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Medieval Music Database

York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research 2

An early 15thC fragment containing three pieces of English sacred polyphony. Byttering's `Nesciens mater' is cc. in Old Hall, and Summers notes that the first piece is stylistically and notationally related to 14thC compositions.

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, pp. 279-281.

CONTENTS


  1. fol. 1, ... nis vitia mundes (cantilena))

  2. fol. 1v, Nesciens mater virgo (Byttering))


LITERATURE

SUMMERS, William. 'English Fourteenth-Century Polyphonic Music. An Inventory of the Extant Manuscript Sources', Journal of Musicology VIII/2 (1990): 173-226.

CONCORDANCE

London, British Library, Additional 57950 (olim Old Hall, Library of St. Edmund's College) (38v, Nesciens mater virgo).

Recordings of works contained in this manuscript

The Old Hall Manuscript: EMI CDC 7 54111 2: Nesciens mater virgo;.


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