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Detailed record for Egerton 2615
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| Title |
Motets, in an Office for the Feast of the Circumsion; Hymns, Miracle play on the history of Daniel (ff. 95-108) |
| Origin |
France, N. (Beauvais) |
| Date |
2nd quarter of the 13th century, probably between 1227 and 1234 |
| Language |
Latin and French |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Decoration |
10 large initials in gold on blue and red grounds and penwork decoration (ff. 1, 16, 17v, 50, 56v, 80, 82, 88v, 90, 91). 1 large puzzle initial in red and blue with red and blue pen-flourishing (f. 95). Large initials in blue with red penwork decoration, and in red with blue penwork decoration. Small initials in red or blue. |
| Dimensions in mm |
220 x 140 (155 x 95) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 110 + 78[a] ( + 1 unfoliated modern parchment flyleaf at the beginning and at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Pre-1600. Wooden boards; rebacked. |
| Provenance |
The chapter of the cathedral of Beauvais: probably written during the pontificate of Gregory IX (1227-1241), and before the marriage of Louis IX to Marguerite of Provence in 1234: the Laudes Regiae includes 'Gregorio summo pontifici et universali pape vita' (f. 41v), and 'Ludovico serenissimo et a deo coronato magno et pacifico regi vita et victora', without the name of Marguerite (f. 42); text 'In Belvaco [Beauvais] est inventus . . .' (f. 95); its book-plates (ff. 78, 110v).
Pacchiarotti of Padua: partly effaced inscription (f. 110v).
Purchased by the British Museum from Ellis and White on 8 December 1883 using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761, d. 1838), a cousin of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829), founder of the collection. |
| Notes |
Musical notation on red or green 4-line staves for three voices.
f. 78 [a] is an unfoliated page with red 4-line staves. |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1882-1887 (London: British Museum, 1889), no. Eg. 2615 [with additional bibliography].
Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1906-65), I, 242, 253.
A Guide to the Exhibition of Some Part of the Egerton Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1929), no. 139.
Arthur Watson, The Early Iconography of the Tree of Jesse (London: Humphrey Milford, 1934), p. 33 n. 2.
D. G. Hughes, 'Liturgical Polyphony at Beauvais in the Thirteen Century', Speculum 34 (1959), 184-200.
Manuscripts of Polyphonic Music, 11th - Early 14th Century, ed. by Gilbert Reaney, Répertoire international des sources musicales, BIV 1 (Munich: G. Henle, 1966), pp. 501-05 [with additional bibliography].
Wulf Arlt, Ein Festoffizium des Mittelalters aus Beauvais in seiner liturgisches und musikalischen Becheuting (Cologne, 1970).
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, no. 612.
Arthur Seale, Music Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1987), p. 4, pl. on p. 3.
Nicolas Bell, Music in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2001), pp. 33-37. |
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f. 80
Decorated initial |
f. 82
Decorated initial |
f. 88v
Decorated initial |
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f. 90
Decorated initial |
f. 91
Decorated initial |
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