A Tenor partbook from a set of five volumes. Copied by several scribes. Service music and anthems generally have full text underlaid; other pieces generally have text incipits or titles only. Of English origin; perhaps copied in Suffolk. Belonged in 1615 to Thomas Hamond (d. 1662), of Hawkedon, Suffolk; owned in 1776 by John Stafford Smith. Purchased by British Museum at a Sotheby's sale in 1877.
| Archive | British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl) |
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| Shelfmark | Add. MS 30482 (Hamond Partbooks) |
| Surface | Mixed Paper and Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Format | landscape |
| Measurements | 145-55 x 195-205 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 88 compositions, 69 from 28 composers, 19 are anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
New covers of maroon leather and cloth on boards, but original limp vellum covers retained (now bound in as flyleaves)
Notation
not indicated
Ruling
Printed staves and decorative margins in each book (except Quintus), identical to those in LonBL 15166, similar to those in LonBLR A57.
Foliation
New pencil foliation 1-87 (begins with original parchment flyleaf and includes original paper flyleaf at back, but omits one leaf with blank staves following f. 61)
Surface
i paper + i parchment + 86 paper + i paper + i paper
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.
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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1 Kyrie, 2 Mass Ordinary sections, 20 motets, 11 Services or Service sections, 27 anthems, 12 English secular pieces, 8 French secular pieces, 2 Italian secular pieces, 1 In nomine, 1 dance, 2 textless pieces = 87
Adams-2, Bullmann-1, Byrd-4, Caustun-1, (Clemens non Papa)-1, (A. Ferrabosco I)-1, Ferynge-1, Franctynge-1, (C. Hollander/S. Hollander/Lassus)-1, E. Johnson-2, R. Johnson I-5, More-1, W. Mundy-2, Parsley-3, R. Parsons I-3, Partyne-1, Shepherd-5, Tallis-8, (Tallis/Weelkes)-1, Taverner-1, Tye-10, Weelkes-1, W. White-1, Whytbroke-1, Wilder [Phillip de Wildro]/(P. Philips)-1, (Wilder)-1, anon-27
5 partbooks (D-ii paper + i parchment + i paper + 89 paper + i parchment + i paper folios, A-i paper + i parchment + i paper + 93 paper + i paper + i paper, T-i paper + i parchment + 86 paper + i paper + i paper, B-i paper + i parchment + ii paper + 86 paper + i paper + i parchment + i paper, Q-i paper + i parchment + 19 paper + ii parchment + xxxiv paper), 145-55 x 195-205. New pencil foliation —D: 1-89 (begins with original paper flyleaf and omits one leaf with blank staves following f. 40); A: 1-94 (includes original paper flyleaves in front and back, but omits one leaf with blank staves following f. 67); T: 1-87 (begins with original parchment flyleaf and includes original paper flyleaf at back, but omits one leaf with blank staves following f. 61); B: 1-91 (includes all original folios); Q; 1-22 (includes all original folios). New covers of maroon leather and cloth on boards, but original parchment covers retained (now bound in as flyleaves). No index.
Copied by several scribes. Printed staves and decorative margins in each book (except Q), identical to those in LonBL 15166, similar to those in LonBLR A57. Service music and anthems generally have full text underlaid; other pieces generally have text incipits or titles only.
Ca. 1560-90 (ByrdW). Of English origin; perhaps copied in Suffolk. Belonged in 1615 to Thomas Hamond (d. 1662), of Hawkedon, Suffolk; owned in 1776 by John Stafford Smith. Purchased by British Museum at a Sotheby's sale in 1877.
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GB-Lbl Add. MS 30482 (Hamond Partbooks)
Current source
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‡ Butler, Katherine. 2019. From Liturgy and the Education of Choirboys to Protestant Domestic Music-Making: The History of the ‘Hamond’ Partbooks (GB-Lbl: Add. MSS 30480-4). Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 50/1: 29–93.
Fenlon, Iain, and John Milsom. 1984. 'Ruled Paper Imprinted': Music Paper and Patents in Sixteenth-Century England. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 37: 139-63. Pages: 146-7,161. Notes: physical description (partial); 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: 263-83. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (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. Pages: I, 59-63, 73; II, Appendix I. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (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).
Brett, Philip. 1965. The Songs of William Byrd. Cambridge University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 18, 34, 110, 232. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music. London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: XII, 118, 121-2, 124; XVII, 157; XIX, 324ff. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Lamont, Herbert Harry. 1963. John Shepherd: His Life and Music. University of Southern California, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 99-100, 218, 221, 224. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
King, William Joseph. 1962. The English Anthem from the Early Tudor Period through the Restoration Era. Boston University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: II, 11-8, 29-34. Notes: transcription (partial).
Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1953. Catalogue of the Musical Manuscripts at Peterhouse, Cambridge. Cambridge. Pages: I, 3-4, 265, 397-8; II, 139; III, 202, 219, 232.
Lewis, Anthony (editor). 1951-. Musica Britannica: A National Collection of Music. London. Pages: XV, 149, 165-6, 209, 212-3; XXII, 1-2, 36, 45, 58-9, 173ff; XLIV,xxviii,20-5,78,177,183-4,186-7,189,196. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).
Fellowes, Edmund H (editor). 1937-50, 1962. The Collected Works of William Byrd. Pages: XV, 166, 171; XVII, 149, 163. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Fellowes, Edmund H (editor). 1923-48. Tudor Church Music. London, Oxford et al. Pages: I, xi; III, xxi; V, xxv, 207-10; VI, xviii, xxix, xxxii; X, 235, 256-70. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).
Madden, F. 1843-. Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum. Pages: [1876-81], 82. Notes: physical description (partial).
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Edward Tambling
Thursday, 12 March, 2026
'Purge me O Lord', which appears on 51r, was omitted from the inventory of this partbook (though it is listed in the others). Omission corrected.
DIAMM, 2016
Monday, 23 January, 2017
NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Binding Note; Notation Note; Ruling Note; Foliation Note; Surface Note
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