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GB-Lna C 115/78

The National Archives, London, England

non-music MS with interpolated music: 15th century: c.1425-50

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Archive	The National Archives, London, England (GB-Lna)
Shelfmark	C 115/78
Surface	Parchment
Numbering System	Foliation
Format	portrait
Measurements	300 x 220 mm
Other Identifiers	CCM: LonPR 6684 olim (Former shelfmark): C 115/K.2/6684 and C 115/A.7
Notations	black void mensural coloration in black void coloration in red
Relationships	Llanthony Secunda priory (copied at) Cheryton, William (owner) Porter family (owner) Scudamore family of Holme Lacy (owner) Fitzroy-Scudamore family of Holme Lacy (owner) Fitzroy-Scudamore Howard, Frances (–1820) (owner)
Provenance	England
Contents	Contains 2 compositions, 2 are anonymous.

General Description

Music found on f. 220 (a back endpaper), apparently the only surviving remnant of a choirbook. Copied by a single scribe, except for musical scribbles at bottom of f. 220 added by later hand. Probably copied at Augustinian priory in Lanthony Secunda, Gloucestershire (BowersNS). Folio with music later removed from original context and used as pastedown in register of William Cheryton, Prior of Lanthony 1377-1401. Owned by Porter family, of Lanthony; Scudamore and Fitzroy-Scudamore families, of Holme Lacy; and Frances Fitzroy-Scudamore Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (d. 1820). Passed to Public Record Office, London, in mid 19th century.

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Binding

Original covers of white leather over wooden boards

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Notation

black void mensural notation with red black void coloration

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Ruling

Staff height 15.5

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Foliation

Modern pencil foliation, 1-220

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Foliation

220 r+v

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Decoration

Decorative Gothic initials in red and brown.

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Surface

Parchment

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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Priory register, with polyphony: 2 Glorias (both incomplete).

Anonymous

220 parchment folios, 297 x 220; f. 220 [= back endpaper] trimmed from larger original size. Modern pencil foliation, 1-220. Original covers of white leather over wooden boards. Music found on back endpaper, apparently the only surviving remnant of a choirbook. White mensural notation with red void coloration. Copied by a single scribe, except for musical scribbles at bottom of f. 220 added by later hand. Staff height 15.5. Decorative Gothic initials in red and brown.

Ca. 1425-50 (BowersNS). Probably copied at Augustinian priory in Lanthony Secunda, Gloucestershire (BowersNS). Folio with music later removed from original context and used as pastedown in register of William Cheryton, Prior of Lanthony 1377-1401. Owned by Porter family, of Lanthony; Scudamore and Fitzroy-Scudamore families, of Holme Lacy; and Frances Fitzroy-Scudamore Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (d. 1820). Passed to Public Record Office, London, in mid 19th century.

Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550

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Folio / Pages	Composition / Item title	Number of voices	Source attribution	Composers (? Uncertain)
220v	Et in terra pax [Gloria]	-	-	Anonymous
Appears on: 220v Genres: Gloria (et in terra pax), Mass Ordinary Voice: [no designation] Languages: Latin Voice Text: Gloria General Note G49
220	Et in terra pax [Gloria]	-	-	Anonymous
Appears on: 220 Genres: Gloria (et in terra pax), Mass Ordinary Voice: [no designation] Languages: Latin Voice Text: Gloria General Note G50

Composer	Compositions
Anonymous	Et in terra pax [Gloria] – 220v Et in terra pax [Gloria] – 220

Composition	Composers (? Uncertain)	Folios / Pages
Et in terra pax [Gloria]	Anonymous	220v
Et in terra pax [Gloria]	Anonymous	220

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‡ denotes primary source study

Wright, Peter (editor). 2013. Fifteenth-Century Liturgical Music, VIII: Settings of the Gloria and Credo. Early English Church Music, vol. 55. London: Stainer and Bell for the British Academy. Notes: editions of both works.

Curtis, Gareth R K, and Andrew B Wathey. 1994. Fifteenth-Century English Liturgical Music: A List of the Surviving Repertory. Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 27: 1-69.

Bowers, Roger, and Andrew B Wathey. 1983. New Sources of English Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Polyphony. Early Music History, 3: 123-73. Pages: 153-6.

Hamm, Charles E, and Herbert Kellman (editors). 1979-1988. Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550. Renaissance Manuscript Studies, vol. 1. 5 vols. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag.

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NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Binding Note; Notation Note; Ruling Note; Foliation Note; Foliation Note; Decoration Note; Surface Note

Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550

Monday, 23 January, 2017

NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description