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The noted Cluniac breviary~missal of Lewes: Fitzwilliam Museum manuscript 369

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2009

Stephen Holder
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The manuscript Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 369 (henceforth Cfm 369) was made in the 13th century for the English Cluniac priory of St.Pancras at Lewes in Sussex. It is not known if the priory itself produced the manuscript or if it were copied elsewhere. Leroquais [1] described it as a breviary-missal. It is undoubtedly the most important surviving English Cluniac liturgical source, for it contains not only the liturgical texts of mass and office complete, but is also notated. Among the services for monastic office and mass there appears a full monastic rhymed office for St.Thomas of Canterbury, unspoilt, a rarity in England. Cfm 369 also has a full office for the patron saint of the priory, St.Pancras.

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Journal of the Plainsong & Mediaeval Music Society , Volume 8 , January 1985 , pp. 25 - 32
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© The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society 1985

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[1] Leroquais, Victor: Le Bréviaire-missel du prieuré clunisien de Lewes (Paris, 1935)Google Scholar.

[2] Wormald, F. and Giles, P.: Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge, 1966), no.34Google Scholar. Wormald, F. and Giles, P.: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge, 1982), pp.310–314 Google Scholar.

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[4] The material in the article is largely drawn from my M.Mus. thesis (Royal Holloway College, University of London, 1984).

[5] For Cluniac sources in general, see Huglo, Michel: ‘Cluny’, in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Sadie, S. (London, 1980)Google Scholar.

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[7] Douglas, David C.: English Historical Documents, vol.II (1042–1189) (London, 1968), p.605 Google Scholar.

[8] Salzman, C.F.: The Chartulary of the Priory of Lewes, Sussex Record Society, vols.38 and 40 (London, 1932), p.2 Google Scholar.

[9] Ibid., p.2.

[10] Luard, H.R.: Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores (Rolls Series 36), Annales monastici, vol.iii (London, 1866), p.425 Google Scholar.

[11] Douglas, op.cit., p.605.

[12] Hesbert, René-Jean: Corpus Antiphonalium Officii, vols.v–vi (Rome, 1975–1978)Google Scholar; the information given here, as it relates to English monastic sources, is discussed at greater leisure in Hesbert, 's article ‘Les antiphonaries monastiques insulaires’, Revue bénédictine 112 (1982), pp.358–375 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

[13] Le Graduel Romain, vol.IV, i: Le Texte Neumatlque (Solesmes 1960)Google Scholar.

[14] Husmann, Heinrich: ‘Zur Überlieferung des Thomas-Offizien’, in Organicae Voces, Festschrift Joseph Smits van Waesberghe (Amsterdam 1963), pp.87–8Google Scholar. The music in Cfm 369 also coincides with the copy of the chants in Edinburgh University Library 123, which is notated in ‘Messine’ neumes, however, and is unlikely to be an English source, though close in date (early 13th century) to the time of composition of the office.

[15] Stäblein, Bruno: Schriftbild der einstimmigen Musik, Musikgeschichte in Bildern III/4 (Leipzig 1975), pp.162–3Google Scholar.