Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.13.27
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Collation
The MS consists of 4 quires as follows:
- 2 modern paper flyleaves
- Quires 1-28 (fols 1-16)
- 4 modern paper flyleaves
- Quire 3 8 (fols 17-24)
- Quire 410 (fols 25-34)
- 4 modern paper flyleaves
Condition
Layout
9 lines of text accompanying 9 5-line staves of music.
The staves are ruled in pen and are very regular in appearance. Frame ruling in pencil is visible, for example, in the top right hand corner of folio 17r.
Hand(s)
Written in late gothic script by a single scribe.
Decoration
Each piece begins with an elaborate large gold initial decorated with red pen work. The initial A to the first piece, on folio 1r has coloured foliate decoration with penwork extending into the upper and left margins of the page.
Binding
Early twentieth-century binding with brown buckram over cardboard sewn on eight supports.
The companion partbook - Cambridge, St John's College, MS 234 - is in its original vellum binding.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
A certain date of accession is not known (contrary to Binski and Zutshi (2011)). However,
the
manuscript is first recorded among the collections of Cambridge University Library
in a catalogue compiled in 1754-56 by
Thomas Goodall (now Cambridge, University Library, MS Oo.7.53-55). It is marked
'R', indicating that the manuscript belonged to
John Moore (1646-1714)
, bishop of Ely, and came to the University Library via the purchase and donation
of Moore's library by
George I (1660-1727)
. However, it has not been possible to identify this manuscript among Moore's collections
as recorded in
Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ (c. 1697) or in the
handwritten supplementary list of Moore's manuscripts (now MS Oo.7.50(2))
compiled by
Thomas Tanner (1674-1735)
after its publication, nor does it contain the donation bookplate engraved by
John Pine (1690-1756)
in 1736 in commemoration of George I's benefaction (though these bookplates are not
wholly reliable guides to a
manuscript's provenance and acquisition).
Additional Information
Record Sources
Availability
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Bibliography
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Bibliotheca musico-liturgica: a descriptive handlist of the musical and Latin-liturgical
MSS. of
the Middle Ages preserved in the libraries of Great Britain and Ireland, Frere, Walter Howard (London, 1894)
History of English music, Davey, Henry (London, J. Curwen, 1921)
The Manuscript Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. Ms. 5. 1. 15 Musica Disciplina, Stevens, Denis (13, 155-67, 1959)
Robert Fayrfax (ca. 1464-1521): Collected Works Corpus mensurabilis musicae, Warren, Edwin B. (Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart, American Institute of Musicology, 1959)
Die Quellen der mehrstimmigen Magnificat- und Te Deum-Vertonungen bis zur Mitte des
16.
Jahrhunderts, Kirsch, Winfried (Tutzing, Schneider, 1966)
Census-catalogue of manuscript sources of polyphonic music, 1400-1550 Renaissance
manuscript studies, , , (Neuhausen-Stuttgart, Hänssler [for the] American Institute of Musicology,
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F G A B-Flat A: Thoughts on a Tudor Motif Early Music, Sandon, Nick (12, 1, 56-63, 1984, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3127153)
Fifteenth-Century English Liturgical Music: A List of the Surviving Repertory Royal
Musical Association Research Chronicle, Curtis, GarethWathey, Andrew (27, 1, 1-69, 1994, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14723808.1994.10540965)
DIAMM Source Description: GB-Cu Dd.13.27, (DIAMM, http://www.diamm.ac.uk/jsp/Descriptions?op=SOURCE&sourceKey=211)
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