A single partbook containing various voice parts, now bound with several unrelated manuscripts from 15th-17th centuries in composite volume of iv paper + 129 paper and parchment + v paper folios (c. 380 x 220). Ff. 1-83 contain poetry and other writings; ff. 84-117 constitute partbook described here; remainder contains instrumental dances in lute tablature. Music on ff. 84-117 carelessly copied by several scribes. Copied in Durham or vicinity, according to two 18th-century inscriptions, one in the hand of the antiquarian Joseph Ritson. Original owner may have been Thomas Awdcoron, whose name appears on f. 117'. Owned in early 18th century by James Mickleton, of Gray's Inn, London, then by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford (1661-1724). Subsequent history same as for LonBLH 1512.
| Archive | British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl) |
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| Shelfmark | Harley 7578 |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Format | portrait |
| Measurements | c. 145 x 195 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 31 compositions, 13 from 9 composers, 18 are anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
New covers of red leather and cloth on cardboard.
Notation
black void mensural
Foliation
New ink foliation, 1-127 (last two folios not numbered)
Decoration
No initials or decoration.
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.
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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5 motets, 1 Service section, 7 anthems, 15 English secular pieces, 1 French secular piece, 1 In nomine, 4 textless pieces = 34
Aston-1, Clemens non Papa-2, Heath I?-1, R. Johnson I-1, W. Mundy-1, (Shepherd)-4, anon-24
1 paper partbook (Various parts-34 folios), ca. 145 x 195, now bound with several unrelated manuscripts from 15th-17th centuries in composite volume of iv paper + 129 paper and parchment + v paper folios, ca. 380 x 220. New ink foliation, 1-127 (last two folios not numbered). New covers of red leather and cloth on cardboard. Ff. 1-83 contain poetry and other writings; ff. 84-117 constitute partbook described here; remainder contains instrumental dances in lute tablature. Music on ff. 84-117 carelessly copied by several scribes. No initials or decoration.
Second half of 16th century. Copied in Durham or vicinity, according to two 18th-century inscriptions, one in the hand of the antiquarian Joseph Ritson. Original owner may have been Thomas Awdcoron, whose name appears on f. 117'. Owned in early 18th century by James Mickleton, of Gray's Inn, London, then by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford (1661-1724). Subsequent history same as for LonBLH 1512.
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TUDOR PARTBOOKS
Project Collection · 170 sources
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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).
Lamont, Herbert Harry. 1963. John Shepherd: His Life and Music. University of Southern California, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 106, 219, 221. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1953. Catalogue of the Musical Manuscripts at Peterhouse, Cambridge. Cambridge. Pages: I, 3, 183, 265, 397, 463; II, 138-9; III, 59, 218. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list.
Stevens, John E. 1952. Early Tudor Songbooks. Cambridge University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 236, 394-7, 408, 412-20, 434, 452, 458, 463-5. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial).
Arnold, J H, and E G P Wyatt (editors). 1940. Walter Howard Frere: A Collection of His Papers on Liturgical and Historical Subjects. Alcuin Club Collections, vol. XXXV. London. Pages: 11ff. Notes: transcriptions; exts of pieces (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Greene, Richard Leighton (editor). 1935, 2nd 1977. The Early English Carols. Oxford. Pages: 271, 304. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); texts (partial); additional bibliography.
Wanley, Humphrey. 1808-12. A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum. London. Pages: III, 538-9. Notes: physical description (partial).
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Jeremy Hayter
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'Prepare you time weareth away' now shown as concordant with the copy in Hamond partbooks
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; Foliation Note; Decoration 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