GB-Ob MS. Tenbury 941

Bodleian Library, Oxford, England

partbook: after 1602

Archive Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob)
Shelfmark MS. Tenbury 941
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Surface Paper
Numbering System None
Format portrait
Measurements 29.5cm x 19.6cm
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General Description

Altus partbook, one of a set of five partbooks, containing 150 5-voice madrigals by 28 composers, selectively copied (mostly) from Italian or Flemish prints & fully-texted throughout. In one hand; blank leaves separate sections in different clef combinations. Owned by James Bartleman (English bass, 1769-1821) whose ex libris is pasted into each book, and who added 4 tables of contents and a title page, and also lightly 'barred' some pieces for performance. A few pieces exist only in ms sources,or are unica.

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Binding

Modern plain binding. The manuscript was unbound when it came to Bartleman c1800

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Watermark

Paper from the Low Countries. Two watermarks throughout: - 1 closely resembles Heawood 481 (which H dates 'Schieland 1602); similar to arms of Burgundy & Austria but Golden Fleece beneath shield is inverted in the partbook paper; - 2 is less frequent (& less clear), showing a cockatrice suspending a crozier from its upraised leg: resembles Heawood 838 (which originated in Holland 1609)

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Ruling

ruled with a rastrum, ten staves per page, staff height 11.2-11.7cm

Scribe adds a rules line between staves for the text.

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Foliation

No foliation or pagination; pieces are numbered consecutively with one madrigal per page

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Index

4 incomplete early-19th century tables of contents added by Bartleman

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Surface

brown ink on good quality paper

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Set: MSS Tenbury 940-944

Type: Partbooks

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GB-Ob MS. Tenbury 940

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GB-Ob MS. Tenbury 941

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GB-Ob MS. Tenbury 942

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GB-Ob MS. Tenbury 943

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GB-Ob MS. Tenbury 944

denotes primary source study

Hamessley, Lydia. 1992. The Tenbury and Ellesmere Partbooks: New Findings on Manuscript Compilation and Exchange, and the Reception of the Italian Madrigal in Elizabethan England. Music & Letters, 177-221. Notes: description of ms, ownership data, summary inventory of ocontents.

Hamessley, Lydia. 1989. The reception of the Italian madrigal in England: A repertorial study of manuscript anthologies, ca. 1580—1620. University of Minnesota, Ph.D. Notes: description of ms; inventory; discussion.

White (compiler). 1822. The Late Mr Bartleman's Musical Library. A catalogue of the very valuable and celebrated library of music books.  Westminster: J Hayes. http://hdl.handle.net/1802/27719(Accessed: 6 June 2018). Pages: 32. Notes: sale catalogue: the ms appears at foot of p32 - item 1187, sold on day 8!.

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