The follwoing images have been created by the Tudor Partbooks project for all the manuscripts for which we have acquired images. Where possible gathering diagrams are also included. Do advise us if you find any inaccuracies you find or if you have identified any of the anonymous pieces (email Katherine Butler).
c.1596. 'Iohn Petre' on the cover.
c.1596. 'Iohn Petre' on the cover.
Fragment of early sixteenth-century polyphony
Caius Choirbook
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Early 17th-century partbook interleaved with a 1636 edition of the Book of Common Prayer with the items inserted where they would appear liturgically
'UJ' Partbooks, c. 1525-30
Tablebook, c.1578
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(The Mulliner Book)
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Fragments of fifteenth and sixteenth-century polyphony
(Gyffard Partbooks)
Score copy of Tallis's Spem in Alium with the English words, Sing and Glorify, c.1610
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(Nicholas Ludford's Lady Masses)
(Lumley Partbooks)
Lambeth Choirbook
Single partbook, c.1540-50
(Sadler Partbooks)
(Forrest-Heyther Partbooks)
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Fragement of polyphony, c.1500
Fragments once part of the bindings of the Sadler partbooks (Mus. e. 1-5)
Wanley partbooks
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Braikenridge and Wilmott Partbooks copied by John Sadler
Early 17th century, from collection of Edward Paston
Covers have the monogram 'TE', copied c.1595-1613.
Dow partbooks
Partbooks copied by John Baldwin (tenor book missing)
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Five orphan partbooks, copied for Ludlow c. 1570-1610
Fragment of early sixteenth-century polyphony.
Winchester partbooks
Eton Choirbook
Partbook apparently originally owned by 'Thomas Inon', c.1590