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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Title:

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

Alternate Title:

Musica

Language:

Latin and English, Middle (1100-1500)

Extent:

ff. 36 + 15

Dimensions:

210 Height (mm) and 146 Width (mm)

Approximate Date:

[ca. 1400 - 1499]

Table of contents:

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• De speculatione musicae
• Libellus cantus mensurabilis (recensio minor)
• A short treatise on the rule of discant

Description:

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.