(GB-Ob) Bodleian Library, Oxford

Updated Nov, 2022.
Author  Title 
Aldrich, Henry O Lord! Grant the Queen a long Life. Oxford c.1700. [Christ Church Mus 783] 1700 Voice
Anonymous Angel Playing the Lute / Judith. Italy 1500-1550. [Bodleian Library Broxb. 95.32] 1500 Lute
Anonymous Bassus. The former booke of the musicke ... conteining all the tunes of Davids psalmes, as they are ordinarily soung in the churche. (only title page) London 1591. [Bodleian Library Vet. A1 e.111] 1591 Voice
Anonymous Book of Hours. Angel with lute. Netherlands, Delft. 15th century, middle. [Bodleian Library MS. Douce 248] 14xx Lute
Anonymous Book of Hours. Use of Paris. Margins include grotesques with lute, bow, and trumpet, and a lady with a basket of pears. c.1400. France. [Bodleian Library MS. Douce 62] 14xx Lute
Anonymous Book of Hours. Use of Rome. Musical angels with lute, recorders, psaltery, and rebec. 15th century, third quarter. [Bodleian Library MS. Lat. liturg. f. 6] 14xx Lute
Anonymous Book of Hours. Use of Rome. Prayer to the Virgin (Obsecro te). Virgin and Child with two angels, one playing a lute, the other offering a dish of cherries to the Child. France c.1470-1480. [Bodleian Library MS. Liturg. 41] 1479 Lute
Anonymous Chansons d'Amour, à danser et à boire. 17th century, middle. [Bodleian Library MS. Douce 375] 16xx Lute
Anonymous Flora Græca Drawings and Watercolours. Oxford 1787–1794. [Bodleian Library MS. Sherard 242] 1787 Pictures
Anonymous Goostly psalmes and spirituall songes drawen out of holy Scripture. London 1535. [Bodleian Library ]Vet. A1 e.125 1535 Voice
Anonymous Offices, prayers for private use. A lake or moat, with a castle in the background. Three man and a woman in a canopied barge. One man plays a lute. Bruges?,Flanders,Italy. 15th century, end. [Bodleian Library MS. Douce 8] 14xx Lute
Anonymous One and fiftie psalmes of David in Englishe metre. Geneva 1556. [Bodleian Library Tanner 9] 1556 Voice
Anonymous Psalter. David playing the harp. Crowned king plays the harp under a canopy. Hat beside him on a chest and other musical instrument (luth?) propped against it. 15th century, third quarter France. [Bodleian Library MS. Broxb. 85.1] 14xx Lute
Anonymous Romance of Alexander. A boy plays gittern to five dancers. Flanders 1338-1344. [Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264, pt. I] 1338 Guittern
Anonymous Sarum hymnal. Flanders, Antwerp 1524. [Bodleian Library B 21.15 Linc.] 1524 Psalm 
Anonymous The second booke of the musicke ... conteining all the tunes of Davids psalmes, as they are ordinarily soung in the churche. London 1591. [Bodleian Library Tanner 303, pt. 2] 1591 Voice
Anonymous The whole boke of psalmes, collected into English metre�cNewyle set foorth. London 1566. [Bodleian ]Library Ps. Verse 1566 e.1 1566 Voice
Baffan, Thomas (pub) The C.L. psalmes of David in English metre. Edinburgh 1575. [Bodleian Library Mason CC 84] 1575 Voice
Byrd, William Musica transalpina. Bassus partbook. London 1588. [Christ Church Mus 1288] 1588 Voice
Byrd, William Musica transalpina. Bassus partbook. London 1588. [Christ Church Mus 1289] 1588 Voice
Campion, Thomas Two bookes of ayres. The first contayning divine and morall songs: the second, light conceits of lovers. To be sung to the lute and viols, in two, three, and foure parts: or by one voyce to an instrument. c.1613. [Christ Church Mus 868]
RISM A/I C626.
1613 Lute
Carlton, Richard Fragment of a partbook from a lost set. London 1601. (lack of music pages) [Christ Church Mus 1291/A] 1601 Vioce
Coperario, John
Lawes, William
Violin partbook for fantasia suites. England 1640. [Christ Church Mus 1296] 1640 Violin
Cosyn, John Musike of six and five partes. Made upon the common tunes used in singing of the psalmes. London 1585.  [Bodleian Library Arch. A g.21] 1585 Psalm 
Daman, William The former booke of the musicke of M. William Damon. Cantus partbook. London 1591. [Christ Church ]Mus 1290 1591 Voice
Day, John (pub) Mornyng and evenyng prayer and Communion, followed by Certaine notes set forth in foure and three parts to be song at the morning Communion and evening praier. London 1565. [Bodleian Library Douce B 248 (3-4)] 1565 Voice
Dowland, John Four musical works by John Dowland. lute tablature. London 1600–1604. [Magdalen College Arch.D.4.29] 1600 Lute
Dowland, John The first booke of songs or ayres of foure parts, with tableture for the lute. So made, that all the parts together, or either of them severally, may be sung to the lute, orpherian, or viol de gambo. 1613. [Christ Church Mus 834]
RISM A/I D3482
1613 Lute
Dowland, John The whole booke of psalmes: with their wonted tunes, as they are song in churches, composed into foure parts ..., 1592. [Bodleian Library Don. f.211] 1592 Lute
Gibbons, Orlando
Aldrich, Henry
English church music. Oxford 1696-1697. [Christ Church Mus 1208] 1696 Voice
Hunnis, William Seven sobs of a sorrowfull soule for sinne, comprehending those seven psalmes... comonlie called poenitential ... reduced into meeter. Londn 1583. [Bodleian Library Arch. A f.63 (2)] 1583 Psalm 
King, William Poems of Mr. Cowley. 1688. .[Christ Church Mus 93] 1688 Poems
Lambert le Tort, Alexandre de Bernai (de Paris) Romance of Alexander. Flanders, Tournai. French, Old (842-ca. 1400) [Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264, ]pt. I 1688 Medeival history
Le Jeune, Claude Fragment of a partbook from a lost set. geneva 1627. (lack of music pages)  [Christ Church Mus 1291/B] 1627
Melani, Alessandro Te Deum. 1600-1699. [Christ Church Mus 85] 1600 Voice
Parker, Matthew The whole psalter translated into English metre. London 1567. [Bodleian Library B 1.5 Linc.] 1567 Psalm 
Ratdolt, Erhard (pub) Antiphonarium Augustense. Auguburg 1495.[Bodleian Library Inc. c.G5.1495.1] 1495 Voice
Scarlatti, Alessandro Il Flavio Cuniberto (opera in three acts). 1693-1702. [Christ Church Mus 989] 1693 Opera
Sternhold, Thomas
Hopkins, John
Bassus of the whole psalmes in foure partes whiche may be song to al musicall instrumentes, set forth for the encrease of vertue: and abolishyng of other vayne and triflyng ballades. London 1563. [Brasenose College UB/S III 18/2] 1563 Voice
Sternhold, Thomas
Hopkins, John
Medius of the whole psalmes in foure partes whiche may be song to al musicall instrumentes, set forth for the encrease of vertue: and abolishyng of other vayne and triflyng ballades. London 1563. [Brasenose College UB/S III 18/1] 1563 Voice
Sternhold, Thomas
Hopkins, John
Tenor of the whole psalmes in foure partes whiche may be song to al musicall instrumentes, set forth for the encrease of vertue: and abolishyng of other vayne and triflyng ballades. London 1563. [Brasenose College UB/S III 18/3] 1563 Voice
Sternhold, Thomas
Hopkins, John,
Contra Tenor. of the whole psalmes in foure partes whiche may be song to al musicall instrumentes, set forth for the encrease of vertue: and abolishyng of other vayne and triflyng ballades. London 1563. [Brasenose College UB/S III 18/4] 1562 Voice
Stradella, Alessandro Benedictus Dominus Deus. (A Duet for a treble and counter tenor voice with a bass.) England 1677-1678. [Christ Church Mus 1206] 1677 Voice
Talbot, James James Talbot Papers. 1680 - 1708. [Christ Church Mus 1187]
Manuscript. Collection of unbound papers, compiled in the third quarter of the eighteenth century by Christ Church librarians. The majority of the contents were written or assembled by James Talbot (1664-1708) and include the history, description and measurement of musical instruments, together with sections on music history and theory.
1680 Theory
Various composers Anthems and adaptations, copied by Henry Aldrich. England 1685-1702. [Christ Church Mus 16]
Farrant, Richard/Humfrey, Pelham/Bull, John/Byrd, William/Aldrich, Henry/Wise, Michael/Mundy, William/Mundy, John/Hooper, Edmund/Gibbons, Orlando/White, Robert
1685 Voice
Various composers Cantatas. 1600-1672. [Christ Church Mus 996]
Pasqualini, Marc'Antonio/Rossi, Luigi/Marazzoli, Marco/Carissimi, Giacomo/Caproli, Carlo
1600 Voice
Various composers Cathedral organ-book. Oxford 1700-1713. [Christ Church Mus 1230]
Tallis, Thomas/Purcell, Henry/Gibbons, Orlando/Bird, William/Aldrich, Henry/Blow, John
1700 Organ
Various composers English anthems, madrigals and laments: Cantus. England 1620. [Christ Church Mus 56]
Peerson, Martin/Cranford, William/Byrd, William/Jeffreys, Matthew/Warwick, Thomas/Jones, Robert/Corkine, William, et al.
1619 Voice
Various composers English anthems, madrigals and laments: Contratenor. England 1620. [Christ Church Mus 59]
Peerson, Martin/Cranford, William/Byrd, William/Jeffreys, Matthew/Warwick, Thomas/Jones, Robert/Corkine, William, et al.
1620 Voice
Various composers English anthems, madrigals and laments: Quintus. England 1620. [Christ Church Mus 57]
Peerson, Martin/Cranford, William/Byrd, William/Jeffreys, Matthew/Warwick, Thomas/Jones, Robert/Corkine, William, et al.
1620 Voice
Various composers English anthems, madrigals and laments: Sextus. England 1602. [Christ Church Mus 58]
Peerson, Martin/Cranford, William/Byrd, William/Jeffreys, Matthew/Warwick, Thomas/Jones, Robert/Corkine, William, et al.
1620 Voice
Various composers English anthems, madrigals and laments: Tenor. England 1620. [Christ Church Mus 60]
Peerson, Martin/Cranford, William/Byrd, William/Jeffreys, Matthew/Warwick, Thomas/Jones, Robert/Corkine, William, et al.
1620 Voice
Various composers Keyboard book containing works of Italian and English origin. Oxford c. 1620. [Christ Church Mus 1113]
Robert Johnson / Peter Philips / Orlando Gibbons or John Bull / John Bull / Girolamo Frescobaldi / William Byrd / Orlando Gibbons / Lassus / Thomas Tomkins / John Bull / Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck / John Holmes / Orlando Gibbons / Orfeo Vecchi / William Byrd / Thomas Tomkins / William Ellis / Marenzio / Girolamo Frescobaldi / Peter Philips / B.C. (Benjamin Cosyn?) / Orlando Gibbons? 
1620 Keyboard
Various composers Tudor church music and Elizabethan motets - Superius. 1575 - 1581.  [Christ Church Mus 979]
William Byrd / Thomas Tallis / John Sheppard, et al.
1575 Voice
Various composers Tudor motets, anthems, consort music and consort songs - Superius.  1581 - 1588. [Christ Church Mus 984]
Byrd, William / White, Robert / Tallis, Thomas
1581-1588 Voice
Various composers Cathedral organ-book. Oxford 1700–1713. [Christ Church Mus 1230] 1700 Organ
Victorinus, Georg Siren coelestis. (unique notation) London 1638. [Christ Church Mus 1237] 1638 Voice
Yonge, Nicholas Musica transalpina. Altus partbook. The second booke of madrigalles, to 5. & 6. voices. London 1597. [Christ Church Mus 1287] 1597 Voice