GB-Ob MS. Digby 133 (The Digby Plays)

Bodleian Library, Oxford, England

Non-music MS with interpolated music: Early 16th century, c.1505

Archive Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob)
Shelfmark MS. Digby 133 (The Digby Plays)
Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Format landscape
Measurements 210 x 147 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: OxfBDI 133
Notations
  • chant notation
Relationships
External Links
Provenance
  • England
Contents
General Description

1 anonymous textless polyphonic piece in a composite volume of miscellaneous writings, bound together, consisting of iv + 169 + ii folios. The music is on f. 145', at end of mystery play of St. Mary Magdalene. The volume was owned by the Oxford mathematician Thomas Allen (1542-1632), and bequeathed to Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65). It was then part of the Digby collection presented to Bodleian Library in 1634.

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Binding

New covers of brown leather on cardboard

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Notation

chant notation

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Foliation

145v

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Foliation

New pencil foliation, 1-169

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Surface

paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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Miscellaneous writings, with polyphony: 1 textless piece

Anonymous

iv + 169 + ii paper folios, 210 x 147. Composite of several unrelated items later bound together. New pencil foliation, 1-169. New covers of brown leather on cardboard. Music on f. 145', copied in chant notation at end of mystery play of St. Mary Magdalene. No decoration.

Ca. 1505 (StaE). Copied in England. Owned by the Oxford mathematician Thomas Allen (1542-1632); bequeathed to Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65). Digby collection presented to Bodleian Library in 1634.

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

145v

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
[-] untexted - -

untexted

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Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Voice Text: [textless]
Composer Compositions
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages

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‡ denotes primary source study

Hamm, Charles E, and Herbert Kellman (editors). 1979-1988. Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550. Renaissance Manuscript Studies. 5 vols. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag.

Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1951. Medieval Polyphony in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Pages: 27. Notes: physical description (partial).

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. 110; II,192. Notes: physical description (partial); facsimile.

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: mention of MS.

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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; 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