GB-Ob MS. Tenbury 1486 [Tenor] (Braikenridge Manuscript)

Bodleian Library, Oxford, England

partbook: 1591

Archive Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob)
Shelfmark MS. Tenbury 1486 [Tenor] (Braikenridge Manuscript)
Numbering System Foliation
Format landscape
Measurements 199 x 272 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: OxfBT 1486
Notations
  • black void mensural
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Provenance
  • Norwich? Norfolk, England
Contents Contains 29 compositions, 27 from 10 composers, 2 are anonymous.
General Description

A Tenor partbook from a set probably of 5 volumes (the Altus partbook, GB-Ob MS. Mus. c. 784, known as the Willmott manuscript, is the only other known survivor from this set). Both books contain the name of John Sadler, a Norwich Grocer (not a Northamptonshire Parson), who is also linked to Ob Mus. e. 1–5.

Owned in 19th century by George Weare Braikenridge of Brislington, Somerset; later owners include Jerdone Braikenridge (d. 1907) and Alfred M. Hale. Purchased from latter by E. H. Fellowes on behalf of St. Michael's College (Tenbury, Worcester), in 1942; deposited in Bodleian Library in 1979.

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Binding

Modern covers of buff parchment and rust-red marbled paper over cardboard.

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Watermark

Grapes with AG letters, Briquet #13163 (Autun, 1580; Narbonne 1583-89)

Simon Maguire
Notation

black void mensural

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Ruling

Staff height 10-11.

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Foliation

New pencil foliation, 1-45 (one original folio now missing at end; original folios also missing between new ff. 2/3, 3/4, 14/15, 20/21).

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Foliation

Other numberings: Original numbering of pieces, 1-26 (partly obliterated by trimming; last two motets included under # 26).

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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 hymn, 26 motets (6 incomplete) = 27

(Byrd)-9, (Byrd/Taverner)-1, (R. Johnson I)-1, (W. Mundy)-1, (R. Parsons I)-1, Sadler-1, Tallis-6, (Taverner)-1, R. White-2, anon-4

1 paper partbook of an original 5 (T-iv + i + 45 + i + iv folios), 199 x 272. SpetchB s.s. is A book from same set; other books apparently lost. New pencil foliation, 1-45 (one original folio now missing at end; original folios also missing between new ff. 2/3, 3/4, 14/15, 20/21). Original numbering of pieces, 1-26 (partly obliterated by trimming; last two motets included under # 26). Modern covers of buff parchment and rust-red marbled paper over cardboard. No index. Copied by John Sadler, who also wrote SpetchB s.s. and OxfBM e.1-5 (FelAP). Staff height 10. Large calligraphic initials, elaborately decorated with red, green, gold, blue, silver, and gray floral designs, animals, and grotesques; some text in red ink. Watermark is Heawood #2168, also found in OxfBM e.1-5 and SpetchB s.s.

1591 (date in manuscript). Probably copied in or near Sudborough, Northampton. The compiler, scribe, and original owner was John Sadler, a schoolmaster and Anglican priest. Owned in 19th century by George Weare Braikenridge of Brislington, Somerset; later owners include Jerdone Braikenridge (d. 1907) and Alfred M. Hale. Purchased from latter by E. H. Fellowes on behalf of St. Michael's College (near Tenbury, Worcester), in 1942; deposited in Bodleian Library in 1979.

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Composers: Change "Sadler-l" to "Sadler-2"; change "anon-4" to "anon-3."

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Blezzard, Judith H. 1995. Monsters and Messages: The Willmott and Braikenridge Manuscripts of Latin Tudor Church Music, 1591. The Antiquaries Journal, 75: 311–338. Notes: discussion of decoration.

Gaskin, Hilary Lorna. 1985. Music copyists in late sixteenth-century England, with particular reference to the manuscripts of John Baldwin. University of Cambridge Faculty of Music, PhD.

Mateer, David G. 1979. John Sadler and Oxford, Bodleian MSS Mus. e. 1-5. Music and Letters, 40: 281-95. Pages: 281, 285. Notes: mention of MS.

Morris, Christopher (compiler). 1978. The Oxford Book of Tudor Anthems.  London. Pages: 272. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Hofman, May. 1977. The Survival of Latin Sacred Music by English Composers 1485–1610. University of Oxford Faculty of Music, DPhil.

Josephson, David Sholom. 1972. John Taverner: A Documentary Study of His Life and Musik. Columbia University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 259. Notes: contents list (partial).

Bray, Roger W. 1971. The Part-Books Oxford, Christ Church, MSS 979-983: An Index and Commentary. Musica Disciplina, 25: 179-97. Pages: 184-9. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Benham, Hugh Raymond. 1969. The Music of John Taverner - A Study and Assessment. University of Southampton, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 44. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial).

Satterfield, John. 1969. A Catalogue of Tye's Latin Music,. Studies in Musicology: Essays in the History, Style, and Bibliography of Music in Memory of Glen Haydon, 51-9. Chapel Hill, N.C. Pages: 56, 59. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial).

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: II, 217; XXV,171; XXVIII,125,130; XXIX, 129,132-3. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Kerman, Joseph. 1963. Communication. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 16: 110. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Kerman, Joseph. 1961. Byrd's Motets: Chronology and Canon. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 14: 359-82. Pages: 364. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial).

Noble, Jeremy. 1955. La Répertoire Instrumental Anglais: 1550-1585. La Musique Instrumentale de la Renaissance, 91-114. Paris. Pages: 105. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Fellowes, Edmund H. 1948. Tudor Church Music: Appendix with Supplementary Notes.  London. Pages: 5-6, 36-7, 42-3, 47-9. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list; transcription (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

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Edward Tambling

Thursday, 4 July, 2024

Identified Quare tristis est anima mea (on fols 42v-43r) to be the setting by Derrick Gerarde, also found in GB-Lbl Roy. App. 17-22 and 26-30.

Matthias Range

Friday, 15 November, 2019

Both partes of White's Miserere are present; inventory corrected

Jason Smart

Tuesday, 29 October, 2019

'Anima Christi' incorrectly assigned to Robert Parsons; re-assigned to William.

DIAMM, 2016

Monday, 23 January, 2017

NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Binding Note; Watermark Note; Notation Note; Ruling Note; Foliation Note; Foliation Note

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Monday, 23 January, 2017

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