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Subject Miracle-plays Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 23922

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Add MS 23922
Title:
ANTIPHONARIUM; with accentual notes, and the hymns in many cases written at length. In the service for the Epiphany is introduced a miracle-play on the subject of the visit of the Magi to Herod, f. 8b; and in the services for Palm Sunday and Easter are shorter interpolations of a quasi-dramatic character, ff. 27 b, 41 b. From the prominence given to SS. Arbogastus, Florentius, and Aurelia [see ff. 54 b, 58, 59 b, 76 b] it is probable that the use is that of Strassburg.
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Description from Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music: ff. 8b-11 Miracle-Play of ‘The Three Kings,' or ‘The Adoration of the Magi,’ introduced in an Office for the Octave of the Epiphany, which forms part of a Processional written for Strassburg Cathedral. It begins abruptly —...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 27945

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Transcripts of portions of the "Coventry and Chester Mysteries"
Scope & Content:
Transcripts, with collations, of portions of the "Coventry and Chester Mysteries. Copied by George Steevens, Esq., and given by, him to me, Isaac Reed." Consisting of the following pieces:- 1. List of the Chester plays, showing by which company each was performed. Taken from Harley MS 2125, p....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 35290

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Title:
York Mystery Plays
Scope & Content:
The York Plays, a cycle of religious dramas on biblical subjects staged and performed by craft guilds in the city of York during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This copy contains most of the cycle, and was originally the property of the city council, likely being stored with other civic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century-16th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

4. Add MS 36881

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Add MS 36881
Title:
Collection of Latin Sequences, Tropes, Cantiones, with music, of various authors, many with verse, and in two parts, arranged in series, for purposes which include ceremonial Feasts.
Scope & Content:
ff. 28. Collection of Sequences, Tropes, and other Cantiones with music, many of them having two or three verses set, like hymns, to the same music, which is, unless where the contrary is stated, in two parts, written on 4 lines scratched on the vellum, but not coloured, and preceded by the C, P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

1 volume (28 folios)

5. Harley MS 2124

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Harley MS 2124
Title:
The Chester mysteries, copied by James Miller, 1607
Scope & Content:
The Chester Mysteries, divided into 24 pageants, with directions for their acting by the guilds of that city, copied by James Miller, in July and August, 1607. The 7th pageant, ‘De pastoribus gregem pascentibus,’ assigned to the Painters and Glaziers, contains a few notes of music to the ‘Gloria ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1607
Extent:
1 volume (144 folios)