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Medieval Music Database

London, British Library, Royal 12.C.VI

The writings of music theorists Anonymous IV, Anonymous V and Anonymous VI are among this miscellaneous collection of treatises from Bury St. Edmunds, dating from the late 13th or early 14th century. The anonymous rondeau `Faus semblaunt' follows the treatise of Anonymous VI in typical Ars nova notation.

INVENTORY

Répertoire international des sources musicales. BIV 2. Manuscripts of Polyphonic Music (c.1320-1400), edited by Gilbert Reaney, G. Henle Verlag: Munich-Duisburg, 1969, p. 229.

CONTENTS


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

  2. fol. 58, Faus semblaunt tiel estes vous (rondeau))


LITERATURE


  1. 'Ms. British Museum, Royal 12, C. VI: Tractatus de figuris sive de notis', edited by Gilbert Reaney, Corpus Scriptorum de Musica 12, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1966.

  2. LEFFERTS, Peter M. The Motet in England in the Fourteenth Century, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986, p. 261.

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.Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 652 (n1/ i, iiv, 69, 70v, Rota versatilis. Orbis dominacio - Rota versatilis)


Content Approved by: MMDB Director
Last updated: Wednesday, 5 March 2003