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1. Cotton MS Titus A XXVI, ff 2-60

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus A XXVI, ff 2-60
Title:
Notebook of Zorzi Trombetta "da Modon", including a treatise on ship-building
Scope & Content:
Description of the music from Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music: ff. 3v-7v passim. Chansons for 2 or 3 voices, in parts, apparently written in the north of Italy. Anonymous. 1. 'Jour a iour' (à 3). f. 3v. 2. 'Qu'en puisie ' (à 2). f. 4. 3. 'Vne fois auant que mourir' (à 3)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Italian
Date Range:
1444-1449
Extent:
1 item

2. Cotton MS Vespasian A XVIII, ff 163–167

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian A XVIII, ff 163–167
Title:
Medieval endleaves of §I, including Walter Map, De uirtute clauium (163v–164r: Walther 11891), and two Old French trouvère songs (164v–165r)
Scope & Content:
Description of the music, from Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music: Two songs of an amorous character, in French, with music expressed by square and diamond-shaped notes on a stave of 4 red lines, with the C, and once the B, signature. Anonymous. 1. 'Amor ueint tout fors quer...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-14th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Cotton MS Vespasian A XXV, ff 127–179

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian A XXV, ff 127–179
Title:
Tudor songs and ballads (127r–163v, 178r–179v); sermon preached by John Stubs, Gloucester, 1558 (164r–170r); John Lydgate, Dance of Macabre (172r–177v: Boffey 2590)
Scope & Content:
Description from Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music: Christmas and other Carols, without music; Paper, 16th cent. A song which appears to begin with the words, 'God ys the cheffest vnizon'; ascribed in a note at the end to Sir Peter Harfurth (called Hartforth on f. 153), 'c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 item

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