Five partbooks from a set originally of six (the Tenor partbook is
missing), copied and formerly owned by John Baldwin, a singing-man
at St George's Chapel, Windsor. This set is one of the most
important surviving sources of Tudor church music and Elizabethan
motets. It is also famous for Baldwin's fine penmanship, executed
on sheets with printed staves. The set appears to have been
conceived from the start as a mixed volume of manuscript and
printed music, since Baldwin avoided making manuscript copies of
the pieces available in the printed section.
For other parts, see Mus 979-981 and 983.
For detailed descriptions, please see
www.chch.ox.ac.uk/library-and-archives/digital-library.
