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Add MS 47844
- Record Id:
- 040-002104244
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104241
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x00023b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100054741139.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 47844
- Title:
- Counter-tenor part-book containing Latin motets, etc., for five, six or seven voices
- Scope & Content:
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MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. II (ff. ii+17). Counter-tenor part-book containing Latin motets, etc., for five, six or seven voices, by William Byrd (ff. 3b-5, 9b-11, 13, 13b, 15), Orlando di Lasso (ff. 11b-12b), [Robert?] Parsons (ff. 15b-16), John Shepherd (ff. 3, 12b), [Nicholas?] Strogers (f. 2b), John Taverner (f. 8b), Christopher Tye (f. 9), and Robert White (ff. 2, 13b- 14b). Most of the contents are known from other manuscript and printed sources (particularly Oxford, Christ Church MSS. 979-983, 984-988; Add. MSS. 32377, 31390; Byrd's Cantiones Sacrae, 1575, and Liber Primus Sacrarum Cantionum, 1589); a group of anonymous motets for five voices is at ff. 5-8. The date '1581' occurs at the end of a number of items (ff. 5, 6, 6b, 12b, 14b) and comments such as 'Good', 'Good'. Written in a practised copyist's hand, with ornamental pen-work borders, cadences and endings. Two fragments used as flyleaves (ff. 1, 17) once formed a single leaf containing four pieces of music, including one (f. 1) with incipit 'Tyme', written partly by the same copyist in a less careful hand. Miscellaneous papers relating to the present manuscript are in Add. MS. 47843, ff. 119- 123b. Paper. 95 mm. x 145 mm. After A.D. 1581. The original vellum covers are a fragment of a late 14th-15th cent. service book.
includes:
- ff. i, ii Liturgies LATIN: Service book, two leaves of: late 14th-15th cent.
- f. 2b Nicholas Strogers, composer: In nomine: aft. 1581.
- ff. 2, 13b-14b Robert White, composer: Motets: aft. 1581.
- ff. 3, 12b John Sheppard, composer: Motets: aft. 1581.
- ff. 3b-5, 9b-11, 13-13b, 15 William Byrd, composer: Motets: aft. 1581.
- f. 8b John Taverner, composer: Motet: aft. 1581.
- f. 9 Christopher Tye, composer: Motet: aft. 1581.
- ff. 11b-12b Orlando di Lasso, composer: Motet: aft. 1581.
- ff. 15b-16 Robert Parsons, composer: Instrumental piece(?): aft. 1581.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104241
036-002104242
040-002104244 - Is part of:
- Add MS 47843-47882 : Musical and literary collections of Edward Harry William Meyerstein (b. 1889, d. 1952); late 16th-20th cent
Add MS 47843-47862 : A. MUSICAL MANUSCRIPTS
Add MS 47844 : Counter-tenor part-book containing Latin motets, etc., for five, six or seven voices - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104241[0001]/036-002104242[0002]/040-002104244
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 47843-47882
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100054741139.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1581
- End Date:
- 1581
- Date Range:
- after 1581
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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