A partbook designated 'Counter tenor p[r]imus' from an incomplete set of three volumes. Copied by a single scribe. Perhaps copied in London, for use at a private chapel or parish church (LehurM). Later owned by the antiquarian Humphrey Wanley (1672-1726), and by Oxford University Music School; passed to Bodleian Library in 1885.
GB-Ob MS. Mus. Sch. e. 420 [Counter tenor p[r]imus] (Wanley Partbooks)
Bodleian Library, Oxford, England
partbook: c. 1549-52
| Archive | Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob) |
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| Shelfmark | MS. Mus. Sch. e. 420 [Counter tenor p[r]imus] (Wanley Partbooks) |
| Surface | Paper |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Format | landscape |
| Measurements | 178 x 270 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 131 compositions, 31 from 13 composers, 100 are anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
Original covers of brown leather glued to modern cardboard; tooled floral designs and borders.
Notation
Some pieces in black mensural notation; most in black void mensural notation
Foliation
Other numberings: Some original numbering of pieces, in several series
Foliation
Original ink foliation in each book; new pencil foliation added to restored corners.
Decoration
Some initials, rubrics, titles, clefs, staves, and notes in red or orange ink.
Surface
paper
DIAMM Note
In the first book (e.421) fol. 77 is erroneously bound in front of fol. 76.
Each of the three volumes is for a different voice part. The pieces in each volume are arranged in three 'books' (i.e. each volume includes three books of the respective voice part).
DIAMM Note
Digitized with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) for the Tudor Partbooks project at the Universities of Oxford and Newcastle.
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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10 Services, 32 Service sections, 47 anthems, 1 textless piece = 90
(Caustun)-1, (Heath I)-1, (R. Johnson I)1, (R. Knight)-2, (J. Mundy/Tallis)-2, (W. Mundy/Tallis)-1, (Okeland)-2, (Shepherd)-2, (Shepherd/Tallis)-1, (Shepherd/Tye)-1, (R. Stone)-1, (Taverner)-3, (Tye)-1, (Whytbroke)-1, anon-70
3 paper partbooks (Contratenor I-ii + i + 109 + iii folios, Contratenor II-iii + i + 118 + ii + ii, B-iii + ii + 110 + iii + ii), 178 x 270. Original ink foliation in each book; new pencil foliation added to restored corners. Some original numbering of pieces, in several series. Original covers of brown leather glued to modern cardboard; tooled floral designs and borders. No index. Some pieces in black mensural notation; most in black void mensural notation. Copied by a single scribe. Some initials, rubrics, titles, clefs, staves, and notes in red or orange ink.
Ca. 1549-52 (LehurM). Perhaps copied in London, for use at a private chapel or parish church (LehurM). Later owned by the antiquarian Humphrey Wanley (1672-1726), and by Oxford University Music School; passed to Bodleian Library in 1885.
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MSS Mus. Sch. e. 420-422
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TUDOR PARTBOOKS
Project Collection · 170 sources
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Wrightson, James. 1989. The 'Wanley' Manuscripts: A Critical Commentary. New York: Garland. Notes: commentary to edition.
Wrightson, James. 1984. The "Wanley" Manuscripts (Oxford, Bodleian Library MSS Mus.Sch.e.420-22): An Edition and Commentary. University of Cambridge, Ph.D. diss. Notes: edition.
Aplin, John. 1982. Cyclic Techniques in the Earliest Anglican Services. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 35: 409ff. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Daniel, Ralph T. 1981. The Wanley Partbooks. Music East and West: Essays in honor of Walter Kaufmann, New York. Notes: contents list; concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Aplin, John. 1980. The Fourth Kind of Faburden': The Identity of an English Four-Part Style. Music and Letters, 61: 245ff. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Aplin, John. 1979. The Survival of Plainsong in Anglican Music: Some Early English Te-Deum Settings. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 32: 247ff. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Temperley, Nicholas. 1979. The Music of the English Parish Church. Cambridge. Pages: I,24,362; II,4,30-3. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Blezzard, Judith H. 1972. The Sacred Music of the Lumley Books (British Museum Royal Appendix Manuscripts 74-76): An Edition and Critical Study. University of Leeds, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 50-6, 383-5; II, Appendix I. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
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; concordances.
Benham, Hugh Raymond. 1969. The Music of John Taverner - A Study and Assessment. University of Southampton, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 42-3. Notes: physical description (partial).
Bray, Roger W. 1969. The Interpretation of Musica Ficta in English Music, C. 1490-C. 1580 [dissertation]. Oxford University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 193-6; II, 89-91. Notes: transcription (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Fellowes, Edmund H. 1969. English Cathedral Music. London. Pages: 8, 34ff. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Le Huray, Peter. 1967. Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660. London. Pages: 91, 172-81. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list; transcription (partial).
Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music. London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: XII, 11-8, 115-6; XIX, 335, 338. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).
Lamont, Herbert Harry. 1963. John Shepherd: His Life and Music. University of Southern California, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I,8 2, 109-10, 218-9. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Reese, Gustave. 1959. Music in the Renaissance. New York. Pages: 796-9. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Arnold, J H, and E G P Wyatt (editors). 1940. Walter Howard Frere: A Collection of His Papers on Liturgical and Historical Subjects. Alcuin Club Collections, vol. XXXV. London. Pages: 9ff. Notes: contents list (partial); incipits (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1924. Sixteenth Century Service Music: The Tudor Church Music Series. Music and Letters, 5: 145-54,335-46. Pages: 152, 335, 340-5. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Fellowes, Edmund H (editor). 1923-48. Tudor Church Music. London, Oxford et al. Pages: I, xi, xv, lix; III, xx-xxi, 143-98; VI, xviii. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).
Madan, Falconer (editor). 1895-1953. A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Oxford. Pages: V, 235-6. Notes: physical description.
Frere, Walter Howard. 1894-1932, repr. Hildesheim, 1967. Bibliotheca Musico-Liturgica: A Descriptive Handlist of the Musical and Latin-Liturgical Mss. of the Middle Ages Preserved in the Libraries of Great Britain and Ireland. 2 vols. London: The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society. Pages: I, 135. Notes: physical description (partial).
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Prof Nick Sandon
Friday, 19 January, 2018
I've added the contrafactum information to the title of the work. Since the 'composition' has to cover both Latin- and English-texted versions of the work I've left both titles in place.
DIAMM, 2016
Monday, 23 January, 2017
NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Binding Note; Notation Note; Foliation Note; Foliation Note; Decoration Note; Surface Note; DIAMM Note
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