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• Résumé : 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.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin, anglais

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Walter of Oddington OSB - author

  1r-36v - Walter of Oddington OSB, De speculatione musicae

  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

  Note : (13r) Part III

  Note : (14v) On this page are musical symbols written large

  Note : (19r) Part IV (change of hand)

  Note : (19v) Part V

  Note : (30v) Part VI

  Note : 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

  Note : 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

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Iohannes de Muris - author

  37r-49v - Iohannes de Muris, Libellus cantus mensurabilis (recensio minor)

  Note : Paper

  incipit : (37r) Quilibet in arte practica mensurabilis cantus erudiri mediocriter affectans ea scribat diligenter que sequntur compilata secundum Johannem de muris

  incipit : (37r) Quinque sunt partes prolacionis (?) videlicet maxima, etc.

  Note : Probably an abridgment of a tract by Joh. de Muris

  Note : (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

  
  

  49v-51v - A short treatise on the rule of discant

  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