Eton Choirbook

The Eton Choirbook, one of only three such books to survive from pre-Reformation England, is a large manuscript collection of Marian antiphons, Magnificat settings and other motets assembled for, and still held at, Eton College. It appears to have been compiled in two separate stages, the majority of the works being inscribed around 1500 with some later additions possibly from 1510-15. It originally contained 93 works, 29 of which have been completely lost and another 21 of which are incomplete, although a few of these are also found in other sources. (A list of the original contents appears in two substantially identical indexes.)

Contents

1. Magnificat I (John Baldwyn) (4vv)
   
2. Magnificat II (John Baldwyn) (4vv)
   
3. O Maria et Elizabeth (Gilbert Banester) (5vv)
   
4. Ave lux totius mundi (John Browne) (5vv)
   
5. Gaude flore virginali (John Browne) (5vv)
   
6. Magnificat I (John Browne) (7vv)
   
7. Magnificat II (John Browne) (5vv)
   
8. Magnificat III (John Browne) (5vv)
   
9. Magnificat IV (John Browne) (4vv)
   
10. O Maria salvatoris Mater (John Browne) (8vv)
    
11. O Mater venerabilis (John Browne) (5vv)
    
12. O Regina mundi clara (John Browne) (6vv)
    
13. Salve Regina I (John Browne) (5vv)
    
14. Salve Regina II (John Browne) (5vv)
    
15. Stabat juxta Christi crucem (John Browne) (6vv)
    
16. Stabat Mater dolorosa (John Browne) (6vv)
    
17. Stabat virgo Mater Christi I (John Browne)(6vv)
    
18. Stabat virgo Mater Christi II (John Browne) (4vv)
    
19. Magnificat (William Brygeman) (5vv)
    
20. Salve Regina (William Brygeman) (5vv)
    
21. Ave Maria Mater Dei (William Cornysh) (4vv)
    
22. Ad te purissima virgo (William Cornysh) (5vv)
    
23. Gaude flore virginali (William Cornysh) (6vv)
    
24. Gaude virgo Mater Christi (William Cornysh) (4vv)
    
25. Magnificat (William Cornysh) (5vv)
    
26. Salve Regina (William Cornysh) (5vv)
    
27. Stabat mater dolorosa I (William Cornysh) (5vv)
    
28. Stabat mater dolorosa II (William Cornysh) (5vv)
    
29. Gaude flore virginali (Richard Davy) (6vv)
    
30. In honore summae Matris (Richard Davy) (5vv)
    
31. Magnificat I (Richard Davy) (4vv)
    
32. Magnificat II (Richard Davy) (5vv)
    
33. O Domine caeli terraeque (Richard Davy) (5vv)
    
34. Passio Domini in ramis palmarum (Richard Davy) (4vv)
    
35. Salve Jesu Mater vera (Richard Davy) (5vv)
    
36. Salve Regina (Richard Davy) (5vv) | Request:Salve_Regina_(Richard_Davy)
37. Salve Regina (Richard Davy)* (6vv) | Request:Salve_Regina_(Richard_Davy)
38. Stabat mater dolorosa (Richard Davy) (5vv)
    
39. Virgo templum Trinitas (Richard Davy) (5vv)
    
40. Gaude flore virginali (John Dunstaple) (5vv)
    
41. Ave lumen gracie (Robert Fayrfax) (4vv)
    
42. Ave cujus concepcio (Robert Fayrfax) (5vv)
    
43. Quid cantemus innocentes (Robert Fayrfax) (5vv)
    
44. Magnificat 'Regale' (Robert Fayrfax)* (5vv)
    
45. Salve Regina (Robert Fayrfax) (5vv)
    
46. Stabat mater dolorosa (Robert Fayrfax) (5vv)
    
47. Gaude rosa sine spina (Fawkyner) (5vv)
    
48. Gaude virgo salutata (Fawkyner) (5vv)
    
49. Salve regina vas mundicie (Fawkyner) (6vv)
    
50. Salve Regina (Robert Hacomplaynt) (5vv)
    
51. Salve Regina (John Hampton) (5vv)
    
52. Gaude virgo salutata (Holyngborne) (4vv)
    
53. Gaude flore virginali (William Horwud) (5vv)
    
54. Gaude virgo Mater Christi (William Horwud) (5vv)
    
55. Magnificat (William Horwud) (5vv)
    
56. Salve Regina (William Horwud) (5vv)
    
57. Ascendit Christus (Nicholas Huchyn) (5vv)
    
58. Salve Regina (Nicholas Huchyn) (5vv)
    
59. Salve Regina (Richard Hygons) (5vv)
    
60. Gaude flore virginali (Hugh Kellyk) (7vv)
    
61. Magnificat (Hugh Kellyk) (5vv)
    
62. Ascendit Christus (Walter Lambe) (4vv)
    
63. Gaude flore virginali I (Walter Lambe) (5vv)
    
64. Gaude flore virginali II (Walter Lambe) (4vv)
    
65. Magnificat (Walter Lambe) (5vv) | Request:Magnificat_(Walter_Lambe)
    
66. Nesciens mater (Walter Lambe) (5vv)
    
67. O Maria plena gratia (Walter Lambe) (6vv) | Request:O_Maria_plena_gratia_(Walter_Lambe)
    
68. O Regina caelestis gloria I (Walter Lambe) (6vv)
    
69. O Regina caelestis gloriae II (Walter Lambe) (5vv) | Request:O_Regina_caelestis_gloriae_II_(Walter_Lambe)
    
70. O virgo virginum (Walter Lambe) (4vv)
    
71. Salve Regina (Walter Lambe) (5vv)| Request:Salve_Regina_(Walter_Lambe)
    
72. Stella caeli (Walter Lambe) (4vv)
    
73. Virgo gaude gloriosa (Walter Lambe) (5vv)
    
74. Magnificat II (Robert Mychelson) (5vv)
    
75. Magnificat (John Nesbett)* (5vv)
    
76. Magnificat (William of Stratford) (4vv)
    
77. Gaude virgo mater Christi (Sturton) (6vv)
    
78. Salve Regina (John Sutton) (7vv)
    
79. Magnificat I (John Sygar) (4vv)
    
80. Magnificat II (John Sygar) (4vv)
    
81. Gaude flore virginali I (Edmund Turges) (5vv)
    
82. Gaude flore virginali II (Edmund Turges) (4vv)
    
83. Magnificat I (Edmund Turges) (4vv)
    
84. Magnificat II (Edmund Turges) (4vv)
    
85. Magnificat III (Edmund Turges) (4vv)
    
86. Gaude flore virginali (Robert Wylkynson) (6vv)
    
87. Gaude virgo mater Christi (Robert Wylkynson) (4vv)
    
88. Jesus autem transiens/Credo in Deum (Robert Wylkynson) (13vv)
    
89. Magnificat (Robert Wylkynson) (6vv)
    
90. Magnificat I (Robert Wylkynson) (5vv)
    
91. O virgo prudentissima (Robert Wylkynson) (6vv)
    
92. Salve decus castitatis (Robert Wylkynson) (5vv)
    
93. Salve Regina I (Robert Wylkynson) (9vv)
    
94. Salve Regina II (Robert Wylkynson) (5vv)
    

Works shown as hyperlinks (currently mostly to non-existent pages) exist complete in the Eton Choirbook (or other sources).
Works shown in italics are fragmentary, while others are completely missing.
Asterisks indicate that it is not clear whether the piece is fragmentary or not

* lost or fragmentary in Eton Choirbook but complete in one or more other sources.

External links

View images of the Eton Choirbook at The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music