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Medieval Music Database

Rota versatilis. Orbis dominacio; Rota versatilis

Four-voice anonymous motet

Sources

London: British Library, Additional 24198, fol. 132; British Library, Additional 40011B (Fountains fragments), fol. Bv, Cv fragments (4/2); British Library, Royal 12.C.VI (index?);
Oxford: Bodleian Library, Bodley 652, number 1/ i, iiv, 69, 70v (2/1) (incomplete).

Facsimiles

1. BENT, Margaret. 'Rota versatilis - towards a reconstruction', Source Materials and the Interpretation of Music: A Memorial Volume to Thurston Dart, edited by Ian D. Bent, London: Stainer and Bell, 1981, plate 12.
2. Manuscripts of 14th Century English Polyphony: A Selection of Facsimiles, edited by Frank Ll. Harrison and Roger Wibberley, London: Stainer & Bell, 1982. Early English Church Music XXVI, plate 1 (Lbl24198), 208-209.
3. The Fountains Fragments, facsimile edition by Margaret Bent, Clarabricken: Boethius Press, 1987, plate 12.

Editions

BENT, Margaret. 'Rota versatilis - towards a reconstruction', Source Materials and the Interpretation of Music: A Memorial Volume to Thurston Dart, edited by Ian D. Bent, London: Stainer and Bell, 1981, p. 61.

Literature

1. SANDERS, Ernest. 'The mediaeval motet', Gattungen der Musik in Einzeldarstellungen: Gedenkschrift Leo Schrade, Erste Folge, Bern, Munich: 1971, pp. 497-573.
2. BENT, Margaret. 'Rota versatilis - towards a reconstruction', Source Materials and the Interpretation of Music: A Memorial Volume to Thurston Dart, edited by Ian D. Bent, London: Stainer and Bell, 1981, pp. 65-98.
3. LEFFERTS, Peter M. The Motet in England in the Fourteenth Century, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986, pp. 37, 145, 146, 148-149, 260-261.


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Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003


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