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Ad lacrimas flentis; O speculum spericum; Dulcis virgo

Four-voice anonymous motet

Sources

Durham: Cathedral Library C.I.20, fol. 336 (4/3);
Fribourg: Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire Z 260, fol. 86 (1/1) (Motetus fragment only).

Facsimiles

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 158-159 (DRc20).

Editions

Motets of English Provenance, edited by Frank Ll. Harrison, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1980. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XV, p. 142.

Literature

1. HARRISON, Frank Ll. 'Ars nova in England: a new source', Musica Disciplina, XXI (1967), p. 84.
2. SANDERS, Ernest. 'The mediaeval motet', Gattungen der Musik in Einzeldarstellungen: Gedenkschrift Leo Schrade, Erste Folge, Bern, Munich: 1971, pp. 497-573.
3. LEFFERTS, Peter M. The Motet in England in the Fourteenth Century, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986, pp. 252-253.
4. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'Bemerkungen zur Überlieferung und zum Stil der geistlichen Werke des Antonius dictus Zacharias de Teramo', Musica Disciplina, XLI (1987), p. 168.