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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 410

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  • MS 410
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Date
  • 1400 - 1499
Language
  • Latin
  • Middle English
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 410: Walter of Oddington OSB, De speculatione musicae. Johannes de Muris, Libellus cantus mensurabilis (recensio minor). A Short Treatise on the Rule of Discant
    • Walter of Oddington OSB, De speculatione musicae
    • Iohannes de Muris, Libellus cantus mensurabilis (recensio minor)
    • A short treatise on the rule of discant
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Description

  • Summary: CCCC MS 410 provides the only complete copy of Walter of Oddington OSB's (fl. 1298-1316) De speculatione musicae, an encyclopaedic consideration of music theory written in the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century. This manuscript is a compendium consisting of a c. 1425 volume containing Oddington's work, and a later fifteenth-century paper volume containing a treatise on mensural music by the French theorist Iohannes de Muris (c. 1290-c. 1344), and an anonymous English treatise on descant. It serves as a remarkable witness to the diversity of both practical and theoretical treatises available to late-medieval English writers.


    Contents :


    1r-36v - Walter of Oddington OSB, De speculatione musicae

    rubric: (1r) Incipit summus (corrected to summa) ffratris Walteri monachi Eueshamie musici de speculacione musice

    incipit: (1r) Plura quam digna de musice speculacione et musice speculatoribus perutilia breui ut potero nitar explicare sermone Quadam (!) que pluribus dubia sunt corrigendo, etc.

    Note: (1r) There are frequent blanks in the first page, as if the archetype had been defective. The Preface ends with a statement of the subjects of the work

    explicit: (1v) que inequalitates quas creant

    rubric: (1v) De utilitate arsmetice et eius musice introductione. Rubrica

    incipit: (1v) Quoniam de musica presens est pertractacio

    Note: (6v) Part II

    Note: (13r) Part III

    Note: (14v) On this page are musical symbols written large

    Note: (19r) Part IV (change of hand)

    Note: (19v) Part V

    Note: (30v) Part VI

    Note: Ending

    explicit: (36r) et non ampliam do (-ando) fastidium nouam diuersitatem superaddicere

    rubric: (36r) Explicit

    Note: A paragraph follows

    incipit: (36r) Quia dictum est quod licet monocord' intendere et uoces (or notes) plures adicere

    explicit: (36r) ut monstrat hec forma (diagram)

    rubric: (36r) Explicit

    Note: (36v) blank

    Note: The author is also known as Walter of Odington. A short article in Grove, Dict. of Music IV 734, describes this manuscript, the only complete copy. The text is in Coussemaker, Scriptores I 182-250


    37r-49v - Iohannes de Muris, Libellus cantus mensurabilis (recensio minor)

    Note: Paper

    incipit: (37r) Quilibet in arte practica mensurabilis cantus erudiri mediocriter affectans ea scribat diligenter que sequntur compilata secundum Johannem de muris

    incipit: (37r) Quinque sunt partes prolacionis (?) videlicet maxima, etc.

    Note: Probably an abridgment of a tract by Joh. de Muris

    Note: (46v) There is a break here

    explicit: (46v) dicitur ascendentis dicti breuis est, etc.

    Note: (47r) It continues

    incipit: (47r) Omnis proporcio est communiter dicta vel proprie dicta. proporcio proprie dicta est habitudo duarum rerum comparatus

    Note: Ends with a short paragraph

    incipit: (49v) In omnibus coloribus albus est dignissimus


    49v-51v - A short treatise on the rule of discant

    Note: (49v) Tract in English

    incipit: (49v) Here begynnes a schorte tretys of the reule of discant. It is to wit Þat Þere are acordance wt outen nowmber

    Note: Ends imperfectly

    explicit: (51v) as for to syng iij or iiij

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