Fragments of early music manuscripts and other pastedowns

Scope and Content

Mainly used as pastedowns in volumes in Clare College Fellows' Library

Arrangement

Bundles are filed separately and include the "modern" envelopes for identification. These envelopes had presumably been used to house the items after being transferred from the Library.

Acquisition Information

Acc 1988/17 - Presumably from the Fellows Library but manuscripts are not noted in original accessions receipt

Bibliography

One piece has been mentioned in an online medieval Music manuscript project at www.diamm.ac.uk

Further fragments were also mentioned on pages 277-278 in Peter M. Lefferts, Margaret Bent, Roger Bowers, Mark Everist, Andrew Wathey 'New Sources of English Thirteenth - and Fourteenth-Century Polyphony', Early Music History, Vol. 2 (1982), pp. 273-362. Electronic copy of this article stored in College archives.