A Bassus partbook from a set originally of five volumes. Copied by Thomas Wode or Wood, named as scribe on several folios. Copied in St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland. Original owner and compiler was Thomas Wode or Wode (d. 1592), vicar at St. Andrews. Owned in 19th century by Archibald Constable, of Edinburgh. Purchased by a Mr. Thorpe at 1828 sale of Constable's property; later passed to present library.
GB-Eu MS Dk.5.15 (St. Andrews Psalter or Wode Partbooks)
University Library, Edinburgh, Scotland
partbook: c. 1567-92
| Archive | University Library, Edinburgh, Scotland (GB-Eu) |
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| Shelfmark | MS Dk.5.15 (St. Andrews Psalter or Wode Partbooks) |
| Surface | Paper |
| Numbering System | Pagination |
| Measurements | c. 190 x 130 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 114 compositions from 5 composers. |
General Description
Binding
Brown leather covers
Watermark
No watermarks visible.
Notation
not indicated
Foliation
Modern pencil pagination ('1-8,' '11-14,' '25-26,' '31-32,' '67-70,' '79-80,' '137-140' omitted in order to account for lost original pages; '103-112' omitted by mistake)
Decoration
Painted initials, miniatures, and border decorations in green, yellow, tan, purple, orange, and blue
Surface
paper
DIAMM Note
The Altus partbook from the second copy of these books has been discovered since the Census Catalogue description was written, and is now in Georgetown University Library.
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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2 English Te Deums, 131 English sacred pieces (psalm and canticle settings, anthems, etc.), 2 English secular pieces, 2 Italian secular pieces, 1 French secular piece (without text), 4 instrumental pieces = 142
Angus-11, Angus/Blackhall-1, Angus/(A. Kemp)-1, (Arcadelt)-1, Blackhall-6, (Buchan)-2, (C. Festa/S. Festa)-1, A. Kemp-3, Lauder-1, (Peebles)-108, (Sermisy)-1, (Tallis)-1, anon-5
2 paper partbooks of an original 5 (D-ii + 91 + i folios, B-iv + 81 + ii), ca. 190 x 130. Present partbooks are duplicate copies (made by same scribe) of DB books from original set of 5. Original DTB now EdinU 483, original A is LonBL 33933, original Q, is DubT 412; duplicate copies of ATQ books apparently lost. Modern pencil pagination in D book, 1-183, excludes front flyleaves and ends on recto of back flyleaf. Modern pencil pagination in B book, 1-198 ("1-8," "11-14," "25-26," "31-32," "67-70," "79-80," "137-140" omitted in order to account for lost original pages; "103-112" omitted by mistake). Brown leather covers. No index. Copied by Thomas Wode or Wood, named as scribe on several folios. Painted initials, miniatures, and border decorations in green, yellow, tan, purple, orange, and blue. No watermarks visible.
Ca. 1567-92. Copied in St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland. Original owner and compiler was Thomas Wode or Wode (d. 1592), vicar at St. Andrews. D book donated to present library by Jacob Brown, a theology student at Edinburgh University, in 1672 (inscription at beginning). B book owned in 19th century by Archibald Constable, of Edinburgh. Purchased by a Mr. Thorpe at 1828 sale of Constable's property; later passed to present library.
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Reid-Baxter, Jamie, Michael Lynch, and E. Patricia Dennison. 2011. Jhone Angus, Monk of Dunfermeline & Scottish Reformation Music. 72. Dunferline Heritage Community Projects. 978-0-9557244-2-8. Pages: 45-69. Notes: description; contents list (partial); 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. Pages: 261, 265-7. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Bernstein, Jane Agar. 1979. Philip van Wilder and the Netherlandish Chanson in England. Musica Disciplina, 33: 55-75. Pages: 74-5. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Benham, Hugh Raymond. 1977. Latin Church Music in England c. 1460-1575. London. Pages: 164. Notes: contents list (partial).
Elliott, Kenneth, and Frederick Rimmer. 1973. A History of Scottish Music. London. Pages: 26,30-2,44. 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, 73-4. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (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 (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, 174ff; II, 77ff. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Hutchinson, Hilda S P. 1957. The St. Andrews Psalter. Transcription and Critical Study of Thomas Wode's Psalter. Edinburgh University, Unpublished B.Mus. thesis. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list; concordances; texts; texts; mention of MS; discussion.
Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1953. Catalogue of the Musical Manuscripts at Peterhouse, Cambridge. Cambridge. Pages: I, 2, 180-2, 263, 397; II, 130, 138, 451; III, 182, 202. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list.
Lewis, Anthony (editor). 1951-. Musica Britannica: A National Collection of Music. London. Pages: XV, 204ff, passim; XLIV.xxx, 184-5. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Patrick, Millar. 1949. Four Centuries of Scottish Psalmody. London, Glasgow, and New York. Pages: 57-62. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Farmer, Henry George. 1948. A History of Music in Scotland. London. Pages: 161-7. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion.
Davey, Henry. 1921. History of English Music. London. Pages: 148-50. Notes: contents list (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
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: II, 71. Notes: physical description.
Laing, David. 1870. An Account of the Scottish Psalter of A.D. 1566, Containing the Psalms, Canticles, and Hymns, Set to Music in Four Parts, in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wode or Wood, Vicar of Sanctandrous. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 7: 445-58. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Madden, F. 1843-. Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum. Pages: [1888-93], 129-32. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list.
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