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In the previous three chapters we have explored the musical life of nunneries through an examination of a variety of nonmusical sources—monastic rules, visitation records, ordinals, and other types of materials. In the subsequent chapters we will be examining primarily volumes in which there is musical notation. From these manuscripts we can not only confirm the participation of nuns in the musical portions of the service, but also learn more specifically what music they sing and how this repertoire fits into the overall liturgical musical picture.
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Eileen E. Power, Medieval English Nunneries c. 1215 to 1535 (1922; repr., New York: Biblo and Tannen, 1964), p. 162.
Celia Sisam and Kenneth Sisam, The Salisbury Psalter Edited from Salisbury Cathedral Ms. 150, Early English Text Society, e. s. no. 242 (London: Oxford University Press, 1959), p. 12.
Kristine Edmondson Haney, The Winchester Psalter: An Iconographic Study (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1986), pp. 7–9.
Claus Michael Kauffman, Romanesque Manuscripts: 1066–1190 (London: H. Miller, 1975), pp. 82–84. Kauffman connects this volume to the artistic style of the St. Alban’s Psalter produced for Christina of Markyate, a nun.
David N. Bell, What Nuns Read: Books & Libraries in Medieval English Nunneries, Cistercian Studies Series 158 (Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1995), p. 166.
David Knowles and R. Neville Hadcock, Medieval Religious Houses: England & Wales (London: Longman Group, 1971), p. 265.
N.R. Ker and AJ. Piper, Medieval Manuscripts in British libraries, vol. IV (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), pp. 201–202. I am extremely indebted to Hilary Ely of the Cranston Library for her labor of love in sending me digital photos of innumerable pages from the manuscript so that I could study it.
See William Maskell, Monumenta Ritualia Ecclesiae Anglicanae, 2 vols. (London: William Pickering, 1846), 1:114–29.
T.C.B. Timmins, The Register of John Waltham, Bishop of Salisbury 1388–1395, Canterbury and York Society, vol. 80 (Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1994), p. 31. She also leaves bequests to the nunneries of Wherwell, Winton, Tarrant Keynston, and Kington St. Michaels to pray for her soul. Timmins, Register, p. 32.
Lawrence L. Besserman, The Legend of Job in the Middle Ages (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979), pp. 57–58.
For a complete description of the folio see Andrew Wathey, Manuscripts of Polyphonic Music (Supplement 1 to RISM BIVl–2): The British Isles, 1100–1400 (Munich: G. Henle Verlag, 1993), pp. 44–45.
Gilbert Reaney, ed., Manuscripts of Polyphonic Music: 11th–Early 14th Century, vol. B–IVl (Munich: G. Henle, 1966), p. 574.
John Stainer, Early Bodleian Music, 2 vols. (1901; repr., Westmead, England: Gregg Press International, 1967), I:xii £f.
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Yardley, A.B. (2006). Everyday Musical Practices: Psalters, Hours, and the Office of the Dead. In: Performing Piety. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-05733-4_5
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