GB-Lbl Add. MS 30480 (Hamond Partbooks)

British Library, London, England

partbook: c. 1560-90

Archive British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl)
Shelfmark Add. MS 30480 (Hamond Partbooks)
Surface Mixed Paper and Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Format landscape
Measurements 145-55 x 195-205 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: LonBL 30480-4
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Provenance
  • England
Contents Contains 91 compositions, 73 from 31 composers, 18 are anonymous.
General Description

A Discantus partbook from a set of five volumes. Copied by several scribes. Service music and anthems generally have full text underlaid; other pieces generally have text incipits or titles only. Of English origin; perhaps copied in Suffolk. Belonged in 1615 to Thomas Hamond (d. 1662), of Hawkedon, Suffolk; owned in 1776 by John Stafford Smith. Purchased by British Museum at a Sotheby's sale in 1877.

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Binding

New covers of maroon leather and cloth on boards, but original limp vellum covers retained (now bound in as flyleaves)

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Notation

not indicated

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Ruling

Printed staves and decorative margins in each book (except Quintus), identical to those in LonBL 15166, similar to those in LonBLR A57.

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Foliation

New pencil foliation 1-89 (begins with original paper flyleaf and omits one leaf with blank staves following f. 40)

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Surface

ii paper + i parchment + i paper + 89 paper + i parchment + i 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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1 Kyrie, 2 Mass Ordinary sections, 20 motets, 11 Services or Service sections, 27 anthems, 12 English secular pieces, 8 French secular pieces, 2 Italian secular pieces, 1 In nomine, 1 dance, 2 textless pieces = 87

Adams-2, Bullmann-1, Byrd-4, Caustun-1, (Clemens non Papa)-1, (A. Ferrabosco I)-1, Ferynge-1, Franctynge-1, (C. Hollander/S. Hollander/Lassus)-1, E. Johnson-2, R. Johnson I-5, More-1, W. Mundy-2, Parsley-3, R. Parsons I-3, Partyne-1, Shepherd-5, Tallis-8, (Tallis/Weelkes)-1, Taverner-1, Tye-10, Weelkes-1, W. White-1, Whytbroke-1, Wilder [Phillip de Wildro]/(P. Philips)-1, (Wilder)-1, anon-27

5 partbooks (D-ii paper + i parchment + i paper + 89 paper + i parchment + i paper folios, A-i paper + i parchment + i paper + 93 paper + i paper + i paper, T-i paper + i parchment + 86 paper + i paper + i paper, B-i paper + i parchment + ii paper + 86 paper + i paper + i parchment + i paper, Q-i paper + i parchment + 19 paper + ii parchment + xxxiv paper), 145-55 x 195-205. New pencil foliation —D: 1-89 (begins with original paper flyleaf and omits one leaf with blank staves following f. 40); A: 1-94 (includes original paper flyleaves in front and back, but omits one leaf with blank staves following f. 67); T: 1-87 (begins with original parchment flyleaf and includes original paper flyleaf at back, but omits one leaf with blank staves following f. 61); B: 1-91 (includes all original folios); Q; 1-22 (includes all original folios). New covers of maroon leather and cloth on boards, but original parchment covers retained (now bound in as flyleaves). No index.

Copied by several scribes. Printed staves and decorative margins in each book (except Q), identical to those in LonBL 15166, similar to those in LonBLR A57. Service music and anthems generally have full text underlaid; other pieces generally have text incipits or titles only.

Ca. 1560-90 (ByrdW). Of English origin; perhaps copied in Suffolk. Belonged in 1615 to Thomas Hamond (d. 1662), of Hawkedon, Suffolk; owned in 1776 by John Stafford Smith. Purchased by British Museum at a Sotheby's sale in 1877.

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Sets

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‡ denotes primary source study

Butler, Katherine. 2019. From Liturgy and the Education of Choirboys to Protestant Domestic Music-Making: The History of the ‘Hamond’ Partbooks (GB-Lbl: Add. MSS 30480-4). Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 50/1: 29–93.

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: 146-7,161. Notes: physical description (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

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: 263-83. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Blezzard, Judith H. 1972. The Sacred Music of the Lumley Books (British Museum Royal Appendix Manuscripts 74-76): An Edition and Critical Study. University of Leeds, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 59-63, 73; II, Appendix I. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (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).

Brett, Philip. 1965. The Songs of William Byrd. Cambridge University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 18, 34, 110, 232. 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: XII, 118, 121-2, 124; XVII, 157; XIX, 324ff. 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, 99-100, 218, 221, 224. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

King, William Joseph. 1962. The English Anthem from the Early Tudor Period through the Restoration Era. Boston University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: II, 11-8, 29-34. Notes: transcription (partial).

Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1953. Catalogue of the Musical Manuscripts at Peterhouse, Cambridge.  Cambridge. Pages: I, 3-4, 265, 397-8; II, 139; III, 202, 219, 232. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list.

Lewis, Anthony (editor). 1951-. Musica Britannica: A National Collection of Music.  London. Pages: XV, 149, 165-6, 209, 212-3; XXII, 1-2, 36, 45, 58-9, 173ff; XLIV,xxviii,20-5,78,177,183-4,186-7,189,196. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial).

Fellowes, Edmund H (editor). 1937-50, 1962. The Collected Works of William Byrd. Pages: XV, 166, 171; XVII, 149, 163. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Fellowes, Edmund H (editor). 1923-48. Tudor Church Music.  London, Oxford et al. Pages: I, xi; III, xxi V, xxv, 207-10; VI, xviii, xxix, xxxii; X, 235, 256-70. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).

Madden, F. 1843-. Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum. Pages: [1876-81], 82. Notes: physical description (partial).

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Timothy Ochala-Greenough

Friday, 13 October, 2017

'Without redress' consort song almost certainly a chanson contrafactum, though unable to identify composer.

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Edward Tambling

Tuesday, 19 November, 2024

Notified that 'So je moy plains' (f. 86r) has a concordance in GB-Lbl Add. MS 31390.

DIAMM, 2016

Monday, 23 January, 2017

NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Binding Note; Notation Note; Ruling Note; Foliation Note; Surface Note

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

Monday, 23 January, 2017

NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description