A tablebook (voice parts copied to be readable by performers around a table). Organised in alternating sections of 4vv & 5vv pieces (with one section of 3vv pieces).

Copied by Thomas Myriell (see below), who also wrote LonBL 29372-7, part of LonBL 29427, and several other manuscripts not within scope of this catalogue (see MonsonM and WillettsMC). Copied in London or vicinity.

Originally owned by the clergyman Thomas Myriell, who began his career in Cambridge, moved to Barnet (near London) c. 1610, then served as rector of St. Stephen's Walbrook in London from 1616 until his death in 1625. Possible subsequent owners include the composer John Ward, and Ward's patron, Sir Henry Fanshawe, of London and Ware, Hertfordshire.

Purchased in Ware (from Fanshawe family?) by the bibliophile Isaac Reed in 1784. Later owned by François-Joseph Fétis (1784-1871); passed to Bibliothèque Royale in 1877.

incomplete with the loss of some pages at the end

Original covers of brown leather over boards, with medallion stamped in gold front and back

pot with flowers, surmounted by four-leaf clover or crescent (neither variant in Briquet)

black void mensural

Ca. 1612-6 (MonsonM).

New red ink pagination, 1-212

Inked historiated initials, some with simple floral designs

paper

13 motets, 3 anthems, 84 English secular pieces, 2 French secular pieces, 1 Italian secular piece = 103

F. Anerio-2, G. Bassano-1, Byrd-27, Croce-3, (Deering)-1, (Dowland)-15, M. East-10, Farmer-4, R. Jones II-7, Lassus-2, Morley-18, Tallis-4, Weelkes-8, anon-1

iv + 106 + i paper folios, 283 x 185. New red ink pagination, 1-212. Original covers of brown leather over boards, with medallion stamped in gold front and back. No index. Copied by Thomas Myriell (see below), who also wrote LonBL 29372-7, part of LonBL 29427, and several other manuscripts not within scope of this catalogue (see MonsonM and WillettsMC). Voice parts copied to be readable by performers around a table. Inked historiated initials, some with simple floral designs. Watermark: pot with flowers, surmounted by four-leaf clover or crescent (neither variant in Briquet).

Ca. 1612-6 (MonsonM). Copied in London or vicinity. Originally owned by the clergyman Thomas Myriell, who began his career in Cambridge, moved to Barnet (near London) ca. 1610, then served as rector of St. Stephen's Walbrook in London from 1616 until his death in 1625. Possible subsequent owners include the composer John Ward, and Ward's patron, Sir Henry Fanshawe, of London and Ware, Hertfordshire. Purchased in Ware (from Fanshawe family?) by the bibliophile Isaac Reed in 1784. Later owned by François-Joseph Fétis (1784-1871); passed to Bibliothèque Royale in 1877.