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Add MS 15233
- Record Id:
- 032-002086936
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002086936
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000052.0x00020f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163172858.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 15233
- Title:
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Volume of music, plays, religious songs and poems, possibly connected with St Mary-at-Hill, Billingsgate
- Scope & Content:
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A manuscript containing organ music, the incomplete text of John Redford's The Play of Wyt and Science (c. 1540), and religious songs and poems. Several leaves (including the first seven) are missing.
ff. 1-10: John Redford (Master of the singing boys at St Paul's School), Organ fantasias, written in score, on two staves of 7 or 8 lines, and occasionally on a double stave of 12 or 13 lines.
Most of the names of the original melodies are given:
f. 1r: 'Eterne Rerurn.'
f. 1v: 'Primo dierum.'
f. 2r: 'Ad cenam Angni providi.'
f. 2v: 'Te Deum.'
f. 7v: 'Conditor [Alme siderum].'
f. 9r: 'Tui sunt celi.'
ff. 11r–27v: the surviving part of John Redford, The Play of Wyt and Science (c. 1540).
f. 28r: the last (deleted) page of another play by John Redford (at the end, 'Here the[y] syng hey nony nonye & so go furth syngyng'). Several leaves before it are missing.
ff. 28v–29r : John Redford, 'Comfort at hand/ pluck up thy hart'.
f. 29v: John Redford, 'Of ever or never folke ever coniecter'.
ff. 30r–v: John Heywood, 'But late in place a pretye lasse'.
f. 31r: John Heywood, 'yf vertu spryng wheras youth raynythe'.
f. 31v: John Heywood, 'My grace to the suffyseth'.
ff. 32r–33r: John Redford, 'Lo who must holde the candle now but he that wurst may'.
ff. 33r–34v: John Thorne, 'The hunt ys vp'.
ff. 35r–37v: John Redford, 'father I am thine onlye soone'
f. 38r: the last (deleted) page of an interlude featuring the characters Corage, Kyndnes and Clennes.
ff. 38v–39r: [Richard Edwardes], 'In yowthfull yeres when first my yonge desires beganne'.
ff. 39v–40r: 'Lett not the sluggish sleepe'.
ff. 41r–41v: John Heywood, 'Man for thyne yll lyfe formerly'.
ff. 42r–42v: John Heywood, 'What hart can think or toong express'.
ff. 43r–43v: John Redford, 'Long haue I bene a singyng man'.
ff. 44r–45r : John Redford, three songs written for 'the play of sience': 'Gyue place, gyue place to honest recreacion' (ff. 44r–v), 'Exceedyng mesure with paynes continewall' (f. 44v), and 'Welcum, myne owne' (f. 45r).
f. 45v: John Redford (with his signature), 'Where power with wyll can not agree'.
ff. 46r–v: John Heywood, 'All a grene wyllow. wyllow w. w.'.
f. 47r: Thomas Pridioxe, 'Behowlde of pensyfnes the pycture here in place'.
f. 47v: 'O worthy women all of hye and lowe degree' (continuation of the previous poem.)
ff. 48r–49r: John Redford, 'After mydnyght when dremes do fall'.
ff. 49v–52r: John Redford, 'Now will you be merye'.
ff. 52v–53v: John Redford, 'Jesus Walking alone Ryght secretly'.
ff. 54r–v: John Redford, 'Wher Ryghtwysnes Doth say'.
ff. 55r–v: John Thorne, 'In Worldlye welthe for mans release'.
ff. 56r–57r: John Heywood, 'Be merye frendes take ye no thowghte'.
ff. 57r–v: John Heywood, 'yf love for love of long tyme had'.
ff. 57v–58r: Myles Huggard, 'O Lord whych art in hevyn on hye'.
f. 58v: 'Men most desyre, as most men most tymes see'.
ff. 58v–59r: John Thorne, 'who shall profoundlye way & scan'.
ff. 59v–60r: John Heywood, 'When freendes lyke freendes do frendlye showe'.
ff. 60v–61v: John Heywood, 'Allmyghty god doth shake hys rod'.
ff. 62r–63r: Master Knyght (probably Thomas Knyght, lay vicar of Salisbury Cathedral), 'yt hath beene oft bothe sayde & soonge'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002086936
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002086936
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100163172858.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1550
- End Date:
- 1560
- Date Range:
- c 1555
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 149 x 201 mm.
Foliation: ff. 63 + 17 (old foliation ff. 65).
Binding: in the original blind-stamped leather binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
The initials S.B. are inscribed on the binding; possibly Symond Byrd.
Signed 'John Redford' (f. 45v); 'A Brde'; 'Ann Chuntler' [Anne Candelar] and 'heyborne' [Ferdinando Heybourne] (f. 63v).
B. H. Bright (1787–1843).
Thomas Thorpe (purchased at the Bright sale, 18 June 1844, lot 245).
Thomas Rodd.
Purchased from Thomas Rodd by the British Museum on 19 June 1844.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1841–1845 (London: British Museum Trustees, 1850), pp. 116–17.
James Orchard Halliwell, The Moral Play of Wit and Science, and Early Poetical Miscellanies (London: Shakespeare Society, 1848).
John Harley, The World of William Byrd: Musicians, Merchants and Magnates (Farham: Ashgate, 2010), Appendix E, pp. 227–32.
Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum, Volume III (London: British Museum Trustees, 1909), p. 78.
Louise Rayment, 'A New Context for the Manuscript of "Wit and Science"', Early Theatre, 17 (2014), 49–73.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)