| Archive | Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob) |
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| Shelfmark | MS. Tenbury 1464 [Bassus] |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Format | landscape |
| Measurements | 206 x 273 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 78 compositions, 69 from 15 composers, 9 are anonymous. |
1 Bassus partbook, originally of a set probably of 5. Copied by a single scribe, except for ff. 82'-85', which contain slightly later additions in three different hands. Copied in England.
Sold by firm of Quaritch to E. H. Fellowes in 1937. Presented by Fellowes to St. Michael's College (near Tenbury, Worcester); deposited in Bodleian Library in 1979.
Rebound in new covers of white leather on cardboard, tooled with ornamental designs.
black void mensural
Ca. 1575 (acc. to Fellowes, Tudor Church [...], 1948)
Original ink foliation, 1-82 (with errors); new pencil foliation, 83-85 (last two original folios not numbered).
No initials or decoration
Original index on first two original flyleaves; pieces grouped alphabetically by first letter of text, with subgrouping under each letter by order of appearance.
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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4 Masses, 1 Magnificat, 6 hymns, 3 Lamentations, 34 motets, 2 anthems, 1 English secular piece, 11 instrumental pieces = 62
Byrd-1, Cobbold-1, Crecquillon-1, Fayrfax-6, Gombert/(Wilder)-1, R. Johnson I-2, Parsley-6, R. Parsons I-1, (Shepherd/Tallis)-1, Tallis-12, Taverner-6, Tye-8, R. White-5, Wilder [Philipes the Italian]-1, anon-10
1 paper partbook (B-iv + iii + 87 + ii + iv folios), 206 x 273. Original ink foliation, 1-82 (with errors); new pencil foliation, 83-85 (last two original folios not numbered). Rebound in new covers of white leather on cardboard, tooled with ornamental designs. Original index on first two original flyleaves; pieces grouped alphabetically by first letter of text, with subgrouping under each letter by order of appearance. Copied by a single scribe, except for ff. 82'-85', which contain slightly later additions in three different hands. No initials or decoration.
Ca. 1575 (FelAP). Copied in England. Sold by firm of Quaritch to E. H. Fellowes in 1937. Presented by Fellowes to St. Michael's College (near Tenbury, Worcester); deposited in Bodleian Library in 1979.
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Benham, Hugh Raymond. 1969. The Music of John Taverner - A Study and Assessment. University of Southampton, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 45. Notes: mention of MS.
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, 142-55, 169; II, 59-67. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Kerman, Joseph. 1961. Byrd's Motets: Chronology and Canon. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 14: 359-82. Pages: 360-2. Notes: contents list (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Warrem, Edwin B (editor). 1959-66. Robert Fayrfax (ca. 1464-1521): Collected Works. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 17. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: II, 86, 95-6, 99, 102; III, 28-9, 56, 59. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).
Lewis, Anthony (editor). 1951-. Musica Britannica: A National Collection of Music. London. Pages: XXII, 174, 177; XLIV, 189,193. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Fellowes, Edmund H. 1948. Tudor Church Music: Appendix with Supplementary Notes. London. Pages: 8, 55. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list; transcription (partial).
Fellowes, Edmund H (editor). 1937-50, 1962. The Collected Works of William Byrd. Pages: XVII, 151, 161. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
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"O death, rock me asleep" is also in Add. MS 18936-9 and the Hamon books - compositions merged.
corrected notes on ff. 80-83
The contrafactum of van Wilder's Aspice domine on ff. 3v to 5r begins "Plangete cives", not "plangete vivos".
Merged the separate copies of 'Vidi civitatem' by van Wilder/Gombert
NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Binding Note; Notation Note; Date Note; Foliation Note; Decoration Note; Contents Note
NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description