GB-Ob MS. Digby 167

Bodleian Library, Oxford, England

Non-music MS with interpolated music: 15th century, c.1450-75

Archive Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob)
Shelfmark MS. Digby 167
Surface Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Format portrait
Measurements 255 x 185 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: OxfBDI 167
  • olim (Former shelfmark): MadanSC 1768
Notations
  • black void mensural
  • stroke
Relationships
External Links
Provenance
  • England
Contents 1 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

Music on f. 31': tenors copied by a single scribe; 'Quene note' discantus is later addition, copied by a different scribe. 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.

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Binding

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

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Notation

tenors in stroke notation; a later discantus is added in black void mensural notation

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Date

Ca. 1450-75 (StaE)

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Ruling

hand-drawn 22 mm; ruled 13-15 mm

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Foliation

New pencil foliation, 1-79.

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Foliation

31v

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Decoration

No initials; ends of staves decorated with ornamental patterns.

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Surface

parchment

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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Calendars and astronomical tables, with polyphony: 1 hymn (faburden tenor only), 1 basse dance with French title (tenor only), 1 basse dance with title "Quene note" (tenor + later discantus) = 3

Frank(?)*-1, anon-2

*"Frank," above "Quene note" tenor, may or may not be an attribution.

79 + ii parchment folios, 255 x 185. New pencil foliation, 1-79. New covers of brown leather on cardboard, with two clasps. Music on f. 31': tenors in stroke notation, copied by a single scribe; "Quene note" discantus is later addition in white mensural notation, copied by a different scribe. No initials; ends of staves decorated with ornamental patterns.

Ca. 1450-75 (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

31v

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
31v Aeternae rex altissimae - Anonymous

Aeternae rex altissimae

Anonymous
Appears on: 31v
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Eterne rex altissime
General Note

O183
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Aeternae rex altissimae Anonymous 31v

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Curtis, Gareth R K, and Andrew B Wathey. 1994. Fifteenth-Century English Liturgical Music: A List of the Surviving Repertory. Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 1-69.

Bent, Margaret. 1984. The Progeny of Old Hall: More Leaves from a Royal English Choirbook. Gordon Athol Anderson (1929-1981) in Memoriam, Musicological Studies. 2 vols.1-54. Henryville, Ottawa, and Binningen: Institute of Mediaeval Music.

Trowell, Brian. 1980. Faburden-New Sources, New Evidence: A Preliminary Survey. Modern Musical Scholarship, 28-78. Stocksfield, Boston, Henley, and London. Pages: 52,61,74,76. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial).

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.

Bent, Margaret. 1968. New and Little-Known Fragments of English Medieval Polyphony. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 137-56. Pages: 149. Notes: mention of MS.

Crane, Frederick. 1968. Materials for the Study of the Fifteenth Century Basse Danse. Musicological Studies.  Brooklyn: Institute of Mediaeval Music. Pages: 15,103,105.

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn. 1962. Faburden in Practice. Musica Disciplina, 11-34. Pages: 16-7,24,28.

Trowell, Brian. 1961. Anonymous English Pieces in Trent 87. Music and Letters, 96-7. Pages: 97.

Trowell, Brian. 1959. Faburden and Fauxbourdon. Musica Disciplina, 43-78. Pages: 61-2. Notes: contents list; discussion.

Bukofzer, Manfred F. 1958. Changing Aspects of Medieval and Renaissance Music. The Musical Quarterly, 1-18. Pages: 16.

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,xxiii, façs. 98; II,181I,446. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion; DpL.

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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