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Worcester, Cathedral Library, Additional 68, fragment xii

A single folio of early 14thC polyphony belonging with the Worcester fragments. The 3 motets are palimpsests over erased music. The recto contains long-breve notation, the verso has groups of semibreves but no minims.

INVENTORIES


  1. 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. 595-597.

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


CONTENTS


  1. fol. 1 (#78), Ut recreentur celitus (motet))

  2. fol. 1v (#79), Inter chorus paradisicolarum - Invictis pueris inter flammas (whole chant setting))

  3. fol. 1v (#80), Regnum sine termino - Regnum tuum solidum (whole chant setting))


LITERATURE


  1. LEFFERTS, Peter M. The Motet in England in the Fourteenth Century.

  2. SUMMERS, William J. 'The Worcester fragments reconsidered: a study in "deconstruction"', Sixteenth Annual Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Music, University of Edinburgh: 1988. [unpublished paper].