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Cambridge, Pembroke College 228

The corpus may be of South French origin, but the music is certainly from England. The four flyleaves contain 4 motet fragments, a Credo, and 2 conductus or sequences.

INVENTORY

Répertoire international des sources musicales. BIV 1. Manuscripts of Polyphonic Music, 11th - Early 14th Century, edited by Gilbert Reaney, G. Henle Verlag: Munich-Duisburg, 1966, pp. 478-480.

CONTENTS


  1. i, Vas exstas electionis, o Paule (motet))

  2. i verso, Virgo Maria, patrem parit filia - O stella marina - Virgo Maria, flos divina - Flos genuit regina (motet))

  3. ii, Laus, honor vendito sit Christo - Laus, honor Christo vendito (whole chant setting))

  4. ii verso, Candens crescit lilium - Candens lilium columbina (motet))

  5. iv, Credo (Credo))

  6. iv verso-v verso, Ave celi regina virginum (cantilena))

  7. iv-v, Decora facie virgo pre ceteris (cantilena))


LITERATURE


  1. SANDERS, Ernest. 'The mediaeval motet', Gattungen der Musik in Einzeldarstellungen: Gedenkschrift Leo Schrade, Erste Folge, Bern, Munich: 1971, pp. 497-573.

  2. LEFFERTS, Peter M. The Motet in England in the Fourteenth Century, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986, p. 245.

  3. LEFFERTS, Peter M. Review: 'Facsimiles of fourteenth-century English polyphony', RMA Research Chronicle, 21 (1988): 83-95 (p. 86).

CONCORDANCES

1.Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College 512/543 (248v-249, Virgo Maria, patrem parit filia - O stella marina - Virgo Maria, flos divina - Flos genuit regina; 258v-259, Ave celi regina virginum).
2.London, British Library, Sloane 1210 (1, Credo).
3.New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M. 978 (7v-8, Candens crescit lilium - Candens lilium columbina).
4.Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 862 (28v (#53), Candens crescit lilium - Candens lilium columbina)