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Medieval Music Database

[P]ura placens pulcra; [P]arfundement plure Absolon

Three-voice anonymous motet

Sources

Oxford: Bodleian Library, e. Museo 7, fol. 268v-269 (3/2);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 23190 (olim Serrant Château, ducs de la Trémoïlle), fol. 43v-44 (lost).

Facsimiles

1. STAINER, J, J.F.R. and C. Early Bodleian Music, vols. 1 and 2, London: 1901. NICHOLSON, E. W. B. vol. 3, London: 1913, plates XIV-XV.
2. Manuscripts of 14th Century English Polyphony: A Selection of Facsimiles, edited by Frank Ll. Harrison and Roger Wibberley, London: Stainer & Bell, 1982. Early English Church Music XXVI, plates 59-60.

Editions

1. STAINER, J, J.F.R. and C. Early Bodleian Music, vols. 1 and 2, London: 1901. NICHOLSON, E. W. B. vol. 3, London: 1913, Vol. II, p. 36 (incomplete).
2. Motets of English Provenance, edited by Frank Ll. Harrison, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1980. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XV, p. 106.

Literature

1. BESSELER, Heinrich. 'Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters. I. Neue Quellen des 14. und beginnenden 15. Jahrhunderts', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, VII (1925), p. 184.
2. LEFFERTS, Peter M. The Motet in England in the Fourteenth Century, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986, pp. 192, 279.


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Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003