GB-Och Mus. 1251

Christ Church, Oxford, England

fragment: 15th to 16th century

Archive Christ Church, Oxford, England (GB-Och)
Shelfmark Mus. 1251
Surface Parchment
Numbering System None
Measurements c. 155 x 175 (in total) mm
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Provenance
  • England
Contents 1 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

Fragments from an otherwise unknown and unattributed setting of the St Matthew Passion, cut into a total of six strips, five of which align horizontally above one another, while the sixth adjoins them vertically at the side. Music on recto and verso, in three-voice score. Nothing is known about the fifteenth-century manuscript from which Mus. 1251 derives; no other remnant of it has yet been identified. recovered from a copy of Anthony Wood, Historia et Antiquitates Universitatis Oxoniensis (Oxford, 1674; shelfmark Allestree M.6.9), where the strips served to strengthen the spine. They were removed from that position in 1988, and assigned their current call-number in the same year.

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Binding

kept unbound within a protective card folder.

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Notation

full black and full red

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Ruling

14-16 mm; red staves.

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Foliation

r+v

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Surface

parchment

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recto

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
recto–verso Jesum Nazarenum - Anonymous

Jesum Nazarenum

Anonymous
Appears on: recto–verso
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Jesum Nazarenum
General Note

O272
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Jesum Nazarenum Anonymous recto–verso

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‡ denotes primary source study

Boydell, Barra. 1999. Music at Christ Church before 1800: documents and selected anthems.  Four Courts Press.

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.

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Monday, 23 January, 2017

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