GB-Ob MS. Ashmole 831

Bodleian Library, Oxford, England

Choirbook fragment: 15th–16th century: c.1500

Archive	Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob)
Shelfmark	MS. Ashmole 831
Surface	Mixed Paper and Parchment
Numbering System	Foliation
Format	portrait
Measurements	346 x 211 mm
Other Identifiers	CCM: OxfBA 831
Copyists	? Bourgeois, Martin Text and Music scribal concordance [26], Alamire B (possibly Martin Bourgeois) Text and Music
Relationships	Ashmole, Elias (owner)
External Links	CMME online edition images (IDEM database) Catalogue Description
Provenance	Belgium
Contents	3 pieces from 4 composers

General Description

Composite of several unrelated manuscripts of various sizes, later bound together. Contents include genealogical pedigrees, accounts, legal documents, and other writings. Only ff. 260-261 contain music, and are apparently part of a large quarto chansonnier from Mechelen. Copied by Netherlands court scribe B (= Martin Bourgeois?). Copied in Brussels/ Mechlin; belongs to Netherlands court complex (KellJ). 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 over board

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Notation

not indicated

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Date

1495-1508, probably ca. 1503-8 (KellBP).

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Ruling

Staff height 14

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Foliation

Modern ink foliation, 1-261; various systems of original foliation in individual manuscripts

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Foliation

260-261v

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Decoration

Initials and borders illuminated in Ghent-Bruges style.

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Surface

ii paper + i paper + 259 paper + 2 parchment + ii paper

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DIAMM Note

Part of a large quarto chansonnier from Mechelen

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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Miscellaneous writings, with polyphony:

2 French secular pieces, 1 Spanish secular piece = 3 (all incomplete)

(A. Agricola)-1, (A. Agricola/Hayne van Ghizeghem)-1, (Enrique/ Wreede)-1

ii paper + i paper + 259 paper + 2 parchment + ii paper folios, of varying sizes. Composite of several unrelated manuscripts later bound together. Contents include genealogical pedigrees, accounts, legal documents, and other writings from 16th and 17th centuries. Modern ink foliation, 1-261; various systems of original foliation in individual manuscripts. New covers of brown leather over boards. Only ff. 260-261 (parchment, 346 x 211) contain music: apparently the only surviving remnants of a choirbook copied by Netherlands court scribe B (= Martin Bourgeois?; see general index for other manuscripts copied by the same scribe). Staff height 14. Initials and borders illuminated in Ghent-Bruges style.

1495-1508, probably ca. 1503-8 (KellBP). Copied in Brussels/ Mechlin; belongs to Netherlands court complex (KellJ). 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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Folio / Pages	Composition / Item title	Source attribution	Composers (? Uncertain)
260–260v	Se je vous eslonge de l'oeil	-	Agricola, Alexander (ca. 1445–1506) (?) Ghizeghem, Hayne van (ca. 1445–ca. 1497) (?)
Se je vous eslonge de l'oeil Agricola, Alexander (ca. 1445–1506) (?) Ghizeghem, Hayne van (ca. 1445–ca. 1497) (?) Appears on: 260–260v Genres: Chanson Voice: [no designation] Languages: French Voice Text: Se je vous eslonge (incomplete)
261	Se mieulx ne vient d'amours	-	Agricola, Alexander (ca. 1445–1506)
Se mieulx ne vient d'amours Agricola, Alexander (ca. 1445–1506) Appears on: 261 Genres: Chanson Voice: [no designation] Languages: French Voice Text: Se mieulx ne vient damours (incomplete)
261v	Nunca fue pena mayor / Numquam fuit pena magior	-	Urrede (Wrede), Juan de (fl. 1451-c1482) (?) Enrique (?)
Nunca fue pena mayor / Numquam fuit pena magior Urrede (Wrede), Juan de (fl. 1451-c1482) (?) Enrique (?) Appears on: 261v Genres: Motet Voice: [no designation] Languages: Latin Voice Text: Nunca fue pena maior (incomplete)

Composer	Compositions
Agricola, Alexander (ca. 1445–1506)	(?) Se je vous eslonge de l'oeil – 260–260v Se mieulx ne vient d'amours – 261
Enrique	(?) Nunca fue pena mayor / Numquam fuit pena magior – 261v
Ghizeghem, Hayne van (ca. 1445–ca. 1497)	(?) Se je vous eslonge de l'oeil – 260–260v
Urrede (Wrede), Juan de (fl. 1451-c1482)	(?) Nunca fue pena mayor / Numquam fuit pena magior – 261v

Composition	Composers (? Uncertain)	Folios / Pages
Nunca fue pena mayor / Numquam fuit pena magior	Urrede (Wrede), Juan de (fl. 1451-c1482) (?) Enrique (?)	261v
Se je vous eslonge de l'oeil	Agricola, Alexander (ca. 1445–1506) (?) Ghizeghem, Hayne van (ca. 1445–ca. 1497) (?)	260–260v
Se mieulx ne vient d'amours	Agricola, Alexander (ca. 1445–1506)	261

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Set: Books prepared by the Alamire workshop

Type: Linked by Origin or Contents

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A-Wn Mus.Hs. 15495 (Maximilian Codex)

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 15496

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 15497

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 15941 (B)

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 15941 (Contratenor)

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 15941 Mus (T)

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 18746 (Altus/Contratenor)

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 18746 (Bassus)

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 18746 (Superius/Cantus)

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 18746 (Tenor 1)

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 18746 (Tenor 2/Quintus)

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 18825 (Bassus)

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 18825 (Contratenor)

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 18825 (Discantus)

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 18825 (Tenor)

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 18832 (Lower Voice)

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 18832 (Upper Voice)

B-Amp MS M18.13 (fragment 1)

B-Amp MS M18.13 (fragment 2)

B-BRra Aanwisten 756

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B-Baeb Fonds Sint-Goedele, 5170

B-Baeb Fonds Sint-Goedele, 9423

B-Baeb Fonds Sint-Goedele, 9424

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B-Bcpas H 1135

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B-Br MS 215-216

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B-Br MS 228 (Chansonnier of Margaret of Austria)

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B-Br MS 6428

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B-Br MS 9126

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B-Br MS 15075

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B-Br MS IV.922 (Occo Codex)

B-Gra Varia D.3360 B

B-MEa s.s.

B-TOsa Oud regime MS 183

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GB-Lbl Royal 8 G. vii

GB-Ob MS. Ashmole 831

GB-Ob MS. Lat. liturg. a. 8

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I-Fc MS Basevi 2439 (Basevi Codex)

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NL-Urc Hs. 47 (fragments 1 and 2)

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V-CVbav MS Capp. Sist. 34

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V-CVbav MS Capp. Sist. 36

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V-CVbav MS Capp. Sist. 160

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V-CVbav MS Pal. lat. 1976

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V-CVbav MS Pal. lat. 1977

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V-CVbav MS Pal. lat. 1978

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V-CVbav MS Pal. lat. 1979

‡ denotes primary source study

Kellman, Herbert (editor). 1999. The Treasury of Petrus Alamire. Music and art in Flemish Court Manuscripts 1500-1535. Leuven: Alamire Foundation.

Kellman, Herbert. 1989. Observations on the Production and Distribution of Music Manuscripts at the Netherlands Court. Early Music History, . Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion.

Fallows, David. 1976-7. English Song Repertories of the Mid-fifteenth Century. Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, 61-79.

Kellman, Herbert. 1976. Josquin and the Courts of the Netherlands and France: The Evidence of the Sources. Josquin des Prez: Proceedings of the International Josquin Festival-Conference ... 21-25 June 1971, 181-216. London, New York, and Toronto. Pages: 209. Notes: mention of MS.

Atlas, Allan W. 1975-6. The Cappella Giulia Chansonnier (Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, C. G.XIII.27). Musicological Studies. Brooklyn. Pages: I, 82-4. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Picker, Martin. 1960. The Chanson Albums of Marguerite of Austria: Manuscripts 228 and 11239 of the Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Bruxelles. University of California at Berkeley, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 364. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Kellman, Herbert. 1958. The Origins of the Chigi Codex: The Date, Provenance, and Original Ownership of Rome, Biblioteca Vaticana, Chigiana, C. VIII. 234. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 6-19. Pages: 18. Notes: mention of MS.

Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1951. Medieval Polyphony in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Pages: 6-7. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list; concordances.

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, xxiv, facs. 101-4 II, 185-92. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list; transcription (partial); facsimile; 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: 1, 138 [erroneously referred to as MS 833]. Notes: physical description.

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

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