Royal 8 G. vii
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Royal 8 G. vii is a manuscript now housed in the British Library, which contains four-voice music largely by French composers. Although the entire contents lack ascriptions to the relevant composers, many conjectural ascriptions can be supported e.g. by the presence of the work in question in another manuscript. Despite this, a large number of the contents still lack ascriptions and are, as yet, anonymous.
In the table below, the following key may be used to identify the composers:
- ?Name - The ascription is present, but for some reason doubted
- [Name] - The ascription is not present but can be confirmed, e.g. via a connection with another source
- ?[Name] - The ascription is not present and even the likeliest composer in question doubted
The manuscript seems to have come from the workshop of Alamire, and scholars have identified the manuscript as being partly by "Scribe C" (as labelled in Grove). The manuscript is said to have been put together in the years 1513-25.
Contents
No. | Title | Composer | Parts | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
1. | Honi soit qui mal y pense | ?Clement Morel | 4 | A roughly drawn canon, shown on the first few pages before the other more elaborately illuminated pieces begin. According to Grove, this piece is for 8 voices and not 4. |
2. | Celeste beneficium | [Jean Mouton] | 4 | |
3. | Adiutorium nostrum | [Antoine de Févin] | 4 | Ascribed to Févin in GB-Cmc 1760 and elsewhere as the 2nd part of Mouton’s Celeste beneficium and perhaps by him |
4. | Nesciens mater virgo virum | Anonymous | 4 | |
5. | Ave regina caelorum | [Pierre de la Rue] | 4 | Also known as Ave apertor caelorum |
6. | Descendi in ortum meum | ?[Josquin Desprez] | 4 | |
7. | Sancta Trinitas unus Deus a4 | [Antoine de Févin] | 4 | Attributed in the large number of other manuscripts to Craen, Morales, Mouton, Costanzo Festa and Josquin; several contain a 6vv arrangment by Arnold von Bruck; the sources for the Févin ascription leave no possible doubt that it is by him |
8. | Vexilla regis | [Pierre de la Rue] | 4 | |
9. | Fama malum | [Josquin Desprez] | 4 | Text from Aeneid IV.174–7 |
10. | Doleo super te frater mi jonatha | [Pierre de la Rue] | 4 | |
11. | O Domine Jesu Christe | Anonymous | 4 | |
12. | Maxsimilla christo amabilis | Anonymous | 4 | |
13. | Sancta Maria succurre miseris | [Franciscus Strus] | 4 | |
14. | Sancta et immaculata | Anonymous | 4 | |
15. | Missus est Gabriel angelus | [Josquin Desprez] | 4 | |
16. | Dulcissima virgo Maria | Anonymous | 4 | |
17. | Tota pulchra es | Anonymous | 4 | |
18. | O sancta Maria virgo virginum | Anonymous | 4 | |
19. | Verbum bonum | [Pierrequin de Thérache] | 4 | |
20. | Recordamini quomodo predixit | Anonymous | 4 | |
21. | O beatissime Domine | Anonymous | 4 | |
22. | Ave sanctissima Maria | Anonymous | 4 | |
23. | Ecce Maria genuit | [Jean Mouton] | 4 | The first of two four-part settings |
24. | Congratulamini omnes | Anonymous | 4 | |
25. | Egregrie Christi martir | [Antoine de Févin] | 4 | Also attributed to Mouton |
26. | Alma redemptoris mater | Anonymous | 4 | |
27. | Dulces exuvie | Anonymous | 4 | Text from Aeneid IV.651–4 |
28. | Dulces exuvie | ?[Alexander Agricola] | 4 | Text from Aeneid IV.651–4 |
29. | Dulces exuvie | [Josquin Desprez] | 4 | Text from Aeneid IV.651–4. The uppermost voice of the motet is also that of Mouton’s motet on the same text |
30. | Dulces exuvie | [Jean Mouton] | 4 | Text from Aeneid IV.651–4 |
31. | Dulces exuvie | [Johannes Ghiselin] | 4 | Text from Aeneid IV.651–4 |
32. | Absalon, fili mi | ?[Josquin Desprez] | 4 | Also attributed to de la Rue |
33. | Jesus autem transiens | Anonymous | 4 | |
34. | Anima mea liquefacta est | [Heinrich Isaac] | 4 | |
35. | Tribulatio et angustia | [Philippe Verdelot] | 4 | Also attributed to Josquin |
External links
- View images of the manuscript at The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music