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Thomas gemma Cantuarie; Thomas cesus in Doveria

anonymous motet.

Sources

Cambridge: Gonville and Caius College 512/543, fol. 254v-255 (4/2);
Oxford: Bodleian Library, Bodley 862, fol. 34-35 (#67) (4/2) (Tenor 1 and Tenor 2 only);
Princeton: University Library, Garrett 119, Fragment A, fol. 4,3v,2,5v (4/2) (fragments).

Facsimiles

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, plates 128-129 (Cgc512),210-211.

Text Editions

1. LEVY, K.J. 'New material on the early motet in England', Journal of the American Musicological Society, IV (1951), p. 234.
2. The Worcester Fragments: A Catalogue Raisonné and Transcription, edited by Luther Dittmer, American Institute of Musicology, 1957. Musicological Studies and Documents 2, no. 67.
3. STEVENS, Denis. 'Music in honour of St. Thomas of Canterbury', Musical Quarterly, LVII (1970), no. 6.
4. English Music of the 13th and Early 14th Centuries, edited by Ernest H. Sanders, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1971. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XIV, p. 121.
5. WIBBERLEY, Roger. English Polyphonic Music of the Late 13th and Early 14th Centuries: A Reconstruction, Transcription and Commentary, D.Phil. dissertation, University of Oxford (Keble), p. 289.

Literature

1. LEVY, K.J. 'New material on the early motet in England', Journal of the American Musicological Society, IV (1951), p. 224.
2. STEVENS, Denis. 'Music in honour of St. Thomas of Canterbury', Musical Quarterly, LVII (1970), pp. 342-343.
3. GUAITAMACCHI, Valeria. 'Madrigali trecenteschi del frammento "Greggiati" di Ostiglia', Biblioteca del "Quadrivium", Serie paleografica 9, 9 (1970), p. 40f.
4. LEFFERTS, Peter M. The Motet in England in the Fourteenth Century, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986, pp. 44, 46-47, 136-138, 241.

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