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Suspiria merentis anime; Meroris stimulo fessus

Three-voice anonymous motet

Sources

Cambridge: Gonville and Caius College 512/543, fol. 253v-254 (3/2).

Facsimiles

1. APFEL, Ernst. Studien zur Satztechnik der mittelalterlichen englischen Musik, 2 vols., Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1959. Abhandlungen der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaft, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse 5, pp. 72-73.
2. Manuscripts of 14th Century English Polyphony: A Selection of Facsimiles, edited by Frank Ll. Harrison and Roger Wibberley, London: Stainer & Bell, 1982. Early English Church Music XXVI, plates 126-127.

Editions

1. SANDERS, Ernest H. 'Tonal aspects of 13th-century English polyphony', Acta Musicologica, XXXVII (1965), p. 28.
2. WIBBERLEY, Roger. English Polyphonic Music of the Late 13th and Early 14th Centuries: A Reconstruction, Transcription and Commentary, D.Phil. dissertation, University of Oxford (Keble), p. 282.
3. Motets of English Provenance, edited by Frank Ll. Harrison, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1980. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XV, p. 114.

Literature

1. HARRISON, Frank Ll. 'Ars nova in England: a new source', Musica Disciplina, XXI (1967), p. 76.
2. LEFFERTS, Peter M. The Motet in England in the Fourteenth Century, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986, pp. 57-58, 60, 240-241.