Martyrology of Usuard; marginal annotations of local events; calendars with obits added; lists of bishops and archbishops; Latin songs and items of liturgical music. Entered the Bodleian by the Rawlinson bequest of 1756.
GB-Ob MS. Rawl. D. 1225
Bodleian Library, Oxford, England
Codex (complete), liturgical book, with added polyphony: c. 1200
| Archive | Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob) |
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| Shelfmark | MS. Rawl. D. 1225 |
| Surface | Parchment |
| Format | portrait |
| Measurements | 245 x 175 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 16 compositions, 16 are anonymous. |
General Description
Physical Description
one calendar is lacking outer bifolium
Binding
bound in white leather over wooden boards; a clasp is missing; one calendar has a blank parchment cover
Notation
square and neumatic notation
Ruling
four- or five-line staves, in red or brown ink; 2 red five-line staves. (lone two-part piece)
Foliation
131v
Surface
parchment
RISM Description
RISM B/IV 1: A late 12th century vellum manuscript meas. 248 x 173 mm. and containing 134 folios. The music added at the beginning and end, however, must date from the 13th century. The codex is primarily a Martyrology for St. Chad's at Shrewsbury or at least from the Lichfield diocese. There is a calendar at the beginning and end of the ms. The music at the beginning precedes and follows the calendar, while at the end it merely follows the dates. The notation varies. It may be square or neumatic, on four- or five-line staves, in red or brown ink. The lone two-part piece is neatly written in a classic 13th century square notation on 2 red five-line staves. It is one of 3 Alleluias in the same hand. The manuscript is bound in white leather over wooden boards; a clasp is missing. This is another codex which entered the Bodleian by the Rawlinson bequest of 1756.
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Sources of British Song 1150-1300
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GB-Ob MS. Rawl. D. 1225
Current source
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Hartzell, Karl Drew. 2006. Catalogue of Manuscripts Written or Owned in England up to 1200 Containing Music. Woodbridge: Boydell Press in association with the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society. Pages: no. 287.
Watson, Andrew G. 1984. Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 465- 1600 in Oxford Libraries. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Pages: vol.1, p.152.
Pacht, Otto, and Jonathan J G Alexander. 1969. Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. 3 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pages: vol. 3, p. 20.
Ker, Neil R. 1964. Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books. Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, vol. 3. London. Pages: p. 179.
Dijk, Stephen J P van. 1957. Handlist of the Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. unpublished catalogue, Bodleian Library, Oxford, . Pages: vol. 1, p. 115; vol. 2, p. 206.
Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1951. Medieval Polyphony in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Pages: p. 47.
Nicholson, Edward W. B. 1909. Introduction to the Study of some of the Oldest Latin Musical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Early Bodleian Music, vol. 3. London. Pages: pp.lxxxv-lxxxvi.
Stainer, John F. R, Cécie Stainer, and Edward W. B. Nicholson. 1901, 1913. Early Bodleian Music I-II (1901); Early Bodleian Music III. Pages: III, lxxxv f.
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: vol. I, p. 116.
Schenkl, H. 1891-1908; repr. Hildesheim and New York 1969. Bibliotheca patrum latinorum britannica. Vienna. Pages: vol. I, p.75 (§356).
Macray, William Dunn. 1862-1900. Catalogus Codicum Manuscriptorum Ricardi Rawlinson. Bodleian Quarto Catalogues, vol. 5. 5 vols. Oxford. Pages: fasc.IV, pp.358-360.
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