GB-SHR LB/15/1/229

Shropshire Record Office, Shrewsbury, England

partbook: c. 1625-60

Archive Shropshire Record Office, Shrewsbury, England (GB-SHR)
Shelfmark LB/15/1/229
Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Format landscape
Measurements c. 143 x 187 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: ShrewR 5
  • olim (Former shelfmark): SRO 356 Mus. MS 5
Notations
  • black void mensural
Relationships
Provenance
Contents Contains 25 compositions, 16 from 13 composers, 9 are anonymous.
General Description

A single Bass partbook from a set originally of four or five volumes. Copied by one main scribe, with later additions by Edward Standley (inscription on f. 27) and four other scribes. Copied in Ludlow, for use at Church of St. Lawrence. Deposited at present location in Shrewsbury in 1950.

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Physical Description

some folios fragmentary; f. 24 is stub only. Folios in poor condition, but restored and gauzed.

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Binding

limp vellum covers cut from non-musical manuscript; modern string ties.

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Watermark

two pillars with letter 'P' (not in Briquet).

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Notation

black void mensural

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Foliation

Two foliation systems: (1) modern pencil, 1-36, on upper right rectos (f. 33 now misbound between ff. 30/31); (2) modern pencil, 4-15; 21-22; 16-20; 23-33; 36; 34-35; 37-39, on left center rectos.

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Decoration

No initials or decoration

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Surface

paper

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DIAMM Note

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.

DIAMM, 2017
Census Catalogue of Music Description

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1 Service, 1 Service section, 1 litany, 12 anthems (1 incomplete), 1 text-less piece = 16

(Byrd)-1, (R. Farrant)-1, (R. Farrant/Hilton the Elder)-1, Heardson-1, (J. Parsons)-1, (W. Parsons)-1, W.? Smith [Mr. Smith]-1, E. Standley-2, (R. Stone)-1, (Tallis)-2, M. White-1, anon-3

1 paper partbook of an original 4 or 5 (B-36 folios), ca. 143 x 187 (some folios fragmentary; f. 24 is stub only). Folios in poor condition, but restored and gauzed. Two foliation systems: (1) modern pencil, 1-36, on upper right rectos (f. 33 now misbound between ff. 30/31); (2) modern pencil, 4-15; 21-22; 16-20; 23-33; 36; 34-35; 37-39, on left center rectos. Parchment covers cut from non-musical manuscript; modern string ties. No index. Copied by one main scribe, with later additions by Edward Standley (inscription on f. 27) and four other scribes. No initials or decoration. Watermark: two pillars with letter "P" (not in Briquet).

Ca. 1625-60 (SmitE). Copied in Ludlow, for use at Church of St. Lawrence. Deposited at present location in Shrewsbury in 1950.

Vol 4

Composers: Change "Heardson-l" to "Hirdson-l."

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

25r

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Sets

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‡ denotes primary source study

Le Huray, Peter. 1982. The Chirk Castle Partbooks. Early Music History, 2: 17-42. Pages: 23. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Morris, Christopher (compiler). 1978. The Oxford Book of Tudor Anthems.  London. Pages: 97. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

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).

Morehen, John. 1969. The Sources of English Cathedral Music, c. 1617-c. 1644. Cambridge University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 496-7, 501. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances (partial); discussion.

Smith, Alan. 1968. Elizabethan Church Music at Ludlow. Music and Letters, 49: 108-21. Pages: 114, 120-1. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances (partial); discussion.

Le Huray, Peter. 1967. Music and the Reformation in England 1549-1660.  London. Pages: 91. Notes: mention of MS.

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Ben Byram-Wigfield

Saturday, 12 May, 2018

Re-labelled as bass book (entirely in the F3 and F4 clef). Lord's Prayer on 13r - 13v identified as the Bass part of Robert Stone's setting (cf. GB-Ob MS. Mus. Sch. e. 422, 58v - 59r). Te Deum, Benedictus, Kyrie and Magnificat on 5r - 13r onwards identified as Tallis's Short Setting. (Bass Part).

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