An Altus or Tenor partbook from a set probably of four volumes. Copied by a single scribe. Copied in Ludlow, for use at Church of St. Lawrence. Deposited at present location in Shrewsbury in 1950.

Folios in poor condition, but restored and gauzed; most music on outside pages illegible due to faded ink.

No covers remain, but folios resewn with modern thread to form single gathering; modern string tie.

pot with flowers and initials "O A" (not in Briquet)

black void mensural

New pencil foliation, 1-8 (f. 5 now misbound between ff. 7/8).

No initials or decoration.

paper

Collection LUDLOW BOROUGH (PRE-1835)

Section PARISH ADMINISTRATION

Series Churchwardens' accounts and papers

Digitized with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) for the Tudor Partbooks project at the Universities of Oxford and Newcastle.

11 anthems

Inglott [Mr. Englot]-1, Selby-1, Shepherd-2, Smith of Salop [Mr. Smyt]-1, (Tallis)-1, Tye-4, anon-1

1 paper partbook of an original 4? (A or T-8 fragmentary folios), originally ca. 290 x 210. Folios now of irregular and varying sizes, ca. 150-270 x 50-205. Folios in poor condition, but restored and gauzed; most music on outside pages illegible due to faded ink. New pencil foliation, 1-8 (f. 5 now misbound between ff. 7/8). No covers remain, but folios resewn with modern thread to form single gathering; modern string tie. No index. Copied by a single scribe. No initials or decoration. Watermark: pot with flowers and initials "O A" (not in Briquet).

Ca. 1597 (SmitE). Copied in Ludlow, for use at Church of St. Lawrence. Deposited at present location in Shrewsbury in 1950.