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Medieval Music Database

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 652

Three distinct literary manuscripts which have been bound together. The two musical flyleaves are from the same manuscript, both folded vertically so that folios i and 70 are little more than stubs. Folios i and ii may have been a rotulus.

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. 533-535.

CONTENTS


  1. Rota versatilis. Orbis dominacio - Rota versatilis (motet))

  2. Rex sanctorum angelorum (motet))

  3. [Regina celestium] (motet))

  4. Salve, sancta virgula - Salve sancta parens (whole chant setting))

  5. ... rogavitam potuit quare (motet))

  6. Benedicamus Domino (Benedicamus Domino))


LITERATURE


  1. SANDERS, Ernest. 'The mediaeval motet', Gattungen der Musik in Einzeldarstellungen: Gedenkschrift Leo Schrade, Erste Folge, Bern, Munich: 1971, pp. 497-573.

  2. LEFFERTS, Peter M. The Motet in England in the Fourteenth Century, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986, p. 283.

  3. The Fountains Fragments, facsimile edition by Margaret Bent, Clarabricken: Boethius Press, 1987, pp. 70-71, 81-82.

CONCORDANCES

1.London, British Library, Additional 24198 (132, Rota versatilis. Orbis dominacio - Rota versatilis).
2.London, British Library, Additional 40011B (Fountains fragments) (Bv, Cv fragments, Rota versatilis. Orbis dominacio - Rota versatilis).
3.London, British Library, Royal 12.C.VI (Rota versatilis. Orbis dominacio - Rota versatilis)


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Last updated: Wednesday, 5 March 2003