GB-Ob MS. Mus. d. 162

Bodleian Library, Oxford, England

partbook: 17th century

Archive	Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob)
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
Other Identifiers	CCM: OxfBM d.162
Notations	black void mensural
Inventory	This MS has not yet been inventoried by DIAMM. If you would like to submit an inventory, please send it to diamm@music.ox.ac.uk
Relationships	New College (copied at)
Provenance	New College chapel , Oxford, England
Contents	Contains 30 uninventoried works or miscellaneous sections.

General Description

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.

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Binding

Original covers of brown leather on cardboard, tooled with borders and inscription 'Basse Decani'; remnants of clasps.

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Notation

black void mensural

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Ruling

Staff height 13

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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].

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Decoration

No initials or decoration.

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Index

Incomplete original indices inside front and back covers list pieces in order of appearance.

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Surface

paper

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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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Known composers

Composers (? Uncertain)	Folios / Pages	Item title	Attribution in Source
Works by Batten, Adrian (1591–1637)	[-]	-	-
Works by Blackwell, Isaac (–1699)	[-]	-	-
Works by Bull, John (ca. 1562–1628)	[-]	-	-
Works by Byrd, William (ca. 1540–1623)	[-]	-	-
Works by Coste, Gabriel (?) Byrd, William (ca. 1540–1623) (?)	[-]	-	-
Works by Giles, Nathaniel (ca. 1558–1634) (?) Byrd, William (ca. 1540–1623) (?)	[-]	-	-
Works by White, Robert (ca. 1538–1574) (?) Parsons (I), Robert (ca. 1535–ca. 1572) (?) Strogers, Nicholas (?) Byrd, William (ca. 1540–1623) (?)	[-]	-	-
Works by Child, William (1607–1697)	[-]	-	-
Works by Cobb, James (–1697)	[-]	-	-
Works by Gibbons, Ellis	[-]	-	-
Works by Farrant, Richard (ca. 1525–1580)	[-]	-	-
Works by Mundy, William (ca. 1528–ca. 1591) (?) Mundy, John (ca. 1555–1630) (?) Hooper, Edmund (?) Farrant, Richard (ca. 1525–1580) (?)	[-]	-	-
Works by Gibbons, Orlando (ca. 1583–1625)	[-]	-	-
Works by Hooper, Edmund	[-]	-	-
Works by Fox (?) Hooper, Edmund (?)	[-]	-	-
Works by King, William (ca. 1624–1680)	[-]	-	-
Works by Lawes, Henry (ca. 1596–1662)	[-]	-	-
Works by Lowe, Edward (ca. 1610–1682)	[-]	-	-
Works by Lugge, Robert	[-]	-	-
Works by Morley, Thomas (ca. 1557–1602)	[-]	-	-
Works by Tallis, Thomas (ca. 1505–1585) (?) Mundy, William (ca. 1528–ca. 1591) (?) Mundy, John (ca. 1555–1630) (?)	[-]	-	-
Works by Nicholson, Richard (1563–1639)	[-]	-	-
Works by Pickaver	[-]	-	-
Works by Rogers, Benjamin	[-]	-	-
Works by Tallis, Thomas (ca. 1505–1585)	[-]	-	-
Works by Tomkins, Thomas (1572–1656)	[-]	-	-
Works by Ward, John (ca. 1589–ca. 1638)	[-]	-	-
Works by Weelkes, Thomas (ca. 1576–1623)	[-]	-	-
Works by Wigthorpe, William	[-]	-	-
Works by Wilkinson, T(homas?)	[-]	-	-

‡ denotes primary source study

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. 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