Complete set of five partbooks containing motets, anthems, consort
music and consort songs, copied principally by Robert Dow
(1553-88), fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, with later
additions by John Baldwin and an unidentified copyist; English.
This set is one of the most important surviving music manuscripts
from Elizabethan England, and a major source of works by William
Byrd. It is also famous for Dow's exquisite penmanship, executed in
black ink over staves previously printed in red.
For other parts, see Mus 985-988.
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www.chch.ox.ac.uk/library-and-archives/digital-library.