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Harley MS 281
- Record Id:
- 040-002046109
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002046109
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000596.0x00024a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 281
- Title:
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Miscellany of musical treatises compiled by Guy of Saint-Denis
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1r–2v: Added notes on the tones (16th-century).
ff. 3r: Added diagram of Guidonian hand.
f. 4r–v: Added table of contents.
ff. 5r–16v: Guido of Arezzo, Micrologus.
ff. 16v–24v: Guido of Arezzo, Trocaicus.
ff. 25r–34r: Pseudo-Odo (here attributed to Guido of Arezzo), Dialogus de musica.
ff. 34r–38v: Tonale Beati Bernardi.
ff. 39r–52r: Johannes de Grocheio, Ars musice.
ff. 52v–58r: Petrus de Cruce, Tractatus de tonis.
ff. 58v–96r: Guy of Saint-Denis, Tractatus de tonis.
Decoration:
Musical notation, on four-line red staves. Large puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing including 'J-borders' in the same colours (ff. 5r, 16v, 24v, 34, 39, 52v, 58v, 76v). Numerous smaller initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour. Coloured initials and paragraph marks in red or blue. Some capitals marked in red ink. Various tables and diagrams in red ink. Catchwords framed in brown ink. - Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002046109", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 281: Miscellany of musical treatises compiled by Guy of Saint-Denis" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002046109 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 281 : Miscellany of musical treatises compiled by Guy of Saint-Denis - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[0280]/040-002046109
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1349
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 225 × 150 mm (written area 150 × 100 mm).
Foliation: ff. 96 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum, with marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France, compiled by Guy of Saint-Denis (see Mews and others, ‘Guy of Saint-Denis’, 2014).
Provenance:
Added texts relating to music (ff. 1r–2r) and musical hand (f. 3r), ?15th century.
Added text related to solar eclipse (f. 2v).
Inscribed 'Gosselin', ?16th century (f. 4r).
Added list of contents, and texts, 15th-16th century (f. 4r–v).
Added annotations throughout in 14th-16th century hands.
Added explicit, 16th century (f. 96v).
Christopher Wren (b. 1675, d. 1747), son of Sir Christopher Wren, the architect: given by him to the Harley library before 1709 (see Wright 1972).
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.
Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Information About Copies:
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Select digital coverage available for this manuscript: see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), I (1808), no. 281.
Guidonis Aretini Micrologus, ed. by Jos. Smits van Waesberghe, Corpus Scriptorum de Musica, 4 (s.l.: American Institute of Musicology, 1955), pp. 28–29
Ernst Rohloff, Die Quellenhandschriften zum Muziktraktat des Johannes de Grocheio (Leipzig: Deutscher Verlag für Musik, 1972), pp. 42-52, 54-106 [= reproduction of ff. 39-52].
C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 363.
Petrus de Cruce Ambianensi, Tractatus de tonis, ed. by Denis Harbinson ([Rome]: American Institute of Musicology, 1976) [= transcription of ff. 52v-57v).
Christian Meyer, Manuscripts from the Carolingian Era up to c. 1500 in Great Britain and in the United States of America. Part 1: Great Britain (Munich, 1992), pp. 74–78.
Sieglinde van de Klundert, Guido von Saint-Denis. Tractatus de tonis (Erlangen, 1998), pp. 139-74 [= ff. 80-96v].
Robert Mullally, ‘Johannes de Grocheo’s “Musica Vulgaris”’, Music and Letters, 79 (1998), 1-26.
Constant J. Mews and others, 'Guy of Saint-Denis and the Compilation of Texts about Music in London, British Library, Harl. MS. 218', The Electronic British Library Journal, 2008, art. 6, https://bl.uk/eblj/2008articles/article6.html.
Constant J. Mews, John N. Crossley, and Carol Williams, ‘Guy of Saint-Denis on the tones: thinking about chant for Saint-Denis c.1300’, Plainsong and Medieval Music, 23 (2014), 153–178, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0961137114000023.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Guido of Arezzo, music theorist and teacher, c 991-after 1033,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000116211353,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/36956566
Guy de Saint-Denis, monk and music theorist, fl Late 13th century-Early 14th century