MS. Lat. liturg. d. 20
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)
Contents
Fifteen leaves of polyphonic music recovered from bindings of MSS. Auct. F. inf. 1. 3 (SC 2747), Bodl. 862 (SC 2730), and Hatton 30 (SC 4076). Interspersed with photostats of other fragments in Worcester Cathedral Library MS. Add. 68 and Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 25031. The MS. is fully described with facsimiles and a concordance of new with old foliations by L. A. Dittmer, The Worcester Fragments, Musicological Studies and Documents 2, Amer. Inst. of Musicology, 1957, and Publications of Medieval Music Manuscripts, no.6, Inst. of Med. Music, New York, 1960. The following list aims to clarify the sometimes confusing relationship between the original leaves and the modern reprocuctions in the volume, and between the various foliations. In addition to the foliations mentioned in the literature, the reproductions of fragments at Worcester have another modern pencil foliation, now erased: this was perhaps used temporarily, before the volume was bound.
Typescript letter from Anselm Hughes to H. H. E. Craster, asking for the flyleaves of MS. Auct. F. I. 3 and Magdalen College, MS. 100, to be removed from their bindings, and for photographs to be deposited at Worcester; dated 23 September 1924.
Typescript letter from Anselm Hughes to H. H. E. Craster, thanking the latter for supplying him with rotographs; dated 30 August 1927
Typescript letter from Luther A. Dittmer to R. W. Hunt, supplying a concordance of the 'Present (Hughes)' foliation and the 'Future' foliation which Dittmer intended to use in his 'forthcoming publication'; dated 22 August 1952.
Brief notes on the contents and foliation, in the hand of Edgar Lobel
Rotograph of Worcester Chapter Library, MS. Add. 68, no. X.
Rotograph of Worcester Chapter Library, MS. Add. 68, no. X
Rotograph of BL, Add. MS. 25031
Rotograph of BL, Add. MS. 25031
Rotograph of BL, Add. MS. 25031 (no medieval foliation visible)
Positive of BL, Add. MS. 25031 (small fragment; no medieval foliation visible).
Rotograph of Worcester Chapter Library, MS. Add. 68, no. XXXI (no medieval foliation visible)
Rotograph of Worcester Chapter Library, MS. Add. 68, no. XXVIIIa.
Rotograph of Worcester Chapter Library, MS. Add. 68, no. XXVIIIb.
Rotograph of Worcester Chapter Library, MS. Add. 68, no. XXVIIIc.
Rotograph of Worcester Chapter Library, MS. Add. 68, no. XXVIIId
Incomplete bifolium; removed from Bodleian, MS. Auct. F. I. 3.
Incomplete bifolia; lacking the two innermost, and perhaps also the outermost, bifolia of the quire.
Rotograph of Worcester Chapter Library, MS. Add. 68, no. XI.
Rotograph of Worcester Chapter Library, MS. Add. 68, no. XI (no medieval foliation visible).
Formerly MS. Hatton 30, fol. 1r-v
Formerly MS. Bodl. 862, fol. ii r-v
Formerly MS. Bodl. 862, fol. vi v-r [sic]
Formerly MS. Bodl. 862, fol. iii r-v
Formerly Magdalen College, MS. 100, fol. 1r-v
Rotograph of Worcester Chapter Library, MS. Add. 68, no. IX.
Reversed rotograph of the offsets on the inner faces of the boards of MS. Bodl. 862 (lower board=recto; upper board=verso)
Rotograph of Worcester Chapter Library, MS. Add. 68, no. XXXV.
Rotograph of Worcester Chapter Library, MS. Add. 68, no. XXXV
Rotograph of Worcester Chapter Library, MS. Add. 68, no. XXXV.
Rotograph of Worcester Chapter Library, MS. Add. 68, no. XXXV
Rotograph of Worcester Chapter Library, MS. Add. 68, no. XXXV
A narrow strip from the outer edge of a leaf, pasted to what is now the gutter edge (formerly the outer edge) of the present fol. 35
The present recto is the original verso, and should face the present fol. 34r.
Rotograph of Worcester Chapter Library, MS. Add. 68, no. XIII pp. 3–4.
Rotograph of Worcester Chapter Library, MS. Add. 68, no. XIII pp. 5–6 (also numbered 'IV b' and 'Nº. XIII b' on the verso).
Rotograph of Worcester Chapter Library, MS. Add. 68, no. XIII pp. 7–8
Rotograph of Worcester Chapter Library, MS. Add. 68, no. XIII pp. 1–2 (also numbered 'IV b' and 'Nº. XIII' on the recto).
Blank modern paper flyleaf.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Long lines
8–10 staves of 5 red lines
Decoration
Red and blue initials, a few with flourishing.
Binding
Bodleian guardbook, c.1925; repaired in 1964.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Worcester, Benedictine cathedral priory
Photostats given by the dean and chapter of Worcester and others, 1925
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (29 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Abbreviations
View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.
Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.