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 is thought to possibly 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.)
Publication date and place: ca. 1520 in Eton, England, manuscript.
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. | Folio | Title | Composer | Parts | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | 1v-4 | O Maria salvatoris Mater | John Browne | 8 | |
2. | 4v-8 | Gaude flore virginali | Hugh Kellyk | 7 | |
3. | 8v-9v | O Maria plena gratiae | Walter Lambe | 6 | requested |
4. | 10-11 | Gaude flore virginali | Richard Davy | 6 | fragmentary |
5. | 11v-14 | Stabat Mater dolorosa | John Browne | 6 | |
6. | 14v | O Regina caelestis gloriae I | Walter Lambe | 6 | fragmentary |
7. | 15-17 | Stabat virgo mater Christi I | John Browne | 6 | fragmentary** |
8. | 17v-19 | Stabat iuxta Christi crucem | John Browne | 6 | |
9. | 19v-22 | O Regina mundi clara | John Browne | 6 | |
10. | 22v-25 | Gaude virgo mater Christi | Edmund Sturton | 6 | |
11. | 25v | O virgo prudentissima | Robert Wylkynson | 6 | fragmentary |
12. | Gaude flore virginali | Robert Wylkynson | 6 | missing | |
13. | Salve regina vas mundicie | Fawkner | 6 | missing | |
14. | 26 | Gaude flore virginali | William Cornysh | 6 | fragmentary |
15. | 26v-29 | Salve Regina I | Robert Wylkynson | 9 | |
16. | 29v-30 | Salve Regina | William Brygeman | 5 | fragmentary |
17. | 30v-32 | Salve Regina | William Horwud | 5 | |
18. | 32v-34 | Salve Regina | Richard Davy | 5 | requested |
19. | 34v-36 | Salve Regina | William Cornysh | 5 | |
20. | 36v-38 | Salve Regina I | John Browne | 5 | |
21. | 38v-40 | Salve Regina | Walter Lambe | 5 | |
22. | 40v-42 | Salve Regina | John Sutton | 7 | |
23. | 42v-44 | Salve Regina | Robert Hacomplaynt | 5 | |
24. | 44v-46 | Salve Regina | Nicholas Huchyn | 5 | |
25. | 46v-48 | Salve Regina II | Robert Wylkynson | 5 | |
26. | 48v-50 | Salve Regina | Robert Fayrfax | 5 | |
27. | 50v-52 | Salve Regina | Richard Hygons | 5 | |
28. | 52v-54 | Salve Regina II | John Browne | 5 | |
29. | 54v-56 | Salve Regina | John Hampton | 5 | |
30. | 56v-59 | O Domine caeli terraeque | Richard Davy | 5 | |
31. | 59v-62 | Salve Jesu Mater vera | Richard Davy | 5 | |
32. | 62v-65 | Stabat mater dolorosa | Richard Davy | 5 | |
33. | 65v-68 | Virgo templum Trinitas | Richard Davy | 5 | |
34. | 68v-71 | In honore summae Matris | Richard Davy | 5 | |
35. | 71v-74 | O Maria et Elizabeth | Gilbert Banester | 5 | |
36. | 74v-76 | Gaude flore virginali | William Horwud | 5 | |
37. | 76v-77v | Gaude virgo Mater Christi | William Horwud | 5 | |
38. | O Regina caelestis gloriae II | Walter Lambe | 5 | missing* / requested | |
39. | Gaude flore virginali I | Walter Lambe | 5 | missing | |
40. | Virgo gaude gloriosa | Walter Lambe | 5 | missing | |
41. | Stabat mater dolorosa | Robert Fayrfax | 5 | missing | |
42. | Ave cujus conceptio | Robert Fayrfax | 5 | missing | |
43. | Quid cantemus innocentes | Robert Fayrfax | 5 | missing | |
44. | Gaude flore virginali | John Dunstaple | 5 | missing | |
45. | Ave lux totius mundi | John Browne | 5 | missing | |
46. | Gaude flore virginali | John Browne | 5 | missing | |
47. | Stabat mater dolorosa I | William Cornysh | 5 | fragmentary | |
48. | 78-80 | Stabat mater dolorosa II | William Cornysh | 5 | |
49. | 80v-82 | Gaude virgo salutata | Fawkner | 5 | |
50. | 82v-85 | Gaude rosa sine spina | Fawkner | 5 | |
51. | 85v-87 | Gaude flore virginali I | Edmund Turges | 5 | |
52. | 87v-88 | Nesciens mater | Walter Lambe | 5 | |
53. | 88v | Salve decus castitatis | Robert Wylkynson | 5 | fragmentary |
54. | 89 | Ascendit Christus | Nicholas Huchyn | 5 | fragmentary |
55. | 89v-91v | O Mater venerabilis | John Browne | 5 | fragmentary |
56. | Ad te purissima virgo | William Cornysh | 5 | missing | |
57. | 92v-93v | Ave lumen gracie | Robert Fayrfax | 4 | fragmentary |
58. | O virgo virginum praeclara | Walter Lambe | 4 | missing | |
59. | 94-95 | Gaude virgo mater Christi | Robert Wylkynson | 4 | fragmentary |
60. | 95v-97 | Stabat virgo Mater Christi II | John Browne | 4 | |
61. | 97v-99 | Stella caeli | Walter Lambe | 4 | |
62. | 99v-101 | Ascendit Christus hodie | Walter Lambe | 4 | |
63. | 101v-103 | Gaude flore virginali II | Walter Lambe | 4 | |
64. | 103v-105 | Gaude flore virginali II | Edmund Turges | 4 | |
65. | 105v-106 | Ave Maria Mater Dei | William Cornysh | 4 | |
66. | 106v-108 | Gaude virgo Mater Christi | William Cornysh | 4 | |
67. | 108v-110v | Gaude virgo salutata | Holyngborne | 4 | fragmentary |
68. | Magnificat I | John Browne | 7 | missing | |
69. | Magnificat I | Richard Davy | 4 | missing | |
70. | 111 | Magnificat | John Nesbett | 5 | fragmentary* |
71. | 111v-113 | Magnificat | William Horwud | 5 | |
72. | 113v-116 | Magnificat | Hugh Kellyk | 5 | requested |
73. | 116v-118 | Magnificat octavi toni | Walter Lambe | 5 | requested |
74. | 118v | Magnificat II | John Browne | 5 | fragmentary |
75. | Magnificat 'Regale' | Robert Fayrfax | 5 | missing* | |
76. | Magnificat | William Brygeman | 5 | missing | |
77. | Magnificat I | Robert Wylkynson | 5 | missing | |
78. | Magnificat II | Robert Mychelson | 5 | missing | |
79. | 119-119v | Magnificat II | Robert Wylkynson | 6 | |
80. | Magnificat | William Cornysh | 5 | missing | |
81. | Magnificat III | John Browne | 5 | missing | |
82. | 120-120v | Magnificat I | John Sygar | 4 | fragmentary |
83. | Magnificat IV | John Browne | 4 | missing | |
84. | Magnificat I | Edmund Turges | 4 | missing | |
85. | Magnificat II | Edmund Turges | 4 | missing | |
86. | Magnificat I | John Baldwin | 4 | missing | |
87. | Magnificat II | John Sygar | 4 | missing | |
88. | Magnificat II | John Baldwin | 4 | missing | |
89. | Magnificat III | Edmund Turges | 4 | missing | |
90. | 121 | Magnificat II | Richard Davy | 5 | fragmentary |
91. | 121v-123 | Magnificat | William of Stratford | 4 | |
92. | 124-126 | Passio Domini in ramis palmarum | Richard Davy | 4 | fragmentary |
93. | 126v | Jesus autem transiens / Credo in Deum | Robert Wylkynson | 13 |
External links
- View images of the Eton Choirbook at The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
- Complete facsimile at IMSLP
- The Eton Choirbook on hoasm.org