GB-Ob MS. Tenbury 389 [Altus/Discantus]

Bodleian Library, Oxford, England

partbook: c. 1595-1613

Archive Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob)
Shelfmark MS. Tenbury 389 [Altus/Discantus]
Surface Paper
Numbering System Pagination
Format landscape
Measurements 140 x 194 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: OxfBT 389
Notations
  • black void mensural
Relationships
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Provenance
  • England
Contents Contains 153 compositions, 144 from 35 composers, 9 are anonymous.
General Description

A single partbook from a set originally of six volumes, containing various voice parts (mostly Discantus and Altus). Another surviving volume of the set is the McGhie Manusript, WimbDM s.s. Copied by several scribes. Some pieces have text incipits or titles only. Copied in England. The original owner was apparently 'TE' (monogram on covers and p. 2); 'TE' probably not Thomas Este (KermanBM). Later acquired by Sir Frederick Ouseley (1825-89), founder of St. Michael's College (near Tenbury, Worcester). Bequeathed to St. Michael's College; deposited in Bodleian Library in 1979.

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Binding

Original beige limp vellum covers stiffened with cardboard, inscribed with voice designation 'DISCANTVS' and monogram 'TE'; two string ties.

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Notation

black void mensural

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Date

C. 1595-1613 (BernsCE); 1580s/1590s (Edwards)

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Ruling

Staff height 12-13

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Foliation

Original ink pagination, 1-189; new pencil pagination, 190-221 (several pages lack numbers, but all included in enumeration except last page).

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Decoration

No initials or decoration.

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Index

Incomplete original index on second and third original flyleaves lists pieces in order of appearance.

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Surface

paper

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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.

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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1 Magnificat section, 1 hymn, 2 Lamentations, 61 motets, 11 anthems, 1 English sacred piece, 14 English secular pieces, 4 French secular pieces, 4 Italian secular pieces, 1 Latin secular piece, 1 textless piece, 22 instrumental pieces = 123

Blancks-4, Bruster-1, Byrd-36, (Byrd/Coste)-1, Byrd/(R. Farrant/ R. Parsons I)-1, (Byrd/R. Parsons I/Strogers/R. White)-1, (Clemens non Papa)-1, Douglas-1, A. Ferrabosco I-17, (N. Giles)-1, (Gombert/Wilder)-1, Hawkes-1, R. Johnson I-2, Lassus-1, Philippe de Monte-1, Morley-1, H. Mudd or T. Mudd I? [Mr. Mud]-1, R. Parsons I-8, Redford-2, (Rore)-1, Shepherd-3, Strogers-5, Tallis-4, Taverner-2, (Tye)-1, (Weelkes)-2, R. White-3, Wilder [Mr. Phillipps]-4, Wilder/(P. Philips)-1, Wilder/(Tye/Verdelot)-1, anon-14

1 paper partbook of an original 6 (Various parts, mostly D and A-i + v + 111 + i folios), 140 x 194. Original ink pagination, 1-189; new pencil pagination, 190-221 (several pages lack numbers, but all included in enumeration except last page). Blank staves only on pp. 32-45, 64-69, 213, 221. Original covers of beige parchment on cardboard, inscribed with voice designation "DISCANTVS" and monogram "TE"; two string ties. Incomplete original index on second and third original flyleaves lists pieces in order of appearance. Copied by several scribes. Staff height 12-13. No initials or decoration. Some pieces have text incipits or titles only.

Ca. 1595-1613 (BernsCE). Copied in England. The original owner was apparently "TE" (monogram on covers and p. 2); "TE" probably not Thomas Este (KermanBM). Later acquired by Sir Frederick Ouseley (1825-89), founder of St. Michael's College (near Tenbury, Worcester). Bequeathed to St. Michael's College; deposited in Bodleian Library in 1979.

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OXFORD. Bodleian Library. MS Tenbury 389 [see also WimbDM s.s.]

Contents: 1 Magnificat section, 2 Lamentations, 61 motets, 11 anthems, 1 English sacred piece, 13 English secular pieces, 4 French secular pieces, 4 Italian secular pieces, 1 Latin secular piece, 1 textless piece, 23 instrumental pieces (In nomines, fantasias, etc.) - 122

Composers: Blancks-4, Bruster-1, Byrd-35, (Byrd/Coste)-1, Byrd/(R. Farrant/ R. Parsons I)-1, (Byrd/R. Parsons I/Strogers/R. White)-1, Byrd/(Strogers)-1, (Clemens non Papa)-2, (Cobbold)-1, Douglas-1, A. Ferrabosco I-17, (N. Giles) -1, (Gombert/Wilder)-1, Hawkes-1, R. Johnson I-2, Lassus-2, Philippe de Monte-1, (More)-2, Morley-1, H. Mudd or T. Mudd I? [Mr. Mud]-1, R. Parsons I-8, Redford-2, (Rore)-1, Shepherd-3, Strogers-4, Strogers/(R. Parsons I) -1, Tallis-4, Taverner-1, (Taverner/Tye)-1, (Tye)-1, (Weelkes)-2, R. White-3, Wilder [Mr. Phillipes]-4, Wilder/(P. Philips)-1, Wilder/(Tye/Verdelot)-1, anon-8

Physical: WimbDM s.s. is Dl book from same original set; other books apparently lost.

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Charteris, Richard (editor). 1984. Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder (1543-1588): Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 96.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: I, xv-xviii; II,xii-xiii; III,xv,47. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).

Charteris, Richard. 1984. Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder (1543-1588): A Thematic Catalogue of his Music with a Biographical Calendar.  New York. Pages: 58. 193. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Fenlon, Iain, and John Milsom. 1984. 'Ruled Paper Imprinted': Music Paper and Patents in Sixteenth-Century England. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 37: 139-63. Pages: 149,163. Notes: physical description (partial).

Charteris, Richard. 1983. The English Songs of Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder. Studies in Music [Nedlands, Australia], 17: 79-86. Pages: 79-80. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Godt, Irving. 1981. Prince Henry as Absalom in David's Lamentations. Music and Letters, 62: 318-30. Pages: 328-9. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Trowell, Brian. 1980. Faburden-New Sources, New Evidence: A Preliminary Survey. Modern Musical Scholarship, 28-78. Stocksfield, Boston, Henley, and London. Pages: 70, 75, 77. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Bernstein, Jane Agar. 1979. Philip van Wilder and the Netherlandish Chanson in England. Musica Disciplina, 33: 55-75. Pages: 71, 73-5. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Bernstein, Jane Agar. 1974. The Chanson in England 1530-1640: A Study of Sources and Styles. University of California at Berkeley, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 298-303. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (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, 40, 56, 169ff; II, 75-85, 91. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Brett, Philip. 1965. The Songs of William Byrd. Cambridge University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 32-3, 110-6, 276-7. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Lamont, Herbert Harry. 1963. John Shepherd: His Life and Music. University of Southern California, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 1, 118, 223-5. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Kerman, Joseph. 1961. Byrd's Motets: Chronology and Canon. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 14: 359-82. Pages: 361, 367-9, 376. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Fellowes, Edmund H. 1948. Tudor Church Music: Appendix with Supplementary Notes.  London. Pages: 50-l, 54. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).

Fellowes, Edmund H. 1948. William Byrd.  London, New York, and Toronto. Pages: 99-100, 109, 112-3, 143, 169-71, 192-3. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Fellowes, Edmund H (editor). 1937-50, 1962. The Collected Works of William Byrd. Pages: IX, vi, 99-129; XV, ix, 167-8; XVII, 151, 155, 161-2. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).

Geering, Arnold (editor). 1935. Das Erbe Deutscher Musik.  Leipzig, Kassel, Wolfenbüttel, and Wiesbaden. Pages: XXIX,129,140. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Fellowes, Edmund H. 1934. The Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of St. Michael's College Tenbury.  Paris. Pages: 68-70. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list.

Fellowes, Edmund H (editor). 1923-48. Tudor Church Music.  London, Oxford et al. Pages: II, xxv, xxxiv; V, xxiv; Vl, xxxi-xxxii; IX, xii-xiv. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

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Jason Smart

Sunday, 28 May, 2017

J. Bunker Clark, in EECM 23 pp.147-8, identifies O give thanks unto the Lord on pp.210-211 as the alternative version of the setting by Nathaniel Giles.

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NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description