Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• PALTI, KATHLEEN

Titel

AN UNPUBLISHED FIFTEENTH-CENTURY CAROL COLLECTION: OXFORD, LINCOLN COLLEGE MS LAT. 141

Ist Teil von

• Medium aevum, 2008-01, Vol.77 (2), p.260-278

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A later writer has extensively annotated the items, and although this was almost certainly John Smith, the owner of the complete manuscript, the annota tor imitated the fifteenth-century script, so the writing in this section is often awkward and unclear, with later letter forms slipping in only occasionaUy.\n This carol is written in a hand responsible only for a few texts on the beginning and end pages, and the addition of a line of monophonie music to one of the carols in the body of the coUection. [...] songs developed in a process of exchange between individual performers and writers and well-stocked group memory of images, music, stories, and phrases that shaped the group identity, expUcitly emphasized in the opening reference to 'all & sume' and the plural voice maintained throughout ('owr lady', 'gif vs gras') f4 Their verbal connections with Uturgical hymns and other carols on the Christmas narratives show that the songs reach into a much wider cultural network, within which these texts are tethered together through shared material.