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.
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) |
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| Shelfmark | MS. Ashmole 1285 |
| Measurements | 180 x 155 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 1 composition, 1 is anonymous. |
General Description
Physical Description
Texts left incomplete at start and end owing to missing outer folios, quire size manipulation, some incomplete texts mid-gathering
Decoration
Various approaches to layout and decoration
Index
18th century contents list
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Sources of British Song 1150-1300
Project Collection · 35 sources
GB-Ob MS. Ashmole 1285
Current source
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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, 3: 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, vol. 3. 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 unpublished catalogue, Bodleian Library, Oxford, .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, vol. 1-2. 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, vol. 10. Oxford. Pages: cols 1044-1046.
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