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

Manuscript: London, Great Britain, British Library, MS Royal 8 G. vii

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: GB-Lbl Royal 8.g.vii

DIAMM Source Key: 2032

Image repositories: British Library

Basis for description: original

London, Great Britain, British Library, MS Royal 8 G. vii
(Choirbook for Henry VIII)

Provenance:

1) Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon (heraldic arms of England supported by a red dragon and a white greyhound, surrounded by the Garter; badge of a portcullis; the Tudor rose; Catherine's badge of a pomegranate (ff. 2v-3); first motet dedicated to Henry and Catherine). 2) Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.

Bindings:

19th century, London, Great Britain
white parchment over pasteboard
gilt edges
Endpapers: marbled

Notes:

see also entry on BL website: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=6516&CollID=16&NStart=80707

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