GB-Ob MS. Add. C. 87*

Bodleian Library, Oxford, England

fragment: 15th century: c. 1450-1460

Archive Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob)
Shelfmark MS. Add. C. 87*
Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Format portrait
Measurements 300 x 215 (II says 300 x 213) mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: OxfB C87*
  • olim (Former shelfmark): MadanSC 30252
External Links
Provenance
  • England
Contents 8 pieces from 4 composers
General Description

Originally part of MS Additional C. 87 in this library. Copied by a single scribe. Copied in England. Acquired by Bodleian Library not later than c. 1875.

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Binding

Now bound separately in new covers of tan cloth on cardboard.

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Watermark

One watermark generally resembles Briquet #11684; second watermark (flower with eight petals) not in Briquet.

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Notation

Not indicated.

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Date

Ca. 1450 (HugESM); ca. 1460 (HughM).

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Ruling

13.5

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Foliation

New pencil foliation, 221-226, not reflecting original sequence (ff. 221-224-222-223 originally formed a sequence, and ff. 225-226 also belong together).

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Decoration

No initials or decoration.

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Surface

paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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(= MadanSC 30252)

1 G-C-S Mass (incomplete), 1 Gloria (incomplete), 1 Credo, 1 Sanctus fragment, 2 motets = 6

Bedingham-1, Benet-3, Plummer-1, anon-1

i + 6 + i paper folios, 300 x 213. New pencil foliation, 221-226. Originally part of MS Additional C. 87 in this library; now bound separately in new covers of tan cloth on cardboard. Copied by a single scribe. No initials or decoration. One watermark generally resembles Briquet #11684; second watermark (flower with eight petals) not in Briquet.

Ca. 1450 (HugESM); ca. 1460 (HughM). Copied in England. Acquired by Bodleian Library not later than ca. 1875.

Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550

223v

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
221 Et in terra pax [Gloria] -
Benet, John (–ca. 1458)

Et in terra pax [Gloria]

Benet, John (–ca. 1458)
Appears on: 221
Genres: Gloria (et in terra pax), Mass Ordinary
Number of voices: 2 of 3
General Note

incomplete - Ct & T only
221v, 224 Patrem omnipotentem [Credo] -
Benet, John (–ca. 1458)

Patrem omnipotentem [Credo]

Benet, John (–ca. 1458)
Appears on: 221v, 224
Genres: Credo (patrem omnipotentem), Mass Ordinary
Number of voices: 3
General Note

Cantus on f. 221v, Ct & T on f. 224
222, 224v Anna mater matris Christi Plomer
Plummer, John (ca. 1410–ca. 1484)

Anna mater matris Christi

Plummer, John (ca. 1410–ca. 1484)
Appears on: 222, 224v
Genres: Motet
Source Attribution: Plomer
Number of voices: 4
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Anna mater matris Christi
General Note

Cantus and 'si placebit' Triplex on f. 224v, Ct & T on f. 222
222v–223 Gaude pia Magdalena Benett
Benet, John (–ca. 1458)

Gaude pia Magdalena

Benet, John (–ca. 1458)
Appears on: 222v–223
Genres: Motet
Source Attribution: Benett
Number of voices: 3
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Gaude pia Magdalena
223v Sanctus Bedyngham
Bedingham, John (–ca. 1460)

Sanctus

Bedingham, John (–ca. 1460)
Appears on: 223v
Genres: Mass Ordinary, Sanctus [& Benedictus]
Source Attribution: Bedyngham
Number of voices: 2 of 3
General Note

incomplete - Cantus and beginning of Ct only
225 Missa 'Requiem aeternam': Et in terra pax {Gloria] - Anonymous

Missa 'Requiem aeternam': Et in terra pax {Gloria]

Anonymous
Appears on: 225
Genres: Gloria (et in terra pax), Mass Ordinary
Number of voices: 2 of 3
General Note

incomplete - Ct & T only
225v–226 Missa 'Requiem aeternam': Patrem omnipotentem [Credo] - Anonymous

Missa 'Requiem aeternam': Patrem omnipotentem [Credo]

Anonymous
Appears on: 225v–226
Genres: Credo (patrem omnipotentem), Mass Ordinary
Number of voices: 4
General Note

Tenor texted 'Requiem aeternam' for first part of the Creed.
226v Missa 'Requiem aeternam': Sanctus - Anonymous

Missa 'Requiem aeternam': Sanctus

Anonymous
Appears on: 226v
Genres: Mass Ordinary, Sanctus [& Benedictus]
Number of voices: 1 of 3
General Note

incomplete, Cantus only
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Bedingham, John (-ca. 1460)
Benet, John (-ca. 1458)
Plummer, John (ca. 1410-ca. 1484)
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Anna mater matris Christi
Plummer, John (ca. 1410–ca. 1484)
222, 224v
Et in terra pax [Gloria]
Benet, John (–ca. 1458)
221
Gaude pia Magdalena
Benet, John (–ca. 1458)
222v–223
Missa 'Requiem aeternam': Et in terra pax {Gloria] Anonymous 225
Missa 'Requiem aeternam': Patrem omnipotentem [Credo] Anonymous 225v–226
Missa 'Requiem aeternam': Sanctus Anonymous 226v
Patrem omnipotentem [Credo]
Benet, John (–ca. 1458)
221v, 224
Sanctus
Bedingham, John (–ca. 1460)
223v

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Hamm, Charles E. 1968. A Catalogue of Anonymous English Music in Fifteenth-Century Continental Manuscripts. Musica Disciplina, 22: 47-76. Pages: 47. Notes: mention of MS.

Kovarik, Edward. 1968. A Newly-Discovered Dunstable Fragment. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 21: 21-33. Pages: 33. Notes: mention of MS.

Braithwaite, James Roland. 1967. The Introduction of Franco-Netherlandish Manuscripts to Early Tudor England: The Motet Repertory. Boston University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 1,15. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion.

Russell, Theodore C. 1967. Cantus Firmus Technique in the Music of Fifteenth Century Manuscripts of English Provenance. Student Musicologists at Minnesota, 2: 52-77. Pages: 60,71. Notes: mention of MS.

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Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1949-79. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik.  Kassel. Pages: X,514-5.

Madan, Falconer (editor). 1895-1953. A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.  Oxford. Pages: V, 768.

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