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and an inscription in the contratenor book reveals that he owned all the books in 1530. At that time, Forrest was a petty canon of Cardinal College. It is not known exactly when he copied the Masses, however. The presence of music by Sheppard and a reference to Tye's doctorate in the collection
325:. John Taverner was employed as Master of the Choristers at Cardinal College from 1527 until 1530, and it is possible that the partbooks were begun and bound at the college under his influence. 279:
The treble, mean, contratenor, tenor and bass books are of identical appearance. They are bound in leather and the covers bear stamped images of the English royal coat of arms on one side, and a
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It is not known who copied Masses 1–11 in the collection. It has been suggested that these Masses were copied at Cardinal College (now
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suggests that they were not added until at least 1545. It has been suggested that Forrest copied the Masses in the reign of
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book. However, the paper used in this partbook also appears in another source which dates from 1531.
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were added much later, probably in the 1610s or 1620s. It is possible that they were copied by
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and a pomegranate on the other. The pomegranate was the symbol of Henry VIII's first wife
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In the treble, mean, contratenor, tenor and bass books, the initial letters of the
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copied in England in the sixteenth century. They are an important source of
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Possible likeness of John Taverner from the Forrest-Heyther partbooks
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partbook (e. 381) contains in addition three English-texted
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are decorated with a face and a banner bearing the name of
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William Heather donated the partbooks to Oxford in 1627.
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MS. Mus. Sch. e. 376–381) are a set of six manuscript
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Index

Bodleian Library
partbooks
polyphonic
Mass Ordinary settings
Henry VIII
John Taverner
Robert Fayrfax
treble
polyphonic
Mass Ordinary settings
John Taverner
Avery Burton
John Merbecke
Robert Fayrfax
Robert Fayrfax
William Rasar
Hugh Aston
Robert Fayrfax
Robert Fayrfax
Thomas Ashwell
John Taverner
Thomas Ashwell
Hugh Aston
John Taverner
John Sheppard
Christopher Tye
Richard Alwood
anthems
William Byrd
John Bull

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