The Pepys Manuscript is a late fifteenth-century
English
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choirbook, in the library of
Magdalene College, Cambridge, MS Pepys 1236. Along with the
Ritson Manuscript it is much less elaborate than the
Eton,
Lambeth and
Caius Choirbooks; it contains shorter and simpler pieces which appear to have been written for smaller and less able choirs. The book received its name because it was part of the collection owned by
Samuel Pepys. He described it as containing "monkish music of
Edward IV's time, " but it appears on internal evidence to have been begun a year or two earlier. It was likely completed after 1465, as it contains music ascribed to Sir
William Hawte
Sir William Hawte (also Haute or Haut) (c. 1430 – 2 July 1497) was a prominent member of a Kentish gentry family of long standing in royal service, which, through its near connections to the Woodville family, became closely and dangerously embroi ...
– also referred to as a "Knight" – who was knighted in that year.
References
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15th-century books
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