Collectio missarum (with music) — Westminster, Middlesex. Royal collegiate chapel of St Stephen.
| Provenance: | Westminster, Middlesex. Royal collegiate chapel of St Stephen. |
| Location: | Gonville and Caius College , Cambridge |
| Shelfmark: | 667/760 |
| Author/Title: | Collectio missarum (with music) |
| Type of evidence: | e: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution |
| Notes on evidence: | The Caius Choirbook. On the last page: 'Ex dono et opere Edwardi Higgons huius ecclesie canonici'. Higgons was a cathedral canon of Salisbury, Lincoln, and Chichester, as well as St Stephen's Westminster, and St Mary's Shrewsbury. On the basis of this inscription alone, the book was assigned to Lincoln by Ker (MLGB2, 116), followed by R. M. Thomson, Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Lincoln Cathedral Library (Cambridge 1989), 211–12, perhaps in ignorance of Higgons's other stalls. But internal evidence argues more strongly for St Stephen's, Westminster, since the repertory contained by the choirbook is a retrospective compilation of works by successive generations of composers associated with Westminster, from about 1465 to about 1525, with much by Nicholas Ludford, who was principal musician at the college from about 1525 to 1548. See further Willoughby, Collegiate Churches, pp. 593–4. |
| Date: | s. xiv in. |
| Ownership: | Given to Gonville and Caius College by William Crow in 1665. |