GB-Ob MS. Ashmole 1393

Bodleian Library, Oxford, England

non-music MS with interpolated music: 15th century: c.1425

Archive Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob)
Shelfmark MS. Ashmole 1393
Surface Mixed Paper and Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Format landscape
Measurements 146 x 100 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: OxfBA 1393
  • olim (Former shelfmark): MadanSC 7589
Notations
  • black full mensural
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  • England
Contents 1 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

Composite of five unrelated manuscripts later bound together. Contents include writings on alchemy, medicine, astronomy, and religion. Only new f. 68' (paper) and new f. 69 (parchment) contain music, copied by two scribes. English secular piece on f. 68' in choirbook format; Latin carol on f. 69 in score format. Two Latin/English carol texts, without music, on f. 69'; f. 68 blank. Copied in England. Owned by the antiquarian Elias Ashmole (1617-92); bequeathed to Oxford University in 1677. Housed in Ashmolean Museum 1683-1860, then transferred to Bodleian Library.

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Binding

New covers of brown leather on cardboard, with two metal clasps

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Notation

black mensural notation copied by two scribes

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Foliation

New pencil foliation, 1-70; various systems of original foliation or pagination in individual manuscripts

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Foliation

68v-69

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Decoration

No initials or decoration.

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Surface

ix paper + 70 paper and parchment + ix paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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Miscellaneous writings, with polyphony : 1 Latin carol, 1 English secular piece = 2

Anonymous

ix paper + 70 paper and parchment + ix paper folios, 146 x 100. Composite of five unrelated manuscripts later bound together. Contents include writings on alchemy, medicine, astronomy, and religion. New pencil foliation, 1-70; various systems of original foliation or pagination in individual manuscripts. New covers of brown leather on cardboard, with two metal clasps. Only new f. 68' (paper) and new f. 69 (parchment) contain music, copied in black mensural notation by two scribes. English secular piece on f. 68' in choirbook format; Latin carol on f. 69 in score format. Two Latin/English carol texts, without music, onf. 69'; f. 68 blank. No initials or decoration.

Ca. 1425 (HughM). Copied in England. Owned by the antiquarian Elias Ashmole (1617-92); bequeathed to Oxford University in 1677. Housed in Ashmolean Museum 1683-1860, then transferred to Bodleian Library.

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

68v

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
69r Ecce quod natura – Ecce novum gaudium - Anonymous

Ecce quod natura – Ecce novum gaudium

Anonymous
Appears on: 69r
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Ecce novum gaudium - Ecce quod natura
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Ecce quod natura – Ecce novum gaudium Anonymous 69r

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Bent, Margaret. 1973. The Transmission of English Music 1300-1500: Some Aspects of Repertory and Presentation. Studien zur Tradition in der Musik: Kurt von Fischer zum 60. Geburtstag, edited by Margaret Bent, 65–83. Munich: Musikverlag Emil Katzbichler. Pages: 68-9, 80. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Stevens, John E. 1961. Music & Poetry in the Early Tudor Court.  Cambridge. Pages: 437, 444. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Lewis, Anthony (editor). 1951-. Musica Britannica: A National Collection of Music.  London. Pages: IV, 32, 125. Notes: physical description; contents list; transcription (partial); texts (partial).

Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1951. Medieval Polyphony in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Pages: 7. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list.

Bukofzer, Manfred F. 1950. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music. Pages: 117, 152, 170. Notes: contents list (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Greene, Richard Leighton (editor). 1935, 2nd 1977. The Early English Carols.  Oxford. Pages: 19, 125-6, 316. Notes: physical description; contents list; texts (partial).

Wolf, Johannes. 1904; Reprinted: Hildesheim, 1965. Geschichte der Mensural-Notation von 1250-1460 nach den theoretischen und praktischen Quellen. 3 vols. Leipzig. Pages: I, 367-8. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list.

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: I, xix-xx, facs. 26-8 II, 61-5. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list; texts; transcription; eFDis.

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: I, 138. Notes: physical description (partial).

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NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Binding Note; Notation Note; Foliation Note; Foliation Note; Decoration Note; Surface Note

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

Monday, 23 January, 2017

NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description