Composite of four unrelated manuscripts later bound together, the fourth of which contains music. Music on new ff. 191-196' copied by a single scribe, except for piece on ff. 195'-196, which is a later addition by a different hand. 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.
GB-Ob MS. Ashmole 191
Bodleian Library, Oxford, England
non-music MS with added polyphony: 15th century: c.1445-60
| Archive | Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob) |
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| Shelfmark | MS. Ashmole 191 |
| Surface | Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Format | portrait |
| Measurements | 215 x 150 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 7 compositions, 1 from 2 composers, 6 are anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
New covers of brown leather on cardboard, with two brass clasps.
Watermark
1) hand; (2) cross (neither in Briquet)
Notation
black full mensural notation, except for piece on ff.195v-196, which is in black void mensural notation
Date
Ca. 1445-60 (HughM).
Foliation
Modern ink foliation, 1-211
Foliation
191r-197r
Decoration
No initials or decoration.
Surface
parchment
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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6 English secular pieces, 1 textless fragment = 7 (Bedingham/Frye)-1, anon-6
ix + 211 + xvii paper folios, 215 x 150. Composite of four unrelated manuscripts later bound together; only fourth manuscript contains music. Modern ink foliation, 1-211. New covers of brown leather on cardboard, with two brass clasps. Music on new ff. 191-196', copied in black mensural notation by a single scribe, except for piece on ff. 195'-196, a later addition in white mensural notation by a different hand. No initials or decoration. Two watermarks, neither in Briquet: (1) hand; (2) cross.
Ca. 1445-60 (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.
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Fallows, David. 1981. Robertus de Anglia and the Oporto Song Collection. Source Materials and the Interpretation of Music: A Memorial Volume to Thurston Dart, 99-128. London. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Perkins, Leeman L, and Howard Garey (editors). 1979. The Mellon Chansonnier. New Haven and London. Pages: II,167,370. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Fallows, David. 1978. Robert Morton's Songs: A Study in Styles in the Mid-Fifteenth Century. University of California at Berkeley, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 354-5. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Fallows, David. 1976-7. English Song Repertories of the Mid-fifteenth Century. Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, 106: 61-79. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Kenney, Sylvia W. 1964. Walter Frye and the Contenance Angloise. New Haven and London. Pages: 85-7,151-3,170,179-80. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Westrup, Jack A (editor). 1954-. New Oxford History of Music. London, New York, and Toronto. Pages: 111,126-8,131. Notes: contents list (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1951. Medieval Polyphony in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Pages: 6. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list.
Wolf, Johannes. 1904; Reprinted: Hildesheim, 1965. Geschichte der Mensural-Notation von 1250-1460 nach den theoretischen und praktischen Quellen. 3 vols. Leipzig. Pages: I,368. 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, vol. 1-2. Oxford. London. Pages: I,xx, facs. 30-6 11,66-74. Notes: contents list; transcription; TeFDis.
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