Caius Choirbook

The Caius Choirbook is an illuminated choirbook dating from around 1520 by Edward Hygons, and containing music by Tudor-period composers. The book is in large folio format, which allows a choir quite some size to cluster around the book and all read from it. The different voice parts are divided over two facing pages. It is now housed at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

The Caius Choirbook contains works by Robert Fayrfax and Nicholas Ludford, who account for most of the works in this collection. The book also includes works by Edmund Sturton, William Cornysh and Walter Lambe, whose works appear in the Lambeth Choirbook and the Eton Choirbook. There is also a Magnificat by Edmund Turges believed to be different from the three lost Magnificats by Turges which were listed in the Eton Choirbook. Other composers include Henry Prentyce a/k/a Prentes, and a Mass by William Pasche.

External links

• View images of the Caius Choirbook at The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
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