GB-Ob MS. Lat. liturg. b. 5

Bodleian Library, Oxford, England

Gradual with added polyphony: Mid 15th century (HugESM)

Archive Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob)
Shelfmark MS. Lat. liturg. b. 5
Surface Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Format portrait
Measurements 410 x 290 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: OxfBLL b.5
  • olim (Former shelfmark): MadanSC 32940
Notations
  • black full mensural
  • chant notation
  • stroke
Relationships
Provenance
  • England
Contents 2 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

Polyphonic pieces are later additions on ff. 2, 22'-23, and 86'-87 (f. 1 contains variant triplex for piece on ff. 22'-23). Each piece copied by a different scribe. 'Deo gratias' setting also appears in LonBL 17001 and LonBLC Nero E.viii (in latter source with text 'Amen'). Apparently copied for use in village church of East Drayton, Nottingham.

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Binding

Original(?) covers of white leather on wooden boards

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Notation

black full stroke ('Deo gratias') and chant notation (hymn)

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Ruling

photographed without scale

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Foliation

2 (originally marked 1, but 1 is a stub preceding 2), 22v-23, 86v-87

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Foliation

New pencil foliation, 1-135.

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Surface

parchment

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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York Gradual, with polyphony: 1 hymn, 1 Deo gratias = 2

Anonymous

ii + 134 + i + ii parchment folios, 410 x 290. New pencil foliation, 1-135. Original(?) covers of white leather on wooden boards. Polyphonic pieces are later additions on ff. 1, 22'-23, and 86'-87 (f. 1 contains variant triplex for piece on ff. 22'-23). "Deo gratias" in full stroke notation; hymn in chant notation. Each piece copied by a different scribe. "Deo gratias" setting also appears in LonBL 17001 and LonBLC Nero E.viii (in latter source with text "Amen").

Mid 15th century (HugESM). Apparently copied for use in village church of East Drayton, Nottingham. Owned in early 19th century by Thomas Thorpe; sold in 1824 to the antiquarian Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872). Purchased by James Ward at a Sotheby's sale of items from Phillipps' library in 1896; sold to Bodleian Library in 1901.

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
22v Deo gratias - Anonymous

Deo gratias

Anonymous
Appears on: 22v
Genres: Deo gratias, Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Deo gratias
General Note

O164
86v–87 Veni creator spiritus mentes tuorum - Anonymous

Veni creator spiritus mentes tuorum

Anonymous
Appears on: 86v–87
Genres: Veni creator spiritus
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Veni creator spiritus
General Note

O584
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Deo gratias Anonymous 22v
Veni creator spiritus mentes tuorum Anonymous 86v–87

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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.

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.

Ward, Tom Robert. 1979. The Polyphonic Office Hymn from 1400 to 1520: A Descriptive Inventory. RMS.  American Institute of Musicology. Notes: contents list (partial); incipits (partial).

Hughes, Andrew. 1969. The Choir in Fifteenth-Century English Music: Non-mensural Polyphony. Essays in Musicology in Honor of Dragan Plamenac on His 70th Birthday, 127-45. Pittsburgh. Pages: 134-5, 138-9. Notes: contents list; transcription; discussion.

Bent, Margaret. 1968. New and Little-Known Fragments of English Medieval Polyphony. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 137-56. Pages: 150-2. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial); transcription (partial).

Hughes, Andrew. 1963. English Sacred Music (Excluding Carols) in Insular Sources, 1400-C.1450. Oxford University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I,77; II/1,42; II/2,5,87-8; III,261-2. Notes: contents list; transcription; discussion.

Madan, Falconer (editor). 1895-1953. A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.  Oxford. Pages: VI,211. 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: II, vi. Notes: mention of MS.

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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