Three printed sources bound in one volume, and interleaved with service music for Decani mean: Book of Common Prayer (Barker 1634), Latin Prayer Book (no title page or date, but related in content to Haddon 1560) and Psalms (Barker 1634). Contains service music by Amner, Byrd, Child, Derrick, Farrant, Gibbons, Hooper, Molle, Morley, Mundy, Smith, Tallis and Tomkins.
GB-Cp S.18b
Peterhouse, Perne Library, Cambridge, England
Printed Prayer Book with interleaved service music in MS: 1634
| Archive | Peterhouse, Perne Library, Cambridge, England (GB-Cp) |
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| Shelfmark | S.18b |
| Image Availability | DIAMM does not have images of this source. |
| Measurements | 345 x 225 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 31 compositions from 17 composers. |
General Description
Binding
Replacement 19th-century binding in 17th-century style. Spine lettered 'COMMON PRAYER'. Peterhouse college bookplate on inside front cover.
Notation
black void mensural
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‡ denotes primary source study
Metcalfe, Scott. 2025. The Repertoire of Peterhouse’s Chapel: Evidence from the Folio Prayer Books and Organ Book. Music, Politics and Religion in Early Seventeenth-Century Cambridge, edited by Scott Metcalfe, 462-509. Woodbridge: Boydell. Pages: 484-88.
Payne, Ian. 1993. The provision and practice of sacred music at Cambridge colleges and selected cathedrals, c. 1547-c. 1646: a comparative study of the archival evidence. Garland.
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Scott Metcalfe
Tuesday, 4 November, 2025
The Sursum corda and Sanctus on [15] are the work of John Foster. See Scott Metcalfe, “The Repertoire of Peterhouse’s Chapel: Evidence from the Folio Prayer Books and Organ Book,” in Music, politics and religion in early seventeenth-century Cambridge, ed. Scott Mandelbrote (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2025), pp. 462-509, at 484-88.