GB-Onc MS 368/2

New College, Oxford, England

fragments: 15th to 16th century: c.1490 & c.1510

Archive New College, Oxford, England (GB-Onc)
Shelfmark MS 368/2
Surface Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: OxfBNC 368
  • olim (Former shelfmark): (When last accessed by DIAMM this manuscript was housed in the Bodleian Library)
Notations
  • black full mensural
  • coloration in black void
  • coloration in red
Relationships
Provenance
  • England
Contents 2 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

Aapparently the only surviving remnants of two large choirbooks, one containing Masses, the other, Magnificats and votive antiphons. Recovered from wallpaper in rooms of New College, Oxford. Probably copied in Oxford, for use by the New College chapel choir (Roger Bowers). Original manuscripts disassembled c. 1550(?) and used as backing for painted decoration of ceiling beams in main quadrangle of New College. Fragments discovered and removed by decorators in early 1960's, then placed in New College Library; deposited in Bodleian Library in 1978.

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Physical Description

Highly fragile condition; accessible for study, but not yet for photography.

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Binding

Fragments provisionally arranged in eight folders, of which the first three contain music

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Notation

black mensural with red coloration (Magnificats and motets); black mensural with black void semiminims (Masses)

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Foliation

1-9 (in Bodley)

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Foliation

Other numberings: 368/1-music fragments numbered by Roger Bowers, #1-7A, 7B-10, #21-22, #31-41 (# 37 consists of two fragments stuck together); 368/2 - smaller musical fragments, numbered #1-9; 368/3 -non-musical fragments with musical offsets, numbered #1-3.

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Foliation

No original foliation remains.

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Index

Modern inventory.

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Surface

Parchment

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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1 Mass, 1 Gloria-Credo pair, 2 Credo-Sanctus pairs, 2 Glorias, 3 Sanctus, 2 Magnificats, 5 motets, 5 unidentified pieces (probably motets) = 21 (all fragmentary)

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At least 140 parchment fragments (37 of which contain music), of irregular shapes and widely varying sizes, recovered from wallpaper in rooms of New College, Oxford. Highly fragile condition; accessible for study, but not yet for photography. Music fragments apparently the only surviving remnants of two large choirbooks, one containing Masses, the other, Magnificats and votive antiphons. No original foliation remains.

Fragments provisionally arranged in eight folders, of which the first three contain music: 368/1-music fragments numbered by Roger Bowers, #1-7A, 7B-10, #21-22, #31-41 (# 37 consists of two fragments stuck together); 368/2 - smaller musical fragments, numbered #1-9; 368/3 -non-musical fragments with musical offsets, numbered #1-3. Modern inventory. Black mensural notation with red coloration (Magnificats and motets); black mensural notation with black void semiminims (Masses).

Ca. 1490 (Magnificats and motets); ca. 1510 (Masses). Probably copied in Oxford, for use by the New College chapel choir (Roger Bowers). Original manuscripts disassembled ca. 1550(?) and used as backing for painted decoration of ceiling beams in main quadrangle of New College. Fragments discovered and removed by decorators in early 1960's, then placed in New College Library; deposited in Bodleian Library in 1978.

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

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
2 ...la... - -

...la...

Appears on: 2
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: ...la...
General Note

O607
6 ...misericord... - Anonymous

...misericord...

Anonymous
Appears on: 6
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: ...misericord...
General Note

O612
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
...misericord... Anonymous 6

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‡ denotes primary source study

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.

de la Mare, A C, and Bruce C Barker-Benfield (editors). 1980. Manuscripts at Oxford: an exhibition in memory of Richard William Hunt (1908-1979), Keeper of Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library Oxford, 1945-1975.  Oxford. Pages: 15-6, Fig. 75. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); facsimile (partial).

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.

Hunt, Richard William. 1979. The Medieval Library. New College 1379-1979, 317-45. Oxford. Pages: 339. Notes: mention of MS.

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