GB-Ob MS. Canon. Misc. 213

Bodleian Library, Oxford, England

Composite of originally separate fascicles and small gatherings, fragments: Early 15th century

Archive Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob)
Shelfmark MS. Canon. Misc. 213
Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 298 x 215 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: OxfBC 213
  • Other catalogues/source: Ox213
  • olim (Former shelfmark): MadanSC 19689
Notations
  • black full mensural
  • black void mensural
Copyists
Relationships
External Links
External Authorities
Provenance
  • Venezia? Veneto, Italy
Contents Contains 326 compositions, 264 from 59 composers, 62 are anonymous.
General Description

Composite of originally separate fascicles and small gatherings; two main layers (ff. 1-80 and ff. 81-140). Copied by a single scribe, who also wrote ff. 61-64 of ParisBNN 4379 (SchoopO); copied by three main scribes (ReaneylC). Six pieces copied from ParisBNN 4379 (SchoopO). Probably copied in Venice or vicinity (ReaneyO). Later owned by the Jesuit antiquarian Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727-1805) of Venice. Canonici collection passed to Giovanni Perissinotti in 1807; sold to Bodleian Library in 1817.

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Binding

Covers of white parchment, with brown lettering-piece, probably date from ca. 1784.

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Watermark

Five watermarks resemble Briquet #3134, #5953, #7890, #8351, and #15608; other watermarks: (1) anvil (several variant forms); (2) three-peaked mountain (also in several forms); (3) ladder; (4) unidentified animal (dog?).

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Notation

black full mensural and black void mensural

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Foliation

Original ink foliation, 1-140 (originally independent foliation system in second layer altered to form continuation of system in first layer).

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Foliation

140 ff

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Decoration

Inked Gothic initials.

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Index

Incomplete original index on ff. [ii-v']; pieces grouped alphabetically by first letter of text, with subgrouping under each letter by order of appearance (some errors and inconsistencies).

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Surface

paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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(= MadanSC 19689)

1 Kyrie, 12 Glorias, 6 Credos, 1 Sanctus, 1 Agnus, 1 Magnificat, 38 motets, 6 laude, 235 French secular pieces, 24 Italian secular pieces = 325 + 1 duplicate = 326

Adam-3, Antonio da Cividale-3, Antonio Romano-1, Bartolomeo da Bologna-4, Bellengues [Cardot]-1, Benoit-1, Billart-1, Binchois-29, Binchois/(Grossin)-1, Brassart-3, Brolo-6, Carmen-2, Césaris-6, Charité-1, Chierisy-1, Ciconia-4, Cordier-7, Coutreman-1, Dominicus de Ferraria-1, Dufay-51, Dufay [index]/H. Lantins [music]-1, Dufay/(H. Lantins)-1, Dusart [Pbr. Johannes de Sarto]-2, Feraguti-3, Fontaine-5, Fontaine-G. Legrant-1, Fontaine Insula-1, Franchois-3, R. Gallo-Insula-1, Grenon-5, Grossin-3, Hasprois-2, Haucourt [Acourt]-2, Insula-2, La Beausse-1, A. Lantins-20, H. Lantins-19, H. Lantins/(A. Lantins)-1, Lebertoul-5, G. Legrant-5, J. Legrant-3, G. Liberti-3, R. Liebert-2, Loqueville-6, Malbecque-5, Passet-1, Paullet-1, Prepositi Brixiensis-4, Quadris-2 + 1?, Randulfo Romano-1, Reson-2, P. Rubeus [P. Rosso]-2, Ruttisi, Salinis-1, Tapissier-1, Vaux-1, Velut-5, Vide-7, Villeroye [Briquet]-1, Zachara da Teramo-1, Zacharia-2, Zocholo de Portunaonis-1, anon-61

v + 140 + i paper folios, 298 x 215. Composite of originally separate fascicles and small gatherings; two main layers (defined by ff. 1-80 and ff. 81-140). Original ink foliation, 1-140 (originally independent foliation system in second layer altered to form continuation of system in first layer). Covers of white parchment, with brown lettering-piece, probably date from ca. 1784. Incomplete original index on ff. [ii-v']; pieces grouped alphabetically by first letter of text, with subgrouping under each letter by order of appearance (some errors and inconsistencies).

Five pieces in black mensural notation; other contents in white mensural notation. Copied by a single scribe, who also wrote ff. 61-64 of ParisBNN 4379 (SchoopO); copied by three main scribes (ReaneylC). Six pieces copied from ParisBNN 4379 (SchoopO). Inked Gothic initials. Five watermarks resemble Briquet #3134, #5953, #7890, #8351, and #15608; other watermarks: (1) anvil (several variant forms); (2) three-peaked mountain (also in several forms); (3) ladder; (4) unidentified animal (dog?).

Ca. 1420-36; repertory ca. 1380-1436. Probably copied in Venice or vicinity (ReaneyO). Later owned by the Jesuit antiquarian Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727-1805) of Venice. Canonici collection passed to Giovanni Perissinotti in 1807; sold to Bodleian Library in 1817.

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Composers: Change "Adam-3" to "Adam 1-3"; change "Insula-2" to "Francus de Insula-2."

Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550

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Bent, Margaret. 2004. Divisi and a versi in early fifteenth-century mass movements. Antonio Zacara da Teramo e il suo tempo, edited by Margaret Bent, 95-137. Lucca: LIM.

Bent, Margaret. 1996. The early use of the sign Ø. Early Music, 24/2: 199-225.

Bent, Margaret, and John Nadas (editors). 1995. Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Music in Facsimile.  Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.

Fallows, David (editor). 1995. Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Canon. Misc. 213. Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Music in Facsimile, vol. 1. 1 vols. Chicago and London.

Boone, Graeme M. 1987. Dufay's Early Chansons: Chronology and Style in the Manuscript Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canonici Misc. 213. Harvard University, Ph.D. dissertation.

Reaney, Gilbert. 1987. The "international" style and the Oxford Manuscript, Bodleian Library, Canonici Misc. 213. Musica Disciplina, 41: 15-26.

Bent, Margaret. 1980. The songs of Dufay: Some questions of form and authenticity. Early Music, 8: 454-9. Notes: contents list (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Hamm, Charles E, and Herbert Kellman (editors). 1979-1988. Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550. Renaissance Manuscript Studies, vol. 1-5. 5 vols. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag. Pages: II, 275.

Barr, Cyrilla. 1978. Lauda singing and the tradition of the disciplinati. Mandato: A reconstruction of two texts of the office of tenebrae. L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento IV: Certaldo 1975, 21-44.

Caldwell, John. 1978. Medieval Music.  London. Pages: 230-40. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcription (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Cobin, Marian W. 1978. The Aosta Manuscript: A Central Source of Early Fifteenth-Century Sacred Polyphony. New York University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: (I,102ff,192,204, 338ff. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Fallows, David. 1978. Robert Morton's Songs: A Study in Styles in the Mid-Fifteenth Century. University of California at Berkeley, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 64,67,69,197. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).

Cox, Bobby Wayne. 1977. The Motets of MS Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Q 15. North Texas State University, Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 23ff, passim. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Marrocco, W. Thomas (editor). 1977. Italian Secular Music (V): Andrea da Firenze, Andrea Stefani, Antonellus da Caserta, Anthonius Clericus Apostolicus, Arrigo (Henricus), Jacobelus Bianchi. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century, vol. 10.  Monaco: Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre. Pages: X,110-1,129, 152,154. Notes: contents list (partial); transcription (partial).

Reynolds, Robert Davis, Jr. 1974. Evolution of Notational Practices in Manuscripts Between 1400-1450. Ohio State University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Cuyler, Louise. 1973. The Emperor Maximilian I and Music.  London. Pages: 12-5. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Hagopian, Viola L. 1973. Italian Ars Nova Musik: A Bibliographic Guide to Modem Editions and Related Literature. 2nd ed.  Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London. Pages: pp. 43, 62-63, 63/n51, 77, 79, 80, 82, 83,. Notes: additional bibliography.

Cattin, Giulio (editor). 1972. Johannis de Quadris: Opera. Antiquat Musicae Italicae, Monumenta Veneta Sacra, vol. 2.  Bologna. Pages: v,vii,1-8,77. Notes: contents list (partial); transcription (partial); facsimile (partial).

Schoop, Hans. 1971. Entstehung und Verwendung der Handschrift Oxford Bodleian Library, Canonici misc. 213. Publikationen der Schweizerischen Musikforschenden Gesellschaft Series II, vol. 24.  Bern and Stuttgart. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Reaney, Gilbert. 1970. The Italian Contribution to the Manuscript Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canonici Misc. 213. L'Ars Nova Italiana del Trecento, 443-64. Pages: 443-464. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Cattin, Giulio. 1969. II Presbyter Johannes de Quadris. Quadrivium, 10/2: 5-47. Pages: 5ff, 43-4, Tav. I. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Mixter, Keith E (editor). 1965-71. Johannis Brassart: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 35.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: II.xii-xiv.xvii-xviii.xxii,19-23. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial).

Brown, Samuel Emmons, Jr. 1962. The Motets of Ciconia, Dunstable, and Dufay. Indiana University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Reaney, Gilbert. 1962. Bodleian Library.Canonici Misc. 213 (O) (Oxforder Handschriften). Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 10: . Pages: 517-518.

Borren, Charles van den. 1960. Dufay and his school. The New Oxford History of Music, edited by Charles van den Borren,  London: Oxford University Press.

Clercx-Lejeune, Suzanne, and Suzanne Clercx. 1960. Johannes Ciconia, un musicien liégois et son temps. Académie Royale de Belgique, Classe des Beaux-Arts: Mémoires: Collection in-4, II série, vol. X, fasc. 1a/1b. 2 vols. Brussels: Palais des Académies. Pages: I, 58-61; II,113-8. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial); transcription (partial).

Davis, Bertran Earl. 1960. The Works of Johannes Vincenet. University of North Carolina, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I,14; II,381-6. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Layton, Billy Jim. 1960. Italian Music for the Ordinary of the Mass 1300-1450. Harvard University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 48-9, 72,198ff,243ff,304ff. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Villard, Leon Jacques. 1960. Text Underlay in the Mass Ordinary of Dufay and Some of His Contemporaries. Northwestern University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 23ff, passim. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Clercx-Lejeune, Suzanne, and Suzanne Clercx. 1956. Propos sur l'Ars nova. Revue belge de musicologie, 10: 154–160. Pages: 154-160.

Reaney, Gilbert (editor). 1955-83. Early Fifteenth-Century Music. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 11, 1-6.  Rome: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: I,ix-xx, passim; II-VI, passim. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Schmitz, Arnold (editor). 1955-. Musikalische Denkmäler.  Mainz. Pages: II,13*,62ff, passim. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).

Reaney, Gilbert. 1955. The Manuscript Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canonici Misc. 213. Musica Disciplina, 9: 73-104. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; mention of MS; discussion.

Disertori, Benvenuto. 1954. La frottola nella storia della musica. Monumenta N.I., Cremona, Instituta et monumenta, Serie I. 9ff. Pages: xv, xviii.xxxv-xxxvi. Notes: contents list (partial); transcription (partial).

Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1951. Medieval Polyphony in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Pages: 11-25. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list; concordances (partial).

Besseler, Heinrich. 1950; Reprinted: 1974. Bourdon und Fauxbourdon, Studien zum Ursprung der niederländischen Musik.  Leipzig. Pages: 106ff, passim; Tafel IV-V. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Closson, Ernest, and Charles van den Borren. 1950. La musique en Belgique du Moyen Age à nos jours.  Brussels. Pages: 48-50, 471. Notes: contents list (partial); facsimile (partial).

Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1949-79. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik.  Kassel. Pages: II,1337,1665-6; IV,630, Tafel 1; X,517-8. Notes: physical description; contents list; incipitsst of contents (partial); facsimile (partial).

de Van, Guillaume, and Heinrich Besseler (editors). 1948-66. Guillaume Dufay: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 1.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: I, IV-VI, passim. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcription (partial); texts (partial).

Plamenac, Dragan (editor). 1947-. Johannes Ockeghem: Collected Works.  American Musicological Society. Pages: I,xxxiv,78. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).

[No Author] 1947-. Corpus mensurabilis musicae. The American Institute of Musicology. 110 vols. A-R Editions, Inc. Pages: 11/IV.

Borren, Charles van den. 1946-47. The Codex Canonici 213 in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, 73: 45-58. Notes: contents list (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Spurbeck, Samuel Wayne. 1943. A Study of the Canonici Manuscript Misc. 213 (circa 1400-1440). Eastman School of Music, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I-II). Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances (partial); transcription (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Apel, Willi. 1942. (4th ed., 1949). The Notation of Polyphonic Music 900-1600.  Cambridge, Massachusetts. Pages: 102-3, 117-9,123,141,143,175-9; Appendix, Nos. 12, 14, 19, 20, 25. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Borren, Charles van den. 1941. Etudes sur le quinzième siècle musical.  Antwerp. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Pirro, André. 1940. Histoire de la Musique de h f in du XIVe siècle à la fin du XVIe.  Paris. Pages: 55ff. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Marix, Jeanne (editor). 1937. Les musiciens de la cour de Bourgogne au XVe siècle (1420-1467) : Messes, motets, chansons.  Paris. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial).

Borren, Charles van den (editor). 1932; 2nd rev. edn., London, 1962. Polyphonia sacra: A Continental Miscellany of the Fifteenth Century.  Nashdom Abbey, Burnham, Bucks., and London: Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1929-. Das Chorwerk.  Berlin/Wolfenbüttel. Pages: XIX,4,16-7; XXII,3,5,13-5. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).

Besseler, Heinrich. 1925. Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters: I. Neue Quellen des 14. und beginnenden 15. Jahrhunderts. Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 7: 167-252. Pages: 239ff. Notes: physical description (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Wolf, Johannes. 1924. Die Tonschriften in Jedermann-Bücherei.  Breslau. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Wolf, Johannes. 1913-9; Reprinted: Hildesheim, 1963. Handbuch der Notationskunde.  Leipzig. Pages: I, 386,456-7. Notes: physical description (partial).

Wolf, Johannes. 1904; Reprinted: Hildesheim, 1965. Geschichte der Mensural-Notation von 1250-1460 nach den theoretischen und praktischen Quellen. 3 vols. Leipzig. Pages: I,212-3,261ff,396ff. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial).

Stainer, John F. R, Cécie Stainer, Edward W. B. Nicholson, and Stainer Sir John. 1898; reprinted as EBM I: 1966. Dufay and his Contemporaries: Fifty Compositions (Ranging from about A.D. 1400 to 1440) Transcribed from MS. Canonici misc. 213, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, with an introduction by E.W.B. Nicholson, and a critical analysis of the music by Sir John Stainer.  London. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances (partial); transcription (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Stainer, John F. R. 1895-96. A Fifteenth Century MS. Book of Vocal Music in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, 22: 1-22. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Wouters, Jos. None. Harmonische verschijningsvormen in de muziek van de XIIIe tot de XVIe eeuw.  Amsterdam.

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Clemens Goldberg

Wednesday, 3 December, 2025

There is a full edition of this source: https://www.goldbergstiftung.org/oxford-213-edition/ in original and modern keys with the programme cmme

Nicole Schwindt

Thursday, 1 June, 2023

The spelling of fol. 32v in the inventory must be "Chanter ne scay ce poyse moy" ("Chanter ne scay ce poise moy" is the spelling in I-Bc, Q.15, fol. 44v).

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Horst Weber

Monday, 29 July, 2024

corrected composer attribution of "O docle conpagno"

David Wyatt

Wednesday, 31 May, 2023

Pointed out that 'Manifestans tuis arcana Dei' by Beltrame Feragut and 'Pacem bonis omnibus' by Johannes de Sarto, which were previously listed here as appearing on fol. 17r, are not on this folio - and that, on the other hand, 'Je demande ma bienvenue' by Johannes de Haucourt (on this folio) had been missing in the inventory.

Clemens Goldberg

Wednesday, 24 May, 2023

Linked the concordant copies of Binchois' "Amours mercy" in this ms & the Seville chansonnier

Israel Ruiz de Infante

Tuesday, 28 February, 2023

Corrected Grenon's "La plus jolie et la plus belle" in inventory

Baptiste Chopin

Saturday, 21 March, 2020

Missing work by Du Fay added at f.17

Karen Cook

Wednesday, 28 November, 2018

Problem reported with image of 139v. This is a bug and a report has been raised.

Karen Cook

Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

Pablo Cantalapiedra

Monday, 30 July, 2018

Image for fol. 139v uploaded - waiting for server to update

Elizabeth Upton

Monday, 23 October, 2017

Bibliography updated

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