The document is stored in an acid-free paper wrapper.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Condition", "value": "The leaf is incomplete, having been cut on both left and right sides. There is also a large amount of damage and loss of text along the central spine fold." }, { "label": "Script", "value": "
Written in italic hand<\/i>.<\/p><\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Oxford" }, { "label": "Provenance", "value": "
This document was used as the binding for CUL MS Nn.6.36, a lute book. By examining this indenture, Ian Harwood was able to identify Mathew Holmes, the grantee of the lease, as the scribe and owner of MS Nn.6.36 and several other music manuscripts.<\/p>
Holmes moved from Oxford to become singingman and chanter at Westminster Abbey in 1597. MS Nn.6.36 was compiled and probably bound at Westminster between 1605 and 1615. It is likely that all Holmes' manuscripts were together in Westminster at the time of his death in 1621. It is not known when or by what means they entered the University Library. <\/p>
The wrapper was removed from MS Nn.6.36 in 1913 and given its current shelfmark.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Excerpts", "value": "
Indenture for the lease of a property by Mathew Holmes<\/i>, formerly the wrapper of CUL MS Nn.6.36<\/a>. <\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Date of Creation",
"value": "4 April 1597"
},
{
"label": "Title",
"value": "Indenture for the lease of a property"
},
{
"label": "Author(s) of the Record",
"value": "Suzanne Paul"
},
{
"label": "Material",
"value": "Parchment"
},
{
"label": "Classmark",
"value": "MS Doc. 38"
},
{
"label": "Note(s)",
"value": " Peter Pory of the University of Oxford lets to Mathew Holmes of Christchurch, Oxford, singingman, certain property in Grampound, Oxford, for a term of twenty-one years at three pounds per year. Alienation is forbidden except by special leave. The indenture is not signed or sealed.<\/p> Pory was a baker who supplied bread to several Oxford colleges. He died 20 Nov. 1610; Anthony Wood describes a memorial to him in St Mary's church, Oxford.<\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Additions",
"value": " The shelfmark of the manuscript from which this document was removed (MS \"Nn.6.36\") is written in pencil on the verso<\/a> and there are traces of the three shelfmarks labels along the spine fold of the verso.<\/p>