GB-Lbl Add. MS 29427

British Library, London, England

partbook: c. 1612-7

Archive British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl)
Shelfmark Add. MS 29427
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Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 291-7 x 194-200 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: LonBL 29427
Notations
  • black void mensural
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Provenance
  • London? England
Contents Contains 116 compositions, 110 from 38 composers, 6 are anonymous.
General Description

A single Altus partbook. Composite of several originally separate gatherings, of varying sizes. Pieces are organised in groups by number of voices: 3vv (1-10), 4vv (11-15), 5vv (16-59), 4vv (61-99), 3-5vv (100-119). Nos. 1-15 & 61-99 are instrumental pieces; some of the 5vv pieces are actually for 6vv.

Copied by several scribes, including Thomas Myriell, who also wrote BrusBR II.4109, LonBL 29372-7; one of the other scribes apparently had connections with English royal court (see WillettsMC and MonsonM). Probably copied mostly in London or vicinity; several pieces possibly copied in Cambridge.

The compiler and main scribe was the clergyman Thomas Myriell, who began his career in Cambridge, moved to Barnet (near London) c. 1610, then served as rector at St. Stephen's Walbrook in London from 1616 until his death in 1625. Purchased by British Museum at a Puttick's sale in 1873.

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Physical Description

Folios frayed; remounted on modern sheets. Some damage from ink corrosion, but music still legible.

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Binding

Modern covers of red cloth on boards; white spine

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Notation

black void mensrual

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Foliation

Other numberings: Original numbering of pieces, 1-119 (with errors and inconsistencies). Some earlier systems of ink numbering crossed out when separate partbooks were combined.

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Foliation

Pencil foliation on modern sheets, 1-78 (last folio not numbered)

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Decoration

Most texted pieces have plain block initials; no other decoration.

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Surface

paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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39 anthems, 4 motets, 22 Italian secular pieces (all with text incipits or titles only), 8 English secular pieces, 34 instrumental pieces = 107 + 4 duplicates = 111

Bearsley-1, Bull-2, Byrd-4, (Byrd/R. Farrant/R. Parsons I)-1, Deering-2, (M. East)-2, Farnaby-1, A. Ferrabosco I-3, A. Ferrabosco II-16, G. Ferretti-2, Gibbons-2, N. Giles-1, Giovanelli-1, G. Guami-2, Hanford-1, (R. Jones II)-1, T. Lupo-15, Macque-1, Marenzio-1, Masnelli-1, Milton-7, Monteverdi-4, Moscaglia-1, Nanino-1, (Pallavicino)-1, Peerson-4, Peerson/(Ravenscroft)-1, (P. Philips/Wilder)-1, Quintiani-1, Ramsey-1, Ravenscroft-3, Simmes/(M. East)-1, Tallis-1, Tomkins-2, Tomkins/(J. Tomkins)-1, Orazio Vecchi-3, Ward-2, Weelkes-4, Wilbye-3, anon-5

1 paper partbook (A-v + 79 + iii folios), 291-7 x 194-200. Composite of several originally separate gatherings, of varying sizes. Folios frayed; remounted on modern sheets. Some damage from ink corrosion, but music still legible. Pencil foliation on modern sheets, 1-78 (last folio not numbered); original numbering of pieces, 1-119 (with errors and inconsistencies). Some earlier systems of ink numbering crossed out when separate partbooks were combined. Blank staves only on ff. 8', 10', 11', 12', 18', 19'-20, 23', 24', 38', 53-53', 71', 74'-75, 78'-[79']. Modern covers of red cloth on boards; white spine. No index. Copied by several scribes, including Thomas Myriell, who also wrote BrusBR II.4109, LonBL 29372-7, and several other manuscripts not within scope of this catalogue; one of the other scribes apparently had connections with English royal court (see WillettsMC and MonsonM). Most texted pieces have plain block initials; no other decoration.

Ca. 1612-7 (MonsonM). Probably copied mostly in London or vicinity; several pieces possibly copied in Cambridge. The compiler and main scribe was the clergyman Thomas Myriell, who began his career in Cambridge, moved to Barnet (near London) ca. 1610, then served as rector at St. Stephen's Walbrook in London from 1616 until his death in 1625. Purchased by British Museum at a Puttick's sale in 1873.

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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: 151,161. Notes: physical description (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Monson, Craig. 1977. Thomas Myriell's Manuscript Collection: One View of Musical Taste in Jacobean London. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 30: 419-65. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list; 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).

Willetts, Pamela J. 1968. Musical Connections of Thomas Myriell. Music and Letters, 49: 36-42. Notes: contents list (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Brett, Philip. 1965. The Songs of William Byrd. Cambridge University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 110, 242. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: VII, 107-11, 144; IX, 165; XII, 120; XXI, 200. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).

Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1953. Catalogue of the Musical Manuscripts at Peterhouse, Cambridge.  Cambridge. Pages: I, 6-7, 276; II, 138; III, 182, 203, 220-1. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list.

Lewis, Anthony (editor). 1951-. Musica Britannica: A National Collection of Music.  London. Pages: IX, 220, 224; XXII, 102-13, 174, 178-9, 184-5, 187; XXIII, 127, 129; XLIV,190-1. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).

Fellowes, Edmund H. 1948. William Byrd.  London, New York, and Toronto. Pages: 169, 192-3. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Fellowes, Edmund H (editor). 1937-50, 1962. The Collected Works of William Byrd. Pages: XVII, 11-3, 147, 149, 153. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).

Madden, F. 1843-. Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum. Pages: [1861-75], 635. Notes: physical description (partial).

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