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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 473: The Winchester Troper

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 473: The Winchester Troper

Description

Alternative title
The Winchester Troper
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 2 + 199
Date created
[ca. 1025-1075]
Language
Latin, English, Old (ca. 450-1100), Greek, Modern (1453- )
Material
Vellum
Layout
16 lines to a full page
Height (mm)
145
Width (mm)
90
Collation
a(2), 1(8) | 2(10) 3(8) 4(10) 5(8) 6(10) | 7(8) 8(10) 9(8) | 10(8) | 11(10) 12(8) 13(10) 14(8) 15(10) | 16(8) 17(10) | 18(10) | 19(8) | 20(10) 21(10) 22(10) (wants 10).
Writing
in a lovely minute hand
Foliation
ff. i-ii + f1 + f2 + 1-198 + b + iii-iv
Provenance
From Winchester.
Additions
The whole volume is dealt with in W. H. Frere's The Winchester Troper, Bradshaw Society 1894. The MS. is described on p. xxvii, note 2. Facsimiles are given in plates 4-26. Also in Paléographie Musicale, pl. 179.
The flyleaves (ff. f1r-f2v) are a bit of a xvith cent. document.

Abstract/Contents

Summary
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.
Contents
The Winchester Troper

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xi. med.,
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:zr846gj3766/MS_473.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:gn008zm6518/473.pdf
Contains
  • The Winchester Troper. 1r-198v
    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.)<br />(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<br />These two sequences are inserted on leaves formerly blank<br />(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<br />The hand changes, on f. 9r is another sequence inserted
    Incipit
    (9r) Gaude virgo mater ecclesia
    Note
    Frere, p. 71<br />(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)<br />(70r) Tonale. Frere, p. 62<br />(73v) Greater Tropes. Sanctus and Agnus
    Rubric
    (79v) Versus ad Kyrriele
    Note
    (80v) Alphabet written in cent. xii<br />Sequences plain (upper part of f. 81r very faint)<br />(89r) Sequences with words. List in Frere, p. 71<br />(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<br />(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<br />(189v) (For St Denis). Frere , p. 96<br />(190v) Organa to two Alleluias (later hand). Frere , p. 97<br />(190v) Kyrie<br />(191r) Small fine hand<br />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<br />(194v) Good round hand
    Incipit
    (194v) Gaude maria<br />(195r) (C)ommouisti
    Note
    (195v) Rougher hand
    Incipit
    (195v) Arbor decora (part)
    Note
    Frere , p. 97
    Incipit
    (195v) Ymnum canamus (part)<br />(195v) Iam Christus astra (part)<br />(195v) Iste confessor
    Note
    Frere , p. 97<br />(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<br />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)<br />(197r) Note: I . IN . D . II . A, etc. Frere , p. 98<br />(197r) Gloria (8 times, noted)
    Incipit
    (197v) Cum sederit filius<br />(198r) O christe martirum turma
    Note
    Sequences
    Rubric
    (198v) Planctus sterilis
    Note
    Frere , p. 83
    Rubric
    (198v) Simon oboediens
    Note
    (Br) blank
TJames
202
Stanley
N. 38
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Location
MS 473

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