 38
3. Sancte ingenite genitor
fol. ii-ii verso; chant setting a3 of Sanctus Sar 3 and trope; facs. EEH, pl. XXXVII-
XXXVIII; ed. Lütolf, no. 39, PMFC XIV, no. 65
Canterbury, Cathedral Library, Additional 128/2 s. xiv in.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Single parchment leaf with no foliation; originally ca. 280 x 180 mm, now 280 x 125 mm,
with three tabs extending a further 15 mm horizontally; written space arr. as single
column now 245 x 125 mm (recto) for twelve five-line staves and 225 x 125 mm (verso)
for eleven five-line staves, perhaps originally 245 x 150 mm (recto); staves freely ruled
in red, with text guides, and staff gauge 13.5 mm. Notation in black; designations of
untexted voices in red. Text script is gothica textualis quadrata, with some semi-
quadrata elements; notation is Franconian, with ornamental semibreves.
II. HISTORY
Leaf now lost. Written for Canterbury? Used in an unidentified tall stabbed binding,
probably from a codex in the Canterbury Cathedral Library or Archive.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wathey, RISM Suppl., 21-23 and pl. 4-5; Ker, MMBL, 2: 326, 328 (identified as 128/5);
Sandon, 39-41 (identified as CANT 2); Lefferts (1983), 529-42; Lefferts (1986), 246-48
IV. CONTENTS
1. [Det]entos a demonibus/[Sec]undo tenor
recto; frag. motet a4; ed. Lefferts (1983), 530-33
2. [Q]Uid rimari cogitas/[Ten]or primus
recto; frag. motet a4; ed. Lefferts (1983), 534-38
3. [Regi]na iam discubuit/. . . s de primo puncto
verso; frag. motet a4; ed. Lefferts (1983), 534, 539-41
4. [Venit sponsa de li]bano/. . . de secundo puncto
verso; frag. motet a4; ed. Lefferts (1983), 534, 539, 542
Canterbury, Cathedral Library, Additional 128/8 + Additional 128/71 s. xiii med.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Two separated fragments, discovered at separate times in the later 20th century,
together comprising one parchment leaf; the larger, first reported by Sandon, has
modern foliations "Cant 1" and "10"; Sandon's description reverses recto and verso.
Originally ca. 300 x 200 mm, now 245 x 190 mm, with written space 244 x 155 mm; ruled
in four three-staff systems with frame rules, double text guides, and ruled three-line 16
mm indentations for initials; red five-line staves freely ruled with gauge ca. 13 mm.
Music that would have completed no. 1 not added to bottom system of recto and the
badly worn, partially cut off, top system of verso. Three-line initial for S [alve] of item 2
in red, green, and brown; text gaps filled by red-green ornament. Two text hands, both
versions of gothica textualis semiquadrata; musical notation is EMN with rhomboid
breves and diagonal stems on the first rhombs of conjuncturae.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaf. Written for Canterbury? Fragments were formerly pastedowns
in unidentified bindings probably from the Canterbury Cathedral Library or Archive;
Wathey dates s. xiii 2/2; Sandon dates repertoire stylistically to mid-century, placing
handwriting and notation both ca. 1260-1280.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wathey, RISM Suppl., 20-21; PMFC XVII; Sandon (1976), 37-39 (where 128/8 is
identified as CANT 1); Losseff (1994), 111-113
IV. CONTENTS
1. Alleluia V. Ave rosa generosa . . . stella dei cella . . . transcendens Maria
recto-verso; frag. untroped chant setting a3 in score
2. Alleluya V. Salve virgo mater dei
verso; untroped chant setting a3 in score; ed. Sandon (1976), 48-50, PMFC XVII,
no. 63 (both edns. predate the discovery of Add. 128/71)
Canterbury, Cathedral Library, Additional 128/62 s. xiii ex.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Single parchment leaf with notation only on recto (verso is blank), possibly part of a
rotulus, with at least three staves and two lines of text cut away at the top; modern
foliation "Cant 6" on verso; now 250 x 196 mm, perhaps originally 325-360 x 190-200
mm; written space now 235 x 164 mm, perhaps originally 300 x 164 mm; eleven
(originally at least fourteen) five-line staves freely-ruled in a single column with frame
rules, double text guides, ruled indentations for initials, and staff gauge of 11-13 mm.
Staves, paraphs, and tenor text in red. Text script is gothica textualis rotunda; musical
notation is Franconian.
II. HISTORY
No info. on this leaf. Written for Canterbury? Formerly used in an unidentified binding
probably from the Canterbury Cathedral Library or Archive.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wathey, RISM Suppl., 23-24; Lefferts (1986), 246 (identified as CANT 6); the editors also
gratefully acknowledge a private communication from Dr. Robert Ford
IV. CONTENTS
1. . . . fit innocens opprobrio/Virgo que fructifera/T. Virgo [dei genitrix]
recto; frag. troped chant setting a3 of the verse of the Gradual Benedicta et
venerabilis
Dorchester, Dorset Record Office, PE/NBY/MI 1 [olim P 350/MI 1] s. xii/xiii
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Two frag. parchment folios forming a bifolium not from the center of a gathering; no
surviving foliation (Wathey's foliation for RISM, followed here, reverses that of Bent);
dimensions of two-page opening now 142 x 275 mm; each folio originally ca. 160 x 140
mm with written space ca. 120 x 100 mm; free-ruled in single columns, perhaps
originally with twelve four-line staves per page on fols 1v-2v; fol. 1 organized into six
two-staff systems, the first of which has one five-line staff; gauge of 4-line staves is 6-7
mm, that of five-line staff is 9.5 mm. Staves are red; major initial in red flourished with
green, small capitals in red and green. Text script is an English proto-gothic book hand
(miniscule with certain gothic forms), and notation is of the later 12th or early 13th
century, with semi-quadratic neumes.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaves. Found in a cavity in the wall of the 15th-century clock
chamber of Netherbury Church, Dorset, in 1964; deposited in Dorset Record Office in
1969.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wathey, RISM Suppl., 24-25; Bent (1970), with edn. of no. 1 and complete facs. between
p. 228 and p. 229.
IV. CONTENTS
1. [Verbum bonum et suave] . . . ave [pro]lem protulisti
fol. 1; frag. sequence a2; ed. Bent (1970), 239
2. Salve m[ater salvator]is vas e[lectum]
fol. 1v; frag. sequence a1
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3. [Superne matris gaudia] . . . [pro] qualitate (sic) meriti
fol. 2; frag. sequence a1
4. . . . speciale gaudium . . . Dei filium . . .
fol. 2v; frag. sequence (unidentified) a1
Durham, University Library, Bamburgh Collection, Sel. 13 [Link], 3/4
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Single leaf, originally ca. 300 x 200 cm, now trimmed on three sides to 260 x 179 mm;
original written space ca. 268 x 162 mm with five-line staves of gauge 16 mm; ruled on
recto in four three-staff systems, of which top staff is lost; ruled on verso for 10 staves,
of which top staff is lost. Illuminated capitals in motet; different colored inks (blue, red,
brown) for texts in rondellus segments.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaf, which has two pieces on St. Peter. Binding material from a
printed book, Hygden's Polycronycon (London: Wynkyn de Worde, 1495). Now a front
flyleaf but not originally so; perhaps once reinforcement for the spine. Present binding,
not original, is ca. 1545 and not London work; some early owners lived in Norwich.
Provenance of music could be either city (see Losseff (1994)).
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 490-91; PMFC XIV; Anderson edn.; Losseff (1994), 61-62
IV. CONTENTS
1. [Quem trina polluit]
recto; frag. double-texted conductus-rondellus a3; single-texted concordance
(frag.) in Recon. II, no. 32; ed. WF, no. 69, PMFC XIV, no. 34, Anderson edn., vol.
9, no. O46 (Sv, 253-54)
2. Tu capud ecclesie/Tu es Petrus/T. [Veritatem]
verso; c.f. motet a3; ed. PMFC XIV, no. 78
London, British Library, Additional 28598 [Link] inf.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Mutilated and incomplete parchment codex now of 170 folios with dimensions of 288 x
185 mm and a written space of 240-245 x 165 mm. Plainsong and polyphony written on
17 to 19 red four-line staves per page of gauge 8 mm. Polyphony on fol. 14, not 14 verso
as described in RISM.
II. HISTORY
Polyphony entered among plainsongs in the Temporale of this Sarum Antiphonal from
ca. 1300, perhaps from York.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 515-16; Göllner (1969)
IV. CONTENTS
1. Primo tempore alleviata
fol. 14; tone a2 for first lesson of First Nocturne of Christmas Matins; ed. Göllner,
I, 11
London, British Library, Arundel 248 [Link], med.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Overall dimensions of 207 x 150 mm; written space for music on fols. 153-155 is ca. 180-
190 x 115-25 mm, in a variety of hands and rulings with staff gauge ca. 7-7.5 mm. On fol.
201v, written space is 180 x 115 mm with staff gauge 6 mm (15 mm for the two-staff
system).
II. HISTORY
A theological and moral miscellany variously dated late 13th century (Dobson in MES)
or early 14th century (Stevens). It is a composite of four parchment mss, fols. 1-94; 95-
133; 134-35; 136-201. Music, all in the fourth discrete ms, entered within an integral
binio, fols. 152-55, plus later entries. Middle English dialects have both East Anglian
and Northern features. Malyshko (1989: 72, 81) suggests Leeds as a possible point of
origin, since a later owner was of the parish of Leeds.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 491-93; EEH, pl. XXXII-XXXVI; Page (1976); MES; Stevens (1981a);
Stevens (1986); Everist (1986); Malyshko (1989); Losseff (1994), 38-40; Gillingham edn.;
Deeming (2006)
IV. CONTENTS
1. O labilis o flebilis
f. 153; (RISM no. 1); conductus a2; facs. EEH, pl. XXXII; ed. PMFC XIV, no. 8,
Anderson edn., vol. 10, no. P29 (Sv, 217-218)
2. Magdalene laudes plene vox serene
fol. 153v; sequence a1, melody based on the sequence Letabundus; heading reads
"Sequencia de Magdalena post notam Letabund"; facs. EEH, pl. XXXIII, Deeming
(2006), 14
3. Flos pudicicie/Flur de virginite
fol. 153v; sequence a1 double texted in Latin and Anglo-Norman; heading reads
"Cantus de Domina post cantu Aaliz"; facs. EEH, pl. XXXIII, Deeming (2006), 14
4. Angelus ad virginem/Gabriel fram evene king
fol. 154; devotional song a1 double-texted in Latin and English; facs. EEH, pl.
XXXIV; ed. MES, nos. 15 (i), 15 (ii)
5. Te milde lamb isprad o rode
fol. 154; monophonic English devotional song; facs. EEH, pl. XXXIV; ed. MES, no.
14
6. Worldes blis ne last no throwe
fol. 154; monophonic English devotional song; concordance in Ob 18, no. 1; facs.
EEH, pl. XXXIV; ed. MES, no. 7
7. Spei vena melle plena
fol. 154v; Marian sequence a1; facs. EEH, pl. XXXV
8. Jesu cristes milde moder
fol. 154v-55; (RISM no. 2); double-texted sequence a2 in English; facs. EEH, pl.
XXXV-VI; ed. PMFC XIV, no. 1, MES, no. 12
9. Salue virgo virginum parens
fol. 155; (RISM no. 3); conductus a3 (Anderson cat., no. O14); musical
concordance is no. 10 below; facs. EEH, pl. XXXVI; ed. PMFC XIV, no. 19a,
Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O12, Caldwell (1991), 69
10. Veine pleine de ducur
fol. 155; (RISM no. 4); conductus a3 in Anglo-Norman; musical concordance is
no. 9 above; facs. EEH, pl. XXXVI; ed. PMFC XIV, no. 19b, Everist (1986), no. 2
11. Bien deust chantar ky leal amie
fol. 155; Anglo-Norman monody; facs. EEH, pl. XXXVI
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12. Alleluia V. Virga ferax Aaron
fol. 200v; (RISM no. 5); frag. chant setting a2
--------
13. Risum fecit sare
fol. 201v; (RISM no. 6); sequence a2; facs. Deeming (2006), 15; ed. PMFC XIV, no.
9, Gillingham, no. 21
London, British Library, Burney 357 s. xiii, 1/4
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Overall ms dimensions are 212 x 115 mm, but the gathering containing the music is
shorter, at 200 x 115 mm; written space of music pages is 180 x 103-107 mm, with six
pairs of four-line brown staves per page of gauge 10 mm. Early 13th-century notation
similar to British Library manuscripts Cotton Vesp. xviii, Harley 524, and Harley 5393.
The two items are entered in different hands.
II. HISTORY
MS of 24 folios is a 12th-13th century collection of short theological works that
originally belonged to Cistercian abbey of Thame, Oxfordshire. Music and text added
on the final leaves of a gathering given over to De diluvia. Fol. 16v has 12 lines of
unrelated written text in yet another, later hand.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 493-94; EEH
IV. CONTENTS
1. Amor patris et filii veri splendor
fol. 15v-16; Pentecost sequence a2; facs. EEH, pl. IX-X; ed. Anderson edn., vol. 10,
no. P30
2. Benedicamus domino
fol. 16; setting a2; facs. EEH, pl. X
London, British Library, Cotton Fragment xxix s. xiii, med.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Parchment leaf of polyphony now fol. 36 in a 19th-century miscellany of fragments of
burnt Cotton manuscripts. Heat has distorted and shrunk the parchment to current
dimensions of ca. 190 x 135 mm. Shrinkage and warping on account of the Cotton fire
make a fair estimate of original dimensions impossible. Notation is EMN.
II. HISTORY
Leaf apparently was a flyleaf in Cotton Titus A. xviii, an early 14th-century Durham
miscellany of 85 folios and dimensions 240 x 165 mm that survives in very good shape.
The leaf is dated 1349 in a document added at the bottom of the recto; leaf probably
from Adel (Addle in Yorkshire).
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 494; MES, 196-98, 272-73, 307-8; Page (1976); Stevens (1981); Page (1983);
PMFC XVII
IV. CONTENTS
1. Veni mater gracie stella/T. [Dou way Robin]
fol. 36; pes motet a2; concordance in US-PRu 119 B, no. 1 ; RISM proposes Salve
mater as incipit; MES proposes Sancta mater; ed. MES, no. 18, PMFC XVII, no. 52
2. Angelus ad virginem subintrans
fol. 36v; setting a2 with tune in top voice; not concordant to a later polyphonic
setting a3 of the same text and tune in Cambridge, University Library,
Additional 710 (an error in RISM repeated in Anderson edn., vol. 9, pp. 126-27 in
the commentary to no. O13, and elsewhere); ed. MES, no. 15 (ii) with substitute
text (Gabriel Fram Heven-King), PMFC XVII, no. 17
London, British Library, Cotton Titus A. xxi s. xiii med.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
MS dimensions are 235 x 160 mm; music added on originally blank rearmost pages, fols.
90v-91, in written space 178 x 115 mm (fol. 90v) and 170 x 125 mm (fol. 91) on twelve
and nine freely-drawn four-line staves per page, respectively, of staff gauge 7-10 mm.
RISM errs in assigning item no. 1 to page 90 recto.
II. HISTORY
Ms of 91 fols. is a parchment collection of psalm and hymn texts of the late 12th or early
13th century. Provenance might be French or English, but the present consensus is that
the music, at any rate, is an English addition The same hand entered the text and lowest
musical part on fol. 90v and the text and music of fol. 91; the upper two polyphonic
voices on fol. 90v, for which space had been saved, were then added in another hand.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 495; EEH; Hughes (1954); Lütolf (1970), 1:199-202; PMFC XIV
IV. CONTENTS
1. Virtute numinis
fol. 90v; Agnus dei trope a3; facs. EEH, pl. XI, Hughes (1954) before 303; ed.
Lütolf, no. 67, PMFC XIV, no. 20
2. Salve virgo singularis
fol. 91; monophonic sequence
London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian A. xviii s. xiii, 3/4
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
MS dimensions are 215 x 160 mm; music added on blank flyleaves at end of main
corpus in written space 179 x 125 mm ruled for thirteen red staves on fol. 164v (one five-
line and twelve four-line) and twelve on fol. 165 (ten four-line and two five-line) with
staff gauge 9 mm for five lines (7 mm for four lines). Musical notation is EMN in long-
rhomb motion. Some aspects of early 13th-century notation (e.g., double longs divided
by vertical line; one or two dots over some single longs) are most similar to British
Library manuscripts Burney 357, Harley 524, or Harley 5393. Decoration in red and
green. Lots of erasures, perhaps either amending clef errors or recording the process of
scribal conversion from continental notation to EMN.
II. HISTORY
13th century MS of 167 folios from Ramsey Abbey. Miscellaneous contents include
chronicles and Papal bulls; originally at least two separate mss now joined. Leaves
containing the music once may have been independent of the remainder, as fols. 163
and 165 form a bifolio, with fol. 164 now a single leaf within it whose musical content
continues onto fol. 165, and fol. 163 recto is blank.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 495-96; Everist (1986)
IV. CONTENTS
1. Amor veint tout fors/Au tens deste ke cil/T. Et gaudebit
fol. 164v-165; motet a3 in Anglo-Norman, with continental concordances in F-
MO 15 (Rok. 23), etc.; facs. Everist (1986), frontispiece; ed. Everist (1986), no. 4
London, British Library, Harley 524 s. xiii, 1/4
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
MS dimensions are 207 x 150 mm; music in top half (98 x 115 mm) of a ruled written
space of 148 x 115 mm, on three systems of two red four-line staves of gauge 8 mm.
Notation includes an ascending binary ligature whose lower note is a wavy duplex long
and a descending binary ligature whose first note is a duplex longa over which are two
dots. Early 13th-century notation is most similar to British Library manuscripts Burney
357, Cotton Vespasian A. xviii, or Harley 5393. Red decoration on initials.
II. HISTORY
MS of 147 fols. is a miscellaneous collection of once independent libelli including
sermons and other theological items. The last of these is a letter from the Abbot of
Oseney to the Bishop of Lincoln, ca. 1300-1320. Music entered on a ruled but blank
endleaf of one of these items.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 505; EEH, pl. XXXI; Anderson edn.; Malyshko (1989), 79-80; Losseff
(1994), 42
IV. CONTENTS
1. Veri floris sub figura quem produxit
fol. 63; conductus a2 (Anderson cat., no. C1, Falck no. 369, Szöverffy, 320); facs.
EEH, pl. XXXI; ed. Anderson edn., vol. 1, no. C1
London, British Library, Harley 978 s. xiii med.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
A smallish book of 162 folios, originally ca. 200 x 135 mm, now trimmed at the margins
to 190 x 130 mm, with a written space of 163 x 102 mm (sometimes taller) for fols. 2-13v;
staff gauge is 11-12.5 mm for five lines. Item A comprises the entire first section. Folio
one is blank. Fols. 2r-13v have uniform ruling of nine red five-line staves per page with
the exception of 9v-10 (four three-staff systems of 4, 5, 5 lines for item no. 9), 11 (only
ruled for 5 staves, to the end of the piece), 11v (for item no. 12). Notation is EMN with
rhomboid breve; it has evidently undergone some modifications at a later time.
Item B, fols. 14r-15r begins the second section of the book and is ruled differently for its
music theory examples; written space is 143-152 x 80-85 mm.
Item C, the appended fols. 160v-161, has a written space of 141 x 115 mm.
II. HISTORY
This is a Reading Abbey ms principally from the mid 13th century and finished not long
after 1265. It is a portable miscellany originally in six distinct sections of widely varying
content, but with uniform size and mostly uniform written space and ruling of pages.
Perhaps compiled for Reading monk William of Winchester. The music is in the first
section (fols. 2r-13v), and includes nine lengthy monophonic Latin songs, plus
polyphony (Sumer canon, three-voice motet as conductus, three dances a2). There are
music theory examples at the beginning of the second section (fols. 14r-15r).
The last item added to the manuscript is a later addition, a single bifolium which
preserves the index or table of contents to a now lost music codex of c. 1290 that was
evidently also of Reading provenance, the so-called LoHa or Harleian index (fols. 160v-
161). It records that the lost book was once owned and perhaps assembled by W. de
Wintonia (a monk at Reading and at Leominster Priory, a Reading dependency, in the
1270s and 1280s), and identifies a work by R. de Burgate (abbot of Reading, 1268-90)
and a cycle of Alleluia settings attributed to W. de Wycombe (a Reading monk who also
worked at Leominster Priory for four years and was precentor there for part or all of
that time, in the later 1270s).
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 505-8; EEH; Parrish; PMFC XIV; Anderson cat.; Schofield (1948); Page
(1976); Hohler (1978); McGee (1989); MES; MGB; Everist (1986); Lefferts (1986); Stevens
(1986); Crocker (1990); Losseff (1994), 82-84, 127; Taylor and Coates (1998); Sanders
(2001b); Sanders (2001c); Sanders (2001e); Taylor (2002); Gillingham (2006); Deeming
(2006); Grove 2001 entries for “Wintonia, W. de,” “R. de Burgate,” and”W. de
Wycombe.”
IV. CONTENTS
Item A
1. Samson dux fortissime
fols. 2-4v; Latin lai a1; Anderson cat., no. L42; facs. EEH, pl. XII-XVII
2. Regina clemencie Maria vocata
fols. 4v-5v; Latin lai a1; Anderson cat., no. L43; no. 3 is second half; partial facs.
EEH, pl. XVII
3. Primum fuit gaudium
fols. 5v-6; Latin lai a1; second half of no. 2, where rhyme shifts from -ata to -isti,
with same musical material; break point distinguished by a medium-sized initial;
also survives independently, for which see AH 31, 175
4. Dum Maria credidit
fols. 6-7; Latin lai a1; Anderson cat., no. L44
5. Ave gloriosa virginum regina
fols. 7-8v; sequence a1 (Anderson cat., no. K75, Falck, no. 28, Sv, 66-68); partial
facs. EEH, pl. XVIII
6. Cantus superior/Cantus inferior (textless)
fol. 8v-9; facs. EEH, pl. XVIII-XIX, partial facs. MGB, Ab 13; ed. PMFC XIV, no.
16, McGee, no. 39
7. Cantus superior/Cantus inferior (textless)
fol. 9; facs. EEH, pl. XIX, MGB, Ab. 13; ed. PMFC XIV, no. 17, McGee, no. 40
8. Cantus superior/Cantus inferior (textless)
fol. 9; facs. EEH, pl. XIX, MGB, Ab. 13; ed. PMFC XIV, no. 18, McGee, no. 41
9. Ave gloriosa mater salvatoris (Duce creature)
fols. 9v-10; motet a3, transformed here into conductus and provided with
alternative French text (Anderson cat., no. A13, Falck, no. 27, Sv, 66; facs. EEH,
pl. XX-XXI, Parrish, pl. XXXII-XXXIII, MGB, Ab. 15; ed. PMFC XIV, no. App. 23 a
and b, Crocker (1990), 684-87, Everist, no. 1, Deeming (partial)
10. Felix sanctorum chorus
fols. 10v-11; sequence a1
11. Petrus romanis reseravit
fol. 11; poem on the twelve Apostles, no musical notation
12. Sumer is icumen in/Perspice christicola
fol. 11v; bitextual rota over a two-voice pes, with performance instruction; facs.
EEH, pl. XII, frontispiece to Grove's Dictionary (1954), vol. vii, Parrish, pl. XLIII,
MGB, Ab. 12, cover of record Medieval English Lyrics (ARGO ZRG 5443
[London, 1965]), NGD/2 24:708, British Library Postcard BL/C/MSS/189 (The
British Library Board, 1982); Taylor (2002), p. 80; ed. PMFC XIV, no. 4a and b,
MES, no. 9, Büttner (1990), 106, Caldwell (1991), 61
13. Eterni numinis mater et filia
fol. 12-13; sequence a1
14. Ante thronum regentis/Organizat triplex ierarchia
fol. 13; sequence a1
15. Gaude salutata virgo fecundata
fol. 13v; sequence a1
16. A collect for the Five Joys
fol. 13v; no musical notation
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Item B.
Three pages of music theory materials, incl. Est tonus sic and solmization exercises.
fols. 14r-15r
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Item C
Index or table of contents for a lost volume of polyphony, fols. 160v-161; there are
incipts for 164 items; the layout in sections with headings is original, but the
running numeration given below is modern; a number of the textual incipits can
be associated with possible concordances, as noted; possibles tend to group in
certain of the sections, while other sections, including what are called in the
index the conductus, apparently consist entirely or mostly of unica; see Lefferts
(1986), 161-65, Sanders (2001e), Losseff, 67-69.

Ordo libri W. de Winton

1 (1.1) Spiritus et alme. R. de Burgate [Ob 60, 4?]

2 (1.2) Rex omnium [Link] tuum solidum [Ob 60, 3?]
3 (1.3) Item Regnum tuum solidum [several possibilities]
4 (1.4) Virgo decora. Virgo dei genitrix [Ob 25, 1?]
5 (1.5) All. Virginis inviolate. Virga Iesse
6 (1.6) All Gaude mundi domina. Gaude Virgo
7 (1.7) All. Salve virgo domina. Salve virgo
8 (1.8) All. Virga ferax [Lbl 248, 12?; F-Pn 25408, 4?]

Postea Responsoria W. de Wicumbe

9 (2.1) All. Dies sanctificatus [Ob 400* B, 1?]

10 (2.2) All. Video celos apertos
11 (2.3) All. Hic est discipulus
12 (2.4) All. Te martirum
13 (2.5) All. Gloria et honore
14 (2.6) All. Multiphariam
15 (2.7) All. Vidimus stellam [Ob 400* B, 3?]
16 (2.8) All. Adorabo
17 (2.9) Item All. Adorabo
18 (2.10) All. Pascha nostrum [Recon I, 39?]
19 (2.11) Item All. Pascha nostrum
20 (2.12) All. Dulce lignum
21 (2.13) All. Ascendens Christus
22 (2.14) Item Ascendens Christus
23 (2.15) All. Paraclitus
24 (2.16) All. Benedictus es Domine
25 (2.17) All. Inter natos
26 (2.18) All. Tu es Symon Bariona
27 (2.19) All. Non vos me elegistis
28 (2.20) All. Levita Laurencius
29 (2.21) All. Hodie Maria virgo [Cjec 1 B, 1?]
30 (2.22) All. Nativitas gloriose [Ob 400* A, 2?]
31 (2.23) All. In conspectu [Ob 400* A, 3?]
32 (2.24) All. Judicabunt [Recon II, 10?]
33 (2.25) All. Hic Martinus [Hic Franciscus Ob 400* A, 5?]
34 (2.26) All. Veni electa
35 (2.27) All. Dilexit Andream
36 (2.28) All. Tumba sancti Nicholae
37 (2.29) All. Justus germinabit [D-W499, 1?]

38 (2.30) All. Ave Maria [Cjec 1 B, 2?; D-W3, 2?]

39 (2.31) All. Salve virgo [Cac 128/8, 2?]
40 (2.32) All. Gaude virgo [Recon II, 5?]
41 (2.33) All. Porta Syon [Ob 400* B, 2?]
42 (2.34) All. Ora pro nobis
43 (2.35) All. Virga Iesse [Recon II, 6?]
44 (2.36) All. Dilexit Mariam dominus
45 (2.37) All. Salve decus

Cunductus

46 (3.1) Veni creator spiritus [Anderson cat. J41, E13?; R5]

47 (3.2) In celesti ierarchia [Anderson cat. R6]
48 (3.3) Dulcis ave femina [Anderson cat. R7]
49 (3.4) Mater Christi quem pavisti [Anderson cat. R8]
50 (3.5) Miles Christi qui vestisti [Anderson cat. R9]
51 (3.6) Katerina progenie [Anderson cat. R10]
52 (3.7) Andreas celici [Anderson cat. R11]
53 (3.8) Dux Andrea [Anderson cat. R12]
54 (3.9) Ave caro Christi [Anderson cat. R13]
55 (3.10) Veni sancte spiritus [Anderson cat. L156, Q8, N21, N19, K76?; R14]
56 (3.11) Mundo salus oritur [Anderson cat. R15]
57 (3.12) Gaudent celi letantur populi [Anderson cat. R16]
58 (3.13) Vox iocunda [Anderson cat. R17]
59 (3.14) Gaude virgo vas pudicicie [Anderson cat. R18]
60 (3.15) Virgo pudicicie {Ob D.3, 2?] [Anderson cat. O38; R19]
61 (3.16) Salvatori sit gloria [Anderson cat. R20]
62 (3.17) De radice sentium [Anderson cat. R21]
63 (3.18) Castitatis culmine [Anderson cat. R22]
64 (3.19) Salve sola solis cella [Anderson cat. R23]
65 (3.20) Regina misericordie [Anderson cat. R24]
66 (3.21) Ave Maria laus tibi quia [Anderson cat. R25]
67 (3.22) Salve decus castitatis [Anderson cat. R26]
68 (3.23) Adorna Syon thalamum [Anderson cat. R27]
69 (3.24) Letentur omnia corda [Anderson cat. R28]
70 (3.25) Felix Magdalene [Anderson cat. R29]
71 (3.26) Benedicta sit regina [Anderson cat. R30]
72 (3.27) Corpora sanctorum [Anderson cat. R31]
73 (3.28) Rex sedet in solio [Anderson cat. R32]
74 (3.29) Zacharie filius [Anderson cat. R33]
75 (3.30) Hodie leticiam [Anderson cat. R34]
76 (3.31) Pastor gregis anglici [Anderson cat. R35]
77 (3.32) Salve Thomas flos [Anderson cat. R36]
78 (3.33) Ecce virgo iam complete [Anderson cat. R37]
79 (3.34) Ympni novi nunc intonent [Anderson cat. R38]
80 (3.35) Concipis affata [Anderson cat. R39]
81 (3.36) Rorant celi [Anderson cat. R40]
82 (3.37) O castitatis lilium [Anderson cat. R41]
83 (3.38) Resurrexit Dominus [Anderson cat. R42]

Motetti cum una littera et duplici nota

84 (4.1) Gloriemur crucis in preconio

85 (4.2) Mundialis glorie
86 (4.3) Salve virgo que salvasti
87 (4.4) Reges Tharsis et insule
88 (4.5) Radix Iesse
89 (4.6) Nimis honorati sunt
90 (4.7) Omnis sexus gaudeat
91 (4.8) Ave pater inclite
92 (4.9) Christi miles rex Edmundus
93 (4.10) Zelo crucis innocens
94 (4.11) Veritatis vere testis
95 (4.12) Ad gloriam deice
96 (4.13) Homo quam ingratus

Motetti cum duplici littera

97 (5.1) Quem non capit [Recon I, 8?]

98 (5.2) Super te Ierusalem [WOc Add. 68, Frag. x, 3?]
99 (5.3) Precipue mihi dant [Precipua michi dat gaudia, Recon II, 1?]
100 (5.4) Presul ave flos presulum
101 (5.5) De stirpe Davitica
102 (5.6) Plausit sterilis
103 (5.7) Sancte Dei preciose
104 (5.8) Anima mea liquefacta est [US-PRu 119 A, 2?]
105 (5.9) Descendi in ortum meum
106 (5.10) O felicem genitricem
107 (5.11) Mira federa [Ob 400* C, 1?]
108 (5.12) Salve gemma virginum [Recon I, 59?]
109 (5.13) O Maria vas mundicie [US-Cu 654, 1?]
100 (5.14) Maria laudis materia
111 (5.15) Benedicta sis lucerna
112 (5.16) In Domino gaudeat
113 (5.17) Epulemur et letemur
114 (5.18) Resurgente salvatore

Item moteti cum duplici nota

115 (6.1) Claro paschali

116 (6.2) Mira virtus Petri

Item cum duplici littera

117 (7.1) In sanctis est mirabilis

118 (7.2) In te martir patuit
119 (7.3) Salvatoris est effecta
120 (7.4) Virgo Jesum preter morem
121 (7.5) Quod in rubo Moyses
122 (7.6) Intrat Noe portat iusticiam
123 (7.7) Regis summi glorie
124 (7.8) Benedicta sit regina
125 (7.9) O regina misericordie
126 (7.10) Turtur innocencie
127 (7.11) Salve decus virginum
128 (7.12) Veni creator spiritus
129 (7.13) Qui mortalia
130 (7.14) Mulierum flos Maria
131 (7.15) Spiritus spirat ubi vult
132 (7.16) O Iudee nepharie
133 (7.17) Ave Maria gracia plena [several candidates]
134 (7.18) Gaude virgo concipiens
135 (7.19) De costa dormientis
136 (7.20) Benedictus sit sincerus
137 (7.21) Eterne rex glorie
138 (7.22) Zacharie per helie
139 (7.23) Ysaias ut notavit
140 (7.24) Salve stella matutina
141 (7.25) Nostris Christe melis
142 (7.26) Virgo sancta Katerina
143 (7.27) Katerina lex divina
144 (7.28) Clericorum sanctitate
145 (7.29) Salve gemma confessorum [Recon I, 54?]
146 (7.30) Gaude gemma virginum
147 (7.31) Salve mater salvatoris [DORcro, 2?; Ob 343, 2?]
148 (7.32) In honorem summi Dei
149 (7.33) O sanitas languencium
150 (7.34) Felix illa curia [Recon I, 49?]
151 (7.35) Rex auctor misericordie
152 (7.36) Christum Dei filium
153 (7.37) Zacheus publicanorum
154 (7.38) O martir egregie
155 (7.39) Gaude virgo mater Christi [Lbl 3132, 1?]
156 (7.40) Ad gracie matris obsequia
157 (7.41) Auctor pacis
158 (7.42) Virgo pura pariens
159 (7.43) Roma felix decorata
160 (7.44) Cives apostolici
161 (7.45) Te Dominum clamat angelicus [Recon I, 58?]
162 (7.46) Sanctorum meritis
163 (7.47) Ecclesie vox hodie
164 (7.48) Rex omnipotens die hodierna
London, British Library, Harley 3132 s. xiii/xiv
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Two groups of three small fragments each, once used as binding strips but now
removed and mounted between two clear plastic sheets; they appear to be from the
same music source. The three horizontal strips, when joined together, form a fragment
ca. 75 mm x 225 mm from the bottom of a bifolium (fols. 1-2); estimating twelve red
five-line staves to the page, the later 13th-century original may have been over 330 x 180
mm with written space ca. 300 x 160 mm and staff gauge 15-16 mm. Item no. 1 is clearly
a later addition of the 14th century with brown staves and a different hand and ink. The
remaining three small vertical strips comprising fol. 3 are believed to come from the
same leaf since their hands are very similar and their versos are blank; two can be
joined to form a fragment 73 x 48 mm, while the third measures 74 x 24 mm. Music
notation is Franconian long-breve motion with square breves. The verso of fol. 3 is
blank.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music fragments. Former host ms is a 15th-century paper ms (English?) of
215 x 150 mm containing the Gesta Romanorum. Fragments were removed in a 1966
rebinding.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/2, 378-80; Summers (1983)
IV. CONTENTS
1. Gaude virgo mater Christi
fol. 1; third and final double versicle of sequence Celum Deus inclinavit in a
setting a3 with c.f. in lowest voice (perhaps the origin of this melody?); 14th-
century addition; facs. Summers (1983), pl. 62; ed. PMFC XVII, no. 16
2. . . . verbum . . . in gremio virginis Marie pie venies . . . /T.
fol. 1v; frag. motet; tenor text fully underlaid in red, now erased
3. . . . dorata po . . . suffragarix domini . . . assumpta letaris . . .
fol. 2; frag. motet voice
4. . . . regnum rex glori . . . tis devote preces . . . patris ad te cla . . .
fol. 2v; frag. motet voice; facs. Summers (1983), pl. 62
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5. . . . seria ro . . .
fol. 3; frag. motet voice; facs. Summers (1983), pl. 62
6. . . . t per horam longenam ut . . . entur . . .ria . . . modulami . . .
fol. 3; frag. motet voice; facs. Summers (1983), pl. 62
London, British Library, Harley 5393 [Link], 1/4
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Codex originally ca. 250 x 180, now 217 x 159 mm, with a written space for the music of
179 x 130-55 mm on fol. 80v; nine red four- and five-line staves with gauge 7-17 mm
roughly drawn in a single column in three systems of three staves each, with text
guides. Text script is protogothic with strong documentary influence. Musical notation
is of the earliest 13th century, like British Library manuscripts Burney 357, Cotton
Vespasian A. xviii, and Harley 524.
II. HISTORY
Music has been added on the last page (fol. 80v) of a discrete parchment booklet (76
fols., foliated 5-80) that is the first of two now bound together in this volume. The MS,
of possible Lincolnshire provenance, consists of this booklet (a glossed Gospel
concordance s. xii/xiii) and an Evangelium per totum Adventum legenda. These were
associated by the 15th century. Given to the British Museum by Edward Harley, Earl of
Oxford, in 1753.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wathey, RISM Suppl., 46-47; Anderson edn.; Losseff (1994), 36, 41-42
IV. CONTENTS
1. Quid tu vides Ieremia
fol. 80v; conductus a2 (Anderson cat., no. D4; Falck, no. 287, Szöverffy, 260-61);
facs. RISM Suppl., pl. 18; ed. Anderson edn., vol. 1, no. D4
London, British Library, Harley 5958 s. xiii, 3/4 and 4/4
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Three parchment fragments located at different places in the same modern compilation,
representing leaves from two different medieval sources, identified in the following as
A and B.
Fragment A
Fol. 22, a single parchment leaf originally ca. 370 x 240 mm with wide margins, now
trimmed at the top and right to 305 x 190-195 mm. Loss of music and text only about the
depth of an initial vertically, and most of the topmost staff horizontally. Written space
of ca. 268 x 140 mm ruled for twelve red five-line staves of gauge 14 mm, of which
eleven staves and a fraction are visible. Musical notation is EMN. Blue initials ca. 20 mm
wide set into one-staff indents of ca. 10 mm.
Fragment B
Two parchment fragments now bound as fols. 32 and 65. Together they form top left
and right parts of one folio, with missing center. Similar size---137 x 68 mm (fol. 32) and
138 x 73 mm (fol. 65)---suggests the original leaf was cut and trimmed to serve as front
and rear flyleaves in the same small unidentified ms. Projecting from the assumption of
12 red five-line staves per page of gauge 12 mm, the original written space was ca. 210-
215 mm tall. Estimating from the tenor repetitions and upper voice gaps in item 1, the
width of written space was ca. 125 mm. Overall the leaf would originally have been ca.
250 x 160 mm or larger. Items all begin with letter B, suggesting alphabetical
arrangement; items 3 and 4 have original numerations X and XI. Musical notation is
EMN. Elaborately flourished and painted two- and four-stave initials in red and blue,
indented ca. 20 mm. The contents description reverses RISM's recto and verso.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaves. Present location is a 20th-century compilation of odd
parchment fragments mostly of music. Fragment A is of the late 13th or early 14th
century. Fragment B is evidently earlier.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 508-11
IV. CONTENTS
Fragment A
1. Nobili precinitur/Flos de virga nascitur/T. Proles Marie virginis pie [Eius]
recto [fol. 22]; c.f. motet a3 with texted tenor; concordance in continental notation
in F-MO 58 (Rok 67)
2. [O homo considera . . . dat co]mpendia cuius/O homo de pulvere/T. [In seculum]
verso [fol. 22v]; c.f. motet a3; text concordance in a motet in GB-Onc 362, no. 17
[EECM 26, pl. 96; ed. PMFC XV, no. 9]; this motet ed. PMFC XIV, no. 79
Fragment B
1. [Beatus] . . . nobis filium carnem sumens . . . reddidit ut morte mortem solveret carne
carnem redi . . . quos condidit/T. Beata visce[ra marie virginis que porta]
recto [fols. 65v and 32v]; frag. conductus motet a3; c.f. is from the Communion
for BVM Assumption (GS, pl. 195); text paraphrases second stanza (Beatus auctor
seculi) of Sedulius's abecedarian Annunciation hymn A solis ortus cardine
2. B . . ./T. Benedicta.
recto [fol. 65v and 32v]; frag. opening of a motet; tenor is a single word, the
soloistic incipit of the Marian gradual Benedicta et venerabilis V. Virgo dei
genitrix, up a fifth in respect to its most common pitch level
3.[ Benedicamus]/[Benedicamus]/[Benedicamus]/T. Benedic[amus domin]o
verso [fols. 32 and 65]; original numeration X; frag. chant setting a4 in score;
Benedicamus tenor has not been securely identified; possible that this setting is
incompletely notated, with final cadence intended for empty staves immediately
below on right hand side.
4. Bis in cuius sa . . . imabat/ de papille r. . .es abat
verso [fols. 32 and 65]; original numeration XI; probable motet voice
London, British Library, Sloane 1580 s. xiii in.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
MS dimensions 167 x 114 mm; polyphony in written block 126-130 x 80-88 mm ruled for
six freely-drawn accolades of two four-line brown staves of gauge 7 mm.
II. HISTORY
Host ms of 189 fols. is a miscellany of the 13th century, containing principally sermons.
Music, mainly monophonic sequences, added in various hands to empty fols., primarily
to fols. 143v-147v; none in same hand as Verbum celo.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 511-12; PMFC XIV; Gillingham edn.
IV. CONTENTS
1. Verbo celum quo firmatur
fol. 156v-157v; sequence a2 headed De resurreccione; ed. PMFC XIV, no. 5,
Gillingham edn., no. 11
London, Lambeth Palace, 457 s. xiii med.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Ms dimensions of 195 x 133 mm with written space for music on recto of 161-72 x 102-07
mm, ruled in five freely-drawn accolades of 8-9 lines each on the recto and six accolades
of 8-11 lines each on the verso; staff gauge for 5 lines is ca. 10-12 mm. Erasure of all
material on the verso.
II. HISTORY
Three manuscripts of English origin bound together (ff. 1-132, 133-192, 193-254);
perhaps once at Westminster Abbey. The music was added on both pages of the final
(blank) folio at the end of the second part, a parchment ms of sermons in French and
Latin dating to ca. 1200. RISM identifies the legible music as a sequence (no. 1), a
responsory trope (no. 3), and two Agnus tropes (nos. 2 and 4); possibly all items were
intended as Agnus tropes.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 523-24; Gillingham (1987); Lütolf (1970), 1:195-98; PMFC XIV
IV. CONTENTS
1. Miro genere sol de sidere
fol. 192; sequence-like setting a2; facs. Lütolf, pl. V; ed. PMFC XIV, no. 10,
Gillingham (1987), 216
2. Astripotens famulos audi
fol. 192; Agnus dei trope a2; facs. Lütolf, pl. V; ed. Lütolf, no. 66, PMFC XIV, no.
11, Gillingham (1987), 217
3. Mater dei lumen rei
fol. 192; sequence-like double versicle with ouvert and clos; facs. Lütolf, pl. V; ed.
PMFC XIV, no. 12, Gillingham (1987), 218
4. Mortis dira ferens ut nostra
fol. 192-192v; Agnus trope a2, continuation onto 192v is illegible; facs. Lütolf, pl.
V; ed. Lütolf, no. 65, Gillingham (1987), 220
5. Illegible music a2 under palimpsest, probably one additional piece
fol. 192v
London, Lambeth Palace, 752 s. xiii med.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Single damaged parchment bifolium, not the center of a gathering, that was bound
sideways to form the rear pastedown of MS 752; the surviving fragment now raised to
form fol. 51, with a preceding unfoliated stub; further, there are offsets on the front
binding board from an additional bifolium once used as a pastedown but now lost, that
originally was adjacent to and nested within the surviving bifolium. (The offsets are not
reproduced here.) Probably nine or twelve red five-line staves, of which eight survive;
now 170 x 237 mm for the double leaf but originally each folio ca. 190 x 134 mm, with
written space ca. 131 x 104 mm (estimating twelve staves to the page) and staff gauge
10-13 mm; freely-ruled in two-staff systems with frame rules, double text guides, and
ruled indentations of ca. 10 mm for initials. Red and blue plain capitals with red and
blue flourishing. Text hand is gothica textualis rotunda, and musical notation is of
Notre-Dame type.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaf. Host manuscript is a late 13th-century copy of Vegetius, De re
militari, covered in what is probably the original binding of s. xiii/xiv. No trace of
ownership before ca. 1700. Possibly donated by Sir Charles Cotterell in the mid 1680s to
the library founded by Thomas Tenison (Archbishop of Canterbury, 1694-1715) at St.
Martin's Lane, London.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wathey, RISM Suppl., 47-49; Losseff (1994), 28-33, 62, 95-99
IV. CONTENTS
1. Christus natus de Maria
Ar-v; conductus a2; facs. Wathey, pl. 19; ed. Losseff (1994), 29
2. Barabas dimittitur Cristus penas
Av-offset on front board; conductus a2; ed. Losseff (1994), 30
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3. [Austro terris influente] . . . -ia serpens di- . . . patris redit
offset on front board-Br; conductus a2 (Anderson cat., no. G1; Falck, no. 26;
Szöverffy, 65); ed. Anderson edn., vol. 3, no. G1
4. Hec est rosa
Br-v; conductus a2, second strophe of Ortu regis evanescit, here as a separate
piece (Anderson cat., no. G3; Falck, no. 256; Szöverffy, 236); facs. Wathey, pl. 19;
ed. Anderson edn., vol. 3, no. G3
5. [Pa]ter noster qui [es in celis]
Bv; frag. conductus a2 (Anderson cat., no. G2; Falck, no. 265; Szöverffy, 263); facs.
Wathey, pl. 19; ed. Anderson edn., vol. 3, no. G2
London, Westminster Abbey, Fragment Box 3, No. 1 s. xiv in.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Two parchment strips forming one frag. folio; now 130 x 205 mm, originally ca. 430 x
260 mm, assuming twelve five-line staves to the page; present dimensions of written
space 130 x 180 mm, originally ca. 370 x 185 mm; rastrum-ruled in single column, with
mix of single staves and two-staff systems, with frame rules and double text guides;
staff gauge 18.5 mm; staves in red, text of tenor in red, major initials in gold, blue, and
red. Text script is gothica textualis sine pedibus, with some semi-quadrata elements;
music notation is English, late ars antiqua binary mensuration.
II. HISTORY
Music written in England. Formerly used as flyleaves at each end of Gal. G. 4. 29, a
printed book (Paris, 1552) received by the Abbey library in 1584 as a bequest from the
collection of William Latymer; this book is now bound in what might be a standard
Westminster Abbey design of s. xvi/xvii.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wathey, RISM Suppl., 60-62
IV. CONTENTS
1. ... veniam graciam et gloriam/T. Spiritus et alme orphanorum
recto; frags. of two voices of troped Gloria trope a3; concordance is US-Cu 654,
no. 4 ( ed. PMFC XIV, no. 73); Cu 654 version reverses the layout of the two
voices, has a different, non-tropic, syllabically-set text, and is notated in a binary
version of English mensural notation with rhomboid breves
2. ...-tem hominum a maligno spiritu/T. Spiritus et alme orphanorum
verso; frag. troped Gloria trope a3; two voices in score followed by tenor
London, Westminster Abbey, 33327 [Link]/xiv
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Two parchment folios, forming a bifolium not from the center of a gathering; now (and
perhaps originally) 490 x 345 mm; written space 400 x 250-55 mm for thirteen staves, or
365 x 250-55 mm for twelve red five-line staves of staff gauge 20 mm; upper parts of
motets ruled in double columns, with tenor and quartus cantus ruled across the entire
page. Fols. 1r and 2r bear the heading "quadruplices" in red. Item nos. 2, 3, 6, 7, 8 (and
probably originally item 5, i.e., all items beginning on these leaves) have "cor" in the l.h.
margin next to them. This may indicate choral performance, or else be some kind of
indication to the decorator for the gold leaf initials, directly adjacent, that begin one
upper voice in each motet. Other initials, and further decoration of gold initials, in red,
blue, and green. Items 2 and 6 have work numbers 25 and 37 in the l.h. margin,
respectively, implying that a single missing bifolium---the center of the gathering---
nested between these folios; by projection, the original fascicle may have consisted of
eight nested bifolia and 64 or more motets. The musical notation is Franconian.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaves. Written for Westminster Abbey? Formerly the cover for MS
33327, which contains Abbey accounts dated from 29 September 1516 to 24 June 1517
headed by the name John Campyon. Preserved with Abbey muniments since that time.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 524-526; PMMM 5; EECM 26; PMFC XIV
IV. CONTENTS
1. . . . ferno cum timore more/ . . . per te fides aperit/Spirans odor flos beate/Tenor.
Kyrie [Conditor Kyrie]
fol. 1; frag. cf. motet a4; facs. PMMM 5, 71, EECM 26, pl. 175; ed. PMMM 5, 17-18,
75-76
2. O nobilis nativitas/O mira dei misericordia/O decus virgineum/Tenor. Apparuit
fol. 1; cf. motet a4; facs. PMMM 5, 71, EECM 26, pl. 175; ed. ed. PMMM 5, 76-77,
PMFC XIV, no. 85
3. O mors moreris/O vita vera/Tenor. Mors/Quartus Cantus
fol. 1v; cf. motet a4; facs. PMMM 5, 72, EECM 26, pl. 176; ed. ed. PMMM 5, 78-83,
PMFC XIV, no. App. 27
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4. [O pastor patris] . . . tate quam ecclesia . . . /T. Pro patribus
fol. 2; frag. cf. motet a4; facs. PMMM 5, 73, EECM 26, pl. 177; concordance is
Recon. I, no. 56 , text concordance only in Recon. I, no. 55; ed. WF, no. 70, PMFC
XIV, no. 84
5. . . . e ineffabilis potencie/Dona celi factor domine/Tenor. Doce/Quartus Cantus
fol. 2; frag. cf. motet a4; facs. PMMM 5, 73, EECM 26, pl. 177; text concordance to
US-Cu 654, no. 2 ; ed. PMMM 5, 83-86, PMFC XIV, no. 86 (with supplied triplum
incipit Domine celestis rex)
6. Opem nobis o Thoma porrige/Salve Thoma virga iusticie/Tenor. Pastor
cesus/Quartus Cantus de opem
fol. 2; cf. motet a4; facs. PMMM 5, 73, EECM 26, pl. 177; ed. ed. PMMM 5, 86-87,
PMFC XIV, no. 87
7. Ave miles de cuius militia/Ave miles o Edwarde/Tenor. Ablue/Quartus Cantus
fol. 2v; frag. c.f. motet a4; facs. PMMM 5, 74, EECM 26, pl. 178; ed. ed. PMMM 5,
88-89, PMFC XIV, no. 88
8. Psallat chorus in novo carmine/Eximie pater egregie rector
fol. 2v; frag. cf. motet a3; facs. PMMM 5, 74, EECM 26, pl. 178; concordance is F-
MO, no. 51 (Rok. 60)
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 257 [Link], 3/4
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Two parchment flyleaves once glued to the front and rear covers, foliated 1 and 195,
each a flattened bifolium not the center of a gathering, and not contiguous; trimmed at
the top and inserted sideways; traces of music are still visible on the boards. Page size
was originally ca. 320 x 215 mm, now 291 x 212 mm, with written space 225 x 142 mm
and staff gauge 13 mm; layout in single columns with four groups of three brown staves
each. Initials in red and blue. Gothic text hand. Musical notation of Notre Dame type,
with virga and rhomboid breve to indicate long-short rhythms in no. 2.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaves. From Reading? Host ms of 195 fols. is a 13th-century
parchment ms of Augustine's Commentary on the Psalms from Reading Abbey,
presented to the Bodleian in 1608 with a sister ms, Bodley 241. Ms covered in a Reading
binding of ca. 1500.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 528-30; PMFC XIV; Anderson edn.; Gillingham edn.; Losseff (1994), 35
III. CONTENTS
1. [Ave] substantie biformis baiula . . . Ave confederas ymis
fol. 1b-1a verso; frag. conductus a3 in score (Anderson cat., no. O31; Szöverffy,
74); ed. PMFC XIV, no. App. 5, Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O33
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2. [In te concipitur ma]tris et virginis
fol. 1b verso-1a; frag. conductus a3 in score (Anderson cat., no. O32; Szöverffy, 176-77);
ed. PMFC XIV, no. App. 6, Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O34, Gillingham edn., no. 36a
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3. . . . semper pia vocis . . . Amen.
fol. 195b; frag. conductus a3 in score (Anderson cat., no. O33); ed. Anderson edn.,
vol. 9, no. O35
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4. Ave credens baiulo
fol. 195b-195a verso; frag. conductus a3 in score (Anderson, no. O34; Szöverffy,
65-66); ed. PMFC XIV, no. App. 7, Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O36
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5. . . . tuum natum nos iuvare . . . Amen.
fol. 195b verso; frag. conductus a3 in score (Anderson cat., no. O35); ed.
Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O37
6. Gaude per quam gaudium
fol. 195b verso-195a; frag. conductus a3 in score (Anderson cat., no. O36;
Szöverffy, 145); ed. PMFC XIV, no. App. 8, Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O38
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 271 (S.C. 1938), binding fragments s. xiv 1/4
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Seven small parchment fragments comprising parts of two or more leaves (frags. 1-3
form fol. A; frags. 5-6 form fol. B; frag. 4 possibly from fol. B; frag. 7 illegible), formerly
used as binding material in the spine of the present host MS. Four further strips remain
embedded and have not been removed. No fragment is now larger than 85 x 60 mm,
and no estimate can be made of the original size of leaf or written space. Ruled in red
five-line staves with gauge 12-14 mm and ruled two-stave indentations of 12 mm for
initials. Text script is gothica textualis semi-quadrata; musical notation is basically
Franconian, using unstemmed semibreves and dots of division.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaves. Written in England for Canterbury Christ Church? Present
host ms was at Canterbury Christ Church by the early 14th century, and the current
binding was probably made at Canterbury between 1450 and 1480. Given to the
Bodleian Library in 1616 by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob Colfe.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wathey, RISM Suppl., 66-68
IV. CONTENTS
1. President[es in tronis]/[Super cathedram]/T.[Ruina]
fol. A; frag. motet a3; concordance to B-Br 19606, no. 2 and F-Pn 146, fol. 1v; ed.
PMFC I, 5-7
2. [E]t delictum ac ro- . . . sanitis . . . hic
fol. A; frag. motet
3. Su- . . . regina peteris . . . -ter expers . . . dulcedine
fol. Av; frag. motet
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4. . . . visibus effulsit . . . -ne essent pro . . . -quinario pasce peracto tempore
frag. 4 and fol. B; frag. motet
Fol. Bv and frag. 4 verso have blank staves only. Frag. 7 is illegible.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 343 [Link] in.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Polyphony on fol. x verso is written in double columns on sixteen red-four line staves.
Overall page dimensions 308 x 200 mm, with written space 232 x 147-54 mm and staff
gauge 7-9 mm; alternating red and green initials. Notation is unmeasured square-
headed longs and rounded, almost rhomboid, breves.
II. HISTORY
Host manuscript is of the second half of the 12th century, containing homilies in Old
English and Latin, with later additions. Manuscript of over 200 fols. It has seven distinct
sections, each ending with blank space before the next begins again with a fresh quire.
Unrelated music was later added at the end of the first section (one monophonic
sequence on fol. x and one polyphonic sequence on fol. x verso) and at the end of the
fourth (one monophonic sequence). The monophony is not reproduced here. Ms given
to the Bodleian by Sir Robert Cotton in 1603.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 530-31; PMFC XIV; Gillingham edn.; Ker (1957); Irvine (1993); Deeming
(2006), pp. 4-16
IV. CONTENTS
1. Salve sanctarum sanctissima
fol. x; monophonic Marian sequence: see AH 9, 69.
2. Salve mater salvatoris mater/Spes Maria peccatoris virgo
fol. x verso; polytextual Marian sequence a2 with voice exchange; facs. Deeming,
p. 6; ed. PMFC XIV, no. 6; Gillingham edn., no. 14; Deeming, pp. 7-10
3. Specialis graciosa virgo Maria
fol. 64v; monophonic sequence: see AH 40, 103.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 139 [Link], 3/4
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Page dimensions of 241 x 175 mm, with written space for music of ca. 200 x 150 mm; up
to nine brown freely drawn four- or five-line staves per page, with staff gauge ca. 20-22
mm for five lines and 13 mm for four lines. Notation is EMN in long-short rhythms of
virga and rhomb.
II. HISTORY
Music represents separate additions on empty space in a manuscript of 203 fols. that is a
miscellaneous collection of statutes, letters, etc. of the 13th-14th century from the
convent of Coventry once belonging to Sir Robert Cotton.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 535-37; EEH; Parrish; Sanders (1962); Page (1976); MES; Everist (1986);
McGee (1989)
IV. CONTENTS
1. Foweles in the frith the fisses
fol. 5; secular English love song a2; ed. PMFC XIV, no. 3, MES, no. 8
2. Textless.
fol. 5v; monophonic instrumental dance in double versicles with polyphonic
ending; facs. EEH, pl. XXIV; ed. Sanders (1962), 289-91, McGee (1989), no. 2
--------
3. Au queer ay un maus/Ja ne mi repentiray/T. Jolietement my teent
fol. 179v; c.f. motet a3 on rondeau tenor, with continental concordances (F-MO,
no. 243 [Rok. 260], etc.), here in a version in Anglo-Norman with English
notation; facs. Parrish, pl. XLIV; ed. Everist (1986), no. 5
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Lat. liturg. d. 20 [Link], 3/4
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
In an attempt to reassemble in one place as much surviving material as possible from
two or more dismembered music codices, this source was created out of fifteen leaves
removed from the bindings of three medieval manuscripts (eight from Oxford, Bodleian
Library, ms. Auct. f. inf. i. 3; six from Oxford, Bodleian Library, ms. Bodley 862, and one
from Oxford, Bodleian Library, ms. Hatton 30), together with photographs of leaves
preserved in other places. Offsets from Bodley 862 remain in that manuscript. Recent
discoveries of additional pertinent material render this factitious assembly of material
out-of-date. See Reconstructions I, II, and III below.
II. HISTORY
Assembled in the Bodleian Library between 1925 and 1952.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 541-64; Büttner (1990); Losseff (1994); Sanders (2001a)
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Mus. c. 60 [Link]/ xiv
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Eight parchment leaves. Seven of these, fols. 79-85, were removed from ms Bodley 816,
where they were front and rear flyleaves (fols. i-iii and 197-200); they appear to be from
two sources (designated A and B below). The eighth is an unrelated single leaf, fol. 104
(designated C below).
Fragment A
Fols. 82-85 are two nested bifolia from the center of a gathering (present dimensions: fol.
82, 247 x 86 mm; fol. 83, 272 x 193 mm; fol. 84, 272 x 53 mm; fol. 85, 247 x 190 mm), from
a polyphonic Kyriale to which fol. 79, a single leaf (250 x 148 mm), also apparently
belonged; they are ruled with nine freely drawn red five-line staves of gauge 18.5 mm
in written space of ca. 240 x 154 mm within overall page ca. 280 x 190 mm; elaborate
red-blue, one-staff initials are indented about 8.5 mm.
Fol. 80 is a single leaf, now 250 x 135 mm; recto ruled with eight freely drawn red five-
line staves of gauge 22 mm; written space height is 240 mm; and a one-staff initial is
indented about 6.3 mm. Though its ruling, decorative style, and text hand differ from
those of the group just described, the similarity in content and in height of the written
block suggest that this leaf may belong with them as well.
Fol. 80v, originally blank, has been notated in a much later hand with a setting in score
from the mid-14th century; it has nine five-line staves arranged as three freely ruled
three-staff systems with text underneath each; written space originally ca. 245 mm in
height; each system of staves is about in 53-56 mm in height, with staff gauge of ca. 13.5-
14.5 mm.
Fragment B
Fol. 81 is an unfolded fragment (252 x 135 mm overall) cut from the top of a single
bifolium, probably the center of a gathering of a different, slightly smaller manuscript
that Frag. A, with page dimensions ca. 250 x 180 and written space ca. 200 x 135 mm for
nine staves, now trimmed to ca. 130 x 135 for six visible staves; fols. 81a recto and b
verso were ruled for nine (now six) independent five-line staves of staff gauge 15.5
mm;, fols 81a verso-b recto ruled for nine five-line staves arranged as three (now two)
three-staff systems. Fol. 81a verso has a three-staff initial indented 8.5 mm.
Fragment C
Fol. 104 is a single parchment leaf trimmed at the top and now 127 x 160 mm, with
freely-ruled red five-line staves of gauge 10-11 mm and width 130-134 mm (two six-line
staves of gauge 13 mm on fol. 104v); originally about 300 x 170 mm with a written space
of 175 x 134 mm on the recto, assuming an original with ten staves and generous
margins. Text hand is gothica textualis quadrata and music hand is English Mensural
Notation with rhomboid breve expressing second mode.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaves. Present host ms is a guardbook of musical fragments, some of
which are medieval. Fols. 79-85 (frags. A and B) were flyleaves in Oxford, Bodleian
Library, Bodley 816, a 14th-century English copy of the Epistolae or Dictamina of Petrus
de Vineis (a volume authored in the second quarter of the 14th century that includes
letters relating to Oxford). Fol. 104, written in England in the later 13th century, was
formerly a flyleaf in some unknown volume; it was owned by Dr. A. Molloy,
Southmoor, Abingdon, and was bought by the Bodleian Library on 5 June 1967.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Frags. A and B: RISM B/IV/2, 566-70; Lütolf (1970), 1:237-43; Summers (1983); Sanders
(2001b)
Frag. C: Wathey, RISM Suppl., 77; Lefferts and Bent, 338-42
IV. CONTENTS
Fragment A
1. Kyrie pater venerande rex/T. [Kyrie fons bonitatis]
fol. 82; RISM no. 9; frag. troped chant setting a3 of Kyrie fons bonitatis;
concordance to Recon. I, no. 41 ; ed. WF, no. 29
2. [Et in terra . . . vol]untatis
fols. 82v-83v; RISM no. 10; frag. free Gloria setting a3; concordance to Recon. III,
no. 3 ; facs. Lütolf, pl. XXVIII-XXIX (fols. 83r-v), Summers (1983), pl. 163-165; ed.
HAM, I, p. 62, no. 57b, WF, no. 88, Lütolf, no. 23, PMFC XIV, no. 44
3. Rex omnium lucifluum/Rex omnium [lucifluum]/T. [Regnum tuum solidum o rex
glorie]
fol. 83v-84; RISM no. 11; frag. troped chant setting a3 in parts of troped Gloria
trope and prosula; facs. Lütolf, pl. XXIX (fol. 83v), Summers (1983), pl. 165 (fol.
83v)
4. [Spiritus et alme or]phanorum
fol. 84v-85; RISM no. 12; frag. setting a4 in score of the six Spiritus et alme tropes
of the Gloria; possibly the item in the Harleian index identified with R. de
Burgate; facs. Lütolf, pl. XXX (fol. 85r), Summers (1983), pl. 166-167; ed. Lütolf,
no. 24, PMFC XIV, no. App. 15
5. Campanis cum cymbalis/Honoremus dominam dignam/T. Campanis/T.
Honoremus
fol. 85v; RISM no. 13; pes motet a4; ed. PMFC XIV, no. 59, Büttner (1990), 128-29
6. Quatuor ex partibus mundus
fol. 85v; RISM no. 14; single voice of motet
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7. Salve sancta parens virgo/Salve sancta parens virgo/T.[Salve sancta parens enixa]
fol. 79; RISM no. 1; troped chant setting a3 in parts of Marian introit; concordance
to Recon. I, no. 14 ; ed. WF, no. 9, PMFC XIV, no. 67
8. . . . hac die nobili/T. [Gaudeamus omnes in domino]
fol. 79v; RISM no. 2; two voices of troped chant setting a3 of a Marian version of
the well known introit
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9. [O Judea . . . trini]tati sit eterna/O Judea et Jerusalem V. Consona constantes . . .
Gloriose trinitati sit eterna
fol. 80; RISM nos. 3 and 4; partial triplum (staves 7-8) and most of duplum
(staves 1-6) of troped chant setting a3 of responsory O Judea et Jerusalem
including verse and Gloria patri
10. . . . e hausit lugens mirifice
fol. 80v; RISM no. 5; frag. of freely composed Latin-texted Kyrie a3 in score; facs.
Summers (1983), pl. 161
Fragment B
1. Sine macula profert pleni
fol. 81a [81v]; RISM no. 8; upper voice of conductus-rondellus a3 in parts
2. Gloria militie sanctorum preconia
fol. 81a verso-81b [81r]; RISM no. 6; frag. conductus a3 in score; fol. 81b appears
to be continuation across the center of the gathering; facs. Summers (1983), pl.
162; ed. Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O42 (Sv, 149)
3. . . . ha mundi gloria Maria/(another voice, text trimmed off)
fol. 81b verso [81v]; RISM no. 7; two frag. voices of a ?conductus-rondellus a3 in
parts
Fragment C
1. . . . de virgo semper/O spes et salus hominum/T.
fol. 104-104v; frag. c.f. motet a3; facs. in Lefferts and Bent, 340-41; partial ed. in
Lefferts and Bent, 339; ed. Lefferts (1983), 977-80
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson C. 400* + Ob Lat. liturg. b. 19 [Link] med.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Parchment flyleaves removed from Rawlinson C. 400, comprising fragments from three
distinct sources---a booklet and two rotuli---identified as A, B, C below. Of these
flyleaves, two bifolia and six scraps are in Ob 400*, and an additional fragment from Ob
400 is now Ob 19. All three sources are linked by text hands, a Gothica textualis semi-
quadrata; musical notation is English Mensural Notation with rhomboid breves.
Fragment A
Not reproduced here; facs. of two pages in Dittmer (1954). Two bifolia now housed in
ms C. 400*, from the center of a larger gathering, once used as front flyleaves in the host,
with texts copied in a spacing that allowed for staves and music for six compositions,
but the notation was never added; the pages are variously trimmed on all margins; now
192 x 150-155 mm, with orig. perhaps ca. 240 x 180 mm, with a written space of ca. 200 x
140 mm.
Fragment B
Four fragments in ms C. 400* (nos. 1-4 [DIAMM fols. 1-4]) measuring 140 x 125 mm, 155
x 135 mm, 165 x 96 mm, and 140 x 92 mm. Two of these, nos. 2 and 3, appear to be
nearly contiguous. These are all from a rotulus of original dimensions at least ca. 775 x
155 mm with written space 134 mm wide and at least 40 free-ruled brown five-line
staves of staff gauge 13.5-14 mm. Red five-line staves with black or red initials.
Fragment C
Three fragments, one in Lat. liturg. b. 19 (fol. 4) and two in ms C. 400* (frags. 5a and 6a
[DIAMM fols. 9, 10]); the first of these measures 306 x 170 mm, and the latter two
fragments measure 108 x 165 mm and 178 x 115 mm. These are from a rotulus of
original dimensions about ca. 700 x 200 mm with written space ca. 630 x 165 mm, ruled
in 36 freely drawn brown five-line staves of staff gauge 11-13 mm (no. 1 occupies 15
staves; the two voices in score of no. 2 occupy eight full staves grouped as four two-
stave systems, and the following voice part occupies eleven full staves, followed by two
empty staves). All three fragments preserve the right-hand margin of the written space.
The dorse of this roll contains notes on the Tribunium of St. Anne, a draft office for St.
Margaret, and documents concerning grain purchased at Reading and Wokingham.
II. HISTORY
Former host ms is a pontifical made for Roger de Mortival, bishop of Salisbury (1315-
1330) and bequeathed to the Cathedral upon his death. Ob 19 removed in mid-19th
century and rediscovered in 1982. Other binding fragments removed to Ob 400* in 1952.
Music of item C written in England not after 1256. The music is from Reading Abbey or
its dependency, Leominster Priory.

III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 570-73; Wathey, RISM Suppl., 73-75; Dittmer (1954); Hohler (1978);
Barker-Benfield (1983); Wilson (1990); Büttner (1990), 250-54; Losseff (1994), 64-69, 120-
28; Sanders (2001e)
III. CONTENTS
Fragment A
1. Ave magnifica Maria/Ave mirifica Maria/Alleluia V. Post partum virgo
p. 1-2; texts of a troped chant setting a3; probable concordance in Recon I, no. 26;
facs. Dittmer (1954) following page 58; text ed. Dittmer (1954), 24-25
2. Alleluya ave Maria ave mater pia/Alleluya ave Maria ave mater pia/Alleluia V.
Nativitas gloriose virginis Marie
texts of a troped chant setting a3; text ed. Dittmer (1954), 25-26
3. . . . /. . . /Alleluya V. In conspectu angelorum
frag. texts of a troped chant setting a3; text ed. Dittmer (1954), 26-27
4. Alleluya dulci cum harmonia/Alleluya dulci cum harmonia/Alleluya V. Fit Leo fit
Leonardus
texts of a troped chant setting a3; text ed. Dittmer (1954), 27
5. Alleluya musica canamus/Alleluya musica canamus/Alleluya V. Hic Franciscus
p. 7-8; texts of a troped chant setting a3; facs. of p. 8 in Dittmer (1954) following
page 58; text ed. Dittmer (1954), 28
6. Alleluya V. Fulget dies
p. 8; frag. text of a troped chant setting a3; facs. Dittmer (1954) following page 58;
text ed. Dittmer (1954), 28
Fragment B
1. [Alleluya] Christo iubilemus-Dies iste/Alleluya Christo iubilemus-Dies iste/T.
Alleluya V. Dies sanctificatus
recto (frags. 1a, 2a, 3a); frag. troped chant setting a3; facs. of frag. 3a in Dittmer
(1954) following page 58; ed. Dittmer (1954), 46-49, Sanders, PMFC XIV, no. 70,
Wilson (1990), no. 58
2. Alleluya clare decet decantare . . .
recto (frag. 3a); frag. of troped chant setting a3 of Alleluia V. Porta Syon or
Alleluya V. Post partum; facs. Dittmer (1954) following page 58; ed. Dittmer
(1954), 50
3. Adoremus ergo natum Marie cum . . . /. . . in oriente . . . /T. [Alle]luya V. Vidimus
stellam
recto (frag. 4a); frag. troped chant setting a3; ed. Dittmer (1954), 50-51
4. Ave sanctitatis speculum Maria . . .
recto (frag. 4a); frag. troped chant setting a3 of Marian Alleluia; ed. Dittmer
(1954), 52
5. Ave Maria plena gratia/Ave Maria plena gratia
verso (frags. 1b, 2b, 3b); frag. troped chant setting a3 of Alleluia V. Assumpta est
Maria; facs. of frag. 1b in Dittmer (1954) following page 58; ed. Dittmer (1954),
52-55
6. . . . libata. celi ianitrix. Intercede apud . . .
verso (frag. 4b); frag. troped chant setting a3 of Alleluia V. Post partum virgo
Fragment C
1. Mirabilis deus invisibilis-Mira federa mitis puerpera/Ave Maria/Ave Maria
recto (Lat. liturg. b. 19, fol. 4); bipartite single-texted c.f. motet a3, possibly a
troped chant setting of an Alleluia V. Ave Maria with two verses; textual
concordance of second part to an entry in the LoHa index; facs. Barker-Benfield
(1983); ed. Losseff (1994), 121-25
2. Descendit de celis
recto (Lat. liturg. b. 19, fol. 4; Rawl. C. 400*, frags. 5a and 6a); frag. troped chant
setting a3 of Christmas Matins responsory Descendit de celis V. Tanquam
sponsus with two untroped voices in score (lowest one is c.f.) followed by a
separate voice for entire setting, with troped text for Tanquam and Gloria patri
melismas; facs. of frags. 5a and 6a in Dittmer (1954) following page 58, facs. of Ob
19 in Barker-Benfield (1983); partial eds. in Dittmer (1954), 55-58, Losseff (1994),
126
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson D. 1225 [Link]/xiii
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Host ms is 235 x 168 mm; music added in double-ruled written frame of 130 x 105 mm
and staff gauge 12 mm (for five lines). Polyphonic alleluia is one of three in the same
hand (the other two monophonic) on fols. 131v-132, followed by other monophony.
Only the contents of 131v are recorded and reproduced here.
II. HISTORY
12th century parchment manuscript of 134 fols. Primary contents are a Martyrology
from Lichfield diocese, perhaps St. Chad's, Shrewsbury. Entered the Bodleian in the
Rawlinson bequest of 1756. Music at the beginning and end, in association with a
calendar. At the front, leaves of plainsong before and after calendar; in rear leaves
music, mainly monophonic, follows the calendar on fols. 127v-129v, 131v-134v.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 573-74; PMFC XIV
IV. CONTENTS
1. Alleluia V. Ave dei genitrix Maria
fol. 131v; chant setting a2; ed. PMFC XIV, no. 62
2. Alleluia V. O vir magne pietatis
fol. 131v; monophonic, with 2 verses
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson G. 18 [Link] mid.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
MS dimensions are 163 x 112 mm, with written space for monophony on fol. 105v of 110
x 50 mm, and for polyphony on fol. 106v of 143 x 93 mm on five two-staff systems of
red four-line staves of gauge 8 mm, in brown ink. Monophonic song and polyphony
entered in same hand.
II. HISTORY
Benedictine psalter of 107 fols. in parchment of 2nd half of the 13th century, ca. 1265
(acc. MES) or early 13th century (Frere, BML), perhaps prepared at Canterbury, that
passed to the Augustinian nunnery of Burnham, Bucks., in the late 13th or early 14th
century. Music apparently added at the nunnery, as an addition at the end. Bequeathed
to the Bodleian in 1755.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 574-75; EEH; Parrish; Frere, BML; MES; PMFC XIV; Losseff (1994), 36-38
IV. CONTENTS
1. Worldes blis ne last no throwe
fols. 105v-106; monophonic English song; concordance in Lbl Arundel 248, no. 6 ;
facs. EEH, pl. XXIII, EBM, Parrish, pl. XIX; ed. MES, no. 7
2. Mellis stilla maris stella rosa
fol. 106v; c.f. motet a2, here presented as conductus in score with single text
below staff system; tenor pitches have been divided for syllabic performance;
frag. English concordance in Ccc 8 after fol. 256, and continental concordances in
F-MO 32 (Rok 40), etc.; ed. PMFC XIV, no. App. 22
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson liturg. d. 3 c. 1300
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
MS dimensions are 251 x 166 mm, with written space for polyphony of 167-186 x 122
mm, in three systems of three freely drawn red four-line staves of gauge 9 mm.
II. HISTORY
The polyphony is inthe same hand as the remainder of the gathering of BVM sequences
to which it belongs (fols. 68v-72v); that gathering is integal to a late 13th-century Sarum
Gradual of 111 fols.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 575-76; EECM 26; Anderson edn., Summers (1983); PMFC XVI; PMFC
XVII; Lefferts (1986), 136-37; Lefferts (1990), 281
IV. CONTENTS
1. Mater ora filium
fol. 71; sequence a3; facs. EECM 26, pl. 74, Summers (1983), pl. 171; concordance
in Oxford, Bodleian Library, ms Barlow 55, fol. 4, no. 5 [facs. EECM 26, pl. 40,
Summers (1983), pl. 153]; ed. Anderson edn, vol. 9, no. O39 (Szöverffy, 196),
PMFC XVII, no. 4a
2. Virgo pudicicie
fol. 71-71v; sequence a3; facs. EECM 26, pl. 74-75, Summers (1983), pl. 171-172;
ed. Anderson edn, vol. 9, no.O40 (Szöverffy, 329), PMFC XVII, no. 5
3. Salve virgo tonantis
fol. 72-72v; sequence a3; facs. EECM 26, pl. 76-77, Summers (1983), pl. 173-174;
ed. Anderson edn, vol. 9, no. O41 (Szöverffy, 279), PMFC XVII, no. 6
4. Kyrie
fol. 72v; monophonic Kyrie, not otherwise found in plainchant sources, but cf for
two English discant settings of Kyrie (PMFC XVI, nos. 10 and 11); the Christe is a
Benedicamus domino chant in Lbl Lansdowne 462, fol. 97v and is cf for a discant
setting of Deo gracias (PMFC XVI, no. 72); facs. EECM 26, pl. 77, Summers (1983),
pl. 174
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Savile 25 [Link], 3/4
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Single parchment leaf inserted upside down as a front flyleaf; fol. 1v once fastened
down to the front wooden cover, now unpasted but very damaged; a mirror image of
the remains of the pastedown on the cover is preserved as Bodleian ms Fasc. d. 90, fol.
83. Size of host ms is 227 x 168 mm. Now 13 red four- or five-line staves per page
visible, but trimmed at the top with loss of first three staves of no. 1, suggesting 16 or
more staves; perhaps from a rotulus. Assuming 16 staves, flyleaf originally ca. 350 x 180
mm, with written space of ca. 306 x 150 mm ruled with gauge 13 mm. Music notation is
EMN with rhomboid breve in virga-rhomb alternation and chains of rhombs.
II. HISTORY
Host is a 14th-century English parchment ms of 204 fols. whose principal contents are
Johannes de Estemdene, Tractatus summe iudicialis de accidentibus mundi. RISM
identifies the author as a former member of Merton College. RISM further says the
present binding may be original, but also observes that there is a 15th century foliation
indicating that this ms. was once part of a larger volume.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 577-78; PMFC XVII
IV. CONTENTS
1. [Virgo decora] . . . homo tua per viscera/[V]irgo stillicidio fecunda/T. [V]irgo
fol. 1; frag. troped chant setting a3 of the verse of the Marian gradual Benedicta
V. Virgo dei genitrix; varied concordance written as a monotextual cantilena a3
in score in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Arch Selden B. 14, fol. 1 (facs. in Summers
(1983), pl. 175); both versions ed. PMFC XVII, nos. 15a, 15b
2. . . .
fol. 1; just a little of one staff visible; frag. of a motet-like setting
3. . . . crucis ligna carcere draco . . . perpetim vultu salvatoris/T. Salvatoris
fol. 1v; 5 staves with frags. of 2 voices of a troped chant setting
4. . . . inopia quid tristem occupas O mortis angust . . . florie ne reseras languoris
pabulum . . . /T.
fol. 1v; 7 staves with frags. of two voices of a motet-like setting
Oxford, Bodleian Library, [pr. bk.] Wood 591 [Link] 3/4
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
One of the most beautiful English sources. Four parchment leaves, trimmed at the top
with slight loss of music and used as flyleaves; front flyleaves (bound upside down and
reversed as flyleaves i, ii, now fols. 1-2) were conductus a3 and rear ones (iv-iii, now
fols. 3-4) were conductus a2; leaves from rear are consecutive but ones from front are
not; Losseff suggests the order of the first two should be 2v-2, 1v-1. Now 197 x 145 mm
but perhaps originally 221 x 162 mm with a written space of 155 x 92 mm; fols. 1-2 ruled
in four 15- or 16-line accolades of gauge 33 mm, each to be interpreted as a system of
three red five- (or six-) line staves, with split into five-line staves in rondellus sections;
fols. 3-4 have six continuous 10-line accolades of gauge ca. 20 mm, each to be
interpreted as two five-line staves of gauge ca. 8 mm. The original music manuscript
was very impressive, with gold initials and red-blue filigree for items 2, 4, 7, and blue
initials with red filigree for the others. Musical notation is of Notre Dame type, with
considerable rotation on some of the freestanding square breves or puncti, verging on
rhomb shape in some cases.
II. HISTORY
Written in England. Formerly the flyleaves at each end of a printed book, The Pallace of
Pleasure Beautified by William Painter (London, 1569), once apparently owned by Edw.
Ferrers, who scribbled his name all over it. Ferrers is evidently a late 16th-century
figure, judging by the many dates he added during the reign of Elizabeth I; he may
have been the one to have had this book bound. Music leaves discovered in 1954 and
rebound as ff. 1-4.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 578-79; PMFC XIV; Anderson ed.; Losseff (1994), 27-28, 60-61, 100-109
IV. CONTENTS
1. O laudanda virginitas
fol. 1v-1 (ii-ii verso); conductus-rondellus a3 in score (Anderson cat., no. O20;
Szöverffy, 218); ed. PMFC XIV, no. 32, Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O18; partial ed.
in Losseff, 108-109
2. O benigna preces audi
fol. 1 (ii verso); frag. conductus a3 in score (Anderson cat., no. O21; Szöverffy,
214); ed. Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O19
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3. [Sal]ve mater misericordie
fol. 2v-2 (i-i verso); frag. conductus-rondellus a3 in score (Anderson cat., no. O17;
Szöverffy, 277); concordance to Occ 489, fol. 1v, no. 2; possibly the rondellus
Salve mater gracie maria (Occ 489, fol. 1v) belongs with this item as the texted
 version of an initial cauda, here missing; ed. PMFC XIV, no. 33, Anderson edn.,
vol. 9, no. O15, Losseff (1994), 105-107
4. Salve rosa venustatis
fol. 2 (i verso); frag. (or short) conductus a3 in score, preserving one text stanza
and framing caudas (Anderson cat., no. O22; Szöverffy, 278); ed. PMFC XIV, no.
App. 9, Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O20
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5. [B]eate virginis fecundat viscera
fol. 3-3v (iiii verso-iiii); conductus a2 (Anderson cat., no. H15; Falck no. 43;
Szöverffy, 79); concordance to W1, no. 245, etc.; ed. Anderson edn., vol. 3, no.
H15
6. Ista dies celebrari promeretur
fol. 3v-4-4v (iiii-iii verso-iii); conductus a2 (Anderson cat., no. H30; Falck no. 189;
Szöverffy, 181-82); concordance to W1, no. 274, etc.; ed. Anderson edn., vol. 3, no.
H30
7. Virga Iesse regio flore
fol. 4v (iii); frag. conductus a2 (Anderson cat., no. I24; Falck no. 383; Szöverffy,
328); concordance to W1, no. 271, etc.; ed. Anderson edn., vol. 4, no. I24
Oxford, Corpus Christi College, 59 s. xiii, 3/4
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Overall dimensions of hos ms are 199 x 135 mm. The polyphony is added in a written
space of 162 x 114 mm on three staves, the first of eight lines and the subsequent two of
six lines. Notation is EMN with long-short alternation of virgas and rhombs.
II. HISTORY
Host is a late 13th-century codex of 120 fols. from the Augustinian priory of Llanthony
Maior in Gloucestershire, compiled from two once-independent 13th-century
manuscripts containing the Anticlaudanius of Alanus of Lille plus later entries (fols. 1-
71) and a glossed De consolatione philosophie of Boethius plus later entries (fols. 72-
120). Additions to the first include Recitemus pro hec festa, a double-texted
monophonic sequence for Kyneburg, a local Gloucester saint, on fol. 68. Among the
additions to the second are a polyphonic devotional song in the vernacular and a
monophonic Marian sequence. One of other the later entries is datable after 1275, and
another after 1273 or perhaps 1289. Music and lyrics possibly composed or copied by
the master of the priory grammar school.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 579-80; Brown (1928); Marrocco and Sandon; Page (1976); MES; PMFC
XIV; Büttner (1990)
IV. CONTENTS
1. Edi beo thu hevene quene
fol. 113v; polyphonic devotional song a2 in Middle English; ed. Marrocco and
Sandon, no. 57, PMFC XIV, no. 2, MES, no. 13, Büttner (1990), p. 75
2. Orbis honor celi schema
fol. 113v-114; monophonic double-texted Latin sequence to the BVM
Oxford, Corpus Christi College, 489/9 [Link], 3/4
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Parchment bifolium, not the center of a gathering; now 226 x 155 mm, but originally ca.
245 x 155 mm, with written space 187 x 122 mm and staff gauge ca. 9.5-10.5 mm; twelve
red five-line staves per page, with initials in red or blue. Blue-green, red, and brown-
black text of rondellus in no. 1, not unlike coloring of rondellus texts in DRu 13.
Notation of Notre Dame type, but with occasional virgas and rhombs for long-short
rhythms.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaves; housed in a modern compilation of medieval fragments.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 581-82; Page (1996), 26-33
IV. CONTENTS
1. Flos regalis virginalis
fol. 1-1v; RISM no. 1; conductus-rondellus a3 (Anderson cat., no. O16, Szöverffy,
137-38); text, discussed by Page (1996), is an extract from a longer Marian poem;
ed. PMFC XIV, no. 28, Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O14
2a. Salve mater gratie Maria
fol. 1v; RISM does not separately identify and incorporates it into no. 1; this
rondellus a3 is a texting of the initial, originally melismatic, cauda to no. 2b; ed.
PMFC XIV, no. 29 as freestanding work, ed. Anderson edn., vol. 9 as the
conclusion to no. 1
2b. Salve mater misericordie
fol. 1v; RISM no. 2; frag. conductus-rondellus a3 (Anderson cat., no. O17,
Szöverffy, 277); concordance in Ob 591, no. 3 , with no. 2a originally as opening
melismatic cauda; ed. PMFC XIV, no. 33, Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O15
------------
3. Integra inviolata pia virgo
fol. 2-2v; RISM no. 3; conductus a3 (Anderson cat., no. O18, Szöverffy, 178); ed.
PMFC XIV, no. 30, Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O16
4. Virgo rosa flos radicis
fol. 2v; RISM no. 4; frag. conductus a3 (Anderson cat., no. O19, Szöverffy, 329);
ed. Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O17
Oxford, Corpus Christi College, 497 s. xiii, 3/4, 4/4
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Seven parchment leaves trimmed to various sizes: fol. 1, 262 x 21 mm, fol. 2, 283 x 211
mm, fol. 3, 284 x 152 mm, fol. 4, 282 x 154 mm, fol. 5, 277 x 191 mm, fol. 6, 276 x 194 mm,
fol. 7, 281 x 136 mm. Leaf one is a narrow vertical strip whose recto is actually a verso,
and vice versa. It apparently belongs before fol. 2, since it contains Kyrie prosula
settings, but does not appear to immediately precede the other leaves. Leaves 2-7 are
three contiguous bifolia missing the center of the gathering, hence the break between
fol. 4 and fol. 5. Originally ca. 290 x 220 mm with written space 178 x 143 mm and staff
gauge 9-10 mm, in four accolades of three red five-line staves per page, with additions
in the lower margins of fols. 3v-4 and 5v-6 on brown, four- or five-line staves. In the
conductus, notation is Notre Dame style but with the use of virga and rhomb for long-
short rhythms. In the motet additions, notation is EMN. Compositions a3 in score begin
with red and blue three-stave initials.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaves. Formerly flyleaves in Corpus Christi College, 86, a 14th-
century British ms of 239 fols. in a 16th-century binding. That ms is a miscellany
containing Aesop's Fables, Adelard of Bath's De causis naturalium compositorum, etc.
The leaves were removed in 1938 and put into their present order in 1952.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 582-86; Lütolf (1970), 1:228-33; Losseff (1994), 42-46; Sanders (2001b)
IV. CONTENTS
1. Virgo p . . .
Frag. of Latin-texted Kyrie a3 in score
fol. 1v
2. . . . o flos
Frag. of Latin-texted Kyrie a3 in score
fol. 1
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3. . . . Marie eleyson. Sacrum flamen naturam mundans in Maria . . . pro Maria eleyson.
fol. 2 [RISM, no. 1]; end of a Latin-texted Marian Kyrie a3 in score; ed. Lütolf, no.
12
4. Kyrie rex Marie proles pie
fol. 2-2v [RISM, no. 2]; Latin-texted Marian Kyrie a3 in score; ed. Lütolf, no. 13,
PMFC XIV, no. 18
5. Porta salutis Maria
fol. 2v-3v [RISM, no. 3]; extensive frag. of conductus a3 in score (Anderson cat.,
no. O23, Szöverffy, 246); ed. Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O25
6. Memor esto tuorum
fol. 3v-4 [RISM, no. 4]; conductus a3 in score (Anderson cat., no. O24, Szöverffy,
196); ed. PMFC XIV, no. 23, Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O26
7. In odore fragrant dulcedinis/[Gracia viam con]tinencie/[T. In odorem]
fol. 3v-4 [RISM, no. 5]; motet a3 (originally a4?) added in lower margin; varied
concordance in F-MO 61 (Rok 70); ed. PMFC XIV, no. 82
8. Ave Maria gracia plena dominus
fol. 4 [RISM, no. 6]; conductus a3 in score (Anderson cat., no. O25); ed. PMFC
XIV, no. 24, Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O27
9. Quis tibi Christe meritas
fol. 4v [RISM, no. 7]; conductus a3 in score (Anderson cat. no. F33, Szöverffy, 262,
Falck, no. 290); varied concordance in D-W2; ed. PMFC XIV, no. App. 2,
Anderson edn., vol. 2, no. F33, Losseff, 44
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10. . . . Iam vellus imbuitur
fol. 5 [no RISM entry]; final strophe only of conductus a3 in score (Anderson cat.,
no. O26, Szöverffy, 162); Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O28
11. Transit nature semitas
fol. 5v-6 [RISM, no. 8]; conductus a3 in score (Anderson cat., no. O27, Szöverffy,
301); ed. PMFC XIV, no. App. 3, Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O29
12. O Maria stella maris/Ihesu fili summi patris/T.
fol. 5v-6 [RISM, no. 9]; motet a3 in parts, added in lower margin, whose tenor is a
textless pes related to Recon. I, no. 45; texts are concordant to the following two
conducti below in this ms; ed. PMFC XIV, no. 42, Wilson (1990), no. 57
13. O Maria stella maris medicina
fol. 6-7 [RISM no. 10]; conductus a3 in score (Anderson cat., no. O28, Szöverffy,
220); ed. PMFC XIV, no. App. 4, Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O30
14. Ihesu fili summi patris
fol. 7-7v [RISM no. 11]; frag. conductus a3 in score (Anderson cat. no. O29,
Szöverffy, 165); ed. Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O31
15. Gloriosa dei mater
fol. 7v [RISM no. 12]; frag. conductus a3 in score (Anderson cat., no. O30,
Szöverffy, 149-50); ed. Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O32
16. [Gaude virgo sal]utata Gabriele nuncio . . . prole plena gaudio
fol. 7v [RISM no. 13]; RISM misidentifies as a motet voice; it is a monophonic
sequence added in the lower margin; a monophonic concordance is Cambridge,
University Library, Add. 710 [Dublin Troper], fol. 109v; in Lwa 3 and US-Cu 645,
this text is set in one voice of a motet
Oxford, Merton College, 248 s. xiii, med.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Single parchment leaf, the first front flyleaf in the present host ms, unnumbered; now
cut away by more than half vertically to 273 x 94 mm, with written space 230 mm in
height; judging by comparable sources, original may have been ca. 280 x 200 mm with
written space ca. 230 x 150 mm. Twelve red, five-line staves arr. in single column as six
two-stave accolades with gauge 12 mm within double frame rule. Text hand is
anglicana and music notation is EMN.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaf. Host is an English ms of 225 fols. in parchment compiled by one
John Sheppey; a 14th-century note states that it was a gift of William Reed, bishop of
Chichester (1368-85).
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 587; NOHM II
III. CONTENTS
1. . . . induit et vituit divinitas . . . de super lux orta/T.
recto; frag. conductus motet a3
2. Karitatis . . . pacis consiliarum yma regis
verso; frag. conductus a2 with texted rondellus section; partial ed. in NOHM II,
376
Oxford, Worcester College, 213* [Link], med.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Two consecutive parchment leaves, measuring 213 x 175 mm with written space ca. 185
x 115-120 mm and staff gauge 10.5-11 mm for five lines; layout in single columns with
four groups of 14-16 red stave lines per page; red and blue initials. Musical notation of
Notre Dame type but with virga and rhomboid breve of EMN to indicate long-short
rhythms.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaves; perhaps adjacent leaves from an anthology since all surviving
pieces begin with Ave. Possibly from Reading, since former host ms, Worcester College,
3.16A, from which these binding fragments have been removed, belonged to Reading
Abbey and has dates 1264 and 1281; the volume once belonged to Ralph, Earl Verney
(1752-1791).
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 594-95; Anderson cat.; Anderson edn.; PMFC XIV; MMBL 3:726-32, esp.
731-32; Losseff (1994), 35, 85
III. CONTENTS
1. Ave virga decoris incliti officina
fol. 1-1v; conductus a3 (Szöverffy, 75); ed. PMFC XIV, no. 25, Anderson edn., vol.
9, no. O21
2. Ave tuos benedic virgo singularis
fol. 1v-2; conductus a3 (Anderson cat., no. J49, Falck, no. 38; Szöverffy, 75); ed.
PMFC XIV, no. 26 a and b, Anderson edn., vol. 5, no. J49 and vol. 9, no. O22
3. Ave Maria salus hominum cella
fol. 2-2v; conductus a3 (Szöverffy, 68); ed. PMFC XIV, no. 27, Anderson edn., vol.
9, no. O23
4. Ave regina celorum ave decus
fol. 2v; frag. conductus a3 (Szöverffy, 71); ed. Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O24
Wisbech, Wisbech and Fenland Museum, Town Library, [[Link].] C3.8 s. xiv in.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Fragmentary parchment leaf, formerly two strips from the binding of the present host
book, where they were used as guards for the first and last quires; now joined and
foliated v. Originally taller, ca. 275 mm, with width greater than 200 mm, now 240 x 100
mm; written space, ca. 215 mm high, freely ruled in twelve red five-line staves of gauge
11.5-13 mm in a single column with frame rules on recto. Text script is an informal
gothica textualis rotunda, with two hands, one for recto and the second for verso;
musical notation is basically Franconian, with unstemmed semibreves and dots of
division; downward stems added later to semibreves in no. 1.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaf. Written for Canterbury Christ Church? Present host book was
printed at Lyons in 1497 and was owned by a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury.
Given to Wisbech Town Library by ca. 1660. Rebound in the 18th and 20th centuries.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wathey, RISM Suppl., 92-93
IV. CONTENTS
1. [E]cce vir- . . . disrupta surge Petre/[no text]
fol. v, staves 1-6 (texted voice), 7-9 (untexted voice); frag. motet a3/a4 on St.
Peter; facs. Wathey, RISM Suppl, pl. 24
2. [no text]
fol. v, staves 10-12; end of a cantilena or discant setting a3 in score; facs. Wathey,
RISM Suppl, pl. 24
3. s . . . fero rubigo labitur
fol. v verso, staves 1-8; single voice of frag. motet on conversion of St. Paul
4. . . . de mon cr . . . s voy bone
fol. v verso, staves 9-12; single voice, tenor to no. 3?
Worcester, Cathedral Library, Additional 68, Frag. xii s. xiii, 3/4 and s. xiii/xiv
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Single parchment leaf ca. 350 x 230 mm, damaged on inner edge so perhaps originally
ca. 10 mm or more wider. Palimsest over earlier music, with written space 260 x 173 mm
on recto and 270 x 175 mm on verso ruled in twelve red five-line staves of staff gauge 17
mm. Recto has decoration in black and red; verso in different hand with red, blue, and
turquoise decoration.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaf. Formerly folded horizontally and bound as front endleaves in
WOc Q. 50, which has materials copied in the 13th century, primarily in England, inside
a 15th-century Worcester binding. Music is mostly palimpsest; nothing is known of the
erased and overwritten original music aside from what is legible of no. 4.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 595-97; F&H, frontispiece and p. 159; PMMM 5; MMBL 4:684; PMFV XIV;
Lefferts (1983); Thomson (2000); Sanders (2001d); Thomson (2001), 149
IV. CONTENTS
1. Ut recreentur celitus/Secundus tenor
palimpsest; fol. 1; frag. motet a4; facs. F & H, frontispiece; ed. WF, no. 78, Lefferts
(1983), 916-22
2. Inter choros paradisicolarum/Invictis pueris inter flammas
palimpsest; fol. 1v; frag. c.f. motet a4; facs. PMMM 5, 27; ed. WF, no. 79, PMFC
XIV, no. App. 26
3. Regnum sine termino/T. Regnum tuum solidum
palimpsest; fol. 1v; frag. troped chant setting a4; facs. PMMM 5, 27; ed. WF, no.
80, Lefferts (1983), 925-30
4. Kyrie rex genitor . . . Christe lux oriens
fol. 1v; frag. voice that is the only material visible from original layer of music,
now mainly erased; either monophonic or tenor of troped chant setting
Worcester, Cathedral Library, Additional 68, Frag. xviii s. xiii med.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Single parchment bifolium, the middle of a gathering; original page size ca. 380 x 260
mm, now trimmed on outer and lower margins to ca. 315 x 220 mm; written space was
ca. 306 x 193 mm in a variety of rulings, including twelve five-line staves on fol. 1 and
five three-staff systems on fol. 1v, with staff gauge 16 mm. Music notation on fol. 1 is
EMN with paired rhomboid breves; on fol. 1v-2, EMN in long-rhomb patterns.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaves. Formerly binding fragments in Worcester Book of Feofments
(MMBL).
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 595, 597; PMFC XIV; WMH; PMMM 5; MMBL 4:685; Reaney (1977);
Caldwell (1991); Sanders (2001d)
IV. CONTENTS
1. . . . superioris . . . /T. [Benedicta et venerabilis] V. Virgo dei genitrix
fol. 1; [RISM, no. WF 80a]; frag. troped chant setting a3 in parts; facs. PMMM 5,
32
2. Alleluia V. Nativitas gloriose virgi[nis] Marie. Ex semine Habrahe
fol. 1v-2; chant setting a3 in score with texted clausula; organum mostly unique
but clausula has continental concordances; facs. PMMM 5, 33-34, WMH, 81; ed.
WF, no. 81, Reaney (1977), PMFC XIV, no. App. 16, Caldwell (1991), 44-46
(partial)
3. Sanctus
fol. 2; monophonic; facs. PMMM 5, 34
4. Ad honorem summi regis
fol. 2-2v; monophonic (Chev. 34908); facs. PMMM 5, 35
Worcester, Cathedral Library, Additional 68, Frag. xx s. xiii, 3/4
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Single parchment bifolium not the middle of a gathering; original page ca. 288 x 212
mm, now trimmed at the top and outer edges to ca. 255 x 157 mm for fol. 1 and 260 x
200 mm for fol. 2; fol. 1 recto has written space ca. 257 x 156 mm ruled for nine red five-
line staves, only eight of which are now visible; fol. 1v has written space ca. 228 x 156
mm ruled for seven red five-line staves; gauge for both pages is 23-24 mm. Fol. 2 has
eight red five-line staves in written space 220 x 156 mm with gauge 21 mm, and fol. 2v
has nine red five-line staves in written space 240 x 156 mm with gauge 19 mm.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaf. Former front pastedown in WOc F. 152, a late 14th-century
English copy of works of Robert Grosseteste, Bernard of Clairvaux, and others, in a
Worcester binding of ca. 1527-31 that is likely by monk-binder John Musard.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 595, 601-2; F&H, pp. 81-82; PMMM 5; PMFC XIV; MMBL 4:686; Sanders
(2001d); Thomson (2001), 103-104
IV. CONTENTS
1. [I]n excelsis gloria
fol. 1; frag. conductus-rondellus a3; concordance in US-Cu 654, no. 3 ; facs.
PMMM 5, 44; ed. WF, no. 93, PMFC XIV, no. 36
2. Gaudeat ecclesia cuncti
fol. 1v; frag. rondellus a3; facs. PMMM 5, 45; ed. WF, no. 94, PMFC XIV, no. 41
3. Sed fulsit virginitas/Primus tenor
fol. 2; frag. c.f. motet a4 (tenor, missing here, is "Dominus"; the Primus tenor is
freely composed); concordance a3 with many unsupported fourths (suggesting
version a4 is original) in F-MO, no. 59 (Rok. 68); facs. PMMM 5, 46; ed. WF, no.
95, PMFC XIV, no. 83
4. Crucifixum dominum in carne/T. [Crucifixum in carne]
fol. 2v; frag. troped chant setting a4?; facs. PMMM 5, 47; ed. WF, no. 96
Worcester, Cathedral Library, Additional 68, Frag. xxix s. xiii, 3/4
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Two bifolia (a, b), now nested and sewn together, apparently from the same volume but
not consecutive, nor is either the middle of a gathering; originally ca. 240 x 170 mm,
now 215 x 142 mm (a) and 220 x 150 mm (b). Fol. a2 has an old foliation XIIII. Bifolium
"a" has a variety of rulings, some under palimpsest, with written space for the two-stave
systems on fols. a2-a2v of ca. 171 x 122-127 mm and staff gauge 9 mm for five lines. On
frag. "b", original written space ca. 210 x 125 for five three-stave systems of gauge 12-13
mm for five lines. Possibly the fragment should be reversed around the centerfold so
that bifolium "b" is outermost; contents would then have the following order of items:
nos. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 beginning appropriately with the Marian
sequence Benedicta es and ending with a page of erasure and palimpsest.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaves. Formerly rear endleaves in ms WOc F. 43, a source combining
two English volumes of the late 13th century of texts of Roger Kilwardby; rebound at
the British Museum in 1886, so no information on age or provenance of any former
medieval binding.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 595-96, 602-603; F&H, 20-21; PMMM 5; PMFC XIV; Anderson edn.;
MMBL 4:687; Page (1996), 34; Sanders (2001d); Thomson (2001), 27-28
IV. CONTENTS
1. Singularis et insignis mundi domina
fol. a1-a1 verso; frag. sequence-like chant setting a3 of double-versicle rhymed
offertory; facs. PMMM 5, 51-52; ed. WF, no. 97, PMFC XIV, no. App. 14
2. Sanctus
fol. a1 verso; monophonic; facs. PMMM 5, 54
3. [A]ve Maria gracia plena virgo amantissima
fol. a1 verso; monophonic; facs. PMMM 5, 54
4. [Ave] virgo concipiens angelo salutatis
fol. a1 verso; monophonic; facs. PMMM 5, 5
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5. [illegible]
fol. b1 recto; erased sequence or conductus a3
6. Virginis Marie matris . . . eleyson
palimpsest; fol. b1 recto; Latin-texted Kyrie a3, text only, partially entered; facs.
PMMM 5, 53
7. Ave Maria gracia plena dominus
palimpsest; fol. b1 verso; monophonic; facs. PMMM 5, 54
8. Sanctus
palimpsest; fol. b1 verso; monophonic; facs. PMMM 5, 54
9. . . . designatur cuius lilia ante partum et post partum sunt similia.
fol. b1 verso; sequence or conductus a3, notes not entered and text erased except
in fourth system from top; facs. PMMM 5, 54
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10. Benedicta es celorum regina
fol. b2; monophonic sequence; facs. PMMM 5, 55
11. [S]ponsa rectoris omnium summi patris
fol. b2-b2 verso; conductus-like chant setting a3 of Marian version of hymn Veni
creator spiritus; facs. PMMM 5, 55-56; ed. WF, no. 98, PMFC XIV, no. 64
12. O sponsa dei electa esto nobis via recta
fol. b2v; facs. PMMM 5, 56; conductus a3; Page (1996), 34, notes that the text is ed.
in AH 24: 162 and 32:58; ed. WF, no. 99, PMFC XIV, no. 21, Anderson edn., vol. 9,
no. O52
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13. [Alleluia V. Virga florem germinavit . . . mun]di pressuram
fol. a2; old foliation XIIII; frag. conductus-like free setting a2 (Anderson cat., no.
P47; Szöverffy, 328); facs. PMMM 5, 57; ed. WF, no. 100, Anderson edn., vol. 10,
no. P49
14. Sanctus
fol. a2; monophonic; facs. PMMM 5, 57
15. O Maria virgo pia plena dei gracia
fol. a2-a2 verso; frag. conductus a2; facs. PMMM 5, 57-58; ed. WF, no. 101, PMFC
XIV, no. App. 1
Worcester, Cathedral Library, Additional 68, Frag. xxx [Link], 2/4
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Four small parchment fragments (a1, a2, b, c) that appear to be from the same source;
originally from pages ca. 190 x 142 mm, with written space ca. 150 x 112 mm and staff
gauge 8-9 mm; now 87 x 84 mm (a1), 87 x 139 mm (a2), 85 x 135 mm (b), 102 x 142 mm
(c). Red four-line staves mainly in five two-staff systems per page for polyphony. Folio
b verso has old foliation IIII.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaves. Formerly endleaves in ms WOc F. 109, an English volume of
the late 13th or early 14th century containing works of Aquinas, in a 15th-century
Worcester binding. In WF and RISM, item no. 2 is mis-identified as two separate works,
and thus is mistakenly assigned two different WF numbers.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 596, 603-4; F&H, 52; PMMM 5; MMBL 4:687-88; Thomson (2001), 73-74;
Lefferts (1990), 278, 282; Sanders (2001d)
IV. CONTENTS
1. De spineto nata rosa
fol. a1-a1 verso; frag. sequence a2; facs. PMMM 5, 59-60; ed. WF, no. 102, partial
ed. in Sanders (2001d), 560
2. [Salve virgo sacra parens] . . . solatium. Et qui mente . . . Salve virgo virginum
fol. a2-a2 verso; frag. sequence a2; facs. PMMM 5, 61-62; ed. WF, nos. 103-104
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3. . . . m virgo mundi lilium lumen fidelium O mater pia . . .
fol. b; frag. conductus a1; facs. PMMM 5, 63
4. Mater patris et filia mulierum letitia
fol. b; frag. conductus a1 (AH 45a, 26; Anderson cat., no. F34; Szöverffy, 195); text
set in a musically unrelated polyphonic conductus in E-Hu and E-Ma (Anderson
edn., vol. 2, no. F34); facs. PMMM 5, 63
5. [E]rgo virgo tam beata
fol. b verso [old foliation IIII]; frag. sequence a2; facs. PMMM 5, 64; ed. WF, no.
105
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6. Paranimphus salutat virginem
fol. c-c verso; frag. sequence a2; facs. PMMM 5, 63-64; ed. WF, no. 106
Worcester, Cathedral Library, Additional 68, Frag. xxxiv [Link], 3/4
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Four small fragments, probably from two different sources (A, B). Frag. A is a single
parchment scrap of polyphony ca. 54 x 107 mm ruled in red five-line staves of gauge 13-
14 mm. Notation is EMN with long-rhomb motion. Hand does not look like RECON I
or II.
Frag. B (not reproduced) consists of three frags. (a, b, c) of plainchant sequences on
four-line staves of width 130 mm and gauge 10-11 mm: frag. a now 212 x 33 mm; frag. b
now 34 x 286 mm, frag. c now 36 x 141 mm.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaves. Not recorded in WF or MMBL, but accounted for by Büttner
(1990) and Thomson (2001). They were removed from manuscript WOc F. 34, an English
manuscript of the second half of the 13th century, which has a Worcester binding of the
late 15th or early 16th century. Frag. xxviii also comes from the binding of this book, but
unlike that fragment (and contrary to Thomson), the present Frag. A does not come
from RECON I.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, pp. 595, 605; Büttner (1990); F&H, 17; Sanders (2001a); Sanders (2001d);
Thomson (2001), 22
IV. CONTENTS
1. . . . qua Christe exp . . . Virgo m . . .
Frag. A, fol. 1; rondellus fragment?
2. [Textless]/[textless]
Frag. A, fol. 1v; two staves of a repetitive tenor, one staff of second hocketing
voice
Worcester, Cathedral Library, Additional 68, Frag. xxxix/1 [Link], 3/4
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Single horizontal parchment strip, 64 x 275 mm, cut from a bifolium (fols. A and B).
Freely ruled red five-line staves of gauge 16 mm. Original written area, if for 12 staves
of music and text, was ca. 310 mm in height; if for 9 staves, ca. 235 mm. Text hand mixes
gothica textualis quadrata, semi-quadrata, and sine pedibus. Musical notation basically
Franconian (square breve), with long-breve declamation.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaf. Front binding fragments from WOc F. 45, an early 14th-century
English copy of the Legenda aurea in a contemporary binding. Frag. xxxix/2 (not
reproduced) is a parchment flyleaf with a few notes and letters of offset from Frag.
xxxix/1.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
F&H, p. 21; MMBL 4:689; Wathey, RISM Suppl., 93-95; Thomson (2001), xlvi, 28-29
IV. CONTENTS
1. . . . tuis in laudibus tu celicis commenda . . .
fol. A; frag. motet
2. . . . Nunc in celis Katerina fluens deliciis . . .
fol. Av; frag. motet
3. . . . archa panis angelici de quam . . .
fol. B; frag. motet
4. . . . concipies parvulum que presens . . .
fol. Bv; frag. motet
Worcester, Cathedral Library, Q. 19 [Link], 2/4
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Single parchment leaf, fol. i, trimmed to ca. 160 x 105 mm, with original written space
ca. 115 x 80 mm ruled for five red two-stave systems, the upper staff of five lines and
the lower staff of four, with staff gauge 9 mm and 7 mm, respectively. Red and blue
initials. Book hand is a neat gothica rotunda. Music notation of Notre Dame style.
II. HISTORY
Front flyleaf, about which nothing is known, in a codex assembling three volumes of
Franciscan sermons copied in the late 13th century. Codex origin unknown, but likely
for a Franciscan house. WOc Q. 19 arrived late in the history of the Cathedral library:
"not at Worcester before s. xv and only attested there 1622-23" (Thomson 2000). Music
leaf uncovered by 1993 (Malyshko) and again in the late 1990s recataloguing of the
Cathedral Library. Malyshko (1998, 76) judges the polyphony to be "an English
adaptation of a French work"; Thomson (2000) concludes it to be "a leaf from a Parisian
book of sacred polyphony."
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
F&H, p. 118; Malyshko (1998); Thomson (2000), p. 94, n. 10; Thomson (2001), 130-131
IV. CONTENTS
1. textless
fol. i; frag. melismatic conclusion of organum a2; facs. Malyshko (1998)
2. Benedicta. V. Virgo dei genitrix quem totus non creauit orbis in tua se clau[sit
viscera.]
fol. i-iv; frag. organum a2 on soloistic portions of Marian gradual; varied
concordance to Magnus Liber setting (M32); facs. and ed. Malyshko (1998)
RECONSTRUCTION I [Link], 3/4
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
The partial remains (30 or more folios, 60 or more pieces) of a substantial codex (140 or
more total folios). Some pages have original foliations in red, and these leaves, bifolia,
and nested bifolia sometimes form blocks of continuous material from the following
original folios: vi-vii, xiii-xvi, xxxvi, lxxiii-lxxviiii, lxxvi-lxxvii, lxxix, lxxxii-lxxxiii,
lxxxviii-lxxxix, lxxxxii-lxxxxiiii, lxxxxix-ci, cxxxvi, cxxxix. Losseff (1994), 149-52, has a
very useful diagram projecting the gathering structures that can be determined from
these materials. The relative location of the seven fragmentary folios from Lbl Hatton
30, and WOc Add. 68, Frag. xiii and Frag. xl (containing item nos. 53-69) cannot be
determined. The leaves are variously trimmed, but appear originally to have been ca.
280-283 x 200-205 mm with written space mainly ca. 205 x 145-155 mm for nine red five-
line staves of gauge 13-15 mm. On the music and text hands, see esp. Wibberley (1976).
HISTORY
In the literature this book is known as "the small format volume" or "the motet book," to
distinguish it from RECON II and RECON III. The original book of music was likely
broken up by a Worcester monk-binder, John Musard, only in the 1520s. Its pages were
re-used in Worcester bindings of ca. 1527-31 for more than ten extant manuscripts, some
of demonstrable Worcester provenance, and most surviving in Worcester Cathedral
Library. A previous attempt at reconstruction in Ob Lat. liturg. d. 20 combines
surviving leaves formerly in Ob Auct F. inf. 1.3 and Ob Hatton 30 with photos of leaves
from Lbl Additional 25031 and WOc Additional 68, Frag. x (from WOc F. 125), Frag. xi
(from WOc F. 133), Frag. xiii (from WOc Q. 21), Frag. xxviii (from WOc F. 34), and Frag.
xxxi (from WOc Q. 31). The materials in Lbl Additional 25031 are still in place. New
fragments, two with original foliations, were found in volumes at Worcester Cathedral
Library by Olga Malyshko in 1993 and again during the recataloguing of the library in
the later 1990s, and most of these have been removed to the fragment series in Add. 68.
They include material from WOc F. 44 (now Frag. xli), F. 120 (now Frag. xl), and F. 175
(now Frag. xlii). A bit of material still remains in F. 44 that probably also belongs in this
reconstruction. Offsets onto binding boards survive in situ for Frags. xxxi, xl and xli.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 541-52, 562-64; F&H, esp. 159-63; Bukofzer (1944); MMBL 4:684-88;
WMH; PMMM 5; PMMM 6; Dittmer (1957); Wibberley (1976); Crocker (1990); Büttner
(1990); Caldwell (1991); Caldwell (1994); Losseff (1994), 148-54; Malyshko (1998);
Thomson (2000); Sanders (2001a); Sanders (2001d); Sanders (2001e); Thomson (2001),
xlvi
CONTENTS
WOc Additional 68, Frag. x
1. Christe lux mundi perpetua . . . clemens eleyson
fol. vi [Ob 20, fol. 1]; one voice of troped chant setting a3 of Kyrie Orbis factor;
facs. PMMM 5, 24; ed. WF, no. 1
2. [Lux polis] refulgens a[urea] fit inmensis/Lux et gloria/T. Kyrieleyson
fol. vi verso-vii verso [Ob 20, fol. 1v-2v]; frag. troped chant setting a3 of Kyrie
Lux et origo; concordance in Ccl ; facs. Dittmer (1957), 28-30; ed. WF, no. 2,
PMFC XIV, no. App. 21, Caldwell (1991), 40-41 (partial)
3. two parts in score, white notation
fol. vii [Ob 20, fol. 2]; facs. Dittmer (1957), 29
4. Benedicta domina mundi per spacia
fol. vii verso [Ob 20, fol. 2v]; frag. troped chant setting a3 of Gradual Benedicta V.
Virgo dei genitrix; facs. Dittmer (1957), 30; ed. WF, no. 3
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Lbl Additional 25301
5. Felix namque Maria
fol. xiii [Ob 20, fol. 3 and 6v]; one voice of troped chant setting of Offertory Felix
namque es; facs. PMMM 6, 11; ed. WF, no. 4
6. De supernis sedibus
fol. xiii verso-xiiii [Ob 20, fol. 3v-4]; conductus-rondellus a3; facs. PMMM 6, 12,
WMH, 127; ed. WF, no. 5, PMFC XIV, no. 31, Crocker (1990), 692-97, Anderson
edn., vol. 9, no. O44
7. Prolis eterne genitor/Psallat mater gratie/T. Pes super Prolis Psallat
fol. xiiii verso-[xv] [Ob 20, fol. 4v-5]; pes motet a3; facs. PMMM 6, 13-14; ed. WF,
no. 6, PMFC XIV, no. 54, Caldwell (1991), 58-59 (partial)
8. Quem non capit/ . . . in genitrix o dulcis alitrix/T. Pes super Quem non capit
fol. [xv] verso-[xvi] [Ob 20, fol. 5v-6]; frag. pes motet a3; facs. PMMM 6, 15-16; ed.
WF, no. 7
9. . . . est ex te verbum nunc natum quo salvantur omnia . . .
fol. [xvi ]verso [Ob 20, fol. 6v]; facs. PMMM 6, 17; ed. WF, no. 8
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WOc Additional 68, Frag. xlii
10. fol. xxxvi; text lost; facs., Thomson (2000), fig. 4
11. fol. xxxvi verso; text lost
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12. fol. 000; text lost
13. fol. 000 verso; text lost; facs, Thomson (2000), fig. 4
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WOc Additional 68, Frag. xxxi
14. Salve sancta parens virgo/[Salve sancta parens virgo]/T. Salve sancta parens enixa
fol. [lxxiii] [Ob 20, fol. 7]; frag. troped chant setting a3; facs. in WMH, 63;
concordance in Ob 60, no. 7 ; ed. WF, no. 9, PMFC XIV, no. 67
WOc Additional 68, Frags. xxxi and xxviii
15. O quam glorifica luce/O quam felix femina/O quam beata domina/T. [pes]
fol. lxxiii verso-lxxiiii [Ob 20, fol. 7v-8]; frag. pes motet a4; facs. WF, 62-63; ed.
WF, no. 10, PMFC XIV, no. 58
WOc Additional 68, Frag. xxviii
16. Senator regis curie/Primus pes/Secundus pes
fol. lxxiiii [Ob 20, fol. 8]; pes motet a3; facs. in WF, 63; concordance in D-Gu 220,
no. 2 ; ed. WF, no. 11, PMFC XIV, no. 50
17. Virgo regalis fidei/[Virgo regalis fidei]/Pes
fol. lxxiiii verso [Ob 20, fol. 8v]; frag. voice-exchange pes motet a3; facs. PMMM
6, 18; ed. WF, no. 12, PMFC XIV, no. 51
18. O venie vena spes seculi/T. Illumina morti datis
fol. lxxiiii verso [Ob 20, fol. 8v]; frag. pes motet a3 with rondellus; facs. PMMM 6,
18; ed. WF, no. 13
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19. Virgo paris filium/T. [Virgo dei] genitrix
fol. lxxvi [Ob 20, fol. 9]; frag. troped chant setting a3 of verse of gradual
Benedicta V. Virgo dei genitrix; facs. Auszug, 21; ed. WF, no. 14
20. .iiii. de ave parens/.v.
fol. lxxvi [Ob 20, fol. 9]; two frag. parts, probably belonging together, with
hocket; facs. Auszug, 21
21. Eterne virgo memorie/Eterna virgo mater/T. [pes]
fol. lxxvi verso-lxxvii [Ob 20, fol. 9v-10]; pes motet a3; facs. WMH, 128-29; ed.
WF, no. 15, PMFC XIV, no. 52
22. Quam admirabilis/Quam admirabilis/Pes
fol. lxxvi verso-lxxvii [Ob 20, fol. 9v-10]; voice-exchange pes motet a3; facs.
WMH, 128-29; ed. WF, no. 16, PMFC XIV, no. 53, Caldwell (1991), 54-55, Büttner,
92-93
23. Sol in nube tegitur/Non hircorum sanguine/Pes
fol. lxxvii verso [Ob 20, fol. 10v]; pes motet a3 with voice exchange; facs. PMMM
5, 48; ed. WF, no. 17 (read as two-voice frag.), Büttner, 232-33 (read as complete
a3)
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24. void notation
fol. lxxvii verso-lxxix [Ob 20, fol. 10v-11]; 15th-century work a2, with tenor on
verso and superius on recto; facs. PMMM 5, 48-49
25. Loquelis archangeli/Quartus cantus
fol. lxxix [Ob 20, fol. 11]; frag. voice-exchange motet a4; concordance is Recon. II,
no. 27 [WF, 66] ; facs. PMMM 5, 49; ed. WF, no. 18, Büttner, 226-28
26. Ave magnifica Maria/[Ave mirifica Maria]/T. Alle[luya] V. Post partum virgo
fol. lxxix verso [Ob 20, fol. 11v]; frag. troped chant setting a3; concordances in Ob
400*, frag. A (text only), F-MO (contrafactum with text Alle psallete cum luya),
Recon II, no. 16 (transposed, and modified for different Alleluia); facs. PMMM 5,
50; ed. WF, no. 19, PMFC XIV, no. App. 18a, Crocker (1990), 717-18, Büttner
(1990), 203-207 (partial), Caldwell (1991), 48-49
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WOc Additional 68, Frag. xli
27. P . . . Ave rex gentis anglorum (in 15th-century hand)
fol. lxxxii; facs. Thomson (2000), fig. 1
28. A . . .
fol. lxxxii verso
Ob Lat. liturg. d. 20 (formerly Ob Auct. F. inf. 1.3)
29. Amor patris presentatur
fol. lxxxiii [Ob 20, fol. 12]; frag. conductus-rondellus a3 in parts; facs. PMMM 6,
19; ed. WF, no. 20, Büttner, 221
30. Munda Maria mater militie
fol. lxxxiii-lxxxiii verso [Ob 20, fol. 12-12v]; rota a3; facs. PMMM 6, 19-20; ed. WF,
no. 21, PMFC XIV, no. 35, Crocker (1990), 701 (partial); Caldwell (1991), 60
31. O regina celestis curie flos/O regina celestis curie consolare
fol. lxxxiii verso [Ob 20, fol. 12v]; frag. pes motet a3; facs. PMMM 6, 20; ed. WF,
no. 22, Büttner, 225
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32. Sanctorum omnium virgo/T.
fol. lxxxviii [Ob 20, fol. 13]; frag. motet; facs. PMMM 6, 21; ed. WF, no. 23
33. void notation scribble
fol. lxxxviii [Ob 20, fol. 13]; facs. PMMM 6, 21
34. . . . omnipotencia . . . laus honor reverencia . . .
fol. lxxxviii verso [Ob 20, fol. 13v]; frag. motet?; facs. PMMM 6, 22, Wibberley
(2000), 42, 47; ed. WF, no. 24
35. Ave virgo mater dei
fol. lxxxviii verso [Ob 20, fol. 13v]; frag. rondellus a3 in parts; facs. PMMM 6, 22,
Wibberley (2000), 42, 47; ed. WF, no. 25, Büttner (1990), 218-220 (partial),
Wibberley (2000)
WOc Additional 68, Frag. xli
36. fol. lxxxix; text lost
37. fol. lxxxix verso; text lost; facs., Thomson (2000), fig. 1
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Ob Lat. liturg. d. 20 (formerly Ob Auct. F. inf. 1.3)
38. Beata supernorum-Virga iesse floruit/T. [Benedicta V. Virgo] dei genitrix
fol. lxxxxii [Ob 20, fol. 14]; frag. troped chant setting a3 (Gradual); facs. PMMM
6, 23; ed. WF, no. 26, partial ed. Sanders 1980c, 525
39. Alleluya canite-Parens alma/Alleluya canite-Parens alme/T. Alleluya-Pes (V.
Pascha nostrum)
fol. lxxxxii verso-lxxxxiii [Ob 20, fol. 14v-15]; troped chant setting a3 of Marian
version of Easter chant; facs. PMMM 6, 24-25; ed. WF, no. 27, PMFC XIV, no. 71
40. Alma iam ad gaudia-Per te dei genitrix/Alme matris dei-Per te o beata/T. Alleluya-
V. Per te dei genitrix
fol. lxxxxiii verso-lxxxxiiii [Ob 20, fol. 15v-16]; troped chant setting a3; facs.
PMMM 6, 26-27, Caldwell (1994), 2061-62, MGG2 Sachteil 9:2061-2062; ed. WF,
no. 28, PMFC XIV, no. 72
41. Kyrie fons pietatis
fol. lxxxxiiii verso [Ob 20, fol. 16v]; frag. troped chant setting a3 of Kyrie fons
bonitatis; concordance in Ob 60, no. 1 ; facs. WMH, 62; ed. WF, no. 29
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42. Fons ortorum riga morum/Pes
fol. lxxxxix [Ob 20, fol. 17]; frag. pes motet a3; facs. PMMM 6, 28; ed. WF, no. 30
43. void notation scribbles
fol. lxxxxix [Ob 20, fol. 17]; facs. PMMM 6, 28
44. Fulget celestis/O Petre flos/Roma gaudet de tali
fol. lxxxxix verso-c [Ob 20, fol. 17v-18]; frag. polytextual rondellus a3; facs.
WMH, 139; concordance in Onc 362, no. 16 (EECM 26, pl. 95-96); ed. WF, no. 31,
PMFC XIV, no. 42
45. . . . recolat ecclesia Katerine/Virgo sancta Katerina/T. [pes]
fol. c verso-ci [Ob 20, fol. 18v-19]; frag. pes motet a3; facs. PMMM 6, 29-30; ed.
WF, no. 32
46. void notation scribbles
fol. ci [Ob 20, fol. 19]; facs. PMMM 6, 30
47. . . . decus virginitatis . . . in te domine in eternum/T. [Salve virgo virginum M]aria
virgo intercede
fol. ci verso [Ob 20, fol. 19v]; frag. troped chant setting of Marian version of
Gloria trope Regnum tuum; facs. PMMM 6, 31; ed. WF, no. 33
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WOc Additional 68, Frag. xi
48. Salve fenestra vitrea/ . . . -grantis fumi virgula fumus ex aromati . . ./ . . .
fol. cxxxvi [Ob 20, fol. 20]; frag. polytextual conductus a3 in parts; facs. PMMM 5,
25, Thomson (2001), pl. 9; ed. WF, no. 34
49. Felix illa curia. void notation scribble
fol. cxxxvi [Ob 20, fol. 20]; facs. PMMM 5, 25, Thomson (2001), pl. 9
50. [Gaude Mar]ia plaude dulcis et amena/T. [Gaude] Maria virgo
fol. cxxxvi verso [Ob 20, fol. 20v]; frag. troped chant setting a3 (Tract); facs.
PMMM 5, 26; ed. WF, no. 35
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51. O regina glorie Maria/T. [pes]
fol. [cxxxix] [Ob 20, fol. 21]; frag. pes motet a3 of tropic origin, on two statements
of an unidentified tenor or pes, with a varied textual concordance in Recon II, no.
17 ; facs. PMMM 6, 32; ed. WF, no. 36
52. O decus predicancium/T. [Agmina]
fol. [cxxxix] verso [Ob 20, fol. 21v]; frag. cf motet a3; facs. PMMM 6, 33; ed. WF,
no. 37
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Ob Lat. liturg. d. 20 (formerly Ob Hatton 30)
53. . . . profero in te rex glorie . . . mundum in prospero
[Ob 20, fol. 22]; frag. motet?; facs. Bukofzer (1944), 90; ed. WF, no. 38
54. Salve gemma confessorum Nicholae
[Ob 20, fol. 22]; frag. motet voice; facs. Bukofzer (1944), 90; ed. WF, no. 39
55. Pro beati Pauli gloria/O pastor patris/T. [pes]
[Ob 20, fol. 22v]; frag. pes motet a4; facs. Bukofzer (1944), 92; text concordance in
following item [Recon. I, no. 56 = WF, no. 70] and Lwa 33327, no. 4 (EECM 26, pl.
177); ed. WF, no. 40
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WOc Additional 68, Frag. xiii
56. Pro beati Pauli/O pastor patris/O preclara patrie/T. Pes de Pro beati Pauli et de O
pastor patris et de O preclara patrie [Pro patribus]
[Ob 20, fol. 36]; cf motet a4; facs. PMMM 5, 28; concordance in Lwa 33327, no. 4
(EECM 26, pl. 177); text concordance in preceding item [Recon. I. no. 55 = WF, no.
40]; ed. WF, no. 70, PMFC XIV, no. 84
57. white notation
[Ob 20, fol. 36]; facs. PMMM 5, 28
58. Te domine laudat/Te dominum clamat/T. Pes super de Te domine et de Te
dominum
[Ob 20, fol. 36v-37]; frag. pes motet a3; facs. Dittmer (1957), 22-23, Sanders
(2001d), 562; ed. WF, no. 71, PMFC XIV, no. 47
59. Virginis Marie laudemus/Salve gemma virginum/T. Pes super Virginis Marie et
Salve gemma [Veritatem]
[Ob 20, fol. 36v-37]; cf motet a3; facs. Dittmer (1957), 22-23, Sanders (2001d), 562;
ed. WF, no. 72, PMFC XIV, no. 77
60. O debilis o flebilis/T. Pes super O debilis/T. Primus pes super O debilis
[Ob 20, fol. 37v]; pes motet a3; facs. PMMM 5, 29; ed. WF, no. 73, PMFC XIV, no.
48
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61. [Fulgens stella] . . . quiquid homo gescit/T. Pes de Fulgens stella
[Ob 20, fol. 38]; frag. pes motet a2; facs. PMMM 5, 30; ed. WF, no. 74, Lefferts
(1983), 972-76, Büttner, 212-215
62. Dulcis Iesu memoria/Pes de Dulcis Iesu memoria
[Ob 20, fol. 38v-39]; frag. pes motet a2; facs. Dittmer (1957, 24-25; ed. WF, no. 75
63. Puellare gremium/Purissima mater/T. Pes super Puellare et Purissima
[Ob 20, fol. 39]; pes motet a3; facs. Dittmer (1957), 25; ed. WF, no. 76, PMFC XIV,
no. 45, Crocker (1990), 705-708
64. Sanctus et eternus deus/T. Sanctus
[Ob 20, fol. 39v]; frag. troped chant setting; facs. PMMM 5, 31; concordance in
Recon II, no. 22 [WF, no. 61]; ed. WF, no. 77
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WOc Additional 68, Frag. xl
65. No . . .
Frag. xl (b), recto
66. . . . piste lumen celi prin . . .
Frag. xl (b), verso; facs. Malyshko (1998), Thomson (2000), fig. 3
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67. textless
Frag. xl (a), recto
68. [Angelus ad virginem] . . . in conclave virginis . . . [pa]ries intacta
Frag. xl (a), recto; frag. of the well known monophonic song
69. . . . culorum tempore . . . angeli per famina intacta . . . vitam que dona morte . . .
Frag. xl (a), verso; monophony?; facs. Malyshko (1998), Thomson (2000), fig. 2
RECONSTRUCTION II [Link], 3/4
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
This reconstitutes the partial remains (more than 13 folios, more than 32 pieces) of a
once substantial music codex with overall dimensions of ca. 330 x 223 mm [330 x 220 in
Dittmer and RISM], a written space of 267 x 170-80 mm ruled in twelve red five-line
staves of gauge 13-14 mm, and decoration in red, blue, and green.
The fragments comprise single leaves, bifolia, and nested bifolia from the lost music
codex. There are eight discrete series of pieces. The order of presentation here
principally follows WF and RISM. There is no surviving medieval evidence for this
order aside from some local continuities between leaves that are linked physically or by
content. Contradicting Dittmer in WF, and also RISM, but following observations in
WMH and EEH, we assume no continuity between Ob 20, fol. 31 and Ob 20, fol. 32, thus
turning WF, 60 into two items, the present nos. 20 and 21. (Indeed, there is no reason to
assume that fol. 31 originally preceded fol. 32.) Further, both RISM B/IV/1, 554 and
PMFC XIV, 243 report Ob 20, fol. 34 as following fol. 35, but by assuming that item 29
spanned an opening (verso to recto), and given that fol. 35 has a center gutter, we have
instead retained fol. 34 before fol. 35, but with the reversal of recto and verso for fol. 34,
so that the opening spans 34r and 35r (as per the photo captions in PMMM 6, 43).
Offsets on the inside front and rear covers of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 862
(photographically reversed as Ob 20, fols. 27a recto-verso) preserve the reverse image of
one surviving page (fol. 6 = Ob 20, fol. 28 recto) and one otherwise lost page.
II. HISTORY
In the literature this book is known as "the large format volume," to distinguish it from
RECON I and RECON III. It was broken up in the mid 15th century at Worcester and
used there to provide materials for a local rebinding campaign (see Thomson (2000) and
Thomson (2001), xlvi). Fragments have been discovered in three surviving codices. All
were probably owned by Worcester Cathedral Library. At least one is of demonstrable
Worcester origin and is still housed in Worcester Cathedral Library. A previous attempt
at reconstruction in Ob Lat. liturg. d. 20 [Ob 20], fols. 23-35v, combines leaves formerly
in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 862 with reversed photos of the offsets on its
binding boards, and with photocopies of leaves from WOc Add. 68, Frags. ix and xxxv.
Frag. ix came out of the binding of WOc Q. 72, an English manuscript of the middle of
the 14th century. Frag. xxxv comes out of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Magdalene College
100, a 13th-century Worcester psalter whose flyleaves were detached and transferred
back to Worcester in the 1920s. The presence of erasure and palimpsest reveals an effort
to update the original music codex in the 14th century.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 541-42, 552-62; EEH; F&H, 110-11; MMBL 4:683-4, 688-9; PMMM 5;
PMMM 6; PMFC XIV; Levy; Lefferts (1983); Wilson (1990); Caldwell (1990); Büttner
(1990), 188-91; Losseff (1994), 154-56; Thomson (2000); Sanders (2001a); Sanders (2001d);
Sanders (2001e); Thomson (2001), xliv, 167-68
IV. CONTENTS
Ob Lat. liturg. d.20 (formerly Ob Bodley 862)
1. Dulciflua tua memoria/Precipua michi da gaudia/Tenor de Dulciflua
fol. 1; palimsest; [Ob 20, fol. 23]; facs. PMMM 6, 34; pes motet a3; ed. WF, no. 41,
PMFC XIV, no. 55, Wilson (1990), no. 59
2. Inviolata integra mater/Inviolata integra mater/T. Inviolata integra et casta
fol. 1-2v; [Ob 20, fol. 23v-24v]; facs. PMMM 6, 35-37; troped chant setting; ed. WF,
no. 42, PMFC XIV, no. 68, Wilson (1990), no. 56
3. Spiritus procedens a patre
fol. 2v; palimpsest; [Ob 20, fol. 24v]; facs. PMMM 6, 37; frag. troped Spiritus et
alme insertions a3; text concordance in Onc 362, etc.; ed. WF, no. 43, partial ed. in
Sanders (1965), 28
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Ob Lat. liturg. d.20 (formerly Ob Bodley 862)
4. Lingua peregrina te laudare/T. Laqueus
fol. 3; palimpsest; [Ob 20, fol. 25]; facs. PMMM 6, 38; frag. tenor motet; ed. WF,
no. 44, Lefferts (1983), 899-906
Ob Lat. liturg. d.20 (formerly Ob Bodley 862) and WOc Add. 68, frag. xxxv
5. . . . In tuis laudibus/ . . . Gaude per quam cornu David/T. Alleluya V. Gaude virgo
gaude
fol. 3v-4; [Ob 20, fol. 25v-26; fol. 26 = Frag. xxxv, fol. 6r]; frag. troped chant
setting a3; facs. WF, 64-65; ed. WF, no. 45
6. Alleluya psallat hec familia/Alleluia psallat hec familia/T. Alleluya concinat hec
familia
fol. 3v-4; [Ob 20, fol. 25v-26; fol. 26 = Frag. xxxv, fol. 6r]; facs. WF, 64-65; frag.
troped chant setting a3 of Alleluya V. Virga Iesse floruit; ed. WF, no. 46, PMFC
XIV, no. App. 20, Caldwell (1990), 50-51, Büttner (1990), 99-102
WOc Add. 68, frag. xxxv
7. Peregrina moror/T.
palimpsest; fol. 4v; [Frag. xxxv, fol. 6v = Ob 20, fol. 26v]; frag. tenor motet; facs.
PMMM 5, 70; ed. WF, no. 47, Lefferts (1983), 907-912
8. Rex omnipotencie
palimpsest; fol. 4v; [Frag. xxxv, fol. 6v = Ob 20, fol. 26v]; frag. tenor motet; facs.
PMMM 5, 70; ed. WF, no. 48, Lefferts (1983), 913-15
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WOc Add. 68, frag. ix
9. . . . Et honore speciali/T. [Alleluya V. Letabitur iustus]
fol. 5; [Frag. ix, fol. 1 & 2 v = Ob 20, fol. 27]; frag. troped chant setting a3; facs.
PMMM 5, 20-21; ed. WF, no. 49
10. Gaude plaude/T. Alleluya V. Iudicabunt sancti
fol. 5; [Frag. ix, fol. 1 & 2 v = Ob 20, fol. 27]; frag. troped chant setting a3; facs.
PMMM 5, 20-21; ed. WF, no. 50
WOc Add. 68, frag. ix and Ob Lat. liturg. d.20 (formerly Ob Bodley 862)
11. . . . et tanquam scintille/ . . . et gloria in celestia/T. Alleluya V. Fulgebunt iusti
fol. 5-6; [Ob 20, fol. 27-27v-28, offset onto front binding board is Ob 20, fol. 27a
recto; fol. 27 = Frag. ix, fol. 1 & 2 r]; frag. troped chant setting a3; facs. PMMM 5,
20-23, PMMM 6, 40-41; ed. WF, no. 51
12. Alme veneremur diei/Alme veneremur diei/T. Alleluya V. Iusti epulentur
fol. 5v-6; [Ob 20, fol. 27v-28, offset onto front binding board is Ob 20, fol. 27a
recto; fol. 27 = Frag. ix, fol. 1 & 2 r]; facs. PMMM 5, 22-23, PMMM 6, 40-41; frag.
troped chant setting a3; ed. WF, no. 52, PMFC XIV, no. App. 17
13. Candens crescit lilium/Candens lilium columbina/Quartus cantus
palimpsest; fol. 6v; [Ob 20, fol. 28v]; frag. refrain motet a4; concordances in
Cambridge, Pembroke College, 228, fol. ii verso [facs. EECM 26, pl. 204] and
New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, 978 [facs. EECM 26, pl. 192-193]; facs.
PMMM 6, 42, EECM 26, pl. 205; ed. WF, no. 53, PMFC XIV, no. 60
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WOc Add. 68, frag. xxxv
14. . . . O laus sanctorum/T. Alleluya V. O laus sanctorum
fol. 7; [Frag. xxxv, fol. 3r = Ob 20, fol. 29]; frag. troped chant setting a3; facs.
PMMM 5, 67, Sanders (2001a), 879; ed. WF, no. 54
15. Alleluya moduletur Syon/Alleluya moduletur Syon/T. Alleluya V. Veni mater
gratie preces
fol. 7-7v; [Frag. xxxv, fol. 3r-v = Ob 20, fol. 29-29v]; frag. troped chant setting a3;
facs. PMMM 5, p. 67, WF, 66, Sanders (2001a), 879; ed. WF, no. 55, Reaney (1977),
PMFC XIV, no. App. 19
16. Ave magnifica Maria/Ave mirifica Maria/Alleluya V. Dulcis mater
fol. 7v-8; [Frag. xxxv, fol. 3v- Frag. xxxv, fol. 1r = Ob 20, fol. 29v-30]; frag. troped
chant setting a3, beginning as transposed concordance to Recon I, no. 26 and to
F-MO (contrafactum with text Alle psallete cum luya); facs. WF, 66-67, Sanders
(2001a), 879; ed. WF, no. 56, PMFC XIV, no. App. 18b
17. . . . Regis celorum . . . O regina glorie/Alleluia . . . / T. Alleluya V. Regis celorum
mater
fol. 8-8v; [Frag. xxxv, fol. 1r-v = Ob 20, fol. 30-30v]; frag. troped chant setting a3; a
varied concordance to the text of the troped verse has another musical setting in
Recon I, no. 51 = WF, no. 36 ; facs. WF, 67, PMMM 5, 65; ed. WF, no. 57
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WOc Add. 68, frag. xxxv
18. [Sanctus] . . . Unus tamen est divinus/T. [Sanctus . . . Unus tamen est divinus] . . .
celitus pater natus
fol. 9; [Frag. xxxv, fol. 2r = Ob 20, fol. 31]; frag. of 2 vv of Sanctus trope a3 on c.f.
Sar 2; facs. PMMM 5, 69; ed. WMH, 44 (partial), WF, no. 58
19. Sanctus sanctus sanctus adonay genitor/ . . . Osanna in excelsis/T. [Sanctus]
fol. 9-9v; [Frag. xxxv, fol. 2r-v = Ob 20, fol. 31-31v]; frag. Sanctus trope a3 on c.f.
Sar 3 with trope Marie filius; facs. EEH, pl. XL, PMMM 5, 69; ed. WMH 44-47
(partial), WF, no. 59
20. Sanctus Deus ens ingenitus/T. Sanctus
fol. 9v; [Frag. xxxv, fol. 2v = Ob 20, fol. 31v]; frag. Sanctus trope a3 on c.f. Sar 5,
not part of no. 21 below; facs. EEH, pl. XL; ed. WMH, 48-49, WF, no. 60
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WOc Add. 68, frag. xxxv
21. . . . Benedictus/T. [Sanctus] . . . nomine domini
fol. 10; [Frag. xxxv, fol. 4r; Ob 20, fol. 32]; frag. Sanctus trope a3 on c.f. Sar 5;
numbered III in the margin, not part of no. 20 above; facs. PMMM 5, 68; ed.
WMH, 49, WF, no. 60
22. Sanctus et eternus Deus/ . . . Osanna in celesti/T. [Sanctus] . . .venit in nomine
fol. 10-10v; [Frag. xxxv, fol. 4r-v; Ob 20, fol. 32-32v]; frag. Sanctus trope a3 on
unidentified c.f.; facs. PMMM 5, 68, WMH, 55; concordance in Recon I, no. 64
[WF, no. 77]; ed. WMH, 50-53, WF, no. 61, partial ed. in Sanders 1980c, 526
23. Sanctus ex quo omnia pater/T. [Sanctus]
fol. 10v; [Frag. xxxv, fol. 4v; Ob 20, fol. 32v]; frag. Sanctus trope a3 on c.f. Sar 2;
facs. WMH, 55; ed. WMH, 54, WF, no. 62
24. Sursum corda elevate/T. Sursum corda
fol. 10v; [Frag. xxxv, fol. 4v = Ob 20, fol. 32v]; frag. troped chant setting; facs.
WMH, 55; ed. WF, no. 63
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WOc Add. 68, frag. xxxv
25. Salve mater redemptoris/Salve lux languentium/Salve sine spina rosa/T. [Salve]
sancta parens enixa puerpera
fol. 11; [Frag. xxxv, fol. 5r = Ob 20, fol. 33]; troped chant setting a4; facs. WMH,
frontispiece and front cover art on LP disc Nonesuch H-71308; ed. WF, no. 64,
PMFC XIV, no. 74
26. Conditio nature/T.
fol. 11v; [Frag. xxxv, fol. 5v = Ob 20, fol. 33v]; frag. tenor motet a3; facs. PMMM
5, 66; text concordance in F-MO 42 (Rok. 51); ed. WF, no. 65
27. Loquelis archangeli/[Quartus cantus]
fol. 11v; [Frag. xxxv, fol. 5v = Ob 20, fol. 33v] [WF, 66]; frag. voice-exchange
motet a4; facs. PMMM 5, 66; concordance in Recon. I, no. 25 [WF, no. 18] ; ed.
WF, no. 18, Büttner (1990), 226-228
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Ob Lat. liturg. d.20 (formerly Ob Bodley 862)
28. small frags. of one or more pieces, probably palimpsest given the bit of visible
intertwined ribboning here that is also used in nos. 13 and 29 of this source to
indicate a textless section
palimpsest; fol. 12; [Ob 20, fol. 34v]
29. T[homas cesus]/Thomas gemma/P[rimus Tenor]/Secundus Tenor
palimpsest; fol. 12v-13; [Ob 20, fol. 34r, 35r]; frag. voice-exchange motet a4;
concordances in US-PRu 119, fol. A2 and Cambridge, Gonville and Caius
College, 512/543, fols. 254v-255 (EECM 26, pl. 128-129); facs. PMMM 6, 43-44,
EECM 26, pl. 212; ed. Levy, 234-39, WF, no. 67, PMFC XIV, no. 61
30. . . . d]ans quod vocis primuit
fol. 13-13v; [Ob 20, fol. 35-35v]; mainly erased under palimpsest; frag. conductus
a3; facs. PMMM 6, 45; ed. WF, no. 68, Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O45 (with text
reading "dans quod votis premueris")
31. 15th-century void notation
fol. 13v; [Ob 20, fol. 35v]; discant setting a3 in score with bottom voice cantus
firmus; facs. PMMM 6, 45
32. Quem trina polluit
fol. 13v; [Ob 20, fol. 35v]; frag. single-texted conductus-rondellus a3; double-
texted concordance in DRu 13, no. 1 ; facs. PMMM 6, 45; ed. WF, no. 69, PMFC
XIV, no. 34, Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O46 (Szöverffy, 253-54)
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Ob Bodley 862
33. Offset of music onto inside rear cover board preserves the reverse impression of a
lost page containing parts of one or more items of music; as is also the case in Ob
20 (facs. in PMMM 6), our facsimile presents a mirror image of the board
fol. 14; [Ob 20, fol. 27a verso]; facs. PMMM 6, 39
RECONSTRUCTION III [Link], 3/4
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
This reconstruction consists of parchment fragments now housed as WOc Additional
68, Frags. xix and xxxii. The ms order and proximity of the fragments cannot be fully
ascertained. Together they comprise seven folios and eighteen items from a book whose
original page dimensions were ca. 277 x 203 mm with written space of 220 x 155 mm,
ruled in four three-stave systems, with red five-line staves of staff gauge 14-17 mm. All
pages evidently were ruled at the same time as the parchment was prepared for music
a3 in score. Frag. xix, leaves a, b, and c, comprise three bifolia. This account and the
inventory below, following Summers (1983-85), reverse RISM's foliation, putting the
leaves in the order c, b, a. Their trimming suggests they were once part of the same
gathering, but contents suggest that the order should be c, b, a, and not a, c, b. Leaves c
and b are adjoining, but there is at least one bifolium missing between b and a, and
another missing within a, since it is not the center of a gathering. Only half of a1, b1,
and c1 remain. Frag. xxxii is a single leaf; maximum current dimensions 238 x 206 mm.
II. HISTORY
Referred to by Dom Anselm Hughes as "The Conductus Book" (WMH, 23). Music of the
13th century was entered first on the left hand leaves of the gathering (c2, b2, a2),
leaving the remainder blank. The right hand leaves (a1, b1, c1) were later filled in with
14th-century material. Broken up by Worcester monk-binder John Musard in the later
1520s and used in three or more Worcester bindings of ca. 1527-31. Frag. xix, leaf a,
came out of WOc F. 64, an English ms of the late 12th or early 13th century. Frag. xix,
leaves b and c, came out of WOc F. 37, a late 13th or early 14th-century English ms.
Frag. xxxii is a former front pastedown in WOc Q. 24, an English ms of the late 13th or
early 14th century.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 595-601, 604-605; WMH; F&H, 17, 30-31, 120-21; MMBL 4:686, 688;
PMMM 5; PMMM 6; Summers (1983-85); Thomson (2000); Sanders (2001a); Sanders
(2001d); Thomson (2001), xlvi, 24, 40, 133
IV. CONTENTS:
WOc Add. 68, Frag. xix
1. . . . nos sceleris sic que sanctifica. . . dans regna celica. Amen.
fol. 1 (Frag. xix, fol. c2) [RISM [87]]; frag. conductus a3; facs. PMMM 5, 40; ed.
WF, no. 87
2. jottings in semibreves and minims
fol. 1 (Frag. xix, fol. c2); facs. PMMM 5, 40; dipl. facs. and ed. in Summers (1983-
85), 63
3. Et in terra pax
fol. 1v-2 (Frag. xix, fol. c2 verso and b2) [RISM [88]]; frag. Gloria a3; facs. PMMM
 no. 5, 41, WMH, 38; concordance in Ob 60, no. 2 ; ed. WF, no. 88, PMFC XIV, no.
44
4. Regina regnans regis palatio
fol. 2v (Frag. xix, fol. b2 verso) [RISM [89]]; frag. conductus a3; ed. WF, no. 89,
PMFC XIV, no. App. 12, Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O48 (Szöverffy, 269)
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5. . . . angelorum agmina transcendens Maria
fol. 3 (Frag. xix, fol. a2) [RISM [90]]; frag. conductus a3; facs. PMMM 5, 42,
Stevens (1981), cover; ed. WF, no. 90, Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O49
6. Beata viscera Marie virginis
fol. 3 (Frag. xix, fol. a2) [RISM [91]]; conductus a3; facs. PMMM 5, 42, partial facs.
Stevens (1981), cover; ed. WF, no. 91, Marrocco and Sandon, no. 55, PMFC XIV,
no. 43, Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O50 (Szöverffy, 79)
7. Salve rosa florum salutis puerpera
fol. 3v (Frag. xix, fol. a 2 verso) [RISM [92]]; frag. conductus a3; facs. PMMM 5,
43, WMH, p. 124; ed. WF, no. 92, PMFC XIV, no. App. 11, Anderson edn., vol. 9,
no. O51 (Szöverffy, 277-78), Büttner, 80-81
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8. . . . merenti modo scitienti . .
fol. 4-4v (Frag. xix, fol. a1 recto-verso) [RISM [82]]; frag. 14th-century cantilena
a3; facs. PMMM 5, 36-37; WF, no. 82, Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O47
9. frag. of two-voice composition in score in void notation
fol. 4v (Frag. xix, fol. a1 verso); facs. PMMM 5, 37; dipl. facs. and ed. in Summers,
61
10. [Gloria laus et honor] tibi sit
fol. 4v (Frag. xix, fol. a1 verso) [RISM [82a]]; frag. 14th-century chant setting; facs.
PMMM 5, 37; ed. in Summers (1983-85), 62
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11. [Benedictus]
fol. 5 (Frag. xix, fol. b1 recto); frag. 14th-century chant setting; facs. WMH, 60; ed.
in Summers (1983-85), 58-60
12. [Sanctus]
fol. 5-5v (Frag. xix, fol. b1 recto-verso) [RISM [83]]; frag. 14th-century chant
setting; facs. WMH, 60; ed. WF, no. 83
13. Agnus dei
fol. 5v (Frag. xix, fol. b1 verso) [RISM [84]]; frag. 14th-century chant setting; facs.
WMH, 60; ed. WF, no. 84
14. [Gloria laus et honor] tibi sit . . .
fol. 5v-6 (Frag. xix, fol. b1 verso-c1) [RISM [85]]; frag. 14th-century chant setting;
facs. PMMM 5, 38; ed. WF, no. 85
15. [Gloria laus et honor]
fol. 6v (Frag. xix, fol. c1 verso) [RISM [86]]; frag. 14th-century chant setting; facs.
PMMM 5, 39; ed. WF, no. 86
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WOc Add. 68, frag. xxxii
16. . . . perduc ad polor nostra gaudia. [Anderson reads as " . . . ardire ad valoris."]; fol.
7 (Frag. xxxii, fol. 1) [RISM [107]]; end of frag. conductus a3; facs. PMMM 6, 47;
ed. WF, no. 107, Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O48 (Szöverffy, 269)
17. Sanctus
fol. 7 (Frag. xxxii, fol. 1) [RISM [108]]; frag. chant setting a3; facs. PMMM 6, 47;
ed. WF, no. 108, PMFC XIV, no. 66
18. Grata iuvencula decora nimium
fol. 7v (Frag. xxxii, fol. 1v) [RISM [109]]; frag. cantilena a3; Anderson cat., no. O51
(Szöverffy, 150); facs. WMH, 115, PMMM 6, 46; ed. WF, no. 109, PMFC XIV, no.
App. 13, Anderson edn., vol. 9, no. O54
D-Göttingen, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Theol. 220g
[Link] med.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Two parchment flyleaves once consecutive, since item 2 spans an opening (not
recognizing this, RISM foliation reverses rectos and versos); perhaps cut from a
bifolium that was the center of a gathering; now sliced in half horizontally with loss of
the top part, and and trimmed vertically at the center fold; dimensions are now 101 x
141 mm and 106 x 140 mm, respectively, ruled in red five-line staves of width ca. 125
mm and staff gauge ca. 10 mm. If there were originally twelve staves per page, size
would have been ca. 230 x 160 mm with written space ca. 190 x 125 mm. Notation is
EMN with rhomboid breves.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaves. Once used as flyleaves in Buterus, Acta colloqui
Ratisponnensis (1541); now housed in a modern collection of fragments as fols. 2-3.
RISM nos. 6-8 are unrelated.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 83-84; PMFC XIV
IV. CONTENTS
1. Senator regis curie/T. ij/T. Pes
fol. 1v; [RISM no. 2]; frag. pes motet a3; concordance is Recon I, no. 16 ; ed. WF,
no. 11, PMFC XIV, no. 50
2. [O mores perditos] . . . a primo gene[ris]/ . . . [cal]bacio O grauis confusio . . . quo me
vertam nescio/T. [O]pem [nobis]
fol. 1-2v; [RISM nos. 1, 5]; frag. cf. motet a3 on St. Thomas of Canterbury; triplum
text ed. AH 21, 143; frag. concordance with notation in square breves in Cjec 5,
no. 1
3. . . . no funere
fol. 2; [RISM no. 3]; frag. motet voice?
4. A superna paranimphus patria . . . orbi ferens gaudia/
fol. 2; [RISM no. 4]; frag. monophonic sequence?
D-Wolfenbüttel, Herzog-August-Bibliothek, 499 ca. 1300
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Two parchment leaves once front and rear flyleaves in the host ms; originally ca. 360 x
280 mm, now 280 x 245 mm; originally ten red five-line staves per page, with written
space ca. 317 x 215 mm and staff gauge 22 mm; red and blue initials. Franconian and
Petronian musical notation. Item no. 5 uses superacute G, square-b and F-clefs.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaves; probably from a larger series of troped chant settings of
Alleluias. Host ms once belonged to the Benedictine abbey of St. Thomas Martyr in
Arbroath, Scotland.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 205-206; Wolf, HNK I, 286; Ludwig (1923), 192, note; Besseler (1925), 220,
223; Preece (2000)
IV. CONTENTS
1. . . . solis vel syderis cum beatis ceteris coram salvatore/Quartus/Tenor pro iii/Tenor
pro iiii
fol. 1; frag. troped chant setting a4 of an Alleluia; melody of Tenor pro iiii begins
like respond (soloists's Alleluia only, not including jubilus) of Alleluia V. Iustus
germinabit; the tenor pro iii, a solus tenor in all but name, conflates the tenor pro
iiii with the quartus cantus for a three-voice performance.
2. Alleluya concrepando pange/Alleluya consonet presens
fol. 1v; frag. troped chant setting a3 or a4 of an Alleluia; text tropic to Alleluia V.
Ave Maria gracia plena
3. Quartus/Tenor pro iiii
fol. 2; frag. troped chant setting a4 of an Alleluia; at the verse, tenor melody is
identical to setting of first three words only of verse of Alleluia V. Assumpta est
Maria
4. [Et in terra . . . Qui s]edes ad dexteram . . . /[T.]
fol. 2; two frag. voices of 15th-century void-notation Gloria
5. Alleluya confessoris almi presencia
fol. 2v; frag. triplum of troped chant setting a3 or a4 of an Alleluia for a
Confessor; verse perhaps began "Veni" or "Veni nunc"
D-Wolfenbüttel, Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Guelf. 628 Helmst. ca. 1240
This entry is very much a “stub”.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Manuscript ca. 150 x 210 mm with written space mostly around 80/90 x 155/160 mm
and staff gauge for five-line staff of ca. 9 mm. Consists of 26 gatherings, mostly intact
but a few with a couple of missing leaves; gatherings nos. 1-23 may be the work of a
single scribe, who copied an original corpus of works and some contemporaneous
additions. The last three gatherings, nos. 24-26, represent an independent manuscript of
similar dimensions and probably a similar history.
II. HISTORY
Made for and probably copied at the Augustinian priory of St. Andrews, Scotland. Its
contents most likely were collected and copied in the 1230s, with ca. 1240 as as the most
widely accepted approximate date of completion.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, pp. 97-171; Baxter 1931; Roesner 1974; Roesner, 1976; Brown et al, 1980;
Falk, 1981; Roesner, 1981; Gillingham 1982; Everist 1990; Staehelin, 1995; Everist 1998;
NGD 2001 “Sources” entry; Cosart (2007); Roesner (2009)
IV. CONTENTS
Following Handschin, the contents are usually described as comprising 11 fascicles,
each consisting of one or more gatherings. Fascicle 9, of ten gatherings, is by far the
largest, and may arguably be understood as comprised of three fascicles (gatherings 13-
15, 16-18, 19-22). Fascicle 11, gatherings 24-26, was once an independent manuscript.
Fascicles 1-5 form a coherently organized group, with organa for mass and office
arranged in descending order by number of voices, from four to three to two. Fascicles
8-10 form a second large, organized group, with conductus arranged in descending
order by number of voices from three to two to one.
RISM enumerates 3228 items in W1. Most of the repertoire is an international
Anglo/French corpus of organa and conductus, here recorded in the local “house style”
of St. Andrews and using a dialect of Notre Dame-era notation with some distinctive
insular characteristics. Listed below are simply the troped Sanctus and Agnus of W1,
fascicles 3, 8, 9, 10 and the contents of the entire eleventh fascicle.

W1, troped Sanctus, fascs. 3, 8

Sanctorum exultacio Sar 5= Than 32 tr.199 D-W 677, 26 (fasc. 3) Lütolf, 33

Perpetuo numine Sar 3= Than 49 tr.151 D-W 677, 189 (fasc. 8) Lütolf, 34
Quem pium benedicit Sar 1= Than 203 tr.171 D-W 677, 190 (fasc. 8) Lütolf, 35
Laudes deo ore pio Sar 8= Than 223 tr.102 D-W 677, 191 (fasc. 8) Lütolf, 36
W1, troped Agnus, fascs. 8, 9

Lux lucis 267 tr.55 D-W 677, 192 (fasc. 8, a3) Lütolf, 60
Mortis dira 114 tr.66 D-W 677, 193 (fasc. 8, a3) Lütolf, 61
Fons indeficiens 136 tr.38 D-W 677, 231 (fasc. 9, a2) Lütolf, 63
Deus deorum 209 tr.32 D-W 677, 281 (fasc. 9, a2) Lütolf, 64

W1, fasc. 10 (six monophonic Sanctus)

Sanctus Christe yerarchia Sar 3= Than tr.

Sanctus Rex qui cuncta regis Sar 3= Than tr. 185
Sanctus Omnia qui libras Sar 3= Than tr. 123
Sanctus cunctorum dominans Sar 3= Than tr. 47
Sanctus Condita de nichilo Sar 3= Than tr. 34
Sanctus Sanctus ab eterno Sar 3= Than tr. 2

W1, fasc. 10 (six monophonic Agnus)

Agnus Archetipi mundi Sar 2= tr. 9

Agnus Pectoris alta Sar 2= tr. 83
Agnus Qui de virgineo Sar 2= tr. 94
Agnus Lux lucis Sar 2= tr. 55
Agnus Humano generi Sar 2= tr. 47
Agnus Vulnere quorum Sar 2= tr. 138

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The contents of Fascicle 11:

[seven Marian Latin-texted Kyries]

1. Rex virginum amator

2. Creator puritatis
3. Lux et gloria
4. Kyrie virginei lux
5. O Marie creator pie
6. Kyrie virginitatis amator
7. Conditor Marie omnium regine

[Gloria with Marian trope insertions]

8. Gloria in excelsis deo. Per precem piissimam

[nine Marian Alleluias]

9. All. Virga dei mater pia

10. All. Virga Iesse floruit
11. All. Salve virgo dei mater
12. All. Virga florem germinavit
13. All. Post partum
14. All. Per te dei genitrix
15. All. Ave Maria gratia plena
16. All. Virgo intermerata
17. All. Angelus domini nuntiavit

[Marian Tract]

18. Gaude Maria virgo

[twice seven Marian sequences]

19. Mittit ad virginem

20. Paranimphus salutat virginem
21. Ave Maria gratia plena . . . virgo serena
22. Hodierne lux diei
23. Ave mundi spes Maria
24. Virgini Marie laudes
25. Laudes Christo decantemus
26. Missus Gabriel de celis
27. Virgo mitis vere vitis
28. Reginarum dominam laudemus
29. Ave celi imperatrix
30. Hac clara die
31. Virgo parens gaudeat
32. Vebum bonum et suave

[eight Marian Offertory substitutes]

33. Ave Maria gratia plena viris invia

34. Recordare virgo mater
35. O vere beata sublimis sponsa domina
36. Felix namque es
37. Ave regina celorum
38. Ave Maria gratia plena dominus tecum
39. Preter rerum seriem
40. Inviolata integra et casta

[Marian Sanctus tropes]

41. Sanctus. Mater mitis vere vitis

42. Maria mater egregia
43. Sanctus. De virgine nato
44. Sanctus. Voce vita

[Maria Agnus tropes]

45 Agnus dei. Factus homo
46. Mortis dira ferens
47. Qui de carne (text only)
Eire-Dublin, Trinity College, 519 (E. 1. 29) s. xiv in.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Two parchment folios, the front and rear flyleaves in the present host ms; foliated 1 and
222, with fol. 222v formerly pasted down; ca. 345 x 210 mm but now ca. 300 x 185-190
mm; written space 237 x 155 mm; ruled in a single column of nine freely ruled red five-
line staves with gauge 18-19 mm and ruled indentations of 10 mm for major initials. Fol.
222v headed "In die," fol. 1 headed "Martino," and an "s" at the foot of these pages, all in
red. Major initials elaborately flourished in red and blue; penwork capitals at internal
textual subdivisions splashed with red. Text hand is gothica textualis rotunda; musical
notation is essentially Franconian, with long-breve declamation and very infrequent,
melismatic groups of semibreves; arabic numerals are used to indicate the number of
single longs (two, three, four, eight) in the duplex longa.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaves. Flyleaves for a miscellany of theological and historical works
copied in the mid to later 15th century. A pressmark indicates that the volume was once
owned by James Usher (Ussher), Archbishop of Dublin (1581-1656); given by Charles II
to Trinity College in 1661. The contents form part of a calendrical series of troped chant
settings a3 of Alleluias; between the existing leaves was probably a single folio with the
completions of nos. 2 and 3 (for Sept. 29 and Nov. 1) and one similar setting before nos.
3 and 4 (Nov. 11 and Nov. 30).
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wathey, RISM Suppl., 26-28
IV. CONTENTS
1. Psallam ergo cantica . . . Quem qui munere/ T. [Alleluya V. In conspectu]
fol. 222r; facs Wathey, pl. 7; frags. of two voices of a troped chant setting a3 for
St. Michael (Sept. 29)
2. Sancti per subopera/Alme cohors celica . . . Iuste diera/ T. [Alleluya V. Iudicabunt]
fol. 222r-v; facs. Wathey, pl. 7; frags. of three voices of a troped chant setting a3
for All Saints (Nov. 1)
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3. Vas sacratum consignatum . . Cecus angelorum/Almi patris in laude . . . Hic presul
insignis/ T. [Alleluya V. Hic Martinus]
fol. 1r-v; facs. Wathey, pl. 6; frag. of a troped chant setting a3 for St. Martin (Nov.
11)
4. Alme morum monitum . . . Dilectus dilexit/ T. [Alleluya V. Dilexit Andream]
fol. 1v; facs. Wathey, pl. 6); frags. of two voices of a troped chant setting a3 for St.
Andrew (Nov. 30)
France-Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, français 25408 s. xiii med.
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Pages perhaps originally ca. 180 x 135 mm, now trimmed at top and outer margin to 165
x 131 mm; written space variable from ca. 120 x 104 mm to ca. 120 x 120 mm or 144 x 108
mm; music on up to 10 red, freely drawn four-line staves per page of gauge 7-9 mm,
averaging ca. 8 mm. Monophony and polyphony both use longs and rhomboid breves.
II. HISTORY
Ms is a miscellany of 121 fols. written in England. One of the items, Richard of
Fournival's Bestiary, is dated 3 September 1267 on fol. 106v. Music copied into the first
nine pages of the final item, a discrete ternium, fols. 116-121; there are unrelated non-
musical texts on fol. 117 and and on the final three pages that are not reproduced here.
The mixture of Latin monodies and varied polyphonic genres is similar to Lbl Harley
978 and Lbl Arundel 248. The two well-known monodies (nos. 1 and 5) are also found
near to each other in Cambridge, University Library, Additional 710.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 393-95; RISM B/IV/2, 380; Tischler (1967); PMFC XIV; Stevens (1986),
521; Anderson cat.; Anderson edn.; Gillingham edn.
IV. CONTENTS
1. Omnis caro peccaverat (The Song of the Flood)
fols. 116-117; Latin monody; Anderson cat., no. L160; partial ed. Stevens (1986),
144-54
2. Trahis suspirium/Mordax detractio/T. [Epiphaniam domino]
fol. 117v-118; c.f. motet a3; ed. Tischler (1967), 276-78, PMFC XIV, no. 76
3. Stillat in stellam radium
fol. 118-119; sequence a2 with voice exchange; Anderson cat., no. P31 (Szöverffy,
295); ed. PMFC XIV, no. 7, Gillingham edn., no. 15, Anderson edn., vol. 10, no.
P31
4. Alleluya. V. Virga ferax Aaron
fol. 119v-120; chant setting a3; ed. PMFC XIV, no. 63
5. Scribere proposui de contemptu mundano
fol. 120; Latin monody; Anderson cat., no. L161 (Szöverffy, 281-82), Stevens
(1986), 182
France-Tours, Bibliothèque Municipale, 925 s xiii/xiv
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Four parchment leaves used as front and rear pastedowns and flyleaves; foliated I, II,
165, 166; when first discovered, fols. Ir and 165v were pasted down, but they have since
been lifted; fols. Iv and 165r, and fols. 166v and IIr, were originally facing pages;
possibly fol. 166 follows 165 (needs examination of fol. 165v under uv); leaves now (and
perhaps originally) 250 x 185 mm; written space 200 x 140 mm; pages ruled in a single
column of twelve red five-line staves of gauge 11 mm, with a thirteenth staff, of four
lines, added at the bottom of Iv. Initials in red and blue. Musical notation is Franconian.
II. HISTORY
Bound into an early 15th-century paper manuscript of 164 fols. containing the works of
Terence.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Cat. gén., 665-66; Anderson (1982); Lefferts (1986), 304-7; PMFC XVII
IV. CONTENTS
1. . . . celestium gemma iubar . . . /T.
fol. I; frag. motet a3
2. [Textless.]
fol. I; frag. four-voice hocket
3. Exulta syon filia iam exultaris/Exulta syon filia suffulta/Exulta syon filia iam noli/T.
En ai ie bien trouve
fol. Iv; c.f. motet a4; ed. PMFC XVII, Suppl. no. 1
4. L-. . . /L-. . . /[T.]
fol. 165; erased c.f. motet a3
5. S-. . . /Syderea celi cacumina/T. Se iavoie a plaingant/Tenor cont. Si javoie. etc.
fol. Iv-165; frag. c.f. motet a4
6. fol. 165v palimpsest with erased music; possibly voices from two motets
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7. [Ade finit perpete] . . . regnum poli patrie/Ade finit misere/T. A definement
fol. 166; frag. c.f. motet a3; concordance is Oxford, New College, 362, fol. 87v
(EECM 26, pl. 87); ed. PMFC XV, no. 4
8. Vide miser et iudica/Vide miser et cogita/T. Wynter
fol. 166; c.f. motet a3; ed. PMFC XVII, Suppl. no. 5
9. O crux ave spes unica spirans/O crux ave spes unica spiritum/T. Or sus alouete
fol. 166v-II; c.f. motet a3
10. Valde mane diluculo devota/Valde mane diluculo maria/T. Va dorenlot
fol. II; c.f. motet a3; ed. PMFC XVII, Suppl. no. 2
11. T. In virtu. Saa (?saient, ?saiur)
fol. II; tenor of otherwise lost motet
12. Corona virginum/Columba prudencie/T. Cui proclamant
fol. IIv; c.f. motet a3; ed. PMFC XVII, Suppl. no. 3
13. Mons olivarum ecce rumpitur/Mors amari moritur
fol. IIv; frag. c.f. motet a3
I-Bologna photos
not reproduced here (see Vecchi, Fiori, Pieragostini)
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
II. HISTORY
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Vecchi, Fiori, Summers, Pieragostini
IV. CONTENTS
1. -----/T. In seculum/Ihesu fili virginis
two complete voices (tenor and duplum) of what was probably a three-voice
duet motet with medius cantus; triplum is lost; duplum is a cantus prius factus
with concordances, so two melodies have been joined here
2. Maiori vi leticie/T.----/Maiorem intelligere
two complete voices of what was probably a three-voice duet motet with medius
cantus; tenor is lost
3. Candor vestis in hiis festis/Candet sine spina rosa/T.
complete three-voice motet on repeated and freely varied tenor
4. Celum mercatur hodie/T. Cesus in gregis medio
two complete voices (triplum and tenor) of what was probably a three-voice
motet; duplum is lost.
United States-Chicago, University of Chicago Library, 654 Suppl. c.1300
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Four parchment folios, cut in half horizontally with loss of about one music staff and
folded once vertically to form eight front and eight rear flyleaves (fols., 1-8 and 157-64)
in the binding of ms 654; now removed, preserved in a small oblong binder, and
renumbered fols. 1-4; fols. 1-2 and 3-4 are consecutive; these fragments are now ca. 175-
200 x 130-135 mm, perhaps originally 300 x 200 mm, with written space 235 x 145-150
mm (for eleven staves); arr. in single columns of ten or eleven free-ruled, red five-line
staves per page (a twelfth staff was added to 1r and 2r) with staff gauge 13.5-17 mm and
one-staff indentations of 5-7 mm for initials. Red tenor initial for Barbara simplex; all
others in blue. Alternating red and blue used for other ornamental decorations. Inked
faces on capital "O"s at beginning of second section of bipartite motets nos. 1, 8 appear
not to be part of original decoration. Variety of notation and mensuration types: binary
EMN with rhomboid breve and tailed, rhomboid semibreve (nos. 2, 4, 7, 8); binary ars
antiqua mensural with square breve (nos. 1 [part 1], 5, 6, 9); ternary ars antiqua
mensural with square breve (no. 1 [part 2], second mode; no. 3, first mode).
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaves. Written for Meaux Abbey? Cut down and bound as flyleaves
into a parchment ms of the 13th and 14th centuries, written in England, that once
belonged to Meaux Abbey. This book, containing the Liber de IX scientiis et sermones,
still bears its original Meaux Abbey pressmark, Y xviiiij. The leaves were already
associated with MS 654 between 1439-1452; the MS now has a seventeenth-century
English binding of brown calf. Purchased by alumni for the University of Chicago from
W. M. Voynich in 1923. For a discussion of provenance and dating, inscriptions and
graffiti, etc., of the host ms, see Greene (1954).
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/1, 813-16; PMMM 6; Greene (1954); Sanders (2001b)
IV. CONTENTS
1. Creatoris gratia . . . O Maria vas mundicie/T. [Agmina]
fol. 1; [RISM nos. 1 and 2]; frag. bipartite cf. motet a3; facs. PMMM 6, 48; ed.
PMMM 6, 56-58
2. Dona celi factor domine/T.
fol. 1; [RISM no. 3]; frag. cf. motet a3; facs. PMMM 6, 48; text concordance to a
different motet in Lwa 33327, no. 5 (EECM 26, pl. 77; ed. PMFC XIV, no. 86); ed.
PMMM 6, 58-59
3. In excelsis gloria
fol. 1v-2; [RISM no. 4]; conductus-rondellus a3; facs. PMMM 6, 49-50;
concordance to GB-WOc Add. 68, frag. xx, no. 1 ; ed. WF, no. 93, PMFC XIV, no.
36
4. Spiritus et alme/Gaude virgo salutata/Tenor
fol. 2; [RISM no. 5]; troped chant setting a3, with c.f. in triplum and free "Tenor";
facs. PMMM 6, 50; varied concordance to GB-Lwa 3, recto, no. 1 ; ed. PMMM 6,
59-61, PMFC XIV, no. 73
5. Stella maris nuncuparis
fol. 2v; [RISM no. 6]; rondellus a3; facs. PMMM 6, 51; ed. PMMM 6, 62-64, PMFC
XIV, no. 37
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6. Patris superni/Patris superni/T. Pia pacis inclita
fol. 3; [RISM no. 7]; conductus motet a3 with voice exchange; facs. PMMM 6, 52;
ed. PMMM 6, 64-67, PMFC XIV, no. 38
7. Orbis pium/[Orbis pium] . . . -nia ovem/T. O bipertitum peccatum
fol. 3v-4; [RISM no. 8]; conductus motet a3 with rondellus; facs. PMMM 6, 53-54;
ed. PMMM 6, 67-70, PMFC XIV, no. 39
8. Barbara simplex animo/Barbara simplex animo/Tenor
fol. 4; [RISM no. 9]; conductus motet a3; facs. PMMM 6, 54; ed. PMMM 6, 70-71,
PMFC XIV, no. 80
9. Christi cara mater ave
fol. 4v; [RISM no. 10]; frag. rondellus a3; facs. PMMM 6, 55; ed. PMMM 6, 72-75,
PMFC XIV, no. 40
United States-Princeton, University Library, Garrett 119 [Link], [Link]
I. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Four sets of parchment fragments, including three (A, B, C) that were once musical
flyleaves now removed, unfolded and kept separately in an envelope, and some pages
of erased music still in the parent manuscript (D). The first three are of the later 13th
century and the fourth is of the mid 14th. These may all have come from different
sources.
Fragment A
A page from what seems to have been a rotulus notated on both sides with music,
mainly in double columns; now in two fragments, the upper portion (once fol. 3 and 4)
measuring 257 x 300 mm and the lower portion (once fol. 2 and 5) measuring 245 x 190
mm, with fol. 2 just a stub; about one whole staff is missing between the upper and
lower portions, with some of its notes and text still visible. Recto has all or part of 18
visible red five-line staves, and four more would be required at the top to complete item
no. 1, for a total of 22 staves; verso has all or part of 19 visible red five-line staves, with
two or more cut off at the bottom that would have been necessary to complete upper
voices and a tenor for item 5. Width of written space is ca. 295 mm and of each single
column is ca. 140 mm, with staff gauge 17-18 mm. Overall written area for 22 staves was
thus ca. 620 x 295 mm. Given that the recto is incomplete at the top and the verso is
incomplete at the bottom, this page was originally at least ca. 750 x 330 mm overall.
There are one- and two-staff indentations of 16 mm for initials. Musical notation is
EMN on recto and Franconian (two different hands) on verso.
Fragment B
Single parchment leaf, once folded vertically on the left to form fol. 1 and 6, trimmed on
all four sides with loss of music at the top, now 257 x 190 mm ; eleven red five-line
staves of gauge ca. 13.5 mm visible on the recto. RISM suggests the original had 13
staves, but if the damaged voice at the top was complete on this page, then there must
have been at least 17 staves, implying overall dimensions ca. 400 x 210 mm and a
written space of ca. 360 x 172 mm. Given these dimensions, and that the verso has no
music on it (it contains 14th-century monastic granger's accounts from Revesby Abbey),
this leaf may have come, like fragment A, from a rotulus. Red ink is used for the English
text of the tenor of item 1. Layout, music and text hands, and notation in EMN similar
to Fragment C.
Fragment C
Single narrow vertical parchment strip now 257 x 54 mm; once folded vertically down
the middle to form folios Y and Z; recto and verso have visible left and right margins;
ten red five-line staves visible on both sides (gauge ca. 14.5 mm on the recto and ca. 15.5
mm on the verso) but there is lost of music at the top and possible also at the bottom;
the page was probably originally ruled for at least twelve staves and perhaps 15 or
more, if top voice on recto covered seven staves like the second voice (height of written
spaces thus ca. 315-395 mm or more). Though dimensions are slightly different, the
layout, music and text hands, and notation in EMN are similar to Fragment B.
Fragment D
One parchment bifolium, fols. 35-36, not the center of a gathering; trimmed on the top
and outer edges; music now erased, overwritten, and virtually illegible; the present
center fold is not the original gutter, so there is loss of some music on fol 35-35v but the
original second recto begins near the right side of fol. 35v and extends into fol. 36, so its
written space is basically intact horizontally; fol. 35-35v ruled in four systems of three
five-line staves with double-texting under each; the staves are rastrum ruled with a
gauge of 13 mm; the full height of each system is 48-50 mm, with a finger gap between
systems; the page lying across fol. 35v-36 was rastrum ruled in 12 five-line staves (now
11, with the loss of the top staff) with gauge 13 mm and width 153-55 mm; the written
space was originally about 235 x 155 mm, indented 9 mm from frame-rule, which are
likely the same original dimensions as on fols. 35-35v; top two visible staves (originally
top three) indented for a major initial; the word "tenor" is written between the bottom
two staves. Franconian long-breve notation for item 1 and 3; Ars nova notation with
breves, semibreves, and minims for item 2.
II. HISTORY
No info. on music leaves. Written for Revesby Abbey? The flyleaves were once bound
into a 14th-century English copy in parchment of Walter of Lille's Alexandreis. This
manuscript is partly palimpsest over erased accounts from Revesby Abbey and
polyphonic music (D). Fragment B also has accounts from Revesby on the verso. The
present binding dates from the 16th century.
III. BIBLIOGRAPHY
RISM B/IV/2, 816-17; Levy (1951), MES; PMFC XIV, PMFC XVI, PMFC XVII, Private
comunication from Dr. Andrew Wathey concerning fragment D
IV. CONTENTS
Fragment A
1. [Regis aula]/[Regis aula]/Regis aula regentis omnia
recto (fol. 3, 4v); frag. conductus-rondellus a3 in parts; concordance to Lbl 24198,
fol. 132v (EECM 26, pl. 2); facs. iLevy (1951) after 228; ed. PMFC XVI, no. 100
2. [T]ota pulchra es amica mea/[A]nima mea liquefacta est/T.
recto (fol. 3, 4v); voice-exchange motet a3; facs. Levy (1951) after 228; ed. Levy,
232-33, PMFC XIV, no. 57
3. [Alleluia celica rite]/[A]lleluia celica rite/T.
recto (fol. 3, 4v, 2v, 5 ); voice-exchange motet a3; facs. Levy (1951) before 229; ed.
PMFC XIV, no. 56
4. [T]homas gemma cantuarie/[T]homas cesus in Doviria/[Primus Tenor]/Secundus
Tenor]
verso (fol. 4, 3v, 2, 5v); facs. in EECM 26, pl. 210-211); voice-exchange pes motet
a4; concordance to Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, 512/543, fol. 254v-
 255, no. 6 (facs. in EECM 26, pl. 128-129) and Recon II, no. 29; ed. Levy, 234-39,
WF, no. 67, PMFC XIV, no. 61
5. [S]i lingua lota fuerit/[M]ors amar . . .
verso (fol. 5v, 2); frag. triplum and duplum of a motet a3
Fragment B
1. [Veni mater gracie] . . . gaudii post hoc peperisti. Gaude digna tam benigna/T. Dou
way Robin the child wile wepe Dou way Robin
recto (fol. 1, 6v); frag. pes motet a2; concordance in Lbl Cotton XXIX, no. 1; RISM
reads incipit as "Salve mater"; ed. PMFC XVII, no. 52 (with incipit "Veni mater
gracie"), MES, no. 18 (with incipit "Sancta mater graciae")
2. ...scit ortu solis naturalis/...libate floruit integritate/T.
recto (fol. 1, 6v); motet a3, damaged and partially erased
The verso of fragment B was never notated with music.
Fragment C
1. three voice parts of motets
recto
2. three voice parts of motets
verso
Fragment D
1. illegible
fol. 35; double-texted cantilena
2. illegible
fol. 35v; double-texted cantilena
3. illegible
fol. 36; one upper voice and tenor of a motet
Fol. 36v was never notated with music.