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Medieval Music Database

Lincoln, Library of the Dean and Chapter 52 (binding fragments)

One leaf and ten strips, together constituting much of one bifolium from a volume of English church polyphony. It contains parts of a troped Alleluia and 2 incomplete motets or motet-like compositions.

INVENTORY

RANKIN, Susan. 'Lincoln, Library of the Dean and Chapter, MS 52 - Binding-Fragments' [in] `New sources of English fourteenth- and fifteenth-century polyphony', compiled by R. Bowers and A. Wathey, Early Music History, 3 (1983): 137-153.

CONTENTS


  1. fol. 1, Ave prolem parienti (whole chant setting))

  2. fol. 1v-2, Astra transcendit hodie - Astrorum celcitudinem - Alleluya. Assumpta [est Maria] (whole chant setting))

  3. fol. 2v, [A]ssunt Augustini (whole chant setting))


LITERATURE

LEFFERTS, Peter M. The Motet in England in the Fourteenth Century, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986, p. 256.


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Last updated: Wednesday, 5 March 2003