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Composite of five unrelated manuscripts bound together in 17th century; only first (31 parchment folios; = new ff. 3-33) contains music. Copied by two main scribes and 8-10 additional scribes. Six concordances with LonBLE 3307. Probably copied at Worcester Abbey (GreC); perhaps copied for St. Mary Newarke College in Leicester (HarrnMMB). Owned by John Alcock, Bishop of Worcester 1476-86. Later acquired by John Seiden (1584-1654); passed to Bodleian Library in 1659.
GB-Ob MS. Arch. Selden B. 26 (The Selden Carol Book)
Bodleian Library, Oxford, England
composite of unrelated mss: 1425-40, c.1450, later addition (f. 33v) c. 1500
| Archive | Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob) |
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| Shelfmark | MS. Arch. Selden B. 26 (The Selden Carol Book) |
| Image Availability | The images on this record are linked using IIIF. |
| Surface | Mixed Paper and Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Format | portrait |
| Measurements | 260 x 180 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 53 compositions, 3 from 4 composers, 50 are anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
Covers of brown leather on cardboard, 17th century
Notation
Black mensural with red black full, red black void and black void coloration
Date
1425-40 (HughM); ca. 1450 (BukMR), with later addition (f. 33') ca. 1500 (StaE).
Foliation
134 folios
Foliation
New pencil foliation, 1-135.
Decoration
Primary initials painted blue, ornamented with red ink, secondary initials painted blue or red.
Surface
ii paper + 134 paper and parchment + i paper
DIAMM Note
Full inventory provided by Jonathan Tribe
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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1 hymn, 17 motets, 4 Latin carols, 15 Latin/English carols, 1 Latin/English/French carol, 12 English carols, 2 English secular pieces, 1 textless piece = 53
(Binchois/Dunstable)-1, Childe?*-1, Dunstable [J.D.] -1, (Plummer)-1, (Power)-1, anon-48
*"Childe" (top of f. 28') may be an attribution, or may refer to later owner (GreC).
ii paper + 134 paper and parchment + i paper folios, 260 x 180. Composite of five unrelated manuscripts bound together in 17th century; only first (31 parchment folios; = new ff. 3-33) contains music. New pencil foliation, 1-135. Covers of brown leather on cardboard date from 17th century. Black mensural notation with red full, red void, and black void coloration; some pieces in score format, others in choirbook format. Copied by two main scribes and 8-10 additional scribes. Primary initials painted blue, ornamented with red ink; secondary initials painted blue or red. Six concordances with LonBLE 3307.
1425-40 (HughM); ca. 1450 (BukMR), with later addition (f. 33') ca. 1500 (StaE). Probably copied at Worcester Abbey (GreC); perhaps copied for St. Mary Newarke College in Leicester (HarrnMMB). Owned by John Alcock, Bishop of Worcester 1476-86. Later acquired by John Seiden (1584-1654); passed to Bodleian Library in 1659.
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Hamm, Charles E (editor). 1969-. Leonel Power: Complete Works. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 50. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: xxi.xxiiiJ-g. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcription (partial).
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Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1949-79. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik. Kassel. Pages: I,706; II,857-8,1340; X.517. Notes: physical description; facsimile (partial).
Schofield, Bertram, and Manfred F Bukofzer. 1946), 509-36; XXXIII (1947. A Newly Discovered 15th-century Manuscript of the English Chapel Royal. The Musical Quarterly, 32: 38-51. Pages: 509ff.
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Wolf, Johannes. 1904; Reprinted: Hildesheim, 1965. Geschichte der Mensural-Notation von 1250-1460 nach den theoretischen und praktischen Quellen. 3 vols. Leipzig. Pages: I,368-73,395. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list; transcription (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Stainer, John F. R, and Cécie Stainer (editors). 1901. Reprinted: Farnborough, 1967. Sacred and Secular Songs, together with other MS. compositions in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Early Bodleian Music, vol. 1-2. Oxford. London. Pages: I,xx-xxiv, facs. 37-97, 109; II,74-180; 125, passim; VIII [rev. ed.], 110,196. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list; texts; facsimile; discussion.
Wooldridge, Harry Ellis, and H V Hughes (editors). 1897 and 1913. Early English Harmony from the 10th to the 15th Century. 2 vols. London: The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society. Pages: I, Plate 48; II,114-5. Notes: transcription (partial); facsimile (partial).
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,133, Plates 11-2. Notes: physical description (partial); facsimile (partial).
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Jonathan Tribe
Tuesday, 5 January, 2021
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Andrew Dunning
Wednesday, 17 January, 2018
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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; Date 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