Peter Kidd
Monday, 9 October, 2023
A new catalogue description is in preparation by Peter Kidd, Oxford, with the intention that it will be published by the Oxford Bibliographical Society's series of catalogues of Oxford colleges.
Archive | University College, Oxford, England (GB-Ouc) |
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Shelfmark | University College MS. 16 |
Surface | Mixed Paper and Parchment |
Numbering System | Mixed Foliation and Pagination |
Format | portrait |
Measurements | 180 x 120 [W: 300 x 200] mm |
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Contents | 7 pieces from 1 composers |
Music on back flyleaves (= new ff. 150-153), apparently the only surviving remnants of a 15th-century choirbook; all four folios originally part of same bifolio. Latter piece in score format; other pieces in choirbook format. Copied by six or seven scribes. The lower voice of the Sanctus is concordant with the contratenor part of the sanctus Jacet granum attributed to Benet in Trent 93, fols. 321r-322r (Peter Wright). Probably copied in Winchester. Inscriptions indicate later ownership by Thomas Dackomb (1496-ca. 1572), petty canon of Winchester Cathedral, and by John Courteney. Incorporated in library of University College, Oxford, by 1694; now deposited in Bodleian Library.
Original covers of red leather (now faded to dirty white) over oak boards; clasp lost.
black full mensural notation with black full black void and red black full coloration except one motet in black void mensural notation
Ca. 1430 (music); main body of manuscript dates from mid 15th century (WathN).
New pencil foliation, 1-153; 17th-century pagination of main text.
150-152v, back pastedown recto and verso (in Bodley)
No initials or decoration.
i paper + 153 parchment
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Theological writings (Eusebius, Augustine, et al.), with polyphony: 4 Kyries, 1 Sanctus, 2 motets = 7 (fragmentary)
Anonymous
i paper + 153 parchment folios, 180 x 120. New pencil foliation, 1-153; 17th-century pagination of main text. Original covers of red leather (now faded to dirty white) over oak boards; clasp lost. Music on back flyleaves (= new ff. 150-153), apparently the only surviving remnants of a 15th-century choirbook; all four folios originally part of same bifolio. Black mensural notation with black void and red full coloration, except for motet "Sancta Maria," in white mensural notation. Latter piece in score format; other pieces in choirbook format. Copied by six or seven scribes. No initials or decoration.
Ca. 1430 (music); main body of manuscript dates from mid 15th century (WathN). Probably copied in Winchester. Inscriptions indicate later ownership by Thomas Dackomb (1496-ca. 1572), petty canon of Winchester Cathedral, and by John Courteney. Incorporated in library of University College, Oxford, by 1694; now deposited in Bodleian Library.
The lower voice of the Sanctus is concordant with the contratenor part of the sanctus Jacet granum attributed to Benet in Trent 93, fols. 321r-322r (Peter Wright).
150v
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Folio / Pages | Composition / Item title | Source attribution | Composers (? Uncertain) |
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A | Kyrie eleison | - | Anonymous |
Kyrie eleisonAnonymous
Appears on:
A
Genres:
Kyrie eleison, Mass Ordinary
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A | Kyrie | - | Anonymous |
KyrieAnonymous
Appears on:
A
Genres:
Kyrie eleison
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Av | Kyrie eleison | - | Anonymous |
Kyrie eleisonAnonymous
Appears on:
Av
Genres:
Kyrie eleison, Mass Ordinary
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Av | [Kyrie] | - | Anonymous |
[Kyrie]Anonymous
Appears on:
Av
Genres:
Troped Kyrie
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B | Stella caeli extirpavit que lactavit | - | Anonymous |
Stella caeli extirpavit que lactavitAnonymous
Appears on:
B
Genres:
Lauda
Voice:
[no designation]
Languages:
Latin
Voice Text:
Stella caeli extirpavit que lactavit
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Bv | Sancta Maria virgo intercede pro toto = Tresorerie de plaisir | - | Anonymous |
Appears on:
Bv
Genres:
Contrafactum
Voice:
[no designation]
Languages:
Latin
Voice Text:
Sancta Maria virgo intercede pro toto [= Tresorerie de plaisir]
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Bv | Sanctus | - | Anonymous |
SanctusAnonymous
Appears on:
Bv
Genres:
Sanctus [& Benedictus]
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Composer | Compositions |
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Anonymous |
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Composition | Composers (? Uncertain) | Folios / Pages |
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[Kyrie] | Anonymous | Av |
Kyrie | Anonymous | A |
Kyrie eleison | Anonymous | A |
Kyrie eleison | Anonymous | Av |
Sancta Maria virgo intercede pro toto = Tresorerie de plaisir | Anonymous | Bv |
Sanctus | Anonymous | Bv |
Stella caeli extirpavit que lactavit | Anonymous | B |
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‡ denotes primary source study
Wright, Peter (editor). 2006. Fifteenth-Century Liturgical Music, V: Settings of the Sanctus and Agnus dei. Early English Church Music. London: Stainer and Bell for the British Academy. Pages: No. 10 is an edition of a work from this MS.
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.
Wathey, Andrew B. 1983. Newly Discovered Fifteenth-Century English Polyphony at Oxford. Music and Letters, 58-66. Pages: 62-65. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list; concordances; transcription (partial); mention of MS; discussion; additional bibliography.
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.
Coxe, Henricus O. 1852. Catalogus Codicum MSS. qui in Collegiis Aulisque Oxoniensibus hodie adservantur. Oxford. Pages: I, 5.
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Inventory updated per Wathey 1983
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