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)
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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...
Pierre Gringoire, Pageants for the Reception of Queen Mary of France in Paris
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Contents: ff. 3r-15v: Pierre Gringoire, Pageants for the Reception of Queen Mary of France (1514–15) in Paris, 6 November 1514; the pageants took place after the marriage of Mary Tudor (1496-1533) to Louis XII of France. Poem on Anne of Brittany, queen of France (d. 1514) on an added paper le...
This manuscript contains the Complainte sur la mort d'Anne de Bretagne, a eulogistic French poem in honour of Anne of Brittany (b. 1477, d. 1514), Queen of France, followed by a prose description of her funeral in 1514. The work has been attributed to Pierre Choque (b. c. 1450, d. 1530), herald ...
Johannes Opicii (Opicius), Poems in commemoration of King Henry VII of England (1485–1509) (3r–24r); list of manuscripts in the privy closet at Whitehall (25r)
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Language(s): Latin; English (25r) Dated: last quarter of the 15th century; 1st quarter of the 17th century (25r)
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 17th century