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Early twentieth-century binding with brown buckram over cardboard sewn on eight supports.<\/p>

The companion partbook, Cambridge, St John's College MS 234, is in its original vellum binding.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Condition", "value": "The manuscript is in very good condition; some staining particularly to the edges of the final two leaves." }, { "label": "Script", "value": "

Written in late gothic<\/i> script by a single scribe.<\/p><\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "East Anglia" }, { "label": "Provenance", "value": "

The manuscript was owned by John Moore (1646-1714), Bishop of Ely. Bishop Moore's collection was donated to the University Library by King George I (1660-1727) in 1715.<\/p>

Listed in the 1856 catalogue as being bound with CUL MS Dd.13.28, a seventeenth-century legal manuscript which was also from the library of John Moore but the two manuscripts do not appear to have any prior connection. <\/p>" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "Cambridge University Library" }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "ii + 16 + iv + 17 + ii Leaf height: 321 mm, width: 224 mm. Written height: 245 mm, width: 187 mm." }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "

A Tudor part book<\/i>, which contains the music for one voice over a range of pieces, here, the tenor. It was possibly created in East Anglia for the private chapel of Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre. It would originally have formed part of a set of five or perhaps six for individual voices. The accompanying bass part is found in Cambridge, St John's College MS 234, but the others are lost.<\/p>

Both part books comprise, for their respective voices, the music for 10 individual motets by a range of Tudor composers; three by Robert Fayrfax, two by Stephen Prowett and two by John Taverner, and one by each of H. Davy, Lovell, and Hugh Austen or Aston. There is also a Stabat Mater by Richard Davy, and a Magnificat by Fayrfax. Lastly, the book provides five compositions for the musical accompaniment to the mass: two by Fayrfax, and one of each of Austen, William Pasche, and Thomas Ashwell, making 17 individual pieces in all.<\/p>

In the heading for Ashwell's mass, a blessing on King Herry, i.e. Henry VIII, is written, on folio 31r<\/a>, and one motet preserves the name of his first and longest-lasting wife, Katherine of Aragon. Nevertheless, the presence of Taverner's music implies a date later in their marriage, which was annulled in 1533, so likely the manuscript was written between 1524 and that date.<\/p>

Arthur Westwell, Queens' College, Cambridge.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Former Owner(s)", "value": "Moore, John, 1646-1714" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "First half of the 16th century C.E. (c. 1524-1533)" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Tudor part book" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "Arthur Westwell, Queens' College, Cambridge." }, { "label": "Material", "value": "Parchment" }, { "label": "Collation", "value": "

The MS consists of 4 quires as follows: