GB-Lbl Royal Appendix 76 (Lumley)

British Library, London, England

partbook: c. 1547-8

Archive British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl)
Shelfmark Royal Appendix 76 (Lumley)
Surface Mixed Paper and Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Format landscape
Measurements 187 x 279 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: LonBLR A74-6
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Provenance
Contents Contains 51 compositions, 9 from 9 composers, 42 are anonymous.
General Description

A partbook designated 'Tenor' from a set originally of four volumes (Bassus book lost after 1609). Two main scribes copied most of the sacred music; six or seven additional scribes copied remainder of sacred pieces. Secular pieces are later additions, many added using blank pages at end of book, with books upside down. (Images of these pages inverted for legibility.) Some textless pieces in score format. Sacred pieces have English texts, but corresponding titles are in Latin.

Probably copied at Arundel, Sussex, for use in chapel of Henry Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel (d. 1580) (BlezCS). Probably not copied for Fitzalan, but acquired by him in 1553 as part of confiscated collection of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (BernsCE). Later passed to Fitzalan's son-in-law, John, 6th Baron Lumley (d. 1609). Arundel-Lumley collection later incorporated in Old Royal Library, which passed to newly founded British Museum in 1757.

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Binding

Rebound in 18th century in new covers of maroon cloth, with outer corners and spine of maroon leather (some folios bound upside down; former limp vellum covers of Triplex and Altus books bound in as flyleaves). Front and back covers stamped in gold with English royal arms, initials 'G II R,' motto 'Honi soit qui mal y pense,' and date '1757.' Spine of each book gold-stamped with 'Church Music. Temp. Edw. VI,' voice designation, five-pointed rose, and crown.

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Watermark

pot with one ear, bearing crown surmounted by flower; resembles Briquet #12643

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Notation

one piece (in T only) in Italian lute tablature

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Foliation

Modern (1894) pencil foliation in each book

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Decoration

No initials or decoration.

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Surface

ii paper + i parchment + 50 paper + i parchment + ii 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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DIAMM Note

f. 51rv was originally f. 42a (between ff. 42-43) in Royal Appendix 25

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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11 Service sections, 17 anthems, 1 English litany, 1 English secular piece, 1 French secular piece, ca. 40 textless pieces (canons, dances, etc.; some fragmentary) = ca. 71

Pyttyns-1, T.P.-1, Tallis-2, (Tye)-1, anonymous

3 partbooks of an original 4 (Triplex-ii paper + i parchment + 51 paper + i parchment + ii paper folios, A-ii paper + 36 paper + ii paper, T-ii paper + i parchment + 50 paper + i parchment + ii paper), 187 x 279. Bassus book lost after 1609. Modern (1894) pencil foliation in each book. Rebound in 18th century in new covers of maroon cloth, with outer corners and spine of maroon leather (some folios bound upside down; former parchment covers of triplex and altus books bound in as flyleaves). Front and back covers stamped in gold with English royal arms, initials "G II R," motto "Honi soit qui mal y pense," and date "1757." Spine of each book gold-stamped with "Church Music. Temp. Edw. VI," voice designation, five-pointed rose, and crown. No index.

Some textless pieces in score format; one piece (in T only) in Italian lute tablature. Two main scribes copied most of the sacred music; six or seven additional scribes copied remainder of sacred pieces. Secular pieces are later additions, in several hands. No initials or decoration. Watermark (pot with one ear, bearing crown surmounted by flower) resembles Briquet #12643. Sacred pieces have English texts, but corresponding titles are in Latin.

Ca. 1547-8 (sacred pieces); secular pieces are later additions. Of English origin; probably copied at Arundel, Sussex, for use in chapel of Henry Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel (d. 1580) (BlezCS). Probably not copied for Fitzalan, but acquired by him in 1553 as part of confiscated collection of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (BernsCE). Later passed to Fitzalan's son-in-law, John, 6th Baron Lumley (d. 1609). Arundel-Lumley collection later incorporated in Old Royal Library, which passed to newly founded British Museum in 1757.

Vol 4

Contents: 11 Service sections, 17 anthems, 1 English litany, 1 English secular piece, 59 textless pieces (mostly instrumental dances, In nomines, etc.; 24 incomplete or fragmentary) = 89 + 2 duplicates = 91

Composers: I. Alberti?-3, (Byrd/R. Parsons I)-1, Poynt? [T.P. or E.P.]-1, Pyttyns-1, Tallis-3, (Tye)-1, anon-79

Date: Ca. 1547-52 (sacred pieces); other works added in second half of 16th century, perhaps ca. 1560-70.

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

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Sets

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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: 91-7. Notes: transcription (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. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); transcription; efacsimile (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).

Blezzard, Judith H. 1971. The Lumley Books: A collection of Tudor church music. The Musical Times, 112: 128-30. Notes: physical description (partial); transcription (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Fellowes, Edmund H. 1969. English Cathedral Music.  London. Pages: 34, 46. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Le Huray, Peter. 1967. Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660.  London. Pages: 91, 181-2. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion.

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: XII, 43-50, 118; XIII, 108-25, 207; XIX, 332-3. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).

Stevens, John E. 1961. Music & Poetry in the Early Tudor Court.  Cambridge. Pages: 452. Notes: contents list (partial).

Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1953. Catalogue of the Musical Manuscripts at Peterhouse, Cambridge.  Cambridge. Pages: I, 1, 179, 396-7; II, 127; III, 57, 172, 182, 201, 216, 235. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list.

Lewis, Anthony (editor). 1951-. Musica Britannica: A National Collection of Music.  London. Pages: XLIV,xxi, xxxi, 153-77,184,194-208. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Warner, Sir George F, and Julius P Gilson. 1921. Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King's Collections.  London. Pages: II, 397. Notes: physical description.

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