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• Résumé : This small sized book, CCCC MS 473, is commonly known as The Winchester Troper; together with Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 775 (sometimes also called by this name) it attests to the musical repertory of the Old Minster Winchester in the eleventh century. It contains some of the oldest polyphonic music in the West. As well as 'tropes', musical phrases which were added as embellishments to the standard chant for the liturgical texts, it also contains sequences and other music. It would have been used by a precentor, whose job it was to lead the music at mass and the divine office. There are many signs that it comes from the Old Minster Winchester, including texts for the feasts of the Winchester saints Swithhun, Æthelwold, Justus of Beauvais, Hædde (Hedda) and Birinus. Datings from the script have varied from circa 1000 to the second quarter of the eleventh century; the earlier dating has led people to associate this manuscript with Wulfstan of Winchester OSB (fl. late tenth century), also known as Wulfstan Cantor, who was precentor of the Old Minster Winchester at around that date, and who wrote saints' lives and hagiographical poetry. A later dating, perhaps 1020s-1030s, now seems probable, but it is still likely that at least some of the material it contains is his work. Material was added to the manuscript serially over the course of the eleventh century.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin, anglais, grec

  
  

  1r-198v - The Winchester Troper

  Note : (1r) Quire 1 has suffered from damp. The first lines of f. 1r have no neumes and are not easily legible. 1. gen morie cadire t .neit batait.2. rie hi us segrauavo. l .iii. et pater noster.3. dobia ... anda ... salutanda dorsum abyssum. 4. mu stom prouerb. alba. alleluia.5. ligati xps.6. blank.7. (Ma)gnus (deus, etc. Frere, p. 71.)

  Note : (1r) Here neumes begin and the hand changes.

  incipit : (1r) (M)agna sunt eius omnia in celo atque in terra

  Note : (Sequence)

  incipit : (2r) Sonent regi nato noua cantica

  Note : Frere, p. 71

  Note : These two sequences are inserted on leaves formerly blank

  Note : (2v) Alleluias, initials in gold and blue

  incipit : (2v) Alleluia. Ymera agiasme ni epifani mon Dies sanctificatus inluxit nobis

  Note : The last is

  incipit : (8v) Alleluia. Cum sederit filius hominis

  Note : After this, according to Frere, quires are lost

  Note : The hand changes, on f. 9r is another sequence inserted

  incipit : (9r) Gaude virgo mater ecclesia

  Note : Frere, p. 71

  Note : (10r) Tropes (Lesser Tropes. Frere, p. 3): large plain gold initial

  incipit : (10r) O benefida tuis adsis

  Note : On f. 54v are 15 settings of Ite missa est

  rubric : (55r) Incipiunt Kyriele per circulum anni canende

  Note : Frere, p. 47 (Greater Tropes)

  Note : (70r) Tonale. Frere, p. 62

  Note : (73v) Greater Tropes. Sanctus and Agnus

  rubric : (79v) Versus ad Kyrriele

  Note : (80v) Alphabet written in cent. xii

  Note : Sequences plain (upper part of f. 81r very faint)

  Note : (89r) Sequences with words. List in Frere, p. 71

  Note : (135r) Organa to Kyrie and gloria tropes. Frere, p. 85

  rubric : (143r) Organa super Tractus

  Note : Frere , p. 87

  rubric : (153r) Organa super sequentia

  Note : Frere , p. 87

  rubric : (163r) Organa ad Alleluia

  Note : Frere , p. 88

  rubric : (175v) Organa super Responsoria

  Note : Frere , p. 93

  rubric : (179v) Antephana ad processionem

  Note : Frere , p. 94

  rubric : (180v) Organa pulcherrima incipit

  Note : Frere , p. 94

  rubric : (181r) De Sancta Trinitate

  Note : Frere , p. 94

  rubric : (186r) De Sancto Iusto

  rubric : (186v) Istoria de Sancto Suuithuno

  Note : Frere , p. 96

  rubric : (189v) In natali Sancti Iohannis Baptistae

  Note : Frere , p. 96

  rubric : (189v) In Festiuitate Sancti Petri

  Note : Frere , p. 96

  Note : (189v) (For St Denis). Frere , p. 96

  Note : (190v) Organa to two Alleluias (later hand). Frere , p. 97

  Note : (190v) Kyrie

  Note : (191r) Small fine hand

  Note : Sequences

  incipit : (191r) Gaude mater ecclesia

  Note : Frere , p. 83

  incipit : (191v) Alme deus cui seruiunt

  rubric : (192v) De Sancto Suuithuno

  incipit : (192v) Psallat ecclesia

  Note : (193v) Larger hand

  incipit : (193v) (O) redemptor summe carmen

  Note : Frere , p. 97

  Note : (194v) Good round hand

  incipit : (194v) Gaude maria

  incipit : (195r) (C)ommouisti

  Note : (195v) Rougher hand

  incipit : (195v) Arbor decora (part)

  Note : Frere , p. 97

  incipit : (195v) Ymnum canamus (part)

  incipit : (195v) Iam Christus astra (part)

  incipit : (195v) Iste confessor

  Note : Frere , p. 97

  Note : (196v) Small hand, without musical notes. Greek with Latin gloss

  incipit : (196v) Aue porta

  Note : Frere , p. 97

  incipit : (196v) (K)ere ipili

  Note : (197r) Good upright hand

  Note : Una legio est sex milia et sexcenti ac sexaginta sex uiri. an legio iss six þusend 7 six hundred 7 six and sixtig ( Frere , p. 98)

  Note : (197r) Note: I . IN . D . II . A, etc. Frere , p. 98

  Note : (197r) Gloria (8 times, noted)

  incipit : (197v) Cum sederit filius

  incipit : (198r) O christe martirum turma

  Note : Sequences

  rubric : (198v) Planctus sterilis

  Note : Frere , p. 83

  rubric : (198v) Simon oboediens

  Note : (Br) blank