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Parchment; f. 1, cut down so that barely two lines of text and musical staves survive on each side. The text is produced by stencil, with the originally open spaces of lines around enclosed spaces filled in by hand (for example, to fully enclose the o; to close the upper partial circle of the e; to finish off the enclosing of the bottoms of the rounded spaces in the letters b and d; etc.). Square musical notation on red 4-line staves.

Produced in France during the 18th century. On the recto, in the lower right corner, an octangle label, edged in printed blue design, bearing the pen-written note: 1051. Belonged to Louis Charles Elson (1848-1920) who was a professor of music theory and history at the New England Conservatory of Music from age 34 onwards; he had begun studying music with his mother, then went on to study in Leipzig; he composed songs, operetta and works for the piano, but mainly he studied and wrote on the history of music; he published in a number of Boston newspapers, and was the editor-in-chief of Modern Music and Musicians (1912; 20 vols.) and of the University Musical Encyclopedia (1912-14; 10 vols.), among the ca. 50 items that he published over the course of his life. The collection of medieval fragments of music that had belonged to Louis Charles Elson was acquired in 1924 by the Grosvenor Library in Buffalo NY; this library, together with the Erie County Library and the Buffalo Public Library merged in 1953 to form today's Buffalo and Erie County Public Library. Elson no. 24; This leaf (presumably because it is not dated to medieval or Renaissance times) was not described by De Ricci.

For the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul (29 June), the sequence that begins, "Quos unus in vita labor," as printed in, for example, the Missale cenomanense (Lyon: ex typographia Caroli Monnoyer, 1835) p. 527. The piece of text missing between the end of the scrap of the recto and the beginning of the scrap of the verso is: una quondam martyres/ In morte iunxit gloria,/ Vos una nunc colit dies./ Supernus inter vos Pater/Partitur. -- //<Q>uos unus in vita labor,/ Quos// <text cut away> //orbem: tu doc<es>/<o Petre,> Judaeos; fide/ T//<u, Paule, gentes imbuis>

Previously classified as RBR MSS. C33F7 900Z, item 2.

Bibliography: De Ricci, p. 1209, n. 2 (although this fragment is not mentioned)

[18th century]

2023-12-14

Louis C. Elson Collection. no. 24

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1 leaf (fragment) of music ; 17.5 x 32 cm

parchment (animal material)

RBR Mss. C33G78 1700z

[France]