Add MS 30091

Description of music from Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music:

ff. 1-7 passim. Motets, mostly in praise of the Virgin, written in France in long lines with alternate blue and red initials. Only 2 parts are given, the 2nd (or ground bass) being generally sung to different words. The notes are written on a 4-line stave. The words of nos. 3 and 6 appear to be by Philippe de Greve (see Egerton MS 274, ff. 3, 54b, 56b). Each motet is accompanied by musical notes and has what appears to be a pes or burden, in which the same melody is generally repeated twice, and in one instance five times, to words which have no connection with the text, but are probably those of well-known songs. 1. ‘O Maria, decus angelorum.’ f. 1; 2. ‘Candida virginitas ut lilium.’ f. 1; 3. ‘Venditores labiorum fleant aduocati.’ By H. de Pisis (?). f. 2; 4. ‘Tedet intueri me, quod uita cleri multo peior uult haberi.’ f. 3b; 5. ‘O quam sancta, quam benigna, fulget mater saluatoris.’ f. 3b; 6. ‘In omni fratre tuo non habeas fidutiam.’ By H. de Pisis (?). f. 4b; 7. ‘Virgo, decus castitatis.’ f. 5b; 8. ‘O felix puerpera, flos virginum.’ f. 6; 9. ‘Hac in die dulce melos assumpte matris.’ f. 6; 10. ‘Balaam prophetanti.’ f. 6b; 11. ‘Cruci Domini sit cunctis horis laus parata.’ f. 7; 12. ‘Eva, quid deciperis.’ f. 7b.

ff. 1b, 3. Two French songs or motets for 2 voices, apparently written in France, and introduced among some Latin sequences, which are in the same hand. The 2nd part (bass) is sung to Latin words. 1. 'En mai, quant rose est'; with a pes, or burden, at the end, 'Flos filius ejus,' during which the same melody is repeated twice. f. 1b; 2. 'Ne sai ke je die, tant voi uilonnie'; with a burden beginning 'Johanne,' of a somewhat similar nature to that described above, f. 3.

Subjects:

Liturgies French: Hymns to the Virgin, etc.: 13th century: Latin and French.

Saint Mary, the Blessed Virgin: Hymni in honorem ejus,: 13th century.

Liturgies Dutch: Services, prayers, etc.,: 15th century.: Latin and Dutch.