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Description: | What if someone put together all the bits and pieces of written material that they enjoyed and needed for frequent use? The result might be something like this manuscript, perhaps a medieval version of the web-surfer's 'favourites' list. In Latin and French--with one famous Middle English exception--it has songs, satire and poems for entertainment, along with medical information, a calendar of religious feasts and devotional music. Believed to have been at Reading Abbey in the middle ages, it probably was made at a workshop in Oxford and may have been commissioned by the notorious music-loving monk, William of Winchester.
This page begins a devotional antiphon or song for singing by two or more voices in a 'call and response' pattern. Known by its first words, 'Ave gloriosa mater salvatoris' ('Hail glorious mother of the Saviour'), it has three parts, for contra-tenor, tenor and bass, shown by the musical notation on the fifteen-line stave. The latin lyrics are written in black. Another set of lyrics below in red present a second song in French to the Virgin Mary. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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