Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 260: Musica Hogeri. Musica enchiriadis. Scholica enchiriadis. Commemoratio brevis

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Summary: CCCC MS 260 was written towards the end of the tenth century at Christ Church, Canterbury. It contains copies of important early medieval treatises on music, most significantly the Musica enchiriadis and Scholica enchiriadis, which usually travelled together. Both must be considered essentially anonymous, despite the fact that the Musica enchiriadis is in this manuscript attributed to Hoger of Laon (d. 930); in the Corpus catalogue James attributed them to Hucbald of Saint-Amand (d. c. 930) and Odo of Cluny OSB (c. 879-942) respectively. Together they provide some of the earliest evidence for polyphony, and use a type of notation known as Dasian, which allows for precise pitch to be recorded. Parker wrote "TW" in this manuscript, perhaps to indicate that he acquired it from John Twyne, a Canterbury schoolmaster and antiquary who had worked at St Augustine's before the Dissolution; or alternatively, from Thomas Wotton (c. 1521-87), nephew of Nicholas Wotton dean of Canterbury, and an associate of Parker with Puritan sympathies.
Contents: Musica Hogeri (Boethius, De institutione musica (V, 17-19)) -- Musica enchiriadis -- Scholica enchiriadis -- Commemoratio breuis de tonis et psalmis modulandis (fragment)

Description

Alternative title	Musica
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 54
Date created	[ca. 900 CE - 999 CE]
Language	Latin
Material	Vellum
Layout	28 lines to a page
Height (mm)	272
Width (mm)	193
Collation	1(8) (wants 1) 2(8) 3(8) 4(6) 5(8)-7(8) (+1).
Writing	in a fine upright Carolingian minuscule
Foliation	ff. i-ii + 1-54 + iii-iv
Provenance	From Christ Church, Canterbury. On f. 1r is: MVSICA HOGERI. TT. (Ancient Libraries, p. 8, no. 44 and p. xxxiii). Also, in red chalk: TW.

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	x
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:vz405td8994/MS_260.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:rd581my7787/260.pdf
Contains	Title Musica Hogeri (Boethius, De institutione musica (V, 17-19)). 1r-2v Author Hogeri Boethius Note (1r) Title in capitals Rubric (1r) Excerptiones Hogeri Abbatis ex auctoribus musicae artis Note (1r) Below this a space - then a table of numbers Text begins: Incipit (1r) Architas vero cuncta ratione constituens non modo sensum auriis inprimis consonantiis obseruare neglexit Note No. 1 is the work of Hucbald and is one of the two best copies. It has been printed by Gerbert. See Coussemaker, Mémoire sur Hucbald, 1841 Title Musica enchiriadis. 3r-18r Explicit (18r) Pandit multa musice rationis miracula prestantissimus auctor BOETIUS ... Cuius si deus annuerit sequens opusculum aliquod continebit exceptum. Huiusce oratiuncule ponamus hic finem Note No. 1 is the work of Hucbald and is one of the two best copies. It has been printed by Gerbert. See Coussemaker, Mémoire sur Hucbald, 1841 Title Scholica enchiriadis. 18r-51v Rubric (18r) Incipit Scolica Enchiriadis de arte musica Incipit (18r) Musica quid est? Bone modulandi scientia Explicit (51v) proportio et symphoniam seruat. tropique retinet modum Note The musical illustrations on ff. 30r, 30v, 31r are added by a later hand No. 2 is the Enchiridion of Odo who has been identified with Odo of Cluny, Gerbert I 251. (P. L. CXXXII 981.) Title Commemoratio breuis de tonis et psalmis modulandis (fragment). 51v-54v Rubric (51v) Incipit commemoratio breuis de tonis et psalmis modulandis Incipit (51v) Debitum seruitutis nostre qui ad ministerium laudationis domini deputamur Note Ends Explicit (53v) Sequitur modulatio psalmi eleuata isque (blank) in deuterum excellentem Note 54r is blank 54v covered with paper has a mathematical figure or two, but no text No. 3 is again the work of Hucbald, edited by Gerbert. (P. L. CXXXII 1026.) See Coussemaker, Mémoire sur Hucbald, 1841
TJames	189
Stanley	N. 18
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/fc475fd2528
Location	MS 260
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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Parker Manuscripts

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