Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 473
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- MS 473
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- Date
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- 1025 - 1075
- Language
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- Latin
- Old English
- Greek
- Title
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 473: The Winchester Troper
- The Winchester Troper
- Description
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Summary: This small sized book, CCCC MS 473, is commonly known as The Winchester Troper; together with Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 775 (sometimes also called by this name) it attests to the musical repertory of the Old Minster Winchester in the eleventh century. It contains some of the oldest polyphonic music in the West. As well as 'tropes', musical phrases which were added as embellishments to the standard chant for the liturgical texts, it also contains sequences and other music. It would have been used by a precentor, whose job it was to lead the music at mass and the divine office. There are many signs that it comes from the Old Minster Winchester, including texts for the feasts of the Winchester saints Swithhun, Æthelwold, Justus of Beauvais, Hædde (Hedda) and Birinus. Datings from the script have varied from circa 1000 to the second quarter of the eleventh century; the earlier dating has led people to associate this manuscript with Wulfstan of Winchester OSB (fl. late tenth century), also known as Wulfstan Cantor, who was precentor of the Old Minster Winchester at around that date, and who wrote saints' lives and hagiographical poetry. A later dating, perhaps 1020s-1030s, now seems probable, but it is still likely that at least some of the material it contains is his work. Material was added to the manuscript serially over the course of the eleventh century.
Contents :
1r-198v - The Winchester Troper
Note: (1r) Quire 1 has suffered from damp. The first lines of f. 1r have no neumes and are not easily legible. 1. gen morie cadire t .neit batait.2. rie hi us segrauavo. l .iii. et pater noster.3. dobia ... anda ... salutanda dorsum abyssum. 4. mu stom prouerb. alba. alleluia.5. ligati xps.6. blank.7. (Ma)gnus (deus, etc. Frere, p. 71.)
Note: (1r) Here neumes begin and the hand changes.
incipit: (1r) (M)agna sunt eius omnia in celo atque in terra
Note: (Sequence)
incipit: (2r) Sonent regi nato noua cantica
Note: Frere, p. 71
Note: These two sequences are inserted on leaves formerly blank
Note: (2v) Alleluias, initials in gold and blue
incipit: (2v) Alleluia. Ymera agiasme ni epifani mon Dies sanctificatus inluxit nobis
Note: The last is
incipit: (8v) Alleluia. Cum sederit filius hominis
Note: After this, according to Frere, quires are lost
Note: The hand changes, on f. 9r is another sequence inserted
incipit: (9r) Gaude virgo mater ecclesia
Note: Frere, p. 71
Note: (10r) Tropes (Lesser Tropes. Frere, p. 3): large plain gold initial
incipit: (10r) O benefida tuis adsis
Note: On f. 54v are 15 settings of Ite missa est
rubric: (55r) Incipiunt Kyriele per circulum anni canende
Note: Frere, p. 47 (Greater Tropes)
Note: (70r) Tonale. Frere, p. 62
Note: (73v) Greater Tropes. Sanctus and Agnus
rubric: (79v) Versus ad Kyrriele
Note: (80v) Alphabet written in cent. xii
Note: Sequences plain (upper part of f. 81r very faint)
Note: (89r) Sequences with words. List in Frere, p. 71
Note: (135r) Organa to Kyrie and gloria tropes. Frere, p. 85
rubric: (143r) Organa super Tractus
Note: Frere , p. 87
rubric: (153r) Organa super sequentia
Note: Frere , p. 87
rubric: (163r) Organa ad Alleluia
Note: Frere , p. 88
rubric: (175v) Organa super Responsoria
Note: Frere , p. 93
rubric: (179v) Antephana ad processionem
Note: Frere , p. 94
rubric: (180v) Organa pulcherrima incipit
Note: Frere , p. 94
rubric: (181r) De Sancta Trinitate
Note: Frere , p. 94
rubric: (186r) De Sancto Iusto
rubric: (186v) Istoria de Sancto Suuithuno
Note: Frere , p. 96
rubric: (189v) In natali Sancti Iohannis Baptistae
Note: Frere , p. 96
rubric: (189v) In Festiuitate Sancti Petri
Note: Frere , p. 96
Note: (189v) (For St Denis). Frere , p. 96
Note: (190v) Organa to two Alleluias (later hand). Frere , p. 97
Note: (190v) Kyrie
Note: (191r) Small fine hand
Note: Sequences
incipit: (191r) Gaude mater ecclesia
Note: Frere , p. 83
incipit: (191v) Alme deus cui seruiunt
rubric: (192v) De Sancto Suuithuno
incipit: (192v) Psallat ecclesia
Note: (193v) Larger hand
incipit: (193v) (O) redemptor summe carmen
Note: Frere , p. 97
Note: (194v) Good round hand
incipit: (194v) Gaude maria
incipit: (195r) (C)ommouisti
Note: (195v) Rougher hand
incipit: (195v) Arbor decora (part)
Note: Frere , p. 97
incipit: (195v) Ymnum canamus (part)
incipit: (195v) Iam Christus astra (part)
incipit: (195v) Iste confessor
Note: Frere , p. 97
Note: (196v) Small hand, without musical notes. Greek with Latin gloss
incipit: (196v) Aue porta
Note: Frere , p. 97
incipit: (196v) (K)ere ipili
Note: (197r) Good upright hand
Note: Una legio est sex milia et sexcenti ac sexaginta sex uiri. an legio iss six þusend 7 six hundred 7 six and sixtig ( Frere , p. 98)
Note: (197r) Note: I . IN . D . II . A, etc. Frere , p. 98
Note: (197r) Gloria (8 times, noted)
incipit: (197v) Cum sederit filius
incipit: (198r) O christe martirum turma
Note: Sequences
rubric: (198v) Planctus sterilis
Note: Frere , p. 83
rubric: (198v) Simon oboediens
Note: (Br) blank
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