Ritson Manuscript

General information

Title: Ritson Manuscript, GB-Lbl Add. MS 5665

Editor – Compiler: Thomas Packe

Publication date and place: 1460-1510 . – Manuscript
Description: Now at the British Library (GB-Lbl Add. MS 5665). "Manuscript of polyphony, c.1460-1510 … Copied by one main scribe (most of the carols) and about 15 additional scribes. Of English origin; probably copied at a Franciscan monastery in Devonshire, but designed for lay services. Possibly originated at Exeter Cathedral. Thomas Packe may have played a significant role in the compilation and copying. Manuscript later owned by the antiquarian Joseph Ritson, who donated it to British Museum in 1795" (DIAMM).

External websites:

• Description and scans at DIAMM

List of works

No.	Folio	Title	Composer	Comment
1	3	Miserere mihi, Domine	John Norman
2	3	Benedicamus Domino	Anonymous
3	3v–4	Stella caeli extirpavit que lactavit	Anonymous
4	4v–5	Sing we to this merry company	Anonymous
5	5v–6	Johannes assecretis	Anonymous
6	6v–7	Sonet laus per saecula	Anonymous
7	7v–8	Nowell, nowell - Tidings good	Richard Smert
8	8v–9v	Nowell, nowell - Who is there	Anonymous
9	10–11	Mervele nought, Joseph	Anonymous
10	11v–12	Meruele nought, Josep	Anonymous
11	12v–13	Make us merry this New Year	Anonymous
12	13v–14	Salve sancta parens	Anonymous
13	14v–15	In every state, in every state	Anonymous
14	15v–16	Ave decus saeculi - Ex Maria virgine	Richard Smert
15	16v–17	Soli deo sit laudum gloria	Richard Smert	Or Composer: John Trouluffe?
16	17v–18	Have mercy of me	Richard Smert
17	18v–19	Regi canamus gloriae	Anonymous
18	19v–20	O radix Jesse	Anonymous
19	20v–22	O clavis David	Richard Smert	Or Composer: John Trouluffe?
20	22v–23	Pray for us that we saved be	Anonymous
21	23v–24	Psallite gaudentes	Anonymous
22	24v–25	Worship we this holy day	Anonymous
23	26v–27	Te Deum laudamus - O blessed God	Anonymous
24	27v–28	Laetare Cantuaria	Anonymous
25	28v–29	Now make we joy	Anonymous
26	29v–30	Jesu fili virginis - Jesu of a maid I	Richard Smert
27	30v–31	Spes mea in Deo est - When lordship	Anonymous
28	31v–32	I pray ye all	Anonymous
29	32v–33	Jesu fili Dei - Glorious God	Richard Smert	Or Composer: John Trouluffe?
30	33v–34	Tidings true there be come new	Anonymous
31	34v–35	Nascitur ex virgine - A child is born	Richard Smert
32	35v–36	Do well, and dread no man	Anonymous
33	36v–37	Alleluya - Now may we myrthis make	Anonymous
34	37v–38	Pray for us, thou Prince of Peace	Anonymous
35	38v–39	How shall I please a creature	Anonymous
36	39v–40	Proface, welcome	Anonymous
37	40v–41	Jesus autem hodie - When Jesus	Richard Smert	Or Composer: John Trouluffe?
38	41v–42	Clanget tuba, Martir Thomas - Out of the chaff	Anonymous
39	42v–43	Man, asay, and axe mercy	Anonymous
40	43v–44	Jesu fili virginis - Jesu of a maid II	Anonymous
41	44v–45	Jesu, for thy mercy endless	Anonymous
42	45v–46	The best song, as it seemeth me	Anonymous
43	46v–47	To many a will have I go	Anonymous
44	47v–48	Salve, Regina misericordiae	Anonymous
45	48v–49	Pray for us, thou Prince of Peace	Anonymous
46	49v–50	O blessed Lord, full of pity	Anonymous
47	50v–51	The beste rede that I can	Anonymous
48	51v–52	For all Christen soules pray we	Anonymous
49	52v–53	Blessed must thou be, sweet Jesus	Anonymous
50	53v–54	I have been a foster	Anonymous
51	54v–55	Nesciens mater virgo virum	John Trouluffe
52	54v	Alleluia	Anonymous
53	55v–56	Beata Dei genitrix Maria	Richard Mower
54	56v–57	Nesciens mater virgo virum	John Trouluffe
55	57v–58	Nesciens mater virgo virum	Richard Smert	Or Composer: John Trouluffe?
56	58v–59	Ave regina caelorum	Anonymous
57	59v–60	Regina caeli laetare, alleluia	Richard Mower
58	60v–62	O lux beata Trinitas	Anonymous
59	62v–64	Lumen ad revelationem gentium et gloriam - Nunc dimittis	Thomas Packe
60	64v–65	Stella caeli extirpavit que lactavit	William Haute
61	65v–66	My woefull heart	Anonymous
62	66v–67	Be pes, ye make me spille my ale	Anonymous
63	67v–68	Absens of you causeth me to sigh	Anonymous
64	68v–69	The high desire that I have	Anonymous
65	69v–70	O blessed Lord, how may this be	Anonymous
66	70v–71	Thow man envred with temptacion	Anonymous
67	71v–72	Now helpe, Fortune, of thy godenesse	Anonymous
68	72v–73	Fayre and discrete	Anonymous
69	73v–84	Missa Rex summe	Thomas Pack
70	84v–95	Missa de Gaudete in Dommio	Thomas Pack
71	95v–106	Te Deum laudamus - We praise thee	Thomas Pack
72	106v–107	Salve festa dies - Qua sponso	Anonymous
73	107v–109	Gaude virgo mater Christi	Anonymous
74	109v–112	Salve festa dies - Qua sponso	Sturges
75	112v–113	Gaude sancta Magdalena	Thomas Pack
76	113v–120	Missa	Petyr
77	120v–121	Dicant nunc Judaei	John Cornysh
78	121v	Benedicamus Domino - Deo gracias	Anonymous
79	122	Salve, festa dies - Qua sponso	Anonymous
80	122v–123	Sancta Maria virgo intercede pro toto	Anonymous
81	123v–124	Nesciens mater virgo virum	Anonymous
82	124v–129	Salve regina mater misericordiae	Leonel Power	Or Composer: John Dunstaple?
83	129v–131	Anima mea liquefacta est	W.P.
84	131v–132	Nunc Jesu te petimus	Anonymous
85	133v–135	Alone, alone, mornying alone	T.B.
86	135v–136	My heart is in great moaning	Anonymous
87	136v–137	Passetime with good company	Henry VIII
88	137v–140	So put in fair	Anonymous
89	140v	Alone, alone, here I am	Anonymous
90	141	In wilderness, there found Besse	Anonymous
91	141v–142	Passetime with good company	Henry VIII
92	142v–143	Dicant nunc Judaei	Anonymous
93	143v–144	Come over the burn, Besse	Anonymous
94	144v	Vostre tres doulx regart playsant	Gilles Binchois
95	145	Miserere mihi, Domine	John Norman
96	145v–146	Up I arose in verno tempore	Anonymous
97	146v–148	Hay how, the mavys!	Anonymous

Works at CPDL

Title	Composer	No.	Genre	Subgenre	Language	Vo.	Voices
Gaude virgo mater Christi	Anonymous	73	Sacred	votive antiphons	Latin	3	TTB
Regina Caeli	Richard Mower	57	Sacred	Votive antiphons	Latin	3	STB