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Source des données : Parker on the Web

• 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

  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

  
  

  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