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1. Royal Appendix MS 23-25

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Royal Appendix MS 23-25
Title:
Collection of secular and sacred Motets, including one for Christmas Day, Madrigals, a Miserere, an Anthem, suspected composed by Derick Gerarde, and in parts.
Scope & Content:
passim. Superius, contra-tenor, and tenor parts of a collection of Motets, etc., made, if not composed, by Dyricke Gerarde, whose name occurs (in that form) at the end of vol. i, and the beginning of vol. ii. The folios are the same in each volume, unless the contrary is stated. 1. ‘Angelus Domi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
3 volumes (Part books: 44, 42, 43 folios respectively)

2. Royal Appendix MS 26-30

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Royal Appendix MS 26-30
Title:
Collection of sacred and secular Motets, including one for Christmas Day, and Madrigals, in parts, suspected by Derick Gerarde.
Scope & Content:
passim. Chansons, etc., for 4, 5, and 6 voices, in parts, by Derick Gerarde. Autograph(?). The five volumes contain respectively 'superius,' contra-tenor (and 'medius'), tenor (and 2nd bass), bass, and 'quintus' (and 'sextus') parts. Unless the contrary is stated, they are for 5 voices. 1. 'Die ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
5 volumes (26, 26, 27, 25, 27 folios)

3. Royal Appendix MS 31-35

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Royal Appendix MS 31-35
Title:
Collection of sacred and secular Motets, including two for Christmas Day, Chansons, Madrigals, and mealtime Graces, suspected by Derick Gerarde.
Scope & Content:
passim. Motets for 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 voices, in parts, apparently all by Derick Gerarde, though his initials are only appended to a few of them. The MS. certainly belonged to him (see vol. i, f. 1, etc.); and, though the words of most of the pieces have been set to music by many of the French an...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
5 volumes (67, 66, 67, 63, 72 folios)

4. Royal Appendix MS 49-54

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Royal Appendix MS 49-54
Title:
Motets, and Madrigals, in parts, many composed by Derick Gerarde, as well as other authors, including: Jacobus Clemens Thomas Créquillon, N Gombert, Noe Truie, Havericq, N. de Wismes, Latfeur, Morel, Paon, and Phinot.
Scope & Content:
passim Motets for 6, 7, 8, and 10 voices, in parts, apparently in the hand of Derick Gerarde. Unless the contrary is stated, they are for 6 voices, the six volumes containing respectively 1st and 2nd superius, contra-tenor, tenor, and 1st and 2nd bassus. Where they are for more than 6 voices, th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
6 volumes (24, 24, 24, 23, 23, 23 folios)

5. Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X

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Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
Title:
Royal Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts collected by English sovereigns from Edward IV onwards. c 1100-c 1800. c 1950 manuscripts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1100-c 1800
Extent:
2034 items

6. Royal MS 1 C III

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Royal MS 1 C III
Title:
Bible from Genesis to Tobit, in Anglo-Norman French
Scope & Content:
I C. III BIBLE, in French, from Genesis to Tobit; preceded by the epistle of Jerome to Paulinus (f. 1, 'Frere Ambros a moi portaunt tes petitz douns'). The pro, logue to the Pentateuch (f. 5) is entitled 'Ci comence la preface de seint Jerome le chapellain en launcien testament', and begins 'Jeo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Royal MS 8 E XI

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Royal MS 8 E XI
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Scope & Content:
'SERMONES Dominicales Parisiensis' (so colophon): the same set of homilies on the gospels [by Guillaume Pérault] as in 8 D. X, but differently divided and not containing the moralia for the twenty-fifth Sund. after Trinity. The original scribe made about i66 sermons out of the series, but the ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Royal MS 10 B IX

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Royal MS 10 B IX
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Scope & Content:
TRACTS on Dictamen or official letter-writing, with models and commonplaces in Latin, French, and English, several translations from the Classics, a romance and other miscellaneous matter. Some of the model letters may be copies of actual state papers, &c. As the composition of the different...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Royal MS 12 E I

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Royal MS 12 E I
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Scope & Content:
Lives of Saints and theological collections of the early 14th cent., in Latin; bound up with a Latin metrical arithmetic and other matter in hands of the 15th cent. Contents: 1. Algorismus Metricus: the common versified arithmetic [by Alexander de Villa Dei], cf. 8 C. IV, art. 11. Without title...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-15th century
Extent:
1 volume (197 folios)

10. Royal MS 12 G IV

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Royal MS 12 G IV
Title:
The Compendium Medicinae with a collection of medical tracts and recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: A medical miscellany compiled by 'frater Johannes de Grenborough', for thirty years 'infirmarius' at [St Mary's] Coventry, containing the following texts: ff. 1r-4v: Recipes in Latin and Middle English, probably copied on flyleaves from the collection that follows; ff. 5r-127r: Gilbe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century to the 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex