Eton Choirbook

The Eton Choirbook, one of only three such books (along with the Lambeth Choirbook and the Caius Choirbook 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. Edward Hygons, whose work was included in this book, is thought to be responsible for the existence of this book, as well as the Lambeth Choirbook and the Caius Choirbook.

This choirbook 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

Contents of the Eton Choirbook sorted initially by the order in which they appear in the collection. The table is sortable, by clicking the icon at the top of each column. Titles which are complete in the Eton Choirbook (or other sources) are shown below as hyperlinks, blue for works available and red for those not yet available at ChoralWiki. Other notes:

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

** Fragmentary, but reconstructed in F. Ll. Harrison edition.

No.	Title	Composer	Parts	Notes
1.	O Maria salvatoris Mater	BrowneJohn Browne	8
2.	Gaude flore virginali	KellykHugh Kellyk	7
3.	O Maria plena gratia	LambeWalter Lambe	6	requested
4.	Gaude flore virginali	DavyRichard Davy	6	fragmentary
5.	Stabat Mater dolorosa	BrowneJohn Browne	6
6.	O Regina caelestis gloria I	LambeWalter Lambe	6	fragmentary
7.	Stabat virgo Mater Christi I	BrowneJohn Browne	6	fragmentary**
8.	Stabat iuxta Christi crucem	BrowneJohn Browne	6
9.	O Regina mundi clara	BrowneJohn Browne	6
10.	Gaude virgo mater Christi	Sturton	6
11.	O virgo prudentissima	WylkynsonRobert Wylkynson	6	fragmentary
12.	Gaude flore virginali	WylkynsonRobert Wylkynson	6	missing
13.	Salve regina vas mundicie	Fawkyner	6	missing
14.	Gaude flore virginali	CornyshWilliam Cornysh	6	fragmentary
15.	Salve Regina I	WylkynsonRobert Wylkynson	9
16.	Salve Regina	BrygemanWilliam Brygeman	5	fragmentary
17.	Salve Regina	HorwudWilliam Horwud	5
18.	Salve Regina	DavyRichard Davy	5	requested
19.	Salve Regina	CornyshWilliam Cornysh	5
20.	Salve Regina I	BrowneJohn Browne	5
21.	Salve Regina	LambeWalter Lambe	5	requested
22.	Salve Regina	SuttonJohn Sutton	7
23.	Salve Regina	HacomplayntRobert Hacomplaynt	5
24.	Salve Regina	HuchynNicholas Huchyn	5
25.	Salve Regina II	WylkynsonRobert Wylkynson	5
26.	Salve Regina	FayrfaxRobert Fayrfax	5
27.	Salve Regina	HygonsRichard Hygons	5
28.	Salve Regina II	BrowneJohn Browne	5
29.	Salve Regina	HamptonJohn Hampton	5
30.	O Domine caeli terraeque	DavyRichard Davy	5
31.	Salve Jesu Mater vera	DavyRichard Davy	5
32.	Virgo templum Trinitas	DavyRichard Davy	5
33.	Ad te purissima virgo	CornyshWilliam Cornysh	5
34.	Stabat mater dolorosa	DavyRichard Davy	5
35.	In honore summae Matris	DavyRichard Davy	5
36.	O Maria et Elizabeth	BanesterGilbert Banester	5
37.	Gaude flore virginali	HorwudWilliam Horwud	5
38.	Gaude virgo Mater Christi	HorwudWilliam Horwud	5
39.	O Regina caelestis gloriae II	LambeWalter Lambe	5	requested
40.	Gaude flore virginali I	LambeWalter Lambe	5	missing
41.	Virgo gaude gloriosa	LambeWalter Lambe	5	missing
42.	Stabat mater dolorosa	FayrfaxRobert Fayrfax	5	missing
43.	Ave cujus concepcio	FayrfaxRobert Fayrfax	5	missing
44.	Quid cantemus innocentes	FayrfaxRobert Fayrfax	5	missing
45.	Gaude flore virginali	DunstapleJohn Dunstaple	5	missing
46.	Ave lux totius mundi	BrowneJohn Browne	5	missing
47.	Gaude flore virginali	BrowneJohn Browne	5	missing
48.	Stabat mater dolorosa I	CornyshWilliam Cornysh	5	fragmentary
49.	Stabat mater dolorosa II	CornyshWilliam Cornysh	5
50.	Gaude virgo salutata	Fawkyner	5
51.	Gaude rosa sine spina	Fawkyner	5
52.	Gaude flore virginali I	TurgesEdmund Turges	5
53.	Nesciens mater	LambeWalter Lambe	5
54.	Salve decus castitatis	WylkynsonRobert Wylkynson	5	fragmentary
55.	Ascendit Christus	HuchynNicholas Huchyn	5	fragmentary
56.	O Mater venerabilis	BrowneJohn Browne	5	fragmentary
57.	Ave lumen gracie	FayrfaxRobert Fayrfax	4	fragmentary
58.	O virgo virginum	LambeWalter Lambe	4	missing
59.	Gaude virgo mater Christi	WylkynsonRobert Wylkynson	4	fragmentary
60.	Stabat virgo Mater Christi II	BrowneJohn Browne	4
61.	Stella caeli	LambeWalter Lambe	4
62.	Ascendit Christus	LambeWalter Lambe	4
63.	Gaude flore virginali II	LambeWalter Lambe	4
64.	Gaude flore virginali II	TurgesEdmund Turges	4
65.	Ave Maria Mater Dei	CornyshWilliam Cornysh	4
66.	Gaude virgo Mater Christi	CornyshWilliam Cornysh	4
67.	Gaude virgo salutata	Holyngborne	4	fragmentary
68.	Magnificat I	BrowneJohn Browne	7	missing
69.	Magnificat I	DavyRichard Davy	4	fragmentary
70.	Magnificat	NesbettJohn Nesbett	5	missing*
71.	Magnificat	HorwudWilliam Horwud	5
72.	Magnificat	KellykHugh Kellyk	5
73.	Magnificat	LambeWalter Lambe	5	requested
74.	Magnificat II	BrowneJohn Browne	5	missing
75.	Magnificat 'Regale'	FayrfaxRobert Fayrfax	5	missing*
76.	Magnificat	BrygemanWilliam Brygeman	5	missing
77.	Magnificat I	WylkynsonRobert Wylkynson	5	fragmentary
78.	Magnificat II	MychelsonRobert Mychelson	5	missing
79.	Magnificat II	WylkynsonRobert Wylkynson	6
80.	Magnificat	CornyshWilliam Cornysh	5
81.	Magnificat III	BrowneJohn Browne	5	missing
82.	Magnificat I	SygarJohn Sygar	4	fragmentary
83.	Magnificat IV	BrowneJohn Browne	4	missing
84.	Magnificat I	TurgesEdmund Turges	4	missing
85.	Magnificat II	TurgesEdmund Turges	4	missing
86.	Magnificat I	BaldwinJohn Baldwin	4	missing
87.	Magnificat II	SygarJohn Sygar	4	missing
88.	Magnificat II	BaldwinJohn Baldwin	4	missing
89.	Magnificat III	TurgesEdmund Turges	4	missing
90.	Magnificat II	DavyRichard Davy	5	fragmentary
91.	Magnificat	William of Stratford	4
92.	Passio Domini in ramis palmarum	DavyRichard Davy	4	fragmentary
93.	Jesus autem transiens / Credo in Deum	WylkynsonRobert Wylkynson	13

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

** Fragmentary, but reconstructed in F. Ll. Harrison edition.

External links

• View images of the Eton Choirbook at The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
• The Eton Choirbook on hoasm.org