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Medieval Music Database

Oxford, New College Library 57

A flyleaf in a late 15th or early 16th-century copy of Bede's commmentary on the Acts of the Apostles. Two voice-parts from two extensive four-voice motets in a 14th-century hand are preserved on the two pages.

INVENTORY

LEFFERTS, Peter M. 'Oxford, New College, MS 57' [in] `New sources of English thirteenth- and fourteenth-century polyphony', compiled by P. Lefferts and M. Bent, Early Music History, 2 (1982): 352-353.

CONTENTS


  1. fol. 1, O pater excellentissime (motet))

  2. fol. 1v, [O] crux vale (motet))


LITERATURE

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): 1976.


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Last updated: Wednesday, 5 March 2003