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Add MS 49597/1
- Record Id:
- 032-003450621
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003450621
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100076637982.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161518921.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 49597/1
- Title:
- Fragments of English medieval polyphony
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript consists of 15 fragments of English medieval three-part polyphonic settings of the Ordinary of the Mass. The fragments originate from two disjunct leaves containing part of a Credo, three Agnus Dei (the first and third imperfect) and a Sanctus, using square notation on a black five-line stave. A concordance for the second Agnus setting can be found in the Old Hall Manuscript (Add MS 57950), ff. 103v-104r, while concordances for the third Agnus setting can also be found in Add MS 57950, ff. 104v-105r, as well as Add MS 40011 B, f. 12v.
For a further discussion of the fragments, see Bent, 'New and Little-known Fragments of English Mediaeval Polyphony', Journal of the American Musicological Society, xxi, no. 2, 1968, pp. 137-56.
The fragments were formerly bound with Add MS 49597, as article N (ff. 84r-85v), but are now housed separately.
Contents:
f. 84r-v: Credo (Fragments 1-2, 12-13).
f. 85r-v: Three Agnus Dei and a Sanctus (Fragments 3-11, 14-15).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003450621
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003450621
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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15 fragments of two leaves
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_49597/1 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1395
- End Date:
- 1405
- Date Range:
- c 1400
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 15 fragments of varying size, originating from a manuscript that measured approximately 300 x 400 mm.
Foliation: ff. 84-85.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. British Library in-house. Mounted between perspex sheets.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Formerly used in the binding of a printed Sarum Legenda (Paris, 1488), originating from the library of the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick. The volume was purchased by the British Museum in September 1957 for £7000 and is now British Library IB.40010 (see Morgan and Painter, 'The Caxton Legenda at St. Mary's, Warwick', The Library, 5th series, xii, no. 4, Dec. 1957, pp. 225-39). It is uncertain whether the book was originally bound there.
Transferred from the Department of Printed Books, 14 December 1957.
- Publications:
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British Library Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts 1956-1965, 2 vols (London: The British Library, 2000), I, p. 119.
P. Morgan and G. Painter, 'The Caxton Legenda at St. Mary's, Warwick', The Library, 12 (1957), 225-39.
Margaret Bent, 'New and Little-Known Fragments of English Medieval Polyphony', Journal of the American Musicological Society, 21: 2 (1968), 137–156 (pp. 141-42, 159).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)