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Detailed record for Royal 2 B IV
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| Title |
Troper and Gradual, imperfect |
| Origin |
England, S. (St Albans) |
| Date |
Last quarter of the 12th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Protogothic |
| Decoration |
Large initials in colours and gold and/or silver with penwork decoration, at the beginning of major divisions (ff. 1, 24v, 55, 184, 195), and smaller initials of the same type at the beginning of all chants. Initials in red, blue, and green throughout the text. |
| Dimensions in mm |
250 x 150 (175 x 110) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 215 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1963. |
| Provenance |
Made at and for the Benedictine abbey of St. Albans: includes the Invention of Albans (f. 107v).
Added anthem 'Regina celi letare', 15th century (f. 194v).
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
Small printed square with '123' pasted into the corner of f. 1. |
| Notes |
Musical notation: late Anglo-Norman neumes on four-line red staves (round and square B clefs), England (St Albans), last quarter of the 12th century.
Leaves missing after ff. 68, 98, 118; the quire ff. 199-208 is displaced and should follow the missing section after f. 98. |
| Select bibliography |
Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum. By Augustus Hughes-Hughes, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1965, a facsimile of the edition of 1906-09), III, p. 373.
George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), I, pp. 39-40.
Le Graduel Romain: Edition critique par les moines de Solesmes, 2 vols (Solesmes: Abbaye Saint-Pierre, 1957), II, 65.
Otto Pächt, C. R. Dodwell, and Francis Wormald, The St. Albans Psalter (Albani Psalter) (London: Warburg Institute, 1960), p. 274.
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), pp. 167, 362.
Rodney M. Thomson, Manuscripts from St Albans Abbey 1066-1235 (Woodbridge: Brewer, 1982), I, pp. 28-29, 38. II, pls. 89, 144-47.
Christopher de Hamel, A History of Illuminated Manuscripts (Oxford: Phaidon, 1986), fig. 76.
E. C. Teviotdale, 'The Affair of John Marchall', in Culturas Musicales del Mediterraneo y sus Ramificationes: Actas del XV Congresso de la Sociedad Internacional de Musicologia (Madrid 3-10. 04. 1992), Revista de Musicologia, 16 (1993), II, 156-63 (p. 855 n. 20).
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library. 2000), p. xxxvi, n. 48.
Nicolas Bell, Music in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2001), p. 26.
K. D. Hartzell, Catalogue of Manuscripts Written or Owned in England up to 1200 containing Music (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2006), no. 171 (pp. 308-316).
Richard W. Pfaff, The Liturgy in Medieval England: A History (Cambridge: University Press, 2009), p. 166. |
| Last revised: Thursday, September 17, 2009 |
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f. 1
Decorated initial |
f. 24v
Decorated initials |
f. 24v
Decorated initials |
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f. 55
Decorated initial |
f. 107v
Decorated initial |
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