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MS. Arch. Selden. B. 26

Selden Carol Book

Library
Bodleian Library, Oxford (United Kingdom)source
Shelfmark
MS. Arch. Selden. B. 26
Date
“second quarter of the fifteenth century” (Wikipedia)
Indexed as 1426–1450
The article dates the musical section, the Selden Carol Book (ff. 3-33), not the bound volume.
Origin
Englandsource
Notation
Repertoire
Carolsource
Note
The volume binds together five manuscripts; the carol book is ff. 3-33. The catalogue date of the volume (1660) is that of the binding and is not used.

The Selden Carol Book is a medieval carol manuscript held by the Bodleian Library in Oxford (MS. Arch. Selden. B. 26). Along with the Trinity Carol Roll, with which it shares five contemporaneous carols and texts (for example the Agincourt Carol), it is one of the main sources for 15th century English carols, and like the Trinity Roll contains the music as the well as the texts.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Selden Carol Book” (revision 1327584459), Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the source. Quoted as published.

Contents

No.FolioPieceComposerGenre
1 whole manuscript Holy Writ sayeth which no thing is soother not named
2 whole manuscript Exortum est in love and liss not named carol
3 whole manuscript Man have in mind how here before not named
4 whole manuscript Good day Sir Christmas our King / for every man not named carol
5 whole manuscript This rose is railed on a rise not named
6 whole manuscript Now well may me mirths make not named carol
7 whole manuscript Holy Maiden blessed Thou be / Gods son is born of Thee not named
8 whole manuscript As I lay upon a night not named carol
9 whole manuscript Worship be the birth of thee not named carol
10 whole manuscript Out of your sleep arise and wake not named carol
11 whole manuscript A patre unigenitus not named carol
12 whole manuscript A babe is born of high nature / The Prince of peace not named carol
13 whole manuscript Our king went forth to Normandy not named carol
14 whole manuscript As I lay upon a night not named
15 whole manuscript I-blessed be Christs sonde not named
16 whole manuscript Glad and blithe mote ye be not named
17 whole manuscript A new work is come on hand not named carol
18 whole manuscript The holy ghost is to thee sent not named carol
19 whole manuscript Hail blessed Lady which has born / God Son not named
20 whole manuscript This is the song that ye shall hear not named carol
21 whole manuscript Lo Moses bush shining unbrent not named
22 whole manuscript Fetys bel chere / Drink to thy fere not named
23 whole manuscript Thou holy daughter of Sion not named carol
24 whole manuscript Hail blessed Flower of virginity not named carol
25 whole manuscript In Bethlehem this bird of life not named carol
26 whole manuscript A song to sing I have good right not named carol
27 whole manuscript That lord that lay in an ass stall not named carol
28 whole manuscript This world wondereth of all thing not named carol
29 whole manuscript Abide I hope it be the best not named
30 whole manuscript Tapster fill another ale not named
31 whole manuscript Welcome be ye when ye go not named
32 whole manuscript If thou flee idleness not named

Source for every row: en.wikipedia.org

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Motetus, “Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Arch. Selden. B. 26”, https://motetus.org/manuscripts/oxford-selden-b-26/.