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Revision as of 18:03, 18 August 2010
Royal 11 E. xi is a manuscript now housed in the British Library, produced in 1516 for Henry VIII and his household. The elaborate illuminations are in a heavily Flemish style and the music therein (including the English but continentally influenced Sampson, and Henry VIII's new Italian privy chamber organist, Benedictus de Opiciis) both reflect the fashions of the period.
The scribe of the manuscript is otherwise uncertain, but scholars have argued that Alamire is its creator. The evidence is scant (although the hand is very close to Alamire's when compared to his work in other manuscripts), although the first (otherwise blank) page contains the inscription "Me fieri ac componi fecit PO" (PO caused me to be created and put together), "PO" perhaps and abbreviation of the Flemish version of Alamire's name, combined with the upside-down "v" and cross above it ("t") that connect the two letters, perhaps signifying P[eter] v[an] t[en] [H]o[ve].
Contents
No. | Title | Composer | Parts | Notes |
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1. | Salve radix | Anonymous | 4 | "The Rose Canon" - two canonic spirals at the upper fourth which contain two voices each |
2. | Psallite felices | Sampson | 4 | |
3. | Sub tuum praesidium | Benedictus de Opiciis | 4 | One of only two surviving motets by de Opiciis |
4. | Quam pulchra es | Sampson | 5 | |
5. | Hec est praeclarum vas | Sampson | 4 | Only attributed to Sampson, authorship otherwise uncertain |
6. | Beati omnes qui timent Dominum | Jacotin | 3 |
External links
- View images of the manuscript at The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
- View score transcriptions at CMME.org