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mrmarches.bsky.social
If it is of any interest, I have a spare copy of The Tallis Scholars' John Browne Eton Choirbook CD, also bought because my first copy wasn't filed!
February 12, 2026 at 9:48 AM
passamezzo.bsky.social
Today's #marginalmusicians are #muses, playing music in honour of Albrecht V of Bavaria.
Detail from #CiprianodelRore's motet Mirabar solito in an #illuminated #choirbook, c1559
Munich, BSB Mus. Ms. B I

#earlymusic #earlymodern #16thCentury #renaissance #manuscriptmonday #marginaliamonday #lute
February 9, 2026 at 10:22 AM
musicadeidonum.bsky.social
CD review: 'The Lambeth Anonymous - Recordings from the Arundel Choirbook' (Iken Scholars/Matthew Dunn)
www.musica-dei-donum.org/cd_reviews/R...
February 9, 2026 at 6:28 AM
richardiiisocca.bsky.social
Turning the pages of a 15th C choirbook. Worth listening to with headphones to really hear the sound of the pages being turned. youtu.be/hfFacvSjqns?...
ASMR at the museum | Turning the pages of a medieval choirbook | V&A
YouTube video by Victoria and Albert Museum
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February 4, 2026 at 7:42 PM
hugillr.bsky.social
Anonymous no more: Seven uncredited 16th century works from a choirbook created in Arundel & now residing in Lambeth, here given voice for the first time by the Iken Scholars & Matthew Dunn on Rubicon Classics. My record review:
www.planethugill.com/2026/02/anon...
Anonymous no more: Seven uncredited 16th century works from a choirbook created in Arundel & now residing in Lambeth, here given voice for the first time
Anonymous no more: seven uncredited works from a choirbook created in Arundel & now residing in Lambeth, here given voice for the first time
www.planethugill.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:39 AM
kirkdalebooks.bsky.social
👇🍟doin' the Lambeth Anonymous
The Lambeth Anonymous Recordings from the Arundel Choirbook Iken Scholars / Matthew Dunn
February 3, 2026 at 3:49 PM
jeffreyjdean.bsky.social
I had exactly the same response to an early-16th-century choirbook (from the Alamire scriptorium) in the Vatican Library in 1981…
February 3, 2026 at 9:58 AM
umadlp.bsky.social
Anonymous Bohemian Artist
St. Agatha, historiated initial ‘O’ cut from a choirbook.

Illuminated manuscript on vellum, 12,4 x 10,1 cm, final quarter 15th century.
January 26, 2026 at 1:00 PM
art-institute.bsky.social
Saint Benedict Presenting his Rule to Benedictine and Cistercian Monks in a Historiated Initial "O" from a Choirbook, by Italian (Siena)
Martino di Bartolomeo (Italian, 1389-1434/5)
1394/95
1394/95

More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/10927
Italian (Siena) Martino di Bartolomeo (Italian, 1389-1434/5) 1394/95, Saint Benedict Presenting his Rule to Benedictine and Cistercian Monks in a Historiated Initial "O" from a Choirbook, A large, red-orange letter O decorated with gold leaf and blue, orange, and green vine-like flourishes contains within it a balding man with a gray beard in a black robe. He holds out a book in each hand. To his left are a group of kneeling men in black robes. Men in white robes kneel at his right.
January 23, 2026 at 2:17 PM
writeforwellbeing.bsky.social
Another in my series of images from medieval manuscripts
#SomethingBeautiful #MedievalSky
Cutting from 15th-century choirbook showing historiated initial O with red stylized flowers against blue background V&A MS 990, 806-94
January 19, 2026 at 7:52 PM
merryrobin.bsky.social
Loppa vom Spiegel (14th Century), Latinized Loppa de Speculo, was a nun of the Poor Clares order, scribe of medieval texts and music manuscripts, and book illuminator in Cologne.
Codex for Konrad von Rennenberg, before 1357. Cologne, Archbishop's Diocesan and Cathedral Library, Cod. 149, fol. 51v. An illustration of Jesus in the Cross, with a dark blue background and golden framing. Two mourning women to his sides, I assume Mary and Magdalene, and on each corner, the evangelists symbols, angel, eagle, leon, and bull. An Antiphonal contains the choral parts sung during the celebration of the Divine Office or Mass celebrated by a monastic or other community. This type of choirbook was usually written in large format so that the whole choir could read the music at once. This example was made at the convent of St Klara in Cologne by one of the nuns, Sister Loppa de Speculo. Another surviving leaf records that Sister Jutta paid for the book while Loppa carried out the writing, lining (putting in the staves for the music), notation and illumination 'in the year 1350, when there was a great plague everywhere'. This was one of a series of books produced in the convent. The Abbess, Heylwigis von Beechoven, who had ruled the convent since 1344, is portrayed kneeling by the historiated initial of the Descent of the Holy Ghost on the Virgin and Apostles associating her prayer with this crucial event, when the Holy Spirit came to earth and the mission of the Apostles to spread the Christian revelation began. The prayer of her convent was thus part of the mission. If we take at face value the claim that Sister Loppa did all the illumination (it is always possible that parts of it were contracted out, paid for by Sister Jutta), it appears that grotesques and birds (a heron seems to be shown) were the accepted form of ornament even in this convent environment. The initial looks German, but the three pointed leaves on their swirling stems may show an effort to copy Parisian or other French styles. Other leaves from this manuscript are in Stockholm and in Cologne itself, collected by the founders of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum who wanted to assemble works to show the antiquity of a local school of painting.
January 16, 2026 at 5:50 PM
mozblue01.bsky.social
Well this is terrific.
Cover of music cd, The Lambeth Anonymous, recordings from the Arundel Choirbook performed by the Iken Scholars
January 13, 2026 at 12:31 PM
writeforwellbeing.bsky.social
Another in my series of images from medieval manuscripts
#SomethingBeautiful #MedievalSky
From choirbook, historiated initial with bishop consecrating an altar
January 9, 2026 at 6:57 PM
mrmarches.bsky.social
#NowPlaying Still with the Arundel Choirbook. Hard to beat The Cardinall's Music in this repertoire. The Byrd, Fayrfax and Ludford Editions are all essential (imho!)
January 8, 2026 at 6:15 PM
mrmarches.bsky.social
#NowPlaying Staying with the Arundel Choirbook (or thereabouts)
January 8, 2026 at 4:41 PM
dancingmonk.bsky.social
#MonksMusic 🎻
Year - c.1506
Album - Music From The Eton Choirbook
Band - Tonus Peregrinus
Music from THE ETON CHOIRBOOK
Music from THE ETON CHOIRBOOK. Naxos: 8572840. Buy CD or download online. TONUS PEREGRINUS, Antony Pitts (director)
www.prestomusic.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:03 AM
srviteri.bsky.social
ASMR at the museum | Turning the pages of a medieval choirbook | V&A www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfFa... (vía @carmenpacheco.es)
ASMR at the museum | Turning the pages of a medieval choirbook | V&A
YouTube video by Victoria and Albert Museum
www.youtube.com
January 2, 2026 at 9:26 AM
churchtimes.bsky.social
Wishing all our readers and followers a very Happy and Holy Christmas ✝️🎄

📸Christie’s

The Nativity, depicted in a richly historiated letter “T”, from a large choirbook (Spain, possibly Monastery of San Jeronimo de Baza, Grenada, c. 1510).

#christmasday #churchtimes
December 25, 2025 at 2:05 AM
antiquaries.bsky.social
The Brooke Antiphonal is a 15th-century choirbook containing choral parts of masses for Saints Cosmas and Damian, and the Blessed Virgin Mary. It was apparently written for a Benedictine community (possibly of nuns) with a cult of SS Cosmas and Damian.
A page from the choirbook showing the tune for the mass with a small nativity scene.
December 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social
#np The Spy's Choirbook - Alamire/David Skinner
December 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social
And there's another great one called The Spy's Choirbook.
December 17, 2025 at 9:10 AM
bbc3musicbot.bsky.social

🇺🇦 #NowPlayingashtag/NowPlaying" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #RecordReview

Anonymous, Iken Scholars & Matthew Dunn:
🎵 Salve Regina [Lambeth Choirbook, "Arundel Choirbook"]

#BBCRadio3 #Anonymous #IkenScholars #MatthewDunn
December 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
radio3.bsky.social
“Salve Regina [Lambeth Choirbook, "Arundel Choirbook"]” by Anonymous #nowplaying #radio3
December 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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BBC Radio 3
Record Review

Now Playing
Anonymous, Iken Scholars & Matthew Dunn
Salve Regina [Lambeth Choirbook, "Arundel Choirbook"]
December 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
jdmccafferty.bsky.social
Historiated initial O from a choirbook, St. Francis displaying stigmata, attributed to the Master of the Franciscan Breviary; Italy; c.1450. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
December 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM