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.
GB-Ob MS. Digby 167
Bodleian Library, Oxford, England
non-music MS with added polyphony: 15th century, c.1450-75
| Archive | Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob) |
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| Shelfmark | MS. Digby 167 |
| Surface | Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Format | portrait |
| Measurements | 255 x 185 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 1 composition, 1 is anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
New covers of brown leather on cardboard, with two clasps.
Notation
tenors in stroke notation; a later discantus is added in black void mensural notation
Date
Ca. 1450-75 (StaE)
Ruling
hand-drawn 22 mm; ruled 13-15 mm
Foliation
New pencil foliation, 1-79.
Foliation
31v
Decoration
No initials; ends of staves decorated with ornamental patterns.
Surface
parchment
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.
31v
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Bent, Margaret. 1984. The Progeny of Old Hall: More Leaves from a Royal English Choirbook. Gordon Athol Anderson (1929-1981) in Memoriam, Musicological Studies, vol. 49. 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, vol. 1-5. 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, 21: 137-56. Pages: 149. Notes: mention of MS.
Crane, Frederick. 1968. Materials for the Study of the Fifteenth Century Basse Danse. Musicological Studies, vol. 16. Brooklyn: Institute of Mediaeval Music. Pages: 15,103,105.
Harrison, Frank Llewellyn. 1962. Faburden in Practice. Musica Disciplina, 16: 11-34. Pages: 16-7,24,28.
Trowell, Brian. 1961. Anonymous English Pieces in Trent 87. Music and Letters, 42: 96-7. Pages: 97.
Trowell, Brian. 1959. Faburden and Fauxbourdon. Musica Disciplina, 13: 43-78. Pages: 61-2. Notes: contents list; discussion.
Bukofzer, Manfred F. 1958. Changing Aspects of Medieval and Renaissance Music. The Musical Quarterly, 44: 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, vol. 1-2. 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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NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Binding Note; Notation Note; Date Note; Ruling 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