PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

Mise-en-page in manuscripts and printed books containing polyphonic music, 1480—1530

Manuscript: London, Great Britain, British Library, MS Additional 31922

Manuscript type: chansonnier

RISM siglum: GB-Lbl Add. 31922

DIAMM Source Key: 1238

Image repositories: DIAMM

Basis for description: original

London, Great Britain, British Library, MS Additional 31922
(Henry VIII Manuscript)

Provenance:

C. 1510-20 (MB). Probably copied in London, as an anthology of repertory of court of King Henry VIII. Stevens 1952 suggests book was presentation or "library" copy for a noble amateur associated with court, perhaps Sir Henry Guildford (1489-1532) of Benenden, Kent, Controller of the Royal Household; several names scribbled on back flyleaves refer to Benenden. Later owners include Thomas Fuller, M.D. (1654-1734), of Sevenoaks, Kent (bookplate); Stephen Fuller of London (inscription, dated 1762); Archibald, 11th Earl of Eglinton (1726-96); and Sir Charles Montolieu Lamb (d. 1860), of Beauport Park, East Sussex. Purchased by British Museum from Lamb family through firm of Quaritch in 1882.

Bindings:

1950-51,
maroon leather and cloth over wood
no edges
Endpapers: endpapers alternate between paper and parchment
Original covers still kept by the British Library.

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