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Detailed record for Egerton 3307
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| Title |
Music and carols for Holy Week (begins and ends imperfectly) |
| Origin |
England |
| Date |
between 1430 and 1444 |
| Language |
Latin, French, and English |
| Script |
Gothic cursive |
| Decoration |
2 large historiated initials, the first with partial foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 72v, 73). 2 large decorated foliate initials, the second with foliate extensions into the margins, in colours and gold (ff. 37v, 49). 2 large puzzle initials in red and blue with foliate pen-flourishing in blue and red, with scrolls in the bowl or in the margins (ff. 15, 20). Large and smaller initials in red with green foliate pen-flourishing or in blue with red foliate pen-flourishing or in green with red foliate pen-flourishing. |
| Dimensions in mm |
295 x 210 (200 x 140) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 88 (+ 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning, and 3 at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
? St George's Chapel, Windsor (see Schofield 1946) or Meaux Abbey, Yorkshire (see Bukofzer 1951).
Scrolls which accompany the puzzle initials, bearing the motto 'De cy en mieulx' (ff. 14v and 15 [erased], 20).
? Jean Joseph Jacques Tissot (d. 1902): his former green cardboard binding, now laid down inside the covers, with a roundel containing a cluster of grapes with a band to the right-hand edge (inside upper cover), and a monogram 'JTJ' (inside lower cover).
Bernard Wilson, Esq., of Hampstead, London (see British Museum catalogue).
Bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829). |
| Notes |
Musical notation. |
| Select bibliography |
Bertram Schofield, 'A Newly Discovered 15th-century Manuscript of the English Chapel Royal - Part 1', The Musical Quarterly, 32 (1946), 509-36.
Bertram Schofield and Manfred F. Bukofzer, 'A Newly Discovered Fifteenth-Century Manuscript of the English Chapel Royal - Part 2', The Musical Quarterly, 33 (1947), 38-51
Manfred F. Bukofzer, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music (London: Dent & Sons, 1951), pp. 113-75.
'Manuscripts Acquired During the Years 1941-50', The British Museum Quarterly, 15 (1952), 18-35 (pp. 33-34).
Richard L. Greene, 'Two Medieval Musical Manuscripts: Egerton 3307 and Some University of Chicago Fragments', Journal of the American Musicological Society, 7 (Spring, 1954), 1-34.
The British Museum Manuscript Egerton 3307: The music, except for the carols, ed. and transcribed, and with a commentary by Gwynn S. McPeek, texts edited and transcribed by Robert White Linker (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963).
The British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts 1936-1945, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1970), I, no. Eg. 3307.
Kathleen L. Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490, Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 6, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 1996), I, p. 70 n. 17.
Nicholas Bell, Music in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2001), pp. 36-38, 59.
Philip Howard, The British Library: A Treasure House of Knowledge (London: Scala Publishers, 2008), no. 83. |
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f. 10
Musical notation |
f. 10v
Decorated initial |
f. 11
Musical notation |
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f. 11v
Musical notation |
f. 12
Musical notation |
f. 12v
Musical notation |
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f. 13
Decorated initial |
f. 13v
Musical notation |
f. 14
Musical notation |
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f. 14v
Musical notation |
f. 15
Puzzle initial |
f. 15v
Musical notation |
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f. 16
Musical notation |
f. 16v
Musical notation |
f. 17
Musical notation |
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f. 17v
Decorated initial |
f. 18
Decorated initial |
f. 18v
Decorated initial |
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f. 19
Musical notation |
f. 20
Puzzle initial |
f. 20v
Musical notation |
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f. 21
Musical notation |
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