An Altus 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.
US-Wgu MS 10 (St. Andrews Psalter or Wode Partbooks)
Georgetown University, Special Collections Joseph Mark Lauinger Library, Washington, United States
partbook: c. 1567-92
| Archive | Georgetown University, Special Collections Joseph Mark Lauinger Library, Washington, United States (US-Wgu) |
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| Shelfmark | MS 10 (St. Andrews Psalter or Wode Partbooks) |
| Surface | Paper |
| Numbering System | None / Unknown |
| Format | portrait |
| Measurements | c. 190 x 130 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 122 compositions, 114 from 8 composers, 8 are anonymous. |
General Description
Watermark
No watermarks visible.
Foliation
unpaginated
Decoration
Painted initials, miniatures, and border decorations in green, yellow, tan, purple, orange, and blue.
Surface
paper
21v
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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 University of Leeds, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation.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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