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Medieval Music Database

Cambridge, St. John's College Library 23 (B.1)

Two of the four flyleaves at the end of this 15th century compendium of the works of Richard Rolle (c.1290-1349) contain polyphony. The contents appear to be 4 motet-like settings in the form liturgical trope, verse and doxology.

INVENTORY

EVERIST, Mark and Margaret BENT. 'Cambridge, St. John's College, MS 23 (B.1)' [in] `New sources of English thirteenth- and fourteenth-century polyphony', compiled by P. Lefferts and M. Bent, Early Music History, 2 (1982): 306-314.

CONTENTS


  1. fol. 179v, ...dominum benedixit... Glorificato populo - Gloria patri e filio (whole chant setting))

  2. fol. 182, Spectabili de genere virgo - Speciosa facta es (whole chant setting))

  3. fol. 182-182v, Quis queso precabilium - Quis queso (whole chant setting))

  4. fol. 182v, 179, Crucifixus surrexit dominus dominica - Crucifixus surrexit (whole chant setting))


LITERATURE

LEFFERTS, Peter M. The Motet in England in the Fourteenth Century, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986, p. 244.


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Last updated: Wednesday, 5 March 2003