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British Museum Add. Mss. 17802–5 (The Gyffard Part-Books): An Index and Commentary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Roger W. Bray
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This set of manuscripts has come to be known as the Gyffard part-books because it appears to have belonged at an early date to one Philip Gyffard, whose identity is uncertain. Wood mentions a Thomas Gifford who incorporated Doctor of Physic at Oxford on May 20th, 1642, formerly (1636) of the University of Leyden, Holland, but there is no particular reason for supposing that he is the man. On f. 112 of the Triplex book (17803) there is scribbled ‘this is Philip’, and in the same book on f. 242v ‘this is mi boke thomas Charles philip… ‘, and again on f. 243 ‘this is . . [?] . . Gyffard’ and ‘thomas Charles’.

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R.M.A. Research Chronicle , Volume 7 , 1969 , pp. 31 - 50
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Copyright © Royal Musical Association, 1969

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1 Anthony a Wood, Fasti Oxoniensis, Oxford, 1820, p. 9.Google Scholar

2 I am grateful to Miss P.J. Willetts of the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum, for this information.Google Scholar

3 A. Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum, Vol. I, London, 1906, p. 271. For other brief descriptions of the MSS, see F. Ll. Harrison, Music in Medieval Britain, London, 1958, p.288; and H. Baillie, “Squares”, Acta Musicologica XXXII, 1960, p. 178. The MSS are also mentioned by Harrison in The New Oxford History of Music, Vol.III, London 1960, p. 344.Google Scholar

4 Heawood, E., Watermarks (Monumenta Chartae Papyraceae I), Hilversum, 1950.Google Scholar

5 Thomas Whythorne, Autobiography ed. J. M. Osborn, Oxford, 1961, p. 300.Google Scholar

6 Oxford, Christ Church MS 980, after No.5.Google Scholar