Mus. 371
Manuscript. Keyboard book; copyists unidentified; English,
1560s.
Four copyists, as follows:
A: items 1-9
B: items 10-11, 19-24
C: items 12-18
D: items 25-7
The list of contents below (modern form only) cites modern editions
as they appear in the series Musica Britannica (MB) and Early
English Church Music (EECM). Identifications for several pieces
have been kindly supplied by Jason Smart and John Caldwell.
Table of titles and composers in modern form. Display form found in manuscript.
| 1 |
Giacomo Fogliano |
Madonna somm'accorto (MB LXVI/67) |
ff. 1r-v |
| 2 |
Philippe van Wilder |
(closing section of no. 3 below) (MB LXVI/68) |
f. 2r |
| 3 |
Philippe van Wilder |
Amour me point (MB LXVI/69) |
ff. 2v-3r |
| 4 |
|
(untitled; a carol?; headed 'corus'; music partly deleted) (MB LXVI/70) |
ff. 3v-4r |
| 5 |
|
Laetabundus (section); at end '3 ptts' (MB LXVI/71) |
ff. 4r-v |
| 6 |
|
Laetabundus (section) (MB LXVI/72) |
ff. 4v-5r |
| 7 |
Thomas Tallis |
Alleluia. Per te Dei genitrix (MB LXVI/2) |
ff. 5r-6v |
| 8 |
John Taverner |
In nomine (MB LXVI/6) |
ff. 6v-8r |
| 9 |
Philippe van Wilder |
Un jeune moyne (here titled 'fayre lady might yr') (MB LXVI/73) |
ff. 8v-9r |
| 10 |
Robert White |
Ut re mi fa sol la (MB LXVI/17) |
f. 9v |
| 11 |
(Thomas?) Woodson |
Miserere (EECM 6/23) |
f. 10r |
| 12 |
|
O death, rock me asleep (MB LXVI/74) |
ff. 10v-11v |
| 13 |
|
Christe qui lux es et dies (EECM 6/34) |
f. 12r |
| 14 |
|
Vexilla regis (EECM 6/64) |
ff. 12v-13v |
| 15 |
Thomas Tallis |
Gloria tibi Trinitas (MB LXVI/7) |
ff. 14r-v |
| 16 |
William Byrd |
Miserere (MB XXVIII/66) |
ff. 14v-15r |
| 17 |
William Byrd |
Miserere (MB XXVIII/67) |
ff. 15r-v |
| 18 |
John Redford |
Miserere (MB I/7) |
ff. 15v-16r |
| 19 |
John Redford |
Agnus Dei (EECM 10/4) |
ff. 16v-17r |
| 20 |
John Redford |
Angulare fundamentum (EECM 6/29) |
ff. 17v-18r |
| 21 |
John Redford |
Miserere (EECM 6/19) |
f. 18v |
| 22 |
John Redford |
Veni Redemptor (EECM 6/60) |
ff. 19r-v |
| 23 |
|
Kyrie ('Orma vulte') (EECM 10/3) |
f. 19v |
| 24 |
Nicholas Strogers |
Ut re mi fa sol la (MB LXVI/18) |
ff. 20r-22r |
| 25 |
Nicholas Strogers |
In nomine I (MB LXVI/8) |
ff. 22v-23v |
| 26 |
Nicholas Strogers |
In nomine II (MB LXVI/9) |
ff. 23v-25r |
| 27 |
?Nicholas Strogers |
In nomine (MB LXVI, App. I/6) |
ff. 25r-v |
Oblong format, c. 200 x 140 mm. Written on printed music paper
with a border of ornamental fleurons; for information about
this, and references to other manuscripts containing related
printed papers, see Fenlon & Milsom (in bibliography below).
25 folios, formerly stab-sewn. Gathering structure as follows:
| A |
four nested bifolios (= ff. 1-8). |
| B |
formerly three nested bifolios = 6 folios, of which only the first three are extant (ff. 9-11); three stubs follow f. 11. |
| C |
four nested bifolios (= ff. 12-19). |
| D |
two nested bifolios (= ff. 20-23). |
| E |
bifilio (= ff. 24-5). |
At least one further gathering is missing from the rear of the
volume. Contemporary binding of limp vellum, formerly lined
with paper; there are stab-holes for ribbon ties at the outer
edges. Outside upper cover apparently annotated with an ornamental
'A'. Bookplate 2. 19th-century shelfmark: I.7.76. Includes
a handwritten contents list by Margaret H. Glyn, dated April
17 1937.
Provenance unknown. First recorded by Hind in Dowding, where
it is listed at shelfmark M.4.26 as 'Madona, Amor me poynte &c.
M.S.'; in Mus. 371 itself, the shelfmark 'M.4.26' is written
in ink on the outside upper cover.
Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 12.
Bibliography:
Iain Fenlon and John Milsom, '"Ruled Paper Imprinted":
Music Paper and Patents in Sixteenth-Century England', Journal
of the American Musicological Society, 37 (1984), 139-63. 
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