A single Bassus partbook. Copied by many scribes. Pieces on pp. 61-[146] are upside down in relation to other music; scribes began copying at back of book, working toward front. Copied in Oxford, for use by the New College chapel choir. Presented to Bodleian Library by Warden and Fellows of New College in 1919.
| Archive | Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob) |
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| Shelfmark | MS. Mus. d. 162 |
| Image Availability | DIAMM does not have images of this source. |
| Surface | Paper |
| Numbering System | Mixed Foliation and Pagination |
| Measurements | 290 x 194 mm |
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| Contents | Contains uninventoried compositions from 32 composers. |
General Description
Binding
Original covers of brown leather on cardboard, tooled with borders and inscription 'Basse Decani'; remnants of clasps.
Notation
black void mensural
Ruling
Staff height 13
Foliation
Original ink pagination, 1-47 (pp. 31-34 and 39-40 cut out except for stubs); modern pencil pagination, 49-132 + 133a-c + 134-145 (pp. 48, 146, and other even-numbered pages lack numbers, but all included in enumeration). Remnants of two additional systems of original ink pagination, 9-22 + 1-25, still visible in section comprising pp. 61-[146].
Decoration
No initials or decoration.
Index
Incomplete original indices inside front and back covers list pieces in order of appearance.
Surface
paper
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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14 Services, 2 Service sections, 65 anthems, 1 litany, 1 instrumental piece = 83
A. Batten-5, Blackwell-1, (Bull)-2, Byrd-8, (Byrd/Coste)-1, (Byrd/ N. Giles)-1, (Byrd/R. Parsons I/Strogers/R. White)-1, Child-5, Cob-1, Ellis-4, R. Farrant-1, R. Farrant/(Hooper/J. or W.? Mundy)-1, Gibbons-4, (Hooper)1, Hooper/(Fox)-1, W. King-4, H. Lawes-2, Lowe-1, R. Lugge-4, Morley-2, (J. Mundy/W. Mundy/Tallis)-1, (Nicholson)-1, Pickaver-2, Rogers-2, Tallis -4, Tomkins-6, Ward-1, Weelkes-2, (Wigthorpe)-2, T. Wilkinson-2, anon-10
1 paper partbook (B-i + 71 folios), 290 x 194. Original ink pagination, 1-47 (pp. 31-34 and 39-40 cut out except for stubs); modern pencil pagination, 49-132 + 133a-c + 134-145 (pp. 48, 146, and other even-numbered pages lack numbers, but all included in enumeration). Remnants of two additional systems of original ink pagination, 9-22 + 1-25, still visible in section comprising pp. 61-[146]. Original covers of brown leather on cardboard, tooled with borders and inscription "Basse Decani"; remnants of clasps. Incomplete original indices inside front and back covers list pieces in order of appearance. Copied by many scribes. Pieces on pp. 61-[146] are upside down in relation to other music; scribes began copying at back of book, working toward front. Staff height 13. No initials or decoration.
c. Copied in Oxford, for use by the New College chapel choir. Presented to Bodleian Library by Warden and Fellows of New College in 1919.
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de la Mare, A C, and Bruce C Barker-Benfield (editors). 1980. Manuscripts at Oxford: an exhibition in memory of Richard William Hunt (1908-1979), Keeper of Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library Oxford, 1945-1975. Oxford. Pages: 116. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial).
Daniel, Ralph T, and Peter Le Huray. 1972. The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660. Early English Church Music, vol. Supplementary Volume 1. London. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Morehen, John. 1969. The Sources of English Cathedral Music, c. 1617-c. 1644. Cambridge University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 496-7, 503. Notes: physical description; contents list; incipitsst of contents (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
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Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550
Monday, 23 January, 2017
NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description