GB-Lbl Add. MS 50856

British Library, London, England

fragment: 16th century: c.1530-6

Archive British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl)
Shelfmark Add. MS 50856
Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Format portrait
Measurements 218-7 x 203 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: LonBL 50856
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  • England
Contents 1 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

Only music is 3-voice piece, 'By a forest as I cum passe,' on ff. 19'-21. (Text refers to death of Cardinal Wolsey in 1530). Scribal concordance with LeedsU s.s. Possibly copied in Cambridge. Formerly part of a larger volume of late l5th-century theological tracts, in which two pieces of music were added on blank openings during the 1530's. For subsequent history, see LeedsU s.s. See also Lbl Add. 28598.

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Physical Description

Some moisture damage, but music still legible.

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Notation

not indicated

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Foliation

New pencil foliation, 1-48.

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Foliation

19v-21

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Decoration

No initials or decoration

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Surface

Paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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Collection of printed and manuscript theological writings, with polyphony:

1 English/Latin secular piece

Anonymous

48 paper folios, 281-7 x 203. Some moisture damage, but music still legible. New pencil foliation, 1-48. Only music is 3-voice piece, "By a forest as I cum passe," on ff. 19'-21. (Text refers to death of Cardinal Wolsey in 1530). Scribal concordance with LeedsU s.s. No initials or decoration.

Ca. 1530-6. Possibly copied in Cambridge. Formerly part of a larger volume of late l5th-century theological tracts, in which two pieces of music were added on blank openings during the 1530's. For subsequent history, see LeedsU s.s.

See also Lbl Add. 28598

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

20v

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
19v–21 By a forest as I cum passe - Anonymous

By a forest as I cum passe

Anonymous
Appears on: 19v–21
Genres: Secular
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: English
Voice Text: By a forest as I cum passe
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
By a forest as I cum passe Anonymous 19v–21

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Stevens, John E. 1961. Music & Poetry in the Early Tudor Court.  Cambridge. Pages: 435.

Frere, Walter Howard. 1894-1932, repr. Hildesheim, 1967. Bibliotheca Musico-Liturgica: A Descriptive Handlist of the Musical and Latin-Liturgical Mss. of the Middle Ages Preserved in the Libraries of Great Britain and Ireland. 2 vols. London: The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society. Pages: II, 19.

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Fowler, J T. 1873. Ripon Minster Library and Its Founder. The Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal, 371-402. Pages: 384, 396-7.

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NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Physical Description Note; Notation Note; Foliation Note; Foliation Note; Decoration 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