NOTES
- Peterhouse MSS 471–474, now kept in Cambridge University Library.
- Now on deposit in the Pendlebury Library, Cambridge.
- ‘British Museum Add. MSS 17802–5 (the Gyffard Partbooks): an Index and Commentary’, Research Chronicle, 7 (1969), 31–50.
- Without wishing to pre-empt matters raised later in this study, the reader is referred to Figure 6 and asked to compare the ‘g’ of ‘glorificamus’ (f. 25v) with that of ‘unigenite’ and ‘agnus’ (f. 26) with respect to their different tail-strokes; also, the ‘A’ of ‘Alleluia’ in Figure 4 with the ‘A’ of ‘Asperges’ in Figure 1.
- This is very similar to no. 13154 in C.M. Briquet, Les filigranes, ed. A.H. Stevenson (Amsterdam, 1968); and no. 2163 in E. Heawood, Watermarks mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Hilversum, 1950; repr. Amsterdam, 1970).
- This scheme may be reversed, of course, if the final fold is different.
- Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum, i (London, 1906), 271.
- Op. cit., 32.
- A tranchefile (also known as an ‘edge wire’ or ‘water bar wire’) is an extra chain half a chain's width in from the shorter edge on both sides of the paper mould.
- Bramston's Recordare, Domine, testamenti tui (no. 83) is often described as a respond sung during Historia Regum: see Bray, op. cit., 41, and May Hofman and John Morehen, Latin Music in British Sources C.1485-C.1610, Early English Church Music: Supplementary Volume 2 (London, 1987). In another context that could well be the case, but in view of the piece's present position it is best regarded as a votive antiphon sung in time of plague, a use to which we know these words were put. The text also occurs as the Officium (i.e. Introit) to the Missa pro mortalitate evitanda, also known as the Missa tempore pestilentiae: see Missale…Sarum 1504 (STC 16181), ff. I-li, and A. Harford Pearson, The Sarum Missal done into English, rev. 2nd edn (London 1884), 586.