Royal 8 G. vii

Royal 8 G. vii is a manuscript now housed in the British Library, which contains four-voice music largely by French composers. Although the entire contents lack ascriptions to the relevant composers, many conjectural ascriptions can be supported e.g. by the presence of the work in question in another manuscript. Despite this, a large number of the contents still lack ascriptions and are, as yet, anonymous.

In the table below, the following key may be used to identify the composers:

• ?Name - The ascription is present, but for some reason doubted
• [Name] - The ascription is not present but can be confirmed, e.g. via a connection with another source
• ?[Name] - The ascription is not present and even the likeliest composer in question doubted

The manuscript seems to have come from the workshop of Alamire, and scholars have identified the manuscript as being partly by "Scribe C" (as labelled in Grove). The manuscript is said to have been put together in the years 1513-25.

Contents

No.	Title	Composer	Parts	Notes
1.	Honi soit qui mal y pense	Morel, ?Clement?Clement Morel	4	A roughly drawn canon, shown on the first few pages before the other more elaborately illuminated pieces begin. According to Grove, this piece is for 8 voices and not 4.
2.	Celeste beneficium	[Mouton, JeanJean Mouton]	4
3.	Adiutorium nostrum	[De Févin, AntoineAntoine de Févin]	4	Ascribed to Févin in GB-Cmc 1760 and elsewhere as the 2nd part of Mouton’s Celeste beneficium and perhaps by him
4.	Nesciens mater virgo virum	AnonymousAnonymous	4
5.	Ave Regina caelorum	[De La Rue, PierrePierre de La Rue]	4	Also known as Ave apertor caelorum
6.	Descendi in ortum meum	?[Des Prez, JosquinJosquin des Prez]	4	Perhaps by Jean le Brung
7.	Sancta trinitas unus Deus	[De Févin, AntoineAntoine de Févin]	4	Attributed in the large number of other manuscripts to Craen, Morales, Mouton, Costanzo Festa and Josquin; several contain a 6vv arrangement by Arnold von Bruck; the sources for the Févin ascription leave no possible doubt that it is by him.
8.	Vexilla Regis prodeunt	[De La Rue, PierrePierre de La Rue]	4
9.	Fama malum	[Des Prez, JosquinJosquin des Prez]	4	Text from Aeneid IV.174–7
10.	Doleo super te, frater mi Jonatha	[De La Rue, PierrePierre de La Rue]	4	4th part of Considera Israel
11.	O Domine Jesu Christe	AnonymousAnonymous	4
12.	Maxsimilla Christo amabilis	AnonymousAnonymous	4
13.	Sancta Maria succurre miseris	[Strus, FranciscusFranciscus Strus]	4
14.	Sancta et immaculata	AnonymousAnonymous	4
15.	Missus est Gabriel angelus	[Des Prez, JosquinJosquin des Prez]	4
16.	Dulcissima virgo Maria	AnonymousAnonymous	4
17.	Tota pulchra es	AnonymousAnonymous	4
18.	O sancta Maria virgo virginum	AnonymousAnonymous	4
19.	Verbum bonum et suave	[De Thérache, PierrequinPierrequin de Thérache]	4
20.	Recordamini quomodo predixit	AnonymousAnonymous	4
21.	O beatissime Domine	AnonymousAnonymous	4
22.	Ave sanctissima Maria	AnonymousAnonymous	4
23.	Ecce Maria genuit I	[Mouton, JeanJean Mouton]	4	The first of two four-part settings
24.	Congratulamini omnes	AnonymousAnonymous	4	Perhaps by Jean le Brung
25.	Egregrie Christi martir	[De Févin, AntoineAntoine de Févin]	4	Also attributed to Mouton
26.	Alma redemptoris mater	AnonymousAnonymous	4
27.	Dulces exuviae	AnonymousAnonymous	4	Text from Aeneid IV.651–4
28.	Dulces exuviae	?[Agricola, AlexanderAlexander Agricola]	4	Text from Aeneid IV.651–4
29.	Dulces exuviae	[Des Prez, JosquinJosquin des Prez]	4	Text from Aeneid IV.651–4. The uppermost voice of the motet is also that of Mouton’s motet on the same text
30.	Dulces exuviae	[Mouton, JeanJean Mouton]	4	Text from Aeneid IV.651–4
31.	Dulces exuviae	[Ghiselin, JohannesJohannes Ghiselin]	4	Text from Aeneid IV.651–4
32.	Absalon, fili mi	?[Des Prez, JosquinJosquin des Prez]	4	Also attributed to de La Rue
33.	Jesus autem transiens	AnonymousAnonymous	4
34.	Anima mea liquefacta est	[Isaac, HeinrichHeinrich Isaac]	4
35.	Tribulatio et angustia	[Verdelot, PhilippePhilippe Verdelot]	4	Also attributed to Josquin

External links

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