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.
| Archive | Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob) |
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| 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 |
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| Contents | Contains 8 compositions, 8 are anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
New covers of brown tooled leather on cardboard.
Notation
f.21 is in black full mensural notation, other pieces in black void mensural notation
Date
Ca. 1425 (music); other contents date from 13th-15th centuries.
Ruling
red stave
Foliation
New pencil foliation, 1-182, on mounting leaves (with several errors).
Foliation
20-23v
Decoration
Gothic initials and some text on f. 20 and f. 21 in red ink; no other decoration.
Surface
parchment
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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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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