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Taunton, Somersetshire Record Office DD/WHb. 3182

Two vellum music leaves stitched in and glued down as front and rear end-papers of a Wycliffe New Testament. The leaves, now detached, contain a complete Sanctus and Magnificat, and two fragmentary pieces, perhaps motets.

INVENTORY

LEFFERTS, Peter M. 'Taunton, Somerset County Record Office, DD/WHb 3182' [in] `New sources of English thirteenth- and fourteenth-century polyphony',compiled by P. Lefferts and M. Bent, Early Music History, 2 (1982): 354-356.

CONTENTS


  1. A-Av, Magnificat (Magnificat))

  2. B, [Sanctus] (Sanctus))

  3. B, ... geret et regem gencium (motet))

  4. Bv, ... rex piaculum homo (whole chant setting))


LITERATURE

1. Sanctus, 2. Magnificat (Anonymous, 14th Century, transcribed and edited by Paul Doe, Exeter: 1973. University of Exeter Publications in Early Music 1.