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.
| Archive | Christ Church, Oxford, England (GB-Och) |
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| Shelfmark | Mus. 1251 |
| Surface | Parchment |
| Measurements | c. 155 x 175 (in total) mm |
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| Contents | Contains 1 composition, 1 is anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
kept unbound within a protective card folder.
Notation
full black and full red
Ruling
14-16 mm; red staves.
Foliation
r+v
Surface
parchment
recto
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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, 27: 1-69.
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John Milsom, 2010
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