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Medieval Music Database

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Barlow 55

A recent compilation of fragments collected under one signature. ff.4-5 contain 14th-century polyphony, though the top two staves have been lost. The 10 works, including 5 mass movements, are listed in Part 1.

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. 248-251.

CONTENTS


  1. fol. 4\1, [Sanctus] ... Osanna in excelsis. (Sanctus))

  2. fol. 4\2, Deo gracias (Ite missa est))

  3. fol. 4\3, Deo gratias (Ite missa est))

  4. fol. 4\4, Agnus Dei (Agnus Dei))

  5. fol. 4\5, Mater ora filium ut post hoc exilium (cantilena))

  6. fol. 4v\1, Sanctus dominus deus (Sanctus))

  7. fol. 4v\2, [Agnus Dei] qui tollis peccata mundi (Agnus Dei))

  8. fol. 5, Alleluya. Post partum virgo. (alleluia))

  9. fol. 5v\1, Kyrie (Kyrie))

  10. fol. 5v\2, Kyrie eleyson (Kyrie))


LITERATURE


  1. APFEL, Ernst. Studien zur Satztechnik der mittelalterlichen englischen Musik, 2 vols, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1959. Abhandlungen der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaft, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse 5, vol.I, p. 59.

  2. LEFFERTS, Peter M. The Motet in England in the Fourteenth Century, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986, pp. 136, 137.

  3. LEFFERTS, Peter M. Review: 'Facsimiles of fourteenth-century English polyphony', RMA Research Chronicle, 21 (1988): 83-95 (p. 89).

CONCORDANCES

1.Cambridge, University Library Kk.i.6 (246, Deo gratias).
2.London, British Library, Arundel 14 (Alleluya. Post partum virgo.).
3.Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Record Office, Flitcham 299 (Box 23x4) (A\1, Kyrie).
4.Oxford, Bodleian Library, Arch. Selden B.14 (1v\1, Kyrie).
5.Oxford, Bodleian Library, Music d.143 (1, Agnus Dei).
6.Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson liturgical d. 3 (71, Mater ora filium ut post hoc exilium).

Recordings of works contained in this manuscript

Sumer Is Icumen In. Chants Médiévaux Anglais: Harmonia Mundi HM 1154: Mater ora filium ut post hoc exilium;.


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