GB-Ob MS. Ashmole 1285

Bodleian Library, Oxford, England

Monophonic song leaf in a larger MS: 13th century

Archive Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob)
Shelfmark MS. Ashmole 1285
Numbering System None
Measurements 180 x 155 mm
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Provenance
  • England
Contents 1 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

Thirteenth-century booklets, many with blank outer covers, Contains devotional and doctrinal tracts; patristic excerpts; sermons; Boethius’s Consolations; Ailred’s Speculum caritatis; French song; medical tracts; rule of St Augustine. Contains the ex libris of brother Hugh of Wendover, Southwark Priory.

Helen Deeming, 2011
Physical Description

Texts left incomplete at start and end owing to missing outer folios, quire size manipulation, some incomplete texts mid-gathering

Helen Deeming, 2011
Decoration

Various approaches to layout and decoration

Helen Deeming, 2011
Index

18th century contents list

Helen Deeming, 2011

235v

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
235v De ma dame - Anonymous

De ma dame

Anonymous
Appears on: 235v
Genres: Monophonic song
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Voice Text: De ma dame
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
De ma dame Anonymous 235v

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Hartzell, Karl Drew. 2006. Catalogue of Manuscripts Written or Owned in England up to 1200 Containing Music.  Woodbridge: Boydell Press in association with the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society. Pages: no. 240.

Stevens, John E. 1994. Alphabetical Check-List of Anglo-Norman Songs. Plainsong and Medieval Music, 1-22. Pages: pp. 6-7.

Pacht, Otto, and Jonathan J G Alexander. 1969. Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. 3 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pages: vol. 3, p. 37.

Ker, Neil R. 1964. Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books. Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks.  London. Pages: p. 180.

Dijk, Stephen J P van. 1957. Handlist of the Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. unpublished catalogue, Bodleian Library, Oxford, . Pages: vol.3, p.244;.

Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1951. Medieval Polyphony in the Bodleian Library.  Oxford. Pages: p. 7.

Stainer, John F. R, and Cécie Stainer (editors). 1901. Reprinted: Farnborough, 1967. Sacred and Secular Songs, together with other MS. compositions in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Early Bodleian Music.  Oxford. London. Pages: vol.1, plate 1.

Black, W. H. 1845-1866. A Descriptive, Analytical and Critical Catalogue of the Manuscripts Bequeathed … by E. Ashmole. Bodleian Quarto Catalogue.  Oxford. Pages: cols 1044-1046.

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