GB-Lbl Royal Appendix 15

British Library, London, England

Partbooks: late 16th century

Archive British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl)
Shelfmark Royal Appendix 15
Surface Paper
Numbering System None / Unknown
Notations
  • black void mensural
Relationships
Provenance
Contents 14 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

A Bassus partbook from a set of five volumes, containing only a set of unascribed lamentations, each with a Benedictus antiphon written in a different hand. The title page of each book has the library stamp of John, 6th Baron Lumley (d. 1609). The books are written neatly in an elegant italic script; this, with the neat notation and other decorative features suggest that they might have been a presentation copy. They are mentioned in the catalogue of the Nonsuch library of 1609 a the head of a group of Byrd's Latin liturgical works. This may have given rise to the suggestion that the lamentations were written by William Byrd, and both Brett and Dart suggest there is stylistic cause to support that assertion. The melodic ranges are small and the texture is largely homophonic or lightly imitative. The source is unique among 16th-century Lamentations in its dependence on melodic sequence, with most of the settings of the Hebrew letters based on sequential basses, similar to the use of a ground in English instrumental works

The choice of verses does not correspond with the Roman or Sarum use, nor that of continental Catholic composers. Despite this the books have been linked with recusant Catholicism. The music has commonalities with much counter-Reformation polyphony, particularly that written for Holy Week, and has clearly English traits.

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Notation

black void with some remnant ligatures (not only SS)

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Decoration

Ornamented capitals and decorated title pages

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rear endpaper 12v

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
1–2 Incipit lamentatio Jeremiae prophetae - Anonymous

Incipit lamentatio Jeremiae prophetae

Anonymous
Appears on: 1–2
Genres: Lamentations
2–3 Heth. Facti sunt - Anonymous

Heth. Facti sunt

Anonymous
Appears on: 2–3
Genres: Lamentations
3–4 Lamech. O vos omnes - Anonymous

Lamech. O vos omnes

Anonymous
Appears on: 3–4
Genres: Lamentations
4–5 Lamentationes Jeremiae prophetae - Anonymous

Lamentationes Jeremiae prophetae

Anonymous
Appears on: 4–5
Genres: Lamentations
5–5v Caph. Defecerunt - Anonymous

Caph. Defecerunt

Anonymous
Appears on: 5–5v
Genres: Lamentations
5v–6v Samech. Plauserunt super te manibus - Anonymous

Samech. Plauserunt super te manibus

Anonymous
Appears on: 5v–6v
Genres: Lamentations
6v–8 Lamentationibus Jeremiae prophetae - Anonymous

Lamentationibus Jeremiae prophetae

Anonymous
Appears on: 6v–8
Genres: Lamentations
8–8v Joth. Dabit percutienti - Anonymous

Joth. Dabit percutienti

Anonymous
Appears on: 8–8v
Genres: Lamentations
9–9v Incipit oratio Jeremiae prophetae - Anonymous

Incipit oratio Jeremiae prophetae

Anonymous
Appears on: 9–9v
Genres: Lamentations
10 Traditor autem dedit eis signum - Anonymous

Traditor autem dedit eis signum

Anonymous
Appears on: 10
Genres: Antiphon
10 Posuerunt super caput eius causam ipsius - Anonymous

Posuerunt super caput eius causam ipsius

Anonymous
Appears on: 10
Genres: Antiphon
10–10v Mulieres sedentes ad monumentum - Anonymous

Mulieres sedentes ad monumentum

Anonymous
Appears on: 10–10v
Genres: Antiphon
11–12 [blank staves] - -

[blank staves]

Appears on: 11–12
12v [fragment] - Anonymous

[fragment]

Anonymous
Appears on: 12v
Genres: fragment
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
[fragment] Anonymous 12v
Caph. Defecerunt Anonymous 5–5v
Heth. Facti sunt Anonymous 2–3
Incipit lamentatio Jeremiae prophetae Anonymous 1–2
Incipit oratio Jeremiae prophetae Anonymous 9–9v
Joth. Dabit percutienti Anonymous 8–8v
Lamech. O vos omnes Anonymous 3–4
Lamentationes Jeremiae prophetae Anonymous 4–5
Lamentationibus Jeremiae prophetae Anonymous 6v–8
Mulieres sedentes ad monumentum Anonymous 10–10v
Posuerunt super caput eius causam ipsius Anonymous 10
Samech. Plauserunt super te manibus Anonymous 5v–6v
Traditor autem dedit eis signum Anonymous 10

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Set: TUDOR PARTBOOKS

Type: Project Collection

GB-CF MS D/DP Z6/1

GB-CF MS D/DP Z6/2

GB-Cfm MU MS 1005 (Fayrfax fragments)

GB-Cgc MS 667/760 (Caius Choirbook)

GB-Cjc MS 234 (K.31)

GB-Ckc Rowe 316

GB-Cp MS 31 [Contratenor] (Peterhouse Partbooks: Henrician Set)

GB-Cp MS 32 [Bassus] (Peterhouse Partbooks: Henrician Set)

GB-Cp MS 40 [Triplex] (Peterhouse Partbooks: Henrician Set)

GB-Cp MS 41 [Medius] (Peterhouse Partbooks: Henrician Set)

GB-Cqcl Old Library G.4.17

GB-Cu Dd.13.27

GB-DORmcghie McGhie manuscript

GB-Lbl [pr. bk.] C. 52. b. 21

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GB-Lbl [pr. bk.] Music Library K. 2. f. 1 [Altus]

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GB-Lbl [pr. bk.] Music Library K. 2. f. 1 [Discantus]

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GB-Lbl [pr. bk.] Music Library K. 2. f. 1 [Medius]

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GB-Lbl [pr. bk.] Music Library K. 2. f. 1 [Tenor]

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GB-Lbl [pr. bk.] Music Library K. 2. f. 13

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GB-Lbl [pr. bk.] Music Library K. 3. f. 9 [Altus]

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GB-Lbl [pr. bk.] Music Library K. 3. f. 9 [Bassus]

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GB-Lbl [pr. bk.] Music Library K. 3. f. 9 [Discantus]

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GB-Lbl [pr. bk.] Music Library K. 3. f. 9 [Tenor]

GB-Lbl Add. MS 4900

GB-Lbl Add. MS 15166

GB-Lbl Add. MS 17802 (Gyffard Partbooks)

GB-Lbl Add. MS 17803 (Gyffard Partbooks)

GB-Lbl Add. MS 17804 (Gyffard Partbooks)

GB-Lbl Add. MS 17805 (Gyffard Partbooks)

GB-Lbl Add. MS 22597

GB-Lbl Add. MS 29996

GB-Lbl Add. MS 30480 (Hamond Partbooks)

GB-Lbl Add. MS 30481 (Hamond Partbooks)

GB-Lbl Add. MS 30482 (Hamond Partbooks)

GB-Lbl Add. MS 30483 (Hamond Partbooks)

GB-Lbl Add. MS 30484 (Hamond Partbooks)

GB-Lbl Add. MS 31390

GB-Lbl Add. MS 32377

GB-Lbl Add. MS 34191

GB-Lbl Add. MS 47844

GB-Lbl Egerton 3512

GB-Lbl Harley 1709

GB-Lbl Harley 7578

GB-Lbl R.M.24.d.2 (Baldwin Commonplace Book)

GB-Lbl Royal Appendix 12

GB-Lbl Royal Appendix 13

GB-Lbl Royal Appendix 14

GB-Lbl Royal Appendix 15

GB-Lbl Royal Appendix 16

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GB-Lbl Royal Appendix 44

GB-Lbl Royal Appendix 45 (Ludford)

GB-Lbl Royal Appendix 46 (Ludford)

GB-Lbl Royal Appendix 47 (Ludford)

GB-Lbl Royal Appendix 48 (Ludford)

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GB-Lbl Royal Appendix 61

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GB-Lbl Royal Appendix 62

GB-Lbl Royal Appendix 74 (Lumley)

GB-Lbl Royal Appendix 75 (Lumley)

GB-Lbl Royal Appendix 76 (Lumley)

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GB-Lcm [pr. bk.] B187

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GB-Lcm [pr. bk.] B190 [Altus]

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GB-Lcm [pr. bk.] B190 [Bassus]

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GB-Lcm [pr. bk.] B190 [Discantus]

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GB-Lcm [pr. bk.] B190 [Tenor]

GB-Llp MS 1 (Lambeth Choirbook; Arundel Choirbook)

GB-Lna SP I/246

GB-Ob MS. Mus. c. 784 (Willmott Manuscript)

GB-Ob MS. Mus. d. 103

GB-Ob MS. Mus. e. 1 (Sadler Partbooks)

GB-Ob MS. Mus. e. 2 (Sadler Partbooks)

GB-Ob MS. Mus. e. 3 (Sadler Partbooks)

GB-Ob MS. Mus. e. 4 (Sadler Partbooks)

GB-Ob MS. Mus. e. 5 (Sadler Partbooks)

GB-Ob MS. Mus. e. 21

GB-Ob MS. Mus. Sch. e. 376 (Forrest-Heather Partbooks)

GB-Ob MS. Mus. Sch. e. 377 (Forrest-Heather Partbooks)

GB-Ob MS. Mus. Sch. e. 378 (Forrest-Heather Partbooks)

GB-Ob MS. Mus. Sch. e. 379 (Forrest-Heather Partbooks)

GB-Ob MS. Mus. Sch. e. 380 (Forrest-Heather Partbooks)

GB-Ob MS. Mus. Sch. e. 381 (Forrest-Heather Partbooks)

GB-Ob MS. Mus. Sch. e. 420 (Wanley Partbooks)

GB-Ob MS. Mus. Sch. e. 421 (Wanley Partbooks)

GB-Ob MS. Mus. Sch. e. 422 (Wanley Partbooks)

GB-Ob MS. Mus. Sch. e. 423

GB-Ob MS. Tenbury 341

GB-Ob MS. Tenbury 342

GB-Ob MS. Tenbury 343

GB-Ob MS. Tenbury 344

GB-Ob MS. Tenbury 389

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GB-Ob MS. Tenbury 807

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GB-Ob MS. Tenbury 808

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GB-Ob MS. Tenbury 809

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GB-Ob MS. Tenbury 810

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GB-Ob MS. Tenbury 811

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GB-Ob MS. Tenbury 1382 (Southwell Tenor Book)

GB-Ob MS. Tenbury 1464

GB-Ob MS. Tenbury 1486 (Braikenridge Manuscript)

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GB-Och Mus. 45

GB-Och Mus. 979 (Baldwin Partbooks)

GB-Och Mus. 980 (Baldwin Partbooks)

GB-Och Mus. 981 (Baldwin Partbooks)

GB-Och Mus. 982 (Baldwin Partbooks)

GB-Och Mus. 983 (Baldwin Partbooks)

GB-Och Mus. 984 (Dow Partbooks)

GB-Och Mus. 985 (Dow Partbooks)

GB-Och Mus. 986 (Dow Partbooks)

GB-Och Mus. 987 (Dow Partbooks)

GB-Och Mus. 988 (Dow Partbooks)

GB-Odiamm Contratenor partbook in private ownership (contact DIAMM)

GB-SHR LB/15/1/225

GB-SHR LB/15/1/226

GB-SHR LB/15/1/227

GB-SHR LB/15/1/228

GB-SHR LB/15/1/229

GB-W X4/34/3 (Fayrfax fragments)

GB-WCc MS 153 Bassus (Winchester Partbooks)

GB-WCc MS 153 Contra Altus (Winchester Partbooks)

GB-WCc MS 153 Discantus (Winchester Partbooks)

GB-WCc MS 153 Tenor (Winchester Partbooks)

GB-WRec MS 178 (Eton Choirbook)

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IRL-Dm [pr. bk.] Z4. 3. 1-5

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IRL-Dtc [pr. bk.] OLS. 192. n. 40 [Altus]

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IRL-Dtc [pr. bk.] OLS. 192. n. 40 [Bassus]

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IRL-Dtc [pr. bk.] OLS. 192. n. 40 [Discantus]

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IRL-Dtc [pr. bk.] OLS. 192. n. 40 [Superius (Quintus)]

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IRL-Dtc [pr. bk.] OLS. 192. n. 40 [Tenor]

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US-NYp Mus. Res. *MNZ (Chirk) [1] (Chirk Castle Partbooks)

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US-NYp Mus. Res. *MNZ (Chirk) [2] (Chirk Castle Partbooks)

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US-NYp Mus. Res. *MNZ (Chirk) [3] (Chirk Castle Partbooks)

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US-NYp Mus. Res. *MNZ (Chirk) [4] (Chirk Castle Partbooks)

US-NYp Mus. Res. Drexel 4180

US-NYp Mus. Res. Drexel 4181

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US-NYp Mus. Res. Drexel 4182

US-NYp Mus. Res. Drexel 4183

US-NYp Mus. Res. Drexel 4184

US-NYp Mus. Res. Drexel 4185

US-Ws V.a. 408

Set: MSS Royal Appendix 12-16 Lumley anon lamentations

Type: Partbooks

GB-Lbl Royal Appendix 12

GB-Lbl Royal Appendix 13

GB-Lbl Royal Appendix 14

GB-Lbl Royal Appendix 15

GB-Lbl Royal Appendix 16

‡ denotes primary source study

Flanagan, David Timothy. 1991. Polyphonic settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah by sixteenth century English composers. Cornell University, PhD. Pages: xi, 538 p. : Vol. 1) textual commentary; (vol. 2) edition of the music of manuscripts British Library Royal Appendix 12-16.

[No Author] 1970. The Music of Royal Appendix 12-16. Music & Letters, 357-72.

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