GB-Och Mus. 45

Christ Church, Oxford, England

tablebook: Late 16th century

Archive Christ Church, Oxford, England (GB-Och)
Shelfmark Mus. 45
Image Availability The images on this record are linked using IIIF.
Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Format portrait
Measurements 283 x 215 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: OxfC 45
Notations
  • black void mensural
External Links
Provenance
  • England
Contents Contains 40 compositions, 37 from 9 composers, 3 are anonymous.
General Description

Tablebook; music on f. 36' and ff. 37'-40 in choirbook format. Contains sections of votive antiphons, Magnificats, and other Latin-texted works. Copyists unidentified. The principal copyist was responsible for all except items 1 and 37, which were added by two different hands. English, last quarter of 16th century. Collation unknown on account of the tightness of the binding.

Provenance unknown, but presumably from either the Aldrich or Goodson bequests. Not mentioned in any early catalogue before Malchair 1787, where it is listed (f. 3) as 'An Antient Italian M.S. requiring / more studdy to make out than can bee / aforded at Catalogue making time / Quarto Vol. vellum bound' (identified as 'Italian' perhaps because the contents are mostly Latin-texted extracts from pre-Reformation Magnificats and votive antiphons).

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Binding

Late 18th-century binding of white parchment over boards, undecorated except for two parallel fillets at edges. Spine in contrasting brown leather; on spine, a red leather inset, tooled in gold: 'MUSICA / SACRA / M.S.'. Nothing remains of any earlier binding. The volume was bound at Christ Church in the late 18th century as part of an uncompleted binding project intended to protect previously unbound items from the Aldrich and Goodson bequests. (For a list of other volumes in related bindings, see the entry for Mus. 3.)

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Notation

black void mensural

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Foliation

foliated '2-40' by a sixteenth-century hand (partly trimmed and replaced in modern pencil); the original f.1 is missing.

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Index

Modern index of pieces and composers

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Surface

paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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1 Sanctus, 22 Magnificat sections, 2 Lamentations, 15 motets or motet sections = 40

Byrd-3, W. Mundy-3, R. Parsons I-4, Shepherds, Strogers-2, Tallis-1, Taverner-6, Tye-4, R. White-6, R. White/(W. White)-4, anon-3

i + 39 + i paper folios, 274 x 210. Original ink and new pencil foliation, 1-40, begins with modern flyleaf at beginning (original f. 1 missing; new pencil foliation replaces original folio numbers obliterated by trimming). New covers of white parchment on cardboard. Modern index of pieces and composers. Music on f. 36' and ff. 37'-40 in choirbook format; remaining contents copied to be readable by performers seated around a table. Copied by a single scribe, except for pieces on f. 2 and f. 36', each in a different hand. No initials or decoration. Repertory consists of two-, three-, and four-voice sections extracted from larger works.

Late 16th century (JosephT). Copied in England.

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Sets

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Boydell, Barra. 1999. Music at Christ Church before 1800: documents and selected anthems.  Four Courts Press.

Josephson, David Sholom. 1972. John Taverner: A Documentary Study of His Life and Musik. Columbia University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 257. 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: 47. Notes: mention of MS.

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: 53, 56-9. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial).

Kirsch, Winfried. 1966. Die Quellen der mehrstimmigen Magnificat- und Te Deum-Vertonungen bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts.  Tutzing. Pages: 154. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial).

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: XXVIII, 124,133-4; XXIX,128,138; XXX, 154-5,177,196-7. Notes: physical description (partial); 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: 1, 83, 111, 174, 225-6. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial).

Kerman, Joseph. 1961. Byrd's Motets: Chronology and Canon. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 14: 359-82. Pages: 373-6, 381. Notes: contents list (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn. 1958, second ed. 1963. Music in Medieval Britain.  London: Routledge. Pages: 392, 401. Notes: mention of MS.

Noble, Jeremy. 1955. La Répertoire Instrumental Anglais: 1550-1585. La Musique Instrumentale de la Renaissance, 91-114. Paris. Pages: 101. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Fellowes, Edmund H. 1948. William Byrd.  London, New York, and Toronto. Pages: 100. Notes: mention of MS.

Fellowes, Edmund H (editor). 1923-48. Tudor Church Music.  London, Oxford et al. Pages: I, lix; III, xv, xx; V, xx-xxiii; VI, xxvii; IX, xii. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Arkwright, G E P. 1915-23. Catalogue of Music in the Library of Christ Church Oxford.  Oxford University Press. Pages: I, passim; II, xvii-xviii, 20. Notes: contents list; concordances; incipits (partial).

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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