Selden Carol Book

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Title: The Selden Carol Book (GB-Ob MS. Arch. Selden B. 26)

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Publication date and place: 1425 –1440, Manuscript in the Bodleian Library (MS. Arch. Selden B. 26). – Manuscript
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External websites:

• Description at DIAMM
• Scans at Bodleian Library

List of works

No.	Folio	Title	Composer	Comments
1	3r–3v	Mater ora filium	Anonymous
2	3v–4r	Sancta Maria virgo intercede pro toto	Anonymous
3	4r–4v	Sancta Maria virgo intercede pro toto	Anonymous
4	5r	I pray you all	Anonymous
5	5v–6r	Ave regina - Ave regina	Leonel Power
6	6v	Beata mater et innupta - Gloriosa regina mundi - Intercede pro nobis	John Dunstaple	Or Composer: Gilles Binchois?
7	7r	Nowel syng we both all and some	Anonymous
8	7v	Ah man assay	Anonymous
9	8r	Goday, goday my lord christemas	Anonymous
10	8v–9r	Miles Christi gloriose	Anonymous
11	9v	Off a rose synge we	Anonymous
12	10r	Alleluya: Nowel well may we mirthes make	Anonymous
13	10v	Synge we to this mery cumpane	Anonymous
14	11r	Omnes una gaudeamus	Anonymous
15	11v–12r	Regina caeli laetare alleluia	Anonymous
16	12r	Deo gratias persolvamus	Anonymous
17	12v	Ave regina caelorum – Funde preces ad filium	Anonymous
18	13r	Funde virgo ter beata	Anonymous
19	13v	Alma redemptoris mater - As y lay upon a nygt	Anonymous
20	14r	Ave domina regina caeli - Worship be the birth	Anonymous
21	14v	Nowel: Owt of your slepe aryse	Anonymous
22	15r	Make we joy now - Christus natus est	Anonymous
23	15v	What tydyngs bryngest thou messanger	Anonymous
24	16r	Alleluia. Pro virgine - Diva natalicia	Anonymous
25	16v–17r	Ave regina caelorum - Funde preces ad filium	Anonymous
26	17v–18r	Deo gratias Anglia redde pro victoria	Anonymous
27	18r–18v	As I lay upon a night	Anonymous
28	19r	The mothe of alle this londe	Anonymous
29	19v	Glad and blithe mote ye be	Anonymous
30	20r	Y saye saide by prophecie	Anonymous
31	20v	Nesciens mater virgo virum	Anonymous
32	21r	Sancta Maria virgo intercede pro toto	Anonymous
33	21v–22r	Alleluya: A nywe werke	Anonymous
34	22v	Gaude terra tenebrosa	Anonymous
35	23r	Hayle mary ful of grace	Anonymous
36	23v	An hevenly songe	Anonymous
37	24r	Hayl godys sone	Anonymous
38	24v–25r	David ex progenie nata fuit	Anonymous
39	25r	Verbum caro factum est de virgine Maria	Anonymous
40	25v	Novus sol de virgine - The holy daughter	Anonymous
41	26r	Ave Maria gratia plena - Hail blessed flower	Anonymous
42	26v–27r	Nesciens mater virgo virum	Anonymous
43	27r	Ecce quod natura – Ecce novum gaudium	Anonymous
44	27v	Nowel, nowel: In bethlem that child of life is born	Anonymous
45	28r	Laus honor virtus gloria - A song to sing	Anonymous
46	28v	Yblessid be that lord in majeste	Anonymous
47	29r	Veni redemptor	Anonymous
48	29v	Abyde y hope hit be the beste	Anonymous
49	30r	Eterne rex altissimus	Anonymous
50	30v–31r	Speciosa facta es	Anonymous
51	31v–32r	Tota pulchra es amica mea et macula	John Plummer
52	32v	Tappster - drynker - fill another ale	Anonymous
53	33r	Welcome be ye	Anonymous

Works at CPDL

Title	Composer	No.	Genre	Subgenre	Language	Vo.	Voices
Deo gracias Anglia	Anonymous	26	Secular	Madrigals	English	4	SATB
Alleluya: A nywe werke	Anonymous	33	Sacred	Carols	Middle English	2	TT
Nowel: Owt of your slepe aryse	Anonymous	21	Sacred	Carols	Middle English	3	TTT
Sing we to this merry company	Anonymous	21	Sacred	Carols	English	3	ATT