GB-Lbl Royal Appendix 42

British Library, London, England

partbook: c. 1540-50

Archive British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl)
Shelfmark Royal Appendix 42
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Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 140 x 201 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: LonBLR A41-4
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Provenance
  • Bruges
Contents 15 pieces from 9 composers
General Description

An Altus partbook from a set of four volumes. Copied by a single scribe. Several parchment fragments from a (13th-14th century?) chant manuscript pasted on flyleaves at beginning of each book. Repertorial connections with CambraiBM 125-8 and print RISM 1540/7. Possibly copied in Low Countries, perhaps near Bruges. Books later rebound and presented to Mary Tudor, Queen of England, perhaps by a Netherlandish dignitary or by an Englishman coming from Low Countries (BernsCE). Only known source of secular music owned by Queen Mary. Eventually incorporated in Old Royal Library, which passed to newly founded British Museum in 1757.

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Binding

Original covers lost; books rebound in mid 16th century in brown leather covers, with English royal arms and voice designations tooled in gold. Some modern restoration of bindings

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Watermark

(1) crossbow within circle, surmounted by fleur-de-lis (Briquet #760 or #762); (2) lower part of hand, with initials "R.B." (similar to Briquet #11364-5)

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Notation

not indicated

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Foliation

Original ink foliation in each book, 1-17, crossed out and replaced with new pencil foliation, 1-17, beginning one folio before ink foliation. Nine unnumbered folios at end of D, A, T books, and 11 unnumbered folios at end of B book have blank staves only

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Decoration

No initials or decoration, but folios are gilt-edged.

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Surface

paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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14 French secular pieces + 1 duplicate = 15

(Appenzeller)-2, (Courtois)-1, (Gombert)-1, (Hesdin/Lupi)-1, (Josquin)-1, (Lupi)-2, (Richafort)-2, (Sandrin)-1, anon-3

4 paper partbooks (D-iii + i + 26 + i folios, A-iii + 26 + i, T-iii + i + 26 + i, B-iii + i + 28 + i), 140 x 201. Several parchment fragments from a (13th-14th century?) chant manuscript pasted on flyleaves at beginning of each book. Original ink foliation in each book, 1-17, crossed out and replaced with new pencil foliation, 1-17, beginning one folio before ink foliation. Nine unnumbered folios at end of D, A, T books, and 11 unnumbered folios at end of B book have blank staves only; f. 1 in each book and f. 14 in DB books also have blank staves only. Original covers lost; books rebound in mid 16th century in brown leather covers, with English royal arms and voice designations tooled in gold. Some modern restoration of bindings.

Copied by a single scribe. No initials or decoration, but folios are gilt-edged. Two watermarks: (1) crossbow within circle, surmounted by fleur-de-lis (= Briquet #760 or #762); (2) lower part of hand, with initials "R.B." (similar to, but not identical with Briquet #11364-5). Repertorial connections with CambraiBM 125-8 and print RISM 1540/7.

Ca. 1540-50 (BernsCE). Possibly copied in Low Countries, perhaps near Bruges. Books later rebound and presented to Mary Tudor, Queen of England, perhaps by a Netherlandish dignitary or by an Englishman coming from Low Countries (BernsCE). Only known source of secular music owned by Queen Mary. Eventually incorporated in Old Royal Library, which passed to newly founded British Museum in 1757.

Vol 4

Composers: Change "(Richafort)-2" to "(Richafort)-3."

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

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
1v–2 Puis ne me peult venir que j'aijusques icy Anon. Anonymous
Appears on: 1v–2
Genres: Chanson
Source Attribution: Anon.
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Voice Text: Puis ne me peult venir que jay jusques icy
2v–3 Vous usurpez dames injustement le commander [Sandrin]
Appears on: 2v–3
Genres: Chanson
Source Attribution: [Sandrin]
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Voice Text: Vous usurpes dames injustement le commander
3v–4 Plus nulz regrets grand moiens 28.28 [Josquin]
Appears on: 3v–4
Genres: Chanson
Source Attribution: [Josquin]
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Voice Text: Plus mils regres = Plus nulz regretz grans moyens 28.27
4v–5 Mon ceur chante joyeusement quand il luy Anon. Anonymous
Appears on: 4v–5
Genres: Chanson
Source Attribution: Anon.
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Voice Text: Mon ceur chante joyeusement quant il luy
5v–6 Vous savez bien ma dame souveraine [Lupi]
Appears on: 5v–6
Genres: Chanson
Source Attribution: [Lupi]
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Voice Text: Vous scaves bien ma dame souveraine
6v–7 Sur tous regrets les miens plus piteulz [Richafort]
Appears on: 6v–7
Genres: Chanson
Source Attribution: [Richafort]
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Voice Text: Sur tous regretz le mieulx plus piteulx
7v–8 Se dire je l'osoie d'ou me vient le souffrir [Appenzeller]
Appears on: 7v–8
Genres: Italian secular
Source Attribution: [Appenzeller]
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Voice Text: Se dire je lossoie dont me vient
8v–9 Si par souffrir on peult vaincre fortune [Courtois]
Appears on: 8v–9
Genres: Chanson
Source Attribution: [Courtois]
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Voice Text: Si par souffrir lon peult vaincre fortune [= ff. 11v-12]
9v–10 Il n'est si doulce vie que de joyeussete [Richafort]
Appears on: 9v–10
Genres: Chanson
Source Attribution: [Richafort]
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Voice Text: Il n'est si doulce vie que de joyeussete
10v–11 Dueil double dueil renfort de desplaisir [Hesdin/Lupi]
Appears on: 10v–11
Genres: Chanson
Source Attribution: [Hesdin/Lupi]
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Voice Text: Deuil double deuilz renfort de desplaisir
11v–12 Si par souffrir on peult vaincre fortune [Courtois]
Appears on: 11v–12
Genres: Chanson
Source Attribution: [Courtois]
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Voice Text: Sy par souffrir lon peult vaincre fortune [= ff. 8v-9]
12v–13v Pour quoy langeur me vient tu assaillir [Appenzeller]
Appears on: 12v–13v
Genres: Chanson
Source Attribution: [Appenzeller]
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Voice Text: Pour quoy langeur me vient tu assaillir
14v–15 Mort et fortune pour quoy m'a tu laisse [Gombert]
Appears on: 14v–15
Genres: Chanson
Source Attribution: [Gombert]
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Voice Text: Mort et fortune pour quoy m'a tu laisse
15v–16 Ces facheux sots qui mesdisent d'aymer Anon. Anonymous
Appears on: 15v–16
Genres: Chanson
Source Attribution: Anon.
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Voice Text: Ces facheux sotz qui mal disant daymer
16v–17 Changer ne puis et aultre ne desir [Lupi]
Appears on: 16v–17
Genres: Chanson
Source Attribution: [Lupi]
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Voice Text: Changer ne puis et aultre ne desir

Set: TUDOR PARTBOOKS

Type: Project Collection

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GB-Lbl Royal Appendix 41

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GB-Lcm [pr. bk.] B187

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GB-Lcm [pr. bk.] B190 [Altus]

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GB-Lcm [pr. bk.] B190 [Bassus]

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GB-Lcm [pr. bk.] B190 [Discantus]

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GB-Lcm [pr. bk.] B190 [Tenor]

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GB-Ob MS. Tenbury 807

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GB-Ob MS. Tenbury 808

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GB-Ob MS. Tenbury 809

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GB-Ob MS. Tenbury 810

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GB-Ob MS. Tenbury 811

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GB-Och Mus. 45

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IRL-Dm [pr. bk.] Z4. 3. 1-5

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US-NYp Mus. Res. Drexel 4182

Set: MSS Royal Appendix 41-44

Type: Partbooks

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denotes primary source study

Noden-Skinner, Cheryl. 1984. A Tudor Chansonnier: British Library Royal Appendix MSS 41-44. Current Musicology, 101-12. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list; concordances; 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: 54-80. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Diehl, George Karl. 1974. The Partbooks of a Renaissance Merchant. Cambrai: Bibliothèque municipale, MSS 125-128. University of Pennsylvania, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 460, 512-3. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial).

Dobbins, Frank. 1974. Jacques Moderne's 'Parangon des Chansons': A Bibliography of Music and Poetry at Lyon 1538-1543. Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 1-90. Pages: 58, 80. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Dobbins, Frank. 1971. The Chanson at Lyons in the Sixteenth Century. Oxford University (New College), Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 300, 322. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Brown, Howard Mayer. 1963. Music in the French Secular Theater, 1400-1550.  Cambridge, Massachusetts. Pages: 197, 229. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1953. Catalogue of the Musical Manuscripts at Peterhouse, Cambridge.  Cambridge. Pages: II, 134. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list.

Warner, Sir George F, and Julius P Gilson. 1921. Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King's Collections.  London. Pages: II, 393. Notes: physical description.

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