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

Contents of the Eton Choirbook sorted by composer and then by title. For a list of the works sorted in the order in which they appear in the choirbook, click here.

• Works shown below as hyperlinks (including those to non-existent pages) are complete in the Eton Choirbook (or other sources).
• Works shown in { braces } are fragmentary; those shown in [ brackets ] are completely missing.
• * Lost or fragmentary in Eton Choirbook but complete in one or more other sources.
• ** Fragmentary, but reconstructed in F. Ll. Harrison edition.

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

External links

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