GB-Ob MS. Rawl. liturg. d. 4

Bodleian Library, Oxford, England

Sarum Processional with added polyphony: late 15th or early 16th century

Archive Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob)
Shelfmark MS. Rawl. liturg. d. 4
Surface Mixed Paper and Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Format portrait
Measurements 280 x 165 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: OxfBRL d.4
  • olim (Former shelfmark): MadanSC 15846
Relationships
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Provenance
  • Ireland
Contents 2 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

A Sarum Processional, with faburden incipits to two responsories added by a later hand on f. 190. Of Irish provenance; owned by Church of St. John the Evangelist in Dublin (inscription on f. 189': 'Iste liber pertinet ad ecclesie Johannis Evangeliste Dublinie'). Later owners include the Irish historian Sir James Ware (1594-1666); Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609-74); Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon (1638-1709); James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (1673-1744); and the antiquarian Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755). Latter's collection passed to Bodleian Library in 1756.

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Binding

Original covers of faded white sheepskin over boards; buckle and clasps lost.

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Notation

not indicated

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Foliation

190

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Foliation

New pencil foliation, 1-190

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Decoration

Red and blue calligraphic initials

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Surface

190 parchment + i paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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Sarum Processional, with polyphony: 2 motets (faburden incipits only)

Anonymous

190 parchment + i paper folios, 280 x 165. New pencil foliation, 1-190. Original covers of faded white sheepskin over boards; buckle and clasps lost. Red and blue calligraphic initials. On f. 190, a later hand has added faburden incipits to two responsories.

Second half of 14th century, with additions (faburden incipits) in late 15th or early 16th century. Of Irish provenance; owned by Church of St. John the Evangelist in Dublin (inscription on f. 189': "Iste liber pertinet ad ecclesie Johannis Evangeliste Dublinie"). Later owners include the Irish historian Sir James Ware (1594-1666); Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609-74); Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon (1638-1709); James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (1673-1744); and the antiquarian Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755). Latter's collection passed to Bodleian Library in 1756.

Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550

190

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
190 … sublimatus scotharum populis mittitur jam pluribus servis Dei christum evangelizaturus - Anonymous

… sublimatus scotharum populis mittitur jam pluribus servis Dei christum evangelizaturus

Anonymous
Appears on: 190
Genres: Responsory
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: includes: [subli-]matus scotharum populis mittitur iam pluribus servis dei christum evangelizaturus
190 Sis pro nobis sancte patrici rogamus ad Dominum; third piece begins: Sanctus Audoenus dum jam lassus - Anonymous

Sis pro nobis sancte patrici rogamus ad Dominum; third piece begins: Sanctus Audoenus dum jam lassus

Anonymous
Appears on: 190
Genres: Responsory
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Sis pro nobis sancte patrici rogamus ad dominum; third piece begins: Sanctus Andreanus [???] dum iam lassus
General Note

Presumably in honour of St Audoin/Audoen/Ouen, who also has a church dedicated to him in Dublin. (Anna de Bakker)
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Sis pro nobis sancte patrici rogamus ad Dominum; third piece begins: Sanctus Audoenus dum jam lassus Anonymous 190
… sublimatus scotharum populis mittitur jam pluribus servis Dei christum evangelizaturus Anonymous 190

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‡ denotes primary source study

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.

Young, Karl. 1951. The Drama of the Medieval Church.  Oxford. Pages: I,168-72,347-50,563. Notes: physical description (partial).

Madan, Falconer (editor). 1895-1953. A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.  Oxford. Pages: III,517. 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,107. Notes: physical description.

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Anna de Bakker

Tuesday, 16 January, 2024

Pointed out that the third piece (listed in the second inventory item) begins "Sanctus Audoenus" (not Andreanus, as previously stated), and explainined that this presumably refers to St Audoin/Audoen/Ouen, who also had a church dedicated to him in Dublin.

DIAMM, 2016

Monday, 23 January, 2017

NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Binding Note; Notation 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