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Biblissima authority file: https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q210246
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Résumé : 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.
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Langue(s) des textes : latin
Intervenants :
Hogeri - author
Boethius - author
1r-2v - Musica Hogeri (Boethius, De institutione musica (V, 17-19))
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
Note : 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
3r-18r - Musica enchiriadis
explicit : (18r) Pandit multa musice rationis miracula prestantissimus auctor BOETIUS ... Cuius si deus annuerit sequens opusculum aliquod continebit exceptum. Huiusce oratiuncule ponamus hic finem
18r-51v - Scholica enchiriadis
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
Note : No. 2 is the Enchiridion of Odo who has been identified with Odo of Cluny, Gerbert I 251. (P. L. CXXXII 981.)
51v-54v - Commemoratio breuis de tonis et psalmis modulandis (fragment)
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
Note : 54v covered with paper has a mathematical figure or two, but no text
Note : No. 3 is again the work of Hucbald, edited by Gerbert. (P. L. CXXXII 1026.) See Coussemaker, Mémoire sur Hucbald, 1841
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