GB-Ob MS. Douce 381

Bodleian Library, Oxford, England

fragment: 15th century, c.1425

Archive Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob)
Shelfmark MS. Douce 381
Surface Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Format portrait
Measurements f.20: 200 x 140; f.21: 180 x 130; f.22: 205 x 130; f.23: 182 x 150 mm
Other Identifiers
  • RISM: GB-Ob381
  • CCM: OxfBDO 381
Notations
  • black full mensural
  • black void mensural
Relationships
External Links
Provenance
  • England
Contents Contains 8 compositions, 8 are anonymous.
General Description

Collection of miscellaneous folios, now in a modern guard book. Only new ff. 20-23 contain music. Copied by two or three scribes. Owned by the antiquarian Francis Douce (1757-1834); passed to Bodleian Library in 1834.

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Binding

New covers of brown tooled leather on cardboard.

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Notation

f.21 is in black full mensural notation, other pieces in black void mensural notation

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Date

Ca. 1425 (music); other contents date from 13th-15th centuries.

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Ruling

red stave

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Foliation

New pencil foliation, 1-182, on mounting leaves (with several errors).

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Foliation

20-23v

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Decoration

Gothic initials and some text on f. 20 and f. 21 in red ink; no other decoration.

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Surface

parchment

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RISM Description

RISM B/IV 4: 15. Jh.; 4 Blätter Pergament, f. 20: 200 x 140 mm, f. 21: 175 x 130 mm, f. 22: 205 x 130 mm, f. 23: 182 x 150 mm. Moderne Foliierung von f. 20-23 (innerhalb der Fragmentsammlung). Je Seite 9 rote Fünfliniensysteme mit weißer, f. 21r mit schwarzer Mensuralnotation - Einband: Ganze Fragmentsammlung in Lederband.

Diese 4, heute in einer Sammlung von Fragmenten des 13. bis 15. Jh. aufbewahrten Blätter enthalten von verschiedenen Händen um 1425 geschriebene, englische und französische Lieder (f. 21v und f. 23v sind unlesbar, vielleicht leer?).

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5 English secular pieces, 2 French secular pieces, 1 instrumental piece = 8

Anonymous

vi + 178 + ii paper folios [modern guard book], containing 178 miscellaneous parchment folios, of varying sizes. New pencil foliation, 1-182, on mounting leaves (with several errors). New covers of brown tooled leather on cardboard. Only new ff. 20-23 contain music (f. 20: 200 x 140; f. 21: 180 x 130; f. 22: 205 x 130; f. 23: 182 x 150). Piece on f. 21 in black mensural notation; other pieces in white mensural notation on red staves. Copied by two or three scribes. Gothic initials and some text on f. 20 and f. 21 in red ink; no other decoration.

Ca. 1425 (music); other contents date from 13th-15th centuries. Copied in England. Owned by the antiquarian Francis Douce (1757-1834); passed to Bodleian Library in 1834.

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20v

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Number of voices Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
20 I have set my heart so high 2 - Anonymous

I have set my heart so high

Anonymous
Appears on: 20
Genres: Song
Number of voices: 2
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: English
Clef: c2
Voice Text: [I] Hafe set my hert so hye ...
Voice: Tenor
Languages: English
Clef: c5
Voice Text: [I Hafe set my hert so hye]
Layout

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20 Les eux ouvert la bouche close 3 - Anonymous

Les eux ouvert la bouche close

Anonymous
Appears on: 20
Genres: Chanson
Number of voices: 3
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Les eux ouvert la bouche close ...
Voice: Tenor
Languages: none
Clef: c5
Layout

parts
20v I have so long kept 3 - Anonymous

I have so long kept

Anonymous
Appears on: 20v
Genres: Song
Number of voices: 3
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Ie have so longe kepe ...
Voice: Tenor
Languages: French
Clef: c5
Voice Text: Ie have so longe kepyt etc.
Layout

parts
21 Mon cure coeur? 3 - Anonymous

Mon cure coeur?

Anonymous
Appears on: 21
Genres: Chanson
Number of voices: 3
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Mon cure (cuer?) ...
Voice: Tenor
Languages: French
Clef: [c5]
Voice Text: [Mon cure]
Voice: Medius
Languages: French
Clef: c4
Voice Text: [Mon cure]
Layout

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22 My cares comen 2 - Anonymous

My cares comen

Anonymous
Appears on: 22
Genres: Song
Number of voices: 2
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: English
Clef: c2
Voice Text: My cares comen ...
Voice: Tenor
Languages: English
Clef: c5
Voice Text: [My cares]
Layout

parts
22 Wyth ryth al my herte 1 - Anonymous

Wyth ryth al my herte

Anonymous
Appears on: 22
Genres: Song
Number of voices: 1
Voice: Superius
Languages: English
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Wyth ryth al my herte ...
Layout

parts
22v I rede thou be 2 - Anonymous

I rede thou be

Anonymous
Appears on: 22v
Genres: Song
Number of voices: 2
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Clef: c2
Voice Text: J rede [thou be] ...
Voice: Tenor
Languages: English
Clef: c4
Voice Text: [I rede thou be]
Layout

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23 Felix namque. 2 - Anonymous

Felix namque.

Anonymous
Appears on: 23
Genres: Motet
Number of voices: 2
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c2
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: f3
Voice Text: Felix namque.
Layout

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Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Felix namque. Anonymous 23
I have set my heart so high Anonymous 20
I have so long kept Anonymous 20v
I rede thou be Anonymous 22v
Les eux ouvert la bouche close Anonymous 20
Mon cure coeur? Anonymous 21
My cares comen Anonymous 22
Wyth ryth al my herte Anonymous 22

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Fallows, David. 1976-7. English Song Repertories of the Mid-fifteenth Century. Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, 106: 61-79. Pages: 62. Notes: mention of MS.

Bent, Margaret. 1973. The Transmission of English Music 1300-1500: Some Aspects of Repertory and Presentation. Studien zur Tradition in der Musik: Kurt von Fischer zum 60. Geburtstag, edited by Margaret Bent, 65–83. Munich: Musikverlag Emil Katzbichler. Pages: 77. Notes: mention of MS.

Kenney, Sylvia W. 1964. Walter Frye and the Contenance Angloise.  New Haven and London. Pages: 157,170. Notes: mention of MS.

Reaney, Gilbert. 1962. Bodleian Library.Canonici Misc. 213 (O) (Oxforder Handschriften). Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 10: . Pages: Sp. 514.

Stevens, John E. 1961. Music & Poetry in the Early Tudor Court.  Cambridge. Pages: 440ff. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Westrup, Jack A (editor). 1954-. New Oxford History of Music.  London, New York, and Toronto. Pages: III, 126-7.

Dart, Thurston. 1954. A New Source of Early English Organ Music. Music and Letters, 35: . Pages: 201ff.

Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1951. Medieval Polyphony in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Pages: 27-8. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list; concordances.

Bukofzer, Manfred F. 1950. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music. Pages: 95f.

Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1949-79. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik.  Kassel. Pages: X,514. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial).

Ramsbotham, Alexander, H B Collins, and Dom Anselm Hughes (editors). 1933-8. The Old Hall Manuscript.  Burnham and London. Pages: 126ff.

Myers, S L. 1906. Music, Cantilenas, Songs etc. from an Early 15th Century Manuscript.  London. Pages: (Faksimile und Übertragung von Nr. 7).

Wolf, Johannes. 1904; Reprinted: Hildesheim, 1965. Geschichte der Mensural-Notation von 1250-1460 nach den theoretischen und praktischen Quellen. 3 vols. Leipzig. Pages: I,197,376,395. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (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,xix, facs. 20-5; II,51-60. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list; transcription (partial); facsimile; mention of MS; discussion.

Stainer, John F. R, Cécie Stainer, and Edward W. B. Nicholson. 1901, 1913. Early Bodleian Music I-II (1901); Early Bodleian Music III. Pages: I. Notes: Tf. XX-XXV (Faksimiles von Nr. 1-8); II, 5 Iff. (Übertragungen von Nr. 1-7).

Madan, Falconer (editor). 1895-1953. A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.  Oxford. Pages: IV,614-5. Notes: physical description.

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,15. Notes: mention of MS.

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