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DE MURIS. 
kinds of notes; that is, in four columns; for in thefe are 
manifeftly five diftin@ forms of characters : as prs hy Et 
The fcale of Guido, in a perpendicular a te ; and the 
hexachorde, which are well arranged under their feveral de- 
viet s of durum, naturale, and alle, are exhibited in 
this 
In i: trattby John de Muris, beginning “Quilibet i in arte,” 
which we unexpeCcdly found in Be’net college, Cambridge, 
n the fame volume as Odington’s treatife, the notes are 
divided into five claffes: « ee ue funt partes eres 
videlicet, maxima, longa, brevis, fembrevis et minima,”’ ic 
—giving the fame e i 
and here, likewife, bis doétrine agrees with 
treatife, where he mae to a the triple proportions imper- 
fe&, and the dual per 
-" This is the moft ancient manufeript in which we. have 
found the figns of the modes %, CC O ©, and the * puncs 
tum perfectionis.” Flere it plainly appears that the punctum, 
«of 
a 
Meo a 
aol 
co 
a. prove its power of ears a a quantity 
, At the bottom of fol. 6. ns 
« Explicit lena eas de Muris :’ ae. it goes on 
for fifteen pages Here, too, we firft faw an open, or 
white minim, , | and aha'flozenge note >. Theink is 
pale, and the writing very bad, and d: ficult to decipher ; 
but the manufcript, whi Pasay tas on paper o 
coarfe texture, feems en sca age in a parti« 
i i Vatican hen. 0. 532 It 
o de Be idemandis of Padua, a 
the beginning of the fifteenth 
of faflicient importance to metit a com- 
tary, which is now in the poffeffion of Padre ca of 
na. * PraGtica Menfurabilis Cantus,’? Mag. Joan. 
-Muris, de Normandia, par ied cum cxpolt. Prof- 
docimo de oo 
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a 
ar in 
this treatife which heen cim 
Ons 
m 
i in the Bodician library, upon 
The tra&t by 
the meafures, and me portions of organ-pipes, acco ording to 
Pals begin wee « Omne initrumentum mufic e,”? is ver 
and contains nothing'very importantto mufic at prefent, 
Te is not known iat a ever wrote on the fame fubje, 
and de Muris only means by ‘ fecundum Guidozem,”’ to 
fa ay that he has followed oe fame se Sarat which Guido 
eftablithed in his divifion a the mono 
In another fhort tra the fame ier he follows 
‘Bocthius. And in his « Trad atus Canonum minutiarum 
Pnilofophicarum et vulgarium,”’ where he tells us that he had 
ofed at the fame time “a Treatife on the Art of Mufic,”’ 
teaching and defcribing in figures or notes both meafured 
and plain-fong, with every poffible kind of difcant, not only 
by integers or long-notes, but by the fhorteft and moit minute 
fractions, he probably ea to his * Speculum Muficz,’? in 
s the moft voluminous of all his 
from his own acknewledgment, of that difcovery not being 
his property, as he would be = e to refute, if he could 
rife from ae omb and claim 
4 mong the MSS. which were ¢ bequeathed to the Bile 
library i e queen of Sweden, there is a ** Compendium of 
Pratical Mufic,’”’ by Joh n de Muris, in which he a of 
mufical charaéters for time; but introduces the fubje& with 
a fhort chronological lift OF anterior muficians who had 
merited the title of Inventors : beginning, as ufual, with 
agoras and Boet 
Guido monachus qui compofitor erat gammatis qui m 
chordum dicitur, voces lineis, et {paciis dividebat. Pott 
hunc Magifter Franco, qui invenit in cantu orm figu- 
MS. Vatic. No. ‘6 Com- 
rarim, epinz sri in 
sat Joannes de 
re[pe to che “difpute concerning the place of his 
zt t, copying Pits and Bale, calls him 
manu{cripts of the Bodleian library, in T'anner’s lit, he is 
called a Onna: and in another a — Padre Mar. 
tint bkewife quotes a manufcript of the year t4o4, in which 
he is called cis Great John de Mauris, re Normandia, alias 
Parifienfis. 
Having taken fome pains to trace the opinion of his being 
an Englithman to its fource, we have becn able to find na 
{uch title given to him in any of his numerous eines that 
ar been preferved in manufcript throughout Europe. The 
ertion refts entire obert Record, a phylician at 
i 
mr 
° 
r=) 
which, however, little 
in Pits’ account of him, which fays, that he 
1552. (Append. Iliutt, Ang. see tom. i. p. 872.); at 
lealt, we have never been able to procure any of his panes. 
except his Arithmetic, printed in Black letter 1543. And 
as John de Muris had written on the fame base (Arith- 
meticam Speculativam, Lb. duos,) we ha s of meeting 
in aha — the place ea Recor calis ar an Enali the 
an; o fuch co 
its, (loc. ae ‘) Ky Aig an Englith mathematician, ee 
fays, “ he w of fome genius, but pofle fled of t 
daring a canner. ; or while he was ftudying phi ofp, 
he addicted himfelf to mathematics, and to that m ub- 
t of aftronomy 
e 
e the decrees ce, e dared to publifh 
eteltial a faces the title ae Prophetiaram, ee ies.’? 
Thefe particulars, an he fays, were collected 
from Robert Record. But oe "from him nor any one 
elfe’was he able to difcover at what time he lived. Bale, 
who calls him a mathematician and a ccnjurer (Makema- 
ticus et ee, gives the fame acon for his being a 
negli 
This cae affertion, made at a time when it was not 2 cuf- 
omary to give or expe ofs and critical exa€tnefs in fup- 
only been copied, ens 
»b 
_A Latin diltich, by an an 
uoted ia favour of this opinion, can add but little to its 
weight, when it is known to come from the moit ignorant 
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