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Fragment of a music manuscript, undated
Part
Identifier: MS 211/XXXIX
Scope and Contents
Music manuscript: plainsong, neumes on 4 lines. Most of the side which constituted the outer of the book wrapper is too dirty to read. On the other side the text include the responsory for Matins in the second Sunday after Easter: [Response] In diademate capitis Aaron lapides pretiosi fulgebant, dum perficeretur opus Dei, alleluia alleuia alleluia. [Versus 1] Corona aurea super caput eius expressa signo sanctitatis.
Dates:
undated
Fragment of an English Grail, 12th century
Item
Identifier: MS 211/VI
Scope and Contents
One leaf of an English 12th century Grail. Contains the end of the Communion of Friday after Ash Wednesday, and then the service until the beginning of the Tract on the first Sunday in Lent. A modern hand has taken extensive notes in the margins and bottom of f. 1r. Illumination The contents are common to most Latin rites except the Psalm Domine, refugium factus es, which is found in the Missals of Durham and St. Albans, and is substituted...
Dates:
12th century
MS 64: Dunkeld Music Book , 16th century
Item
Identifier: MS 64
Contents
This manuscript contains music scores and lyrics for religious songs, and it is a good example of the polyphonic music of the 16th century. The book was originally 5 different volumes (one for each different voice) that were bound together, and now it has 6 folios of thick vellum at the beginning and end, and between each volume. Each volume has a similar lay-out: the first part has several motets and antiphons, mostly in honour of the Virgin Mary. The last part has one to three settings of...
Dates:
16th century
MS 94: Composite manuscript including five texts, 12th-13th century
Item
Identifier: MS 94
Contents
Contains five texts, in several different hands.ff. 1r-28r: Homilies entitled De Laudibus Virginis Matris by Bernard of Clairvauxff. 28v-42r: Sermonsff. 43r-53r: Corpus Iuris Civilis [incomplete]ff. 53v-54r: Song Spe Mercedis et Corone (lyrics and musical...
Dates:
12th-13th century
Song Spe Mercedis et Corone (lyrics and musical notation), 13th century
part
Identifier: MS 94/ff. 53v-54r
Contents
This part of the manuscript contains a song called Spe Mercedis et Corone, after the first words of the song. It has the musical notation and the lyrics corresponding to the melody. This song is included in several modern versions of Gregorian chants.
Starts on f. 53v with the following words: Spe Mercedis et Corone.
Dates:
13th century