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Egerton MS 274
- Record Id:
- 032-002749965
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002749965
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022808893.0x000001
- LARK:
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 274
- Title:
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Musical miscellany in French and Latin
- Scope & Content:
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A musical miscellany the main part of which was copied in France in the second half of the thirteenth century, with many 14th- and 15th-century additions near the end, the music written both in square notes and Gothic neumes. Alison Stones connects its historiated initials with artistic activity centred upon Tournai and Cambrai in the orbit of the scribe Johannes Phylomena and his collaborators (op. cit., p. 182).
The book may be divided into the following sections:
1. ff. 3-97v, probably copied in the last quarter of the 13th century, or first quarter of the 14th century, includes two polyphonic conductus (in score), five motets (in parts) a collection of 20 monophonic conductus (many by Philip the Chancellor), and a section of liturgical items (troped Kyries, untroped Glorias and sequences, etc.) all in Latin, with music mainly written in notation of square unmeasured type, but with one or two Ars Nova modifications at the beginning of the ms (f. 3 and f. 3v). Large historiated initial in colours and gold, extending to form a three-sided border with figures (f. 3). 11 large historiated initials in colours and gold, most extending to form a one-sided border (ff. 7v, 20, 20v, 22v, 24v, 27v, 37v, 45, 56v, 58, 78). 25 decorated initials, with animals or foliate features forming a one-sided border (ff. 12, 25v, 26v, 28v, 36, 38v, 39v, 41, 42, 43, 47, 47v, 48, 48, 49, 50, 52v, 59v, 62v, 64, 66, 69v, 75, 83, 87, 92). Marginal figures or animals in colours. Line-fillers in red, blue, and gold (ff. 92, 92v. Large initials in gold or blue with pen-flourishing in gold, and/or red and usually blue forming a one-sided border. Small initials in gold with blue penwork decoration, or in blue with red penwork decoration. Added initials in red and brown.
2. ff. 98-118v: a collection of 18 French chansons, for eleven of which the first strophes have been erased in the fifteenth century except for the opening initials, and replaced by the text and melodies of Latin responsories. Later marginal notations identify the following trouvères: ‘Colard le Boutillier’, ‘Messir Reignaut Castellain de Couchy’, ‘Mesir Raouls [de Soissons]’, ‘Jehans de Neufville’ and ‘Mesir Gasses Brulez’.
3. ff. 119-132v. Miscellaneous texts in Latin and French, without music, including a dialogue between Dives and Lazarus, in Latin, often attributed to John Peckham, and a song by le Roi de Navarre, ‘Ensi com unicorne sui’, erased and replaced by a Latin responsory.
4. ff. 133-159. A supplementary collection of liturgical sequences and responsories, probably copied in the final quarter of the fourteenth century or the fifteeth, with German neumes on ff. 149-159.
There is an original foliation for f. ii and iv-vii only, replaced by the new foliation. Many illuminations are adorned with gold, and even small letters often use this colour. Otherwise, initials are blue or red with contrasting filigree. Purchased in 1832 from the Van der Velde collection in Ghent. Earlier ownership inscriptions of Jacobus Dogimon (‘Iste liber pertinet ad iacobum Dogimona' (f. 1); 'Jacobus Dogimon me possidet . . . [followed by several effaced words]' (f. 1v), both perhaps early 16th century) and Jehan Perthuis de Hacquemere (f. 160; now illegible but transcribed thus in A. Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum, II (1908), p. 464).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002749965
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002749965
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Egerton_MS_274 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- French, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1250
- End Date:
- 1450
- Date Range:
- 13th century - 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Parchment; ff. 160. 150 x 105mm. Modern binding. A medieval foliation 'ii' - 'vii' is found on ff. 2-6, lacking 'iii'.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Bought by the British Museum from Dr. Van de Velde of Ghent, in 1834, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829).
- Publications:
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Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1906-65), I, 423-24; II (1908), 193, 464.A Guide to the Exhibition of Some Part of the Egerton Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1929), no. 117.Manuscripts of Polyphonic Music, 11th - Early 14th Century, ed. by Gilbert Reaney, Répertoire international des sources musicales, BIV 1 (Munich: G. Henle, 1966), pp. 496-498 [with additional bibliography].
Pamela K. Whitcomb, 'The Manuscript London, British Library, Egerton 274: A Study of its Origin, Purpose, and Musical Repertory in Thirteenth-Century France', Ph.D. thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 2000.
Alison Stones, 'Some Northern French Chansonniers and their Cultural Contexts' in Ars musica septentrionalis, ed. by Barbara Haggh and Frédéric Billiet (Paris, 2011), pp. 169-187.
Helen Deeming, 'Words and Music in a Thirteenth-Century Songbook', in Ars musica septentrionalis, ed. by Barbara Haggh and Frédéric Billiet (Paris, 2011), pp. 189-205.
Gautier de Coinci: Miracles, music and manuscripts ed. by Kathy M. Krause and Alison Stones (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006), pp. 9-10, 348 (MS 10-bis), 351, 355, 368, 374, 411, 429.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)