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Medieval Music Database
London, British Library, Additional 40011B (Fountains fragments)
These Fountains Abbey fragments from the
binding of the Memorial Book of Thomas Swynton
were originally from two manuscripts. The strip
fragments A-P date from the early 14th century;
folios 9-14 are from the late 14th or early 15th
century and have a number of concordances with Old Hall.
INVENTORIES
- Répertoire international des sources musicales. BIV 3, 4. Handschriften mit mehrstimmiger Musik des 14., 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts, 2 vols, edited by Kurt von Fischer and Max Lütolf, G. Henle Verlag: Munich-Duisburg, 1972, pp. 653-659.
- Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550, 5 vols, Neuhausen-Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag, 1979-1988. Renaissance Manuscript Studies 1, Vol. II, p. 77.
- The Fountains Fragments, facsimile edition by Margaret Bent, Clarabricken: Boethius Press, 1987.
CONTENTS
- A, Dv fragments, ... absorbet oris faucibus - ...recita formosa (motet))
- Av fragment, ... flos regalis - [Conditor] Kyrie - Kyrie seconde (motet))
- B, C fragments, ... hostium ob amorem - ...[g]enitricem personantes (motet))
- Bv, Cv fragments, Rota versatilis. Orbis dominacio - Rota versatilis (motet))
- fol. 9, Gloria (Pennard?))
- fol. 9v-10, Gloria (Rowlard))
- fol. 10, Gloria (Gloria))
- fol. 10v\1, Gloria (Gloria))
- fol. 10v\2, Sanctus (Sanctus))
- fol. 11\1, Gloria (Credo))
- fol. 11\2, Sanctus (Sanctus))
- fol. 11v, Sanctus (Sanctus))
- fol. 11v, Sanctus (Sanctus))
- fol. 11v-12, Agnus Dei (Agnus Dei))
- fol. 12, Agnus Dei (Agnus Dei))
- fol. 12-12v, Agnus Dei (Agnus Dei))
- fol. 12v, Agnus Dei (Agnus Dei))
- fol. 12v, Agnus Dei (Agnus Dei))
- fol. 13, Credo (Credo))
- fol. 13v-14, Gloria (Gloria))
- fol. 14, Humane lingue organis - Supplicum voces percipe - [Deo gracias] (whole chant setting))
- fol. 14v, Alme pater pastor vere (motet))
LITERATURE
- SANDERS, Ernest. 'The mediaeval motet', Gattungen der Musik in Einzeldarstellungen: Gedenkschrift Leo Schrade, Erste Folge, Bern, Munich: 1971, pp. 497-573.
- LEFFERTS, Peter M. The Motet in England in the Fourteenth Century, Ph.D. dissertation, 2 vols, Columbia University: 1983.
- BENT, Margaret. 'Text setting in sacred music of the early 15th century: evidence and implications', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 291-326 (p. 297).
- The Fountains Fragments: Late Fourteenth-Century Polyphony from a Fountains Abbey Memorial Book, edited by Edward Kershaw, Devon: Antico Edition MCM 2, 1989.
CONCORDANCES1.London, British Library, Additional 24198 (132, Rota versatilis. Orbis dominacio - Rota versatilis).
2.London, British Library, Additional 49597 (2, Agnus Dei).
3.London, British Library, Additional 57950 (olim Old Hall, Library of St. Edmund's College) (24v-25, Gloria; 29, Gloria; 29, Gloria; 77v, Credo; 84v, Sanctus; 102v-103, Agnus Dei; 104v-105, Agnus Dei).
4.London, British Library, Royal 12.C.VI (Rota versatilis. Orbis dominacio - Rota versatilis).
5.Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 652 (n1/ i, iiv, 69, 70v, Rota versatilis. Orbis dominacio - Rota versatilis).
6.Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dep. Deeds, Christ Church C.34/D.R.3\% (2, Sanctus)
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