GB-Lbl Add. MS 22597 [Tenor]

British Library, London, England

partbook: c. 1565-85

Archive British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl)
Shelfmark Add. MS 22597 [Tenor]
Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Format landscape
Measurements 150 x 210 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: LonBL 22597
Notations
  • black void mensural
External Links
Provenance
  • England
Contents Contains 54 compositions, 38 from 20 composers, 16 are anonymous.
General Description

A Tenor partbook from a set originally of five volumes. Copied by one main scribe and several additional scribes; Courteville piece, a late 17th-century addition, entered upside down and in reverse order. Most secular pieces have text incipits or titles only. Many concordances with GB-Lbl Add. 31390, but no direct connection between the two manuscripts is apparent. Copied in England. Purchased by British Museum 'at Dr. Blip's sale' in 1858.

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Physical Description

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Binding

Original covers of gold-tooled brown leather on cardboard; modern spine.

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Notation

black void mensural

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Ruling

Printed staves; printed chainlike borders surround staves on all four sides of each page

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Foliation

New pencil foliation, 1-56, begins with original flyleaf and omits two large sections with blank staves only (55 folios following f. 31; 37 folios following f. 46). Ff. 2-2', 26'-27, 28', 29', 30', and 31' also have blank staves only.

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Index

Incomplete index on original flyleaf lists pieces mostly in order of appearance; one listed French secular piece now missing

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Surface

paper

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DIAMM Note

Digitized with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) for the Tudor Partbooks project at the Universities of Oxford and Newcastle.

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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8 motets (2 without text), 2 Service sections, 15 anthems, 6 French secular pieces, 4 English secular pieces, 1 Italian secular piece, 16 textless pieces (In nomines, etc.) = 52 + 1 duplicate = 53

Byrd-2, (Courteville II)1, (Douglas)-1, (Douglas/Lassus)-1, (Edwards?)-1, (R. Johnson I)-1, (Le Cocq)-1, Mallorie-1, W. Mundy/(Tallis)-1, R. Parsons 1-3, (R. Parsons I/R. White)-1, (W. Parsons)-1 , P. Philips [Mr. Phillips]/(Wilder)-1, Poynte-1, (Shepherd)-2, Tallis-7, (Tye)-3, (Tye/Verdelot/Wilder)-1, R. White-2, (Wilder)-5, anon-15

1 paper partbook of an original 5 (T-ii + i + 147 + i folios), 150 x 210. New pencil foliation, 1-56, begins with original flyleaf and omits two large sections with blank staves only (55 folios following f. 31; 37 folios following f. 46). Ff. 2-2', 26'-27, 28', 29', 30', and 31' also have blank staves only. Original covers of gold-tooled brown leather on cardboard; modern spine. Incomplete index on original flyleaf lists pieces mostly in order of appearance; one listed French secular piece now missing. Copied by one main scribe and several additional scribes; Courteville piece, a late 17th-century addition, entered upside down and in reverse order. Printed staves; printed chainlike borders surround staves on all four sides of each page. Most secular pieces have text incipits or titles only. Many concordances with LonBL 31390, but no direct connection between the two manuscripts is apparent.

Ca. 1565-85 (MB), with 17th-century additions. Copied in England. Purchased by British Museum "at Dr. Blip's sale" in 1858.

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Composers: Change "W. Mundy/(Tallis)-1 " to "J. or W.? Mundy/(Tallis)-1 "; change "R. Parsons I-3" to "R. Parsons I-2, R. Parsons I/(R. White)-1."

Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550

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Fenlon, Iain, and John Milsom. 1984. 'Ruled Paper Imprinted': Music Paper and Patents in Sixteenth-Century England. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 37: 139-63. Pages: 154-5,161. Notes: physical description (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Bernstein, Jane Agar. 1979. Philip van Wilder and the Netherlandish Chanson in England. Musica Disciplina, 33: 55-75. Pages: 72-5. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Bernstein, Jane Agar. 1974. The Chanson in England 1530-1640: A Study of Sources and Styles. University of California at Berkeley, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 230-2, 254-60, 296. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Daniel, Ralph T, and Peter Le Huray. 1972. The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660. Early English Church Music, vol. Supplementary Volume 1.  London. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Bray, Roger W. 1969. The Interpretation of Musica Ficta in English Music, C. 1490-C. 1580 [dissertation]. Oxford University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: II, 85. Notes: mention of MS; transcription (partial).

Brett, Philip. 1965. The Songs of William Byrd. Cambridge University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 221. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial).

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: XII, 115, 120-1; XIX, 330. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Lamont, Herbert Harry. 1963. John Shepherd: His Life and Music. University of Southern California, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 96. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial).

Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1953. Catalogue of the Musical Manuscripts at Peterhouse, Cambridge.  Cambridge. Pages: I, 4, 142, 273, 398; II, 242; III, 110, 203, 219-20. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list.

Lewis, Anthony (editor). 1951-. Musica Britannica: A National Collection of Music.  London. Pages: XXII, 173, 180; XLIV, 184-8,191-2. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Fellowes, Edmund H (editor). 1923-48. Tudor Church Music.  London, Oxford et al. Pages: VI, xviii, xxx, xxii. Notes: contents list (partial).

Madden, F. 1843-. Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum. Pages: [1854-60], 689. Notes: physical description (partial).

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