Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 410: Walter of Oddington OSB, De speculatione musicae. Johannes de Muris, Libellus cantus mensurabilis (recensio minor). A Short Treatise on the Rule of Discant

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Abstract/Contents

Summary: CCCC MS 410 provides the only complete copy of Walter of Oddington OSB's (fl. 1298-1316) De speculatione musicae, an encyclopaedic consideration of music theory written in the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century. This manuscript is a compendium consisting of a c. 1425 volume containing Oddington's work, and a later fifteenth-century paper volume containing a treatise on mensural music by the French theorist Iohannes de Muris (c. 1290-c. 1344), and an anonymous English treatise on descant. It serves as a remarkable witness to the diversity of both practical and theoretical treatises available to late-medieval English writers.
Contents: De speculatione musicae -- Libellus cantus mensurabilis (recensio minor) -- A short treatise on the rule of discant

Description

Alternative title	Musica
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 36 + 15
Date created	[ca. 1400 - 1499]
Language	Latin; English, Middle (1100-1500)
Material	paper, Vellum, Paper
Layout	34 and 24 lines to a page
Height (mm)	210
Width (mm)	146
Collation	1(8) 2(10) 3(8) 4(8) 5 (two) \|\| a(16) (wants 16).
Writing	change of hand
Foliation	ff. i + 1-51 + ii-iii
Additions	A stain runs through the lower margin of the book.

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	xv and xv late
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:vk166vb1454/MS_410.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:qh259nk0346/410.pdf
Contains	Title Walter of Oddington OSB, De speculatione musicae. 1r-36v Author Walter of Oddington OSB Rubric (1r) Incipit summus (corrected to summa) ffratris Walteri monachi Eueshamie musici de speculacione musice Incipit (1r) Plura quam digna de musice speculacione et musice speculatoribus perutilia breui ut potero nitar explicare sermone Quadam (!) que pluribus dubia sunt corrigendo, etc. Note (1r) There are frequent blanks in the first page, as if the archetype had been defective. The Preface ends with a statement of the subjects of the work Explicit (1v) que inequalitates quas creant Rubric (1v) De utilitate arsmetice et eius musice introductione. Rubrica Incipit (1v) Quoniam de musica presens est pertractacio Note (6v) Part II (13r) Part III (14v) On this page are musical symbols written large (19r) Part IV (change of hand) (19v) Part V (30v) Part VI Ending Explicit (36r) et non ampliam do (-ando) fastidium nouam diuersitatem superaddicere Rubric (36r) Explicit Note A paragraph follows Incipit (36r) Quia dictum est quod licet monocord' intendere et uoces (or notes) plures adicere Explicit (36r) ut monstrat hec forma (diagram) Rubric (36r) Explicit Note (36v) blank The author is also known as Walter of Odington. A short article in Grove, Dict. of Music IV 734, describes this manuscript, the only complete copy. The text is in Coussemaker, Scriptores I 182-250 Title Iohannes de Muris, Libellus cantus mensurabilis (recensio minor). 37r-49v Author Iohannes de Muris Note Paper Incipit (37r) Quilibet in arte practica mensurabilis cantus erudiri mediocriter affectans ea scribat diligenter que sequntur compilata secundum Johannem de muris (37r) Quinque sunt partes prolacionis (?) videlicet maxima, etc. Note Probably an abridgment of a tract by Joh. de Muris (46v) There is a break here Explicit (46v) dicitur ascendentis dicti breuis est, etc. Note (47r) It continues Incipit (47r) Omnis proporcio est communiter dicta vel proprie dicta. proporcio proprie dicta est habitudo duarum rerum comparatus Note Ends with a short paragraph Incipit (49v) In omnibus coloribus albus est dignissimus Title A short treatise on the rule of discant. 49v-51v Note (49v) Tract in English Incipit (49v) Here begynnes a schorte tretys of the reule of discant. It is to wit Þat Þere are acordance wt outen nowmber Note Ends imperfectly Explicit (51v) as for to syng iij or iiij
TJames	203
Stanley	N. 25
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/wq027ng0617
Location	MS 410
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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