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Medieval Music Database

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 8, flyleaf

The corpus is Vincent of Beauvais'Speculum historie. Folio 270 is a musical flyleaf originally from a manuscript of some 300 folios. It has been cut down from a double page and inserted sideways. Seven incomplete and varied pieces survive.

INVENTORY

Répertoire international des sources musicales. BIV 1. Manuscripts of Polyphonic Music, 11th - Early 14th Century, edited by Gilbert Reaney, G. Henle Verlag: Munich-Duisburg, 1966, pp. 451-453.

CONTENTS


  1. fol. 255v, Mellis stilla - [Domino] (motet))

  2. fol. 270, Worldes blisce - Benedicamus domino (motet))

  3. fol. 270, ... in lyde joye and blisce bringet me to bride (conductus))

  4. fol. 270, Fecit do ())

  5. fol. 270, ... suavitatis ())

  6. fol. 270v, Volez oyer le castoy ())

  7. fol. 270v, A nobis... ())

  8. fol. 270v, Ne dampnemur ())


LITERATURE

LEFFERTS, Peter M. The Motet in England in the Fourteenth Century, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986.

CONCORDANCES

1.Montpellier, Faculté de Médecine H 196 (72v-75, Mellis stilla - [Domino]).
2.Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson G. 18 (105v, Worldes blisce - Benedicamus domino).
3.Oxford, Bodleian Library, Lyell 72 (173-173v, Mellis stilla - [Domino]).
4.Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds latin 11266 (40v-41v, Mellis stilla - [Domino]).

Recordings of works contained in this manuscript

  1. Sumer Is Icumen In. Chants Médiévaux Anglais: Harmonia Mundi HM 1154: Worldes blisce; Benedicamus domino;.
  2. Music of the Middle Ages. Vol IV: English Polyphony of the 13th and ea: Expèriences Anonymes EA 0024: Worldes blisce; Benedicamus domino;.


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Last updated: Wednesday, 5 March 2003