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Medieval Music Database

Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale II. 266

A 14th-century bifolio of English polyphony in score, which was bound in the 19th-century with Cousssemaker's facsimile of no. 2 (`Spiritus et alme'), his transcription of the bifolio as a whole, and other miscellanous items. The 6 works are listed in Part 1.

INVENTORY

Répertoire international des sources musicales. BIV 2. Manuscripts of Polyphonic Music (c.1320-1400), edited by Gilbert Reaney, G. Henle Verlag: Munich-Duisburg, 1969, pp. 45-47.

CONTENTS


  1. fol. 1, Spiritus almifice consecrans mirifice (Gloria))

  2. fol. 1-1v, Spiritus et alme (Gloria))

  3. fol. 1v, Spiritus procedens a patre (Gloria))

  4. fol. 2, Salve virgo singularis (cantilena))

  5. fol. 2-2v, Mutato modo geniture (cantilena))

  6. fol. 2v, Beata es Maria (cantilena))


LITERATURE


  1. HANDSCHIN, Jacques. 'Zur Frage der melodischen Paraphrasierung im Mittelalter', Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft, X (1927-1928): 513-559 (p. 543ff).

  2. HANDSCHIN, Jacques. 'Der Fragment Coussemaker', Acta Musicologica, VII (1935): 160ff.

  3. HANDSCHIN, Jacques. 'The summer canon and its background, II', Musica Disciplina, V (1951): 65-113 (p. 99).

  4. APFEL, Ernst. Studien zur Satztechnik der mittelalterlichen englischen Musik, 2 vols, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1959. Abhandlungen der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaft, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse 5, vol. 1, p. 58ff, 72, 75-76.

CONCORDANCES

1.Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College 334/727 (199-199v, Mutato modo geniture).
2.Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College 512/543 (256, Mutato modo geniture).
3.Gloucester, Gloucestershire County Record Office D.149 (1-1v, Spiritus almifice consecrans mirifice; 1, Spiritus procedens a patre).
4.London, British Library, Additional 38651 (strip 54, Mutato modo geniture; 1\1, Salve virgo singularis).
5.Oxford, Bodleian Library, Arch. Selden B.14 (312,1v, Spiritus almifice consecrans mirifice; 312v\2, Spiritus procedens a patre).
6.Oxford, New College Library 362, item XXVI (82v, Spiritus procedens a patre)


Content Approved by: MMDB Director
Last updated: Wednesday, 5 March 2003