GB-Ob MS. Douce 139

Bodleian Library, Oxford, England

non-music MS with interpolated music: 13th - 14th century

Archive Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob)
Shelfmark MS. Douce 139
Surface Mixed Paper and Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Format portrait
Measurements 243 x 178 mm
Other Identifiers
  • RISM: OD 139
Notations
  • English mensural
Relationships
External Links
Provenance
  • England
Contents 3 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

Miscellaneous collection of Charters and documents relating to Coventry; historical documents and lists; Statutes of the Realm; the 1253 re-issue of Magna Carta; trilingual poem on love; songs in English and French and an untexted musical piece.

Helen Deeming, 2011
Binding

Brown leather over pulp boards; 17th century. The gilt arms on the cover may be those of Sir Robert Cotton. The single paper flyleaves at each end belong to this binding.

Helen Deeming, 2011
Notation

English mensural: the rhomb takes the place of the breve; the English form of the conjunctura is frequently used

Helen Deeming, 2011
Ruling

9 brown five- or four-line staves per page.

Helen Deeming, 2011
Foliation

5, 5v, 179v

Helen Deeming, 2011
Foliation

modern pencil foliation at t.r.r.; an old 16th or 17th century ink foliation at b.m.r. shows the loss of 31 pages. Occasionally there is a 17th or 18th century ink foliation at t.r.r.

Helen Deeming, 2011
Surface

i + v paper + 203 parchment + i paper

Helen Deeming, 2011
RISM Description

RISM B/IV 1: A 13th-14th century parchment manuscript meas. 243 x 178 mm. and containing v + 203 folios. In addition, there is 1 blank unnumbered paper flyleaf each end belonging to the 17th century binding of brown leather over pulp boards. The gilt arms on the cover may be those of Sir Robert Cotton. Fol. ii-v are ribbed paper flyleaves of a similar date, as are f. 201-203 at the end. The foliation is a modern pencil one at t.r.r.; an old 16th or 17th century ink foliation at b.m.r. shows the loss of 31 pages. Occasionally there is a 17th or 18th century ink foliation at t.r.r. This miscellaneous collection is apparently from Coventry, though it contains the statutes of numerous towns. The dates mentioned in the ms are 1286-1307, 1303, 1332 and 1352, the former being Homagia per diversos prioribus Coventrensibus facta. There are gifts of land and letters to and from the prior of the convent of Conventry. On f. 157 may be found verses on love in three languages : Amor est quedam mentis insania-Amor est une pensée enragée - Love is a selkud wodenesse. The musical notation of the English two-part song and the monodie dance is mainly in ligatures, but the sudden three-part coda at the end of the dance brings in rhombs. The motet is a well-known French work from Mo, but it here uses English mensural notation with the rhomb taking the place of the breve. The English form of the conjunctura is frequently used too. There are 9 brown five- or four-line staves per page. The placing of longs for breves and vice versa is not infrequent.

This information is reproduced here by kind permission of the publishers. It is COPYRIGHT and copying/reproduction of any of this content without permission may result in legal action.

Répertoire International des Sources Musicales

179v

Click an entry to see more information about that item.

Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
5 Foweles in the frith, the fisses - Anonymous

Foweles in the frith, the fisses

Anonymous
Appears on: 5
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c1
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: English
Clef: b flat between 3/4
Voice Text: Foweles in the frith, the fisses
Layout

score
5v untexted - -

untexted

Appears on: 5v
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: f4
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c5
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c2
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: f3
General Note

only ending polyphonic

Layout

score
179v Au queer ay un maus ke my destreynt / Ja ne mi repentiray de'amer / Jolietement my teent li maus d'amer - Anonymous

Au queer ay un maus ke my destreynt / Ja ne mi repentiray de'amer / Jolietement my teent li maus d'amer

Anonymous
Appears on: 179v
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Ja ne mi repentiray de'amer
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Au queer ay un maus ke my destreynt
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Jolietement my teent li maus d'amer
Layout

parts
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Au queer ay un maus ke my destreynt / Ja ne mi repentiray de'amer / Jolietement my teent li maus d'amer Anonymous 179v
Foweles in the frith, the fisses Anonymous 5

Images © Bodleian Library, Oxford

Set: Sources of British Song 1150-1300

Type: Project Collection

F-EV MS Latin 2

F-EV MS Latin 17

GB-Ccc MS 253

GB-Cgc MS 240/126

No images available

GB-Cjc MS E.8

No images available

GB-Cpc MS 113

No images available

GB-Ctc O.3.55

No images available

GB-Cu Mm. iv. 28

GB-Lbl Arundel 248

GB-Lbl Burney 357

No images available

GB-Lbl Harley 322

GB-Lbl Harley 524

GB-Lbl Harley 978

No images available

GB-Lbl Harley 1717

No images available

GB-Lbl Harley 3775 ()

GB-Lbl Royal 5 F. vii

GB-Lbl Royal 8 A. xix

GB-Lbl Royal 12 E. i

GB-Lbl Sloane 1580

GB-Llma COL/CS/01/001/001 (Liber de Antiquis Legibus)

GB-Llp MS 457

No images available

GB-Lna E 163/22/1/2

No images available

GB-MAmm A. 13

GB-Ob MS. Ashmole 1285

GB-Ob MS. Bodl. 79

GB-Ob MS. Bodl. 343 (The Bodley Homilies)

GB-Ob MS. Bodl. 937

GB-Ob MS. Digby 2

GB-Ob MS. Douce 139

GB-Ob MS. Laud Misc. 668

GB-Ob MS. Rawl. D. 1225

GB-Ob MS. Rawl. G. 22

GB-Ob MS. Tanner 169*

GB-Otc MS 34

IRL-Dtc MS 432

‡ denotes primary source study

Madan, Falconer (editor). None. Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. 7 vols. Oxford: 1895-1953. Pages: no.21723.

Robinson, P.R. 1980. The ‘Booklet': A Self-Contained Unit in Composite Manuscripts. Codicologica 3: Essais typologiques, Litterae Textuales. edited by P.R. Robinson, 46-69. Leiden. Pages: p. 52.

Page, Christopher. 1976. A Catalogue and Bibliography of English Song from Its Beginnings to c1300. Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 67-83. Pages: p. 75-76.

Davison, Archibald Thompson, and Willi Apel (editors). 1966. Historical Anthology of Music. Vol. I. Oriental, Medieval and Renaissance Music.  Cambridge, Massachusetts. Pages: no. 40c (transcription of no. 2).

Ker, Neil R. 1964. Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books. Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks.  London. Pages: p. 54.

Davis, Godfrey Rupert Carless. 1958. Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain. edited by Godfrey Rupert Carless Davis,  London: Longmans, Green. Pages: no. 277.

Parrish, Carl. 1957. The Notation of Medieval Music. Pages: 129ff pl. XLIV (facsimile of no. 3).

Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1954-60. New Oxford History of Music. Pages: 343 (transcription of no. 1); 248, 338f, 369.

Auda, Antoine. 1953. Les "Motets Wallons" du manuscrit de Turin: Vari 42. 2 vols. Pages: I-II, no. 23 (facsimile and transcription of no. 3 after Tu); I, 86.

Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1951. Medieval Polyphony in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Pages: p. 27.

Handschin, Jacques. 1949-79. Estampie. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 1st Edition, . Pages: column 1557f.

Reese, Gustave. 1940. Music in the Middle Ages: With an introduction on the music of ancient times.  New York: W.W. Norton & Co. Pages: 243, 389, 415.

Rokseth, Y. 1935+1939. Les Polyphonies du XIVe siecle. 4 vols. Pages: I and III, no. 260 (facsimile and transcription of no. 3 after Mo); IV, 138, 288.

Handschin, Jacques. 1929, 1930. Über Estampie und Sequenz. Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft, . Pages: I, 13 f (transcription of no. 2); I, 8, 11.

Ludwig, Friedrich. 1923. Die Quellen der Motetten ältesten Stils. Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 185-222, Vol. 5 (1924) 273-315. Pages: 205, 276.

Ludwig, Friedrich. 1922-23. Musik des Mittelalters in der Badischen Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 24.-26. September 1922. Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft, 434-460. Pages: 444.

Wolf, Johannes. 1918. Die Tänze des Mittelalters. Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 10ff. Pages: 22f (transcription of no. 2); 13f.

Ludwig, Friedrich. 1910. Repertorium organorum recentioris et motetorum vetustissimi stili. I. Catalogue raisonné. 1. Handschriften in Quadratnotation.  Halle: Niemayer. Pages: 430.

Aubry, Pierre. 1908. Cent Motets du XIIIe siècle. 3 vols. Pages: I-II, no. 53 (facsimile and transcription of no. 3 after Ba); III, 88.

Stainer, John F. R, Cécie Stainer, and Edward W. B. Nicholson. 1901, 1913. Early Bodleian Music I-II (1901); Early Bodleian Music III. Pages: I, pl. 6-8 and II, p. 10-15 (facsimile and transcription of nos. 1-3).

Wooldridge, Harry Ellis. 1901. Oxford History of Music I.  Oxford: Clarendon. Pages: I, 307 (transcription of no. 1).

Stainer, John F. R, Cécie Stainer, Edward W. B. Nicholson, and Stainer Sir John. 1898; reprinted as EBM I: 1966. Dufay and his Contemporaries: Fifty Compositions (Ranging from about A.D. 1400 to 1440) Transcribed from MS. Canonici misc. 213, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, with an introduction by E.W.B. Nicholson, and a critical analysis of the music by Sir John Stainer.  London. Pages: plates 6-8.

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: vol.1, plates VII, XXIV (facsimile of nos. 1 and 2), and vol.2, pp.6-7, 40-41.

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: 412.

This form is used to make comments on a source. If you wish to notify us of a correction to the record, you should use the "Contribute a change" form instead.

No comments have been made.

Contributions to this record are recorded here. If you wish to contribute information or a correction to this record, use the "Contribute a Change" link. This will then be reviewed by DIAMM staff and, if accepted, your contribution will be acknowledged here.

Répertoire Internationale des Sources Musicales

Monday, 23 January, 2017

NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. RISM Description