Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 473: The Winchester Troper
Description
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- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record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
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- The Winchester Troper. 1r-198v
- Note
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(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.)
(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
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Frere, p. 71
These two sequences are inserted on leaves formerly blank
(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
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After this, according to Frere, quires are lost
The hand changes, on f. 9r is another sequence inserted - Incipit
- (9r) Gaude virgo mater ecclesia
- Note
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Frere, p. 71
(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
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Frere, p. 47 (Greater Tropes)
(70r) Tonale. Frere, p. 62
(73v) Greater Tropes. Sanctus and Agnus - Rubric
- (79v) Versus ad Kyrriele
- Note
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(80v) Alphabet written in cent. xii
Sequences plain (upper part of f. 81r very faint)
(89r) Sequences with words. List in Frere, p. 71
(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
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(186r) De Sancto Iusto
(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
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Frere , p. 96
(189v) (For St Denis). Frere , p. 96
(190v) Organa to two Alleluias (later hand). Frere , p. 97
(190v) Kyrie
(191r) Small fine hand
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
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Frere , p. 97
(194v) Good round hand - Incipit
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(194v) Gaude maria
(195r) (C)ommouisti - Note
- (195v) Rougher hand
- Incipit
- (195v) Arbor decora (part)
- Note
- Frere , p. 97
- Incipit
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(195v) Ymnum canamus (part)
(195v) Iam Christus astra (part)
(195v) Iste confessor - Note
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Frere , p. 97
(196v) Small hand, without musical notes. Greek with Latin gloss - Incipit
- (196v) Aue porta
- Note
- Frere , p. 97
- Incipit
- (196v) (K)ere ipili
- Note
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(197r) Good upright hand
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)
(197r) Note: I . IN . D . II . A, etc. Frere , p. 98
(197r) Gloria (8 times, noted) - Incipit
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(197v) Cum sederit filius
(198r) O christe martirum turma - Note
- Sequences
- Rubric
- (198v) Planctus sterilis
- Note
- Frere , p. 83
- Rubric
- (198v) Simon oboediens
- Note
- (Br) blank
- The Winchester Troper. 1r-198v
- TJames
- 202
- Stanley
- N. 38
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/yp193mg4537
- MS 473
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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