ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Bevan (Elway). Canons; early 17th century. Autograph collection of over 300 short canons, in score, mainly on plainsong canti fermi, for 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14 and 20 voices. Among many miscellaneous exercises are a numbered set of 51 canons for three voices, ff....
The Baldwin Collection of Motets, etc.: circa 1600, unless otherwise dated.
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ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. A volume in the script throughout of John Baldwin of Windsor (excepting ff. 87b-89), containing 203 motets, instrumental pieces, canons and contrapuntal exercises by various 16th century composers, some in score, some in separate parts. There are prefatory and concluding ...
16th century compositions for organ, by anonymous authors
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Organ pieces, written on double staves of 6 or 7 lines each, apparently in England. Anonymous. 1. 'Felix namque.' f. 1b. 2. 'Non expecto.' f. 6b. 3. 'Beata viscera.' f. 7. 4-6. Three pieces without titles. ff. 12b, 13b, 14b. 7. 'Kirie,' 'Christe,' and 'Miserere'; probably from a Mass. ...
Collection of English vocal compositions, predominantly by anonymous authors.
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Vocal compositions: one part only (except in no. 27), chiefly tenor. Unless the contrary is stated, they are anonymous. 1. 'A[h], the syghes that come fro my hert.' By W. Cornish. f. 1. 2. 'Though that she cannot Redresse.' f. 3b. 3. 'Colle to me the Rysshes greene.' f. 4. 4. 'Down bery down': a...
Prayers and meditations (the 'Prayerbook of Princess Elizabeth')
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The manuscript includes a collection of prayers translated into Latin, French and Italian by Princess, afterwards Queen, Elizabeth when she was twelve years old; preceded by a Latin dedication to Henry VIII (ff. 1r-5r). This preface preface dated 30 December 1545 and addressed from Hertford is t...
A collection in prose and verse, including culinary recipes
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Contents: This manuscript consists of eight originally independent units or booklets, each containing from one to four quires. See Hathaway, Fouke le Fitz Waryn (1975), p. xliv-xlvii on how this manuscript was compiled. The contents include: ff. 1r-v, Office in honour of Thomas, Earl of Lancas...
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (imperfect)
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This manuscript contains a copy of Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum. It is missing the final leaf of the text. Folios 1-2 are mid-11th century supply leaves. Folio 225 is a later medieval flyleaf, formed of a fragment which includes part of 2 Kings, starting at 2 Kings 23:3. Decora...
Roll of maxims made for Jane Lumley, Baroness Lumley
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A roll of maxims about pride, created for Jane Lumley (1537-78), Baroness Lumley, daughter of Henry FitzAlan (1512-80), 19th earl of Arundel. Monograms JOANNA LVMLEIA. Dated to between Jane’s marriage to John Lumley (d. 1609), 1st Baron Lumley, by 1553 and her death in 1578. A similar roll, po...
