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Medieval Music Database

Wölfenbüttel, Herzog-August Bibliothek 499 (W3)

2 parchment flyleaves, originally 36 x 28cm., doubled across the middle at each end of a ms. containing the works of Claudian in a 13thC hand. The contents are early 14thC English troped chant settings of Alleluis for the BVM.

INVENTORY

Répertoire international des sources musicales. BIV 1. Manuscripts of Polyphonic Music, 11th - Early 14th Century, edited by Gilbert Reaney, G. Henle Verlag: Munich-Duisburg, 1966, pp. 205-206.

CONTENTS


  1. fol. 1, ... solis vel syderis - Tenor pro iii - Quartus - Tenor pro iiii (whole chant setting))

  2. fol. 1v, [Alleluia concrepando pange musica] ... tandoleta famina - Alleluia consonet presens familia (motet))

  3. fol. 2, Quartus - Tenor pro iiii (motet))

  4. fol. 2v, [Alleluia confessoris almi presentia] ... reddit choro consona vox (motet))


LITERATURE

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


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Last updated: Wednesday, 5 March 2003