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Detailed record for Burney 357
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| Part 1 |
ff. 1-15 |
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| Author |
Mico of Centula, Peter Damian, Eugenius, etc. |
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| Title |
Opus prosodicum, de quindecim signis ante diem judicii, etc. |
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| Origin |
England or France |
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| Date |
1st half of the 12th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Protogothic |
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| Decoration |
Small simple red, green or brown initials. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
210 x 120 (v. variable) |
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| Part 2 |
ff. 15v-16v |
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| Author |
Anonymous |
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| Title |
Polyphonic sequence 'Amor Patris et Filii', apparently for Whit-Sunday, followed by a 'Benedicamus Domino' and devotion to Julian |
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| Origin |
England or France |
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| Date |
2nd half of the 12th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Protogothic |
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| Decoration |
Polyphonic sequence for two voices in six-pairs of four-line staves with narrow, oblong note-forms |
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| Dimensions in mm |
210 x 120 (variable) |
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| Part 3 |
ff. 17-24 |
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| Author |
Hugh of Saint-Victor |
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| Title |
Institutiones in decalogum legis, and Soliloquium de arrha animae, both incomplete |
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| Origin |
England or France |
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| Date |
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Protogothic |
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| Decoration |
Large simple red, brown or yellow initials. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
210 x 120 (variable) |
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| Official foliation |
ff. xi + 31 (ff. 25-31 flyleaves) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Brown calf. |
| Provenance |
The Cistercian abbey of St Mary, Thame, Oxfordshire (see Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 188), and inscription, f. 24v.
William Forrest, according to Ker, the vicar of Bledlow, near Thame, in 1556 (N. R. Ker, ‘Membra disiecta’, British Museum Quarterly, 12 (1938), 130-35, (pp. 134-35) and inscription ‘liber Guilielmi fforresti’, f. 24). (See also A. B. Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford A.D. 1501 to 1540 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974), pp. 209-10, who describes him as a canon of Oseney Cathedral, Oxford, and afterwards rector of Bledlow and chaplain to Queen Mary).
Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.
Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney's library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818. |
| Notes |
Formerly bound with Burney 246, 285, 295, 341, and 344 (see Neil R. Ker, ‘Membra disiecta’, British Museum Quarterly 12, (1938), 130-35 (pp. 134-35) and f. 24v, for a list of contents of the composite manuscript.
Musical notation: late neumes on staff, Enlgand, late 12th century (ff. 15v-16v) |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840 ), I, part II: The Burney Manuscripts (1840), pp. 96-97.
Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1906-1965), I, 252.
Robin Flower, ‘Popular Science in Mediaeval Ireland’, Eriu, 60 (1921), 61-67.
M. C. Diaz y Diaz, Index scriptorum latinorum medii aevi hispanorum, pars prior, Acta Salmanticensia: Filosofia y Letras, 13: 1 (Salamanca: University de Salamanca,1958), no. 202.
Manuscripts of Polyphonic Music: 11th - Early 14th Century, ed. by Gilbert Reaney, Répertoire international des sources musicales, BIV 1 (Munich: Henle, 1966), no. Lo 357, pp. 493-94.
B. Munk Olsen, L’Étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, 3 vols (Paris: Éditions du centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982-1989), I, 460 no. C. 87, 573 no. C.54; II (1985), 44 no. C.75, 87 no. C.7, 100 no. C.1, 144, no. C.65, 541 no. C 50, 730 no. C.95, 855 no. C. 28.
David N. Bell,An Index of Authors and Works in Cistercian Libraries in Great Britain , Cistercian Studies Series, 130 (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications, 1992), pp. 27, 59, 77, 104, 113, 134-35, 204, 215, 221-22.
Birger Munk Olsen, 'The Cistercian and Classical Culture', in La réception de la littérature classique au Moyen Age (IXe-XIIe siècle) (Copenhagen: Museum Tuscalum Press, 1995), 95-131 (pp. 107, 128).
Richard Gameson, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), no. 363.
Mediaeval Latin Texts and Their Transmission, ed. by Paolo Chiesa and Lucia Castaldi (Florence: SISMEL, 2004), p. 278.
Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music, [http://www.diamm.ac.uk] [accessed 08 June 2010] .
Harald Anderson, The Manuscripts of Statius, 3 vols (revised edition: Arlington, Virginia, 2009), I, p. 197, no. 298. |
| Last revised: 05 February 2005 |
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Part 2
ff. 15v-16v |
| Anonymous Polyphonic sequence 'Amor Patris et Filii', apparently for Whit-Sunday, followed by a 'Benedicamus Domino' and devotion to Julian |
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ff. 15v-16
Musical notation |
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