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Medieval Music Database

London, British Library, Additional 57950 (olim Old Hall, Library of St. Edmund's College)

The Old Hall manuscript is the most important source of English music up to the 15th century. Numerous hands have entered the music, chiefly Mass settings and antiphons, most of which are by named composers. The identification of the composer `Roy Henry' with an English monarch would establish its date more precisely. It has been included complete in Part 1.

INVENTORIES


  1. 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. 675-725.

  2. 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. 82; IV, p. 427.


CONTENTS


  1. fol. 1, Gloria (Gloria))

  2. fol. 1v-2, Gloria (Gloria))

  3. fol. 2-2v, Gloria (Gloria))

  4. fol. 3, Gloria (Gloria))

  5. fol. 3v, Gloria (Gloria))

  6. fol. 4, Gloria (Gloria))

  7. fol. 4v-5v, Gloria (J[ohn] Cooke))

  8. fol. 5v-6, Gloria (Aleyn))

  9. fol. 6v-7, Gloria (N[?icholas] Sturgeon))

  10. fol. 7v, Gloria (Thomas? Damett))

  11. fol. 8, Gloria (Gloria))

  12. fol. 8v-9, Gloria (John Burell))

  13. fol. 9v-10v, Gloria (Thomas? Damett))

  14. fol. 10v-11v, Gloria (J[ohn] Cooke))

  15. fol. 11v-12, Gloria (N[?icholas] Sturgeon))

  16. fol. 12v-13, Gloria (Roy Henry))

  17. fol. 13v-14, Gloria (Byttering))

  18. fol. 14v, Gloria (Byttering))

  19. fol. 15, Gloria (J. Tyes))

  20. fol. 15v-16, Gloria (J. Excetre))

  21. fol. 16v-17, Gloria (Leonel Power))

  22. fol. 17v-18, Gloria (Leonel Power))

  23. fol. 18v-19, Gloria (Leonel Power))

  24. fol. 19v-20, Gloria (Leonel Power))

  25. fol. 20v-21, Gloria (Leonel Power))

  26. fol. 21v-22, Gloria (Picard))

  27. fol. 22v-23, Gloria (Picard))

  28. fol. 23v-24, Gloria, spiritus et alme (Picard))

  29. fol. 24v-25, Gloria (Rowlard))

  30. fol. 25v-26, Gloria, spiritus et alme (Queldryk))

  31. fol. 26v-27, Gloria (Gervays))

  32. fol. 27v-28, Gloria (Gloria))

  33. fol. 28v, Gloria, gloria laus honor (Antonius `Zacharias' de Teramo))

  34. fol. 29, Gloria (Gloria))

  35. fol. 29v-30, Gloria (Picard))

  36. fol. 30v-31, Gloria (J[ohn] Cooke))

  37. fol. 31v-32, Gloria (Thomas? Damett))

  38. fol. 32v-33, Gloria (J[ohn] Cooke))

  39. fol. 33v-34, Gloria (Thomas? Damett))

  40. fol. 34v-35, Gloria (N[?icholas] Sturgeon))

  41. fol. 35v, [O Mari]a laude genitrix (cantilena))

  42. fol. 36, ... venie (cantilena))

  43. fol. 36, Ave regina celorum (Leonel Power))

  44. fol. 36v, Regina celi letare (Leonel Power))

  45. fol. 37, ... et propicia (cantilena))

  46. fol. 37v, [Pia mater] salvatoris te celestis (cantilena))

  47. fol. 37v, Salve mirifica virgo (cantilena))

  48. fol. 38, [Nesciens mater] ... torem seculorum (Old Hall) (antiphon))

  49. fol. 38, Beata progenies unde (Leonel Power))

  50. fol. 38v, Nesciens mater virgo (Byttering))

  51. fol. 38v-39, Regali ex progenie (Fonteyns))

  52. fol. 39-39v, Ave regina celorum (J[ohn] Cooke))

  53. fol. 39v-40, Beata Dei genitrix (Thomas? Damett))

  54. fol. 40, Salve porta paradisi (Thomas? Damett))

  55. fol. 40v, Stella celi extirpavit (J[ohn] Cooke))

  56. fol. 41-42, Credo (Credo))

  57. fol. 42v-43v, Credo (Credo))

  58. fol. 44-45, Credo (Credo))

  59. fol. 45v-46v, Credo (Oliver))

  60. fol. 47-48, Credo (Credo))

  61. fol. 48v-50, Credo (R. Chirbury))

  62. fol. 50-51v, Credo (W. Typp))

  63. fol. 52, Credo (Credo))

  64. fol. 52v-53v, Credo (N[?icholas] Sturgeon))

  65. fol. 54-55, Credo (John Burell))

  66. fol. 55v-56, Veni sancte spiritus (John Dunstable))

  67. fol. 56v-57, Qualis est dilectus (Forest))

  68. fol. 57v, Ascendit Christus - Alma redemptoris (Forest))

  69. fol. 58v, Credo (N[?icholas] Sturgeon))

  70. fol. 59, Credo (Credo))

  71. fol. 59v-60, Credo (Picard))

  72. fol. 60v-61, Credo (Thomas? Damett))

  73. fol. 61v, Credo (Leonel Power))

  74. fol. 62, Credo (Forest))

  75. fol. 62v-63, Credo (Picard))

  76. fol. 63v-64, Credo (Picard))

  77. fol. 64v-65, Credo (Leonel Power))

  78. fol. 65v-66, Credo (Picard))

  79. fol. 66v-67, Credo (Byttering))

  80. fol. 67v-68, Credo (J. Excetre))

  81. fol. 68v-69, Credo (Leonel Power))

  82. fol. 69v-70, Credo (J[ohn] Cooke))

  83. fol. 70v-71, Credo (Leonel Power))

  84. fol. 71v-72, Credo (Leonel Power))

  85. fol. 72v-73, Credo (Credo))

  86. fol. 73v-74, Credo (Swynford))

  87. fol. 74v-75, Credo (W. Typp))

  88. fol. 75v-76, Credo (Queldryk))

  89. fol. 76v-77, Credo (Pennard))

  90. fol. 77v, Credo (Credo))

  91. fol. 78, Credo (Credo))

  92. fol. 78v-79, Credo (J[ohn] Cooke))

  93. fol. 79v-80, Credo (Thomas? Damett))

  94. fol. 80v, Sanctus (Roy Henry))

  95. fol. 81, Sanctus (W. Typp))

  96. fol. 81v, Sanctus (Leonel Power))

  97. fol. 82-82v, Sanctus (Lambe))

  98. fol. 82v-83, Sanctus (W. Typp))

  99. fol. 83-83v, Sanctus (Leonel Power))

  100. fol. 84, Sanctus, Marie filius (Sanctus))

  101. fol. 84v, Sanctus (Sanctus))

  102. fol. 85-85v, Sanctus (R. Chirbury))

  103. fol. 85v-86, Sanctus (Sanctus))

  104. fol. 86, Sanctus (Sanctus))

  105. fol. 86v, Sanctus (Sanctus))

  106. fol. 87, Sanctus (W. Typp))

  107. fol. 87v, Sanctus (Sanctus))

  108. fol. 88, Sanctus (R. Chirbury))

  109. fol. 88v, Sanctus (Leonel Power))

  110. fol. 89, Sanctus (W. Typp))

  111. fol. 89v-90, Salvatoris mater - O Georgi - Benedictus qui ve (Thomas? Damett))

  112. fol. 90v-91, Alma proles - Christi miles - Ab inimicis nostris (J[ohn] Cooke))

  113. fol. 91v-92, Salve mater - Salve templum - [[It] in nomine Domine] (N[?icholas] Sturgeon))

  114. fol. 92v, Sanctus (N[?icholas] Sturgeon))

  115. fol. 93v-94, Sanctus (Leonel Power))

  116. fol. 94v-95, Sanctus (Leonel Power))

  117. fol. 95v-96, Sanctus (Leonel Power))

  118. fol. 96v-97, Sanctus (Leonel Power))

  119. fol. 97v-98, Sanctus (Oliver))

  120. fol. 98-98v, Sanctus (Oliver))

  121. fol. 99, Sanctus (J. Excetre))

  122. fol. 99v-100, Sanctus (J. Tyes))

  123. fol. 100v, Sanctus Marie Filius (Picard))

  124. fol. 101, Agnus Dei (Agnus Dei))

  125. fol. 101, Agnus Dei (Agnus Dei))

  126. fol. 101v, Agnus Dei (Agnus Dei))

  127. fol. 101v-102, Agnus Dei (J[ohn] Cooke))

  128. fol. 102, Agnus Dei (Agnus Dei))

  129. fol. 102v-103, Agnus Dei (Agnus Dei))

  130. fol. 103-103v, Agnus Dei (Agnus Dei))

  131. fol. 103v-104, Agnus Dei (Agnus Dei))

  132. fol. 104, Agnus Dei (R. Chirbury))

  133. fol. 104v, Agnus Dei (Leonel Power))

  134. fol. 104v-105, Agnus Dei (Agnus Dei))

  135. fol. 105, Agnus Dei (W. Typp))

  136. fol. 105v, Agnus Dei (Agnus Dei))

  137. fol. 105v-106, Agnus Dei (Leonel Power))

  138. fol. 106, Agnus Dei (Leonel Power))

  139. fol. 106v, Agnus Dei (Agnus Dei))

  140. fol. 107, Agnus Dei (Leonel Power))

  141. fol. 107v-108, Agnus Dei (Leonel Power))

  142. fol. 108v-109, Agnus Dei (Oliver))

  143. fol. 109v, Carbunculus ignitus ())

  144. fol. 110, Mater munda ())

  145. fol. 110v-111, En Katerine - Virginalis concio - [Sponsus amat sponsum] (Byttering))

  146. fol. 111v-112, Are post libamina - Nunc surgunt (Matheus de Sancto Johanne))

  147. fol. 112v, Post missarum - Post misse modulamina ('Ite missa est' motet))


LITERATURE


  1. BRAY, J. A. The Use of Cantus Firmus in English Sacred Music from the Old Hall Manuscript to the Eton Choirbook, B.Litt. dissertation, Oxford (St. Anne's): [in progress 1968].

  2. APEL, Willi. The Notation of Polyphonic Music 900-1600, Cambridge/Massachusetts: The Medieval Academy of America, 1942, pp. 364-365.

  3. BUKOFZER, Manfred. 'The music of the Old Hall Manuscript-II', The Musical Quarterly, XXXV (1949):.

  4. HARRISON, Frank Ll. 'Old Hall - Manuskript', Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, IX (1961): 1920-1925.

  5. HUGHES, Andrew and Margaret BENT. 'The Old Hall manuscript - a reappraisal and an inventory', Musica Disciplina, XXI (1967): 97-148.

  6. BENT, Margaret. 'Sources of the Old Hall music', Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, XCIV (1967/68): 19ff.

  7. BENT, Margaret H. The Old Hall Manuscript: A Paleographical Study, Ph.D. dissertation, Cambridge (Girton): 1969.

  8. NEWES, Virginia E. 'Imitation in the Ars nova and Ars subtilior', Revue belge de musicologie, XXXI (1977): 38-59.

  9. HOPPIN, Richard H. Medieval Music, New York: W. W. Norton, 1978, p. 518.

  10. WILKINS, Nigel. Music in the Age of Chaucer, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979. Chaucer Studies I, pp. 82-84.

  11. BENT, Margaret. 'Old Hall MS', The New Grove, XIII (1980): 526-529.

  12. SANDON, Nicolas. 'Mary, meditations, monks and music: poetry, prose, processions and plagues in a Durham Cathedral manuscript', Early Music, X (1982): 43-55 (pp. 53-54).

  13. BENT, Margaret. 'Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 230/116' [in] `New sources of English thirteenth- and fourteenth-century polyphony', compiled by P. Lefferts and M. Bent, Early Music History, 2 (1982): 295-306.

  14. CURTIS, Gareth R. K. 'Stylistic layers in the English mass repertory c.1400-1450', Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, 109 (1982-1983): 23-38.

  15. BENT, Margaret. 'The progeny of Old Hall: more leaves from a royal English choirbook', Gordon Athol Anderson (1929-1981) in Memoriam, edited by Luther Dittmer, Henryville-Ottowa-Binningen: 1984, Vol. 1, pp. 1-54.

  16. 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 (pp. 309-310).

  17. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Sinnbezüge zwischen Text und Musik in Ars nova und Ars subtilior', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 229-268.

  18. NEWES, Virginia E. 'The relationship of text to imitative technique in 14th century polyphony', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 121-154.

  19. REANEY, Gilbert. 'A consideration of the relative importance of words and music in composition from the 13th to the 15th century', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 175-196.

  20. GOMEZ, Maria del Carmen. 'Une version a cinq voix du motet "Apollinis eclipsatur/Zodiacum signis" dans le manuscript E-BCEN 853', Musica Disciplina, XXXIX (1985): 5-44 (pp. 20-21).

  21. LERCH, Irmgard. 'Messkompositionen mit kanonischen Stimmen - eine internationale Erscheinung?', Musica Disciplina, XLI (1987): 59-73.

  22. NEWES, Virginia. 'Chace, caccia, fuga: the convergence of French and Italian traditions', Musica Disciplina, XLI (1987): 27-57.

  23. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'Bemerkungen zur Überlieferung und zum Stil der geistlichen Werke des Antonius dictus Zacharias de Teramo', Musica Disciplina, XLI (1987): 161-182.

CONCORDANCES

1.Aosta, Biblioteca del Seminario Maggiore A1 D19 (238v-240, Credo; 242v-244, Gloria; 245v-246, Agnus Dei; 257v-258, Sanctus; 274v-275, Veni sancte spiritus; 276v-277, Veni sancte spiritus).
2.Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Ms Q 15. (22v-23, Gloria; 86v-88, Gloria, gloria laus honor; 109v-110, Credo).
3.Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College 230/116 (2-2v, Credo).
4.Cambridge, University Library, Additional 5963 (8) (13, Credo).
5.London, British Library, Additional 40011B (Fountains fragments) (9v-10, Gloria; 10v\1, Gloria; 11v, Sanctus; 12-12v, Agnus Dei; 12v, Agnus Dei; 13v-14, Gloria; 13, Credo).
6.London, British Library, Additional 49597 (2, Agnus Dei; 2, Agnus Dei).
7.Modena, Biblioteca Estense e Universitaria, a. X.1.11 (Lat. 471; olim VI.H.15) (98v-99, Ascendit Christus - Alma redemptoris; 109v-111, Veni sancte spiritus; 111v-112, Qualis est dilectus).
8.Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Musica 3224 (5-6, Veni sancte spiritus).
9.Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 14274 (olim M.mus. 3232a) (37v-38v, Gloria, gloria laus honor).
10.Oxford, Bodleian Library, Don. b. 32 (Are post libamina - Nunc surgunt; Post missarum - Post misse modulamina).
11.Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dep. Deeds, Christ Church C.34/D.R.3\% (A, Salve mirifica virgo; 2, Sanctus).
12.Oxford, Bodleian Library, University College 192 (27a, Credo; 27b verso-27c, Credo; 27a verso, Credo).
13.Oxford, Magdalen College Library 266-268 (26v/Ms266, Gloria).
14.Padua, Biblioteca Universitaria 1225 (n3, Gloria, gloria laus honor).
15.Princeton, University Library, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts 103 (Av, Credo).
16.Siena, Archivio di Stato, frammento 326 (1v, Gloria, gloria laus honor).
17.Trent, Museo Provinciale d'Arte (ex Museo Nazionale, housed in Castello del Buon Consiglio), 87 (105-105v, Sanctus).
18.Trent, Castel del Buon Consiglio 90 (Credo; 337v-338, Qualis est dilectus).
19.Trent, Castello de Buon Consiglio 92 (182v-184, Veni sancte spiritus).
20.Trent, Castel de Buon Consiglio 93 (Credo; 363v-364, Qualis est dilectus).
21.Warsaw, National Library, lat. F.I.378 (photographic copy only) (18-19, Gloria, gloria laus honor).
22.York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research 2 (1v, Nesciens mater virgo).

Recordings of works contained in this manuscript

  1. The Spirits of England and France: : Gloria; Credo;.
  2. The study of love: : Gloria;.
  3. The Old Hall Manuscript: EMI CDC 7 54111 2: [Pia mater] salvatoris te celestis; Nesciens mater virgo; Beata Dei genitrix; En Katerine; Virginalis concio; [Sponsus amat sponsum]; Beata progenies unde; Ave regina celorum; Qualis est dilectus; Ascendit Christus; Alma redemptoris; Are post libamina; Nunc surgunt; Stella celi extirpavit; Salve porta paradisi; Post missarum; Post misse modulamina;.
  4. Lancaster and Valois: French and English music, 1350-1420: Hyperion CDA66588: Credo; Salve mater; Salve templum; [[It] in nomine Domine]; Sanctus; Regali ex progenie;.
  5. Ars Britannica: Old Hall Manuscript, Lute Songs, Madrigals: Telefunken 6.35494 FK: Qualis est dilectus;.


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