The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

B.11.34

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Shelfmark B.11.34
Manuscript Title

Fragments of Music
James Number n/a
Century 15th
Physical Description

Four horizontal strips forming one half-leaf from a choirbook containing movements from the Ordinary of the Mass made up of slips removed from the bindings of B.10.5, R.5.34, and R.7.14. All three manuscripts were given to the college in c. 1611/12 by Thomas Neville, Dean of Canterbury, and Master of Trinity 1593-1615.
Provenance

Once part of same MS as Cambridge, University Library, MS. Add. 5963[?]
Size (cm) 28.5 x 19.5 (approx)
Language Music
Notes

Removed from the bindings by S. Cockerell May 1982.
Manuscript Summary Music fragments from the bindings of MSS B.10.5, R.5.34, and R.7.14.
IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B.11.34/manifest.json
Online Since 16/01/2015

Contents

Fragments from B.10.5:
Originally at each end in the binding was a slip of a service book of cent. xv, with music on a four line stave. The fragment previously at at the beginning of B.10.5 has the name Humfray in a hand of cent. xv; that at the end has the beginning of a Credo.

Fragment from R.5.34:
In the binding at the end is a slip of music (xv, xvi) - the Creed, on a five-line stave.

Fragment from R.7.14:
A slip of late music in the binding.


Photographs of these fragments shelved adjacent to B.11.34.

Bibliography

Wathey, A., 'Cambridge, Trinity College, MS. B.11.34', in Early Music History, 3 (1983), 124-8

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