GB-Lbl Add. MS 29996

British Library, London, England

Organ book: c. 1600

Archive British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl)
Shelfmark Add. MS 29996
Format portrait
Notations
  • black void mensural
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Provenance
  • England
Contents Contains 198 compositions, 150 from 20 composers, 48 are anonymous.
General Description

According to Joseph Warren, who owned the ms. in 1847, ff. 6-45 are in the hand of John Redford, Master of the Boys of St. Paul's, temp. Hen. VIII. ; and some of Byrd's compositions (see f. 110 b) are also autograph. Annotated throughout by Thomas Tomkins, with some of his own compositions.

Owned in 17th century by George Moult (f. 6) and George Thomas Woodson (f. 184b). Large additions were made to it in 1647, etc., by Thomas Tomkins, organist of Worcester (see ff. 2, 217b), and others; and in the 19th century, it belonged to Robert Smith (bookplate — doubtless the wine-merchant of St. Paul's Church Yard mentioned on f. 222b), T. Jones (before 1826 — see beginning), Joseph Warren (1847), and J. Bishop.

British Library online catalogue, 2015
Liminary Note

Title: MOTETS, madrigals, fancies, etc., annotated throughout by Thomas Tomkins, with some of his own compositions

British Library online catalogue, 2015
Ruling

Organ book

British Library online catalogue, 2015
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.

DIAMM, 2023

116v

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Poppy Holden

Tuesday, 8 August, 2017

Listed in BL http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=AddMS29996 as 'Uppon 'La mi re.'' Anonymous. f. 48.

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Tsutomu Copeland

Friday, 3 October, 2025

Notified that the piece on fol. 48r is Thomas Preston's 'Upon la mi re' (not an anymous 'Upon la mi fa', as previously stated – the title then having been taken from the later pencil annotation). Also pointed out that the sketches on the previous page (47v) are sketches for this piece.

Stuart Frankel

Saturday, 3 April, 2021

the two Regina caelestis pieces on 166r to 168v changed to 'Bina caelestis' - matins 'tunes for the day'

Julia Craig-McFeely

Wednesday, 21 November, 2018

Edward Tambling

Tuesday, 5 September, 2017

Composition records updated; inventory updated

British Library online catalogue, 2015

Monday, 23 January, 2017

NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Date Note; Ruling Note; DIAMM Note