Oxford. Christ Church, Library, Mus 986

Source

Digital Bodleian (Oxford University)

Library

Oxford. Christ Church, Library

Shelfmark

• Christ Church Mus 986

Biblissima authority file

• https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q215334

Date

• 1581–1588

Language

• Latin
• English

Title

• Tudor motets, anthems, consort music and consort songs - Contratenor

Agent

• Preferred form

  • Robert White (1538?-1574)

  Role

  • Author

  Original form

  • White, Robert (c. 1538-1574)

  Biblissima portal

  • https://portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/43093/pdataebc5d23a7d0ec3cd911c779c53393d9830efe5f0

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q14883

• Preferred form

  • Thomas Tallis (1505?-1585)

  Role

  • Author

  Original form

  • Tallis, Thomas (c. 1505-1585)

  Other form

  • Tallis, Thomas
  • Thomas Tallis (approximately 1505-1585)
  • Tallis, Thomas, approximately 1505-1585

  Biblissima portal

  • https://portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/43093/pdatae92551499c9f5b51204c5983ead489ceff3063c9

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q16195

• Preferred form

  • William Byrd (1543?-1623)

  Role

  • Author

  Original form

  • Byrd, William (1542 or 3-1623)

  Other form

  • Bird, William
  • William Byrd
  • William Byrd (c.1540-1623)
  • William Byrd (1539 or 40-1623)
  • Byrd, William, 1539 or 40-1623
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  Biblissima portal

  • https://portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/43093/pdataa965e13e1b702dc95a421ecaee53edfc95120811

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q16563

Description

• 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 984-985 and 987-988.
  For detailed descriptions, please see www.chch.ox.ac.uk/library-and-archives/digital-library.

Rights

• Photo: © The Governing Body of Christ Church, Oxford. Terms of use: All rights reserved. Permission to reproduce images must be obtained from the Keeper of Special Collections at Christ Church, but is not normally withheld.

Digitisation

• https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/e846e2ce-ac60-49a1-90ee-3dd757446221

Manifest URL

• https://iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/iiif/manifest/e846e2ce-ac60-49a1-90ee-3dd757446221.json