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Tenor (F-Pn Rés. 255) and Altus (I-Fl MS Ashb. 1085) partbooks from a set whose other partbooks have not been located. Copied in France by two main scribes and four additional scribes. Earliest layers (pp. 2-16 and pp. 65-80 of F-Pn Rés. 255 / ff. 1-7' and ff. 32-39' of I-Fl MS Ashb. 1085, in the hand of scribe I) probably compiled for Jacques Daillon, a courtier and soldier of Francis I (Rifkin, based on coat of arms on p. 2 of F-Pn Rés. 255). Much of the repertory in the remaining gatherings appears in Le Roy et Ballard prints from c. 1545 to 1570. Yellow tab stamped in gold inside front cover reads: 'Ex libris / de / La Roche / La Carelle.'
CCM: FlorL Ashbr. 1085 and ParisBNC 255
83/82 French secular pieces
(Arcadelt)-14, (Besancourt)-1, (Cadéac/Lupus)-1, (Certon)-1, (Costeley)-2, (Dulot/Sermisy)-1, (Gentien)-2, (Hesdin)-1, (Hesdin/Roquellay)-1, (Jacotin)-2, (Jacotin/Sermisy)-1, (Janequin)-2, (Janequin/Maillard)-1, (Lassus)-7, (A. Le Roy)-1, (Leschenet)-1, (Mornable)-1, (Peletier/Sermisy)-1, (Sandrin)-4, (Sermisy)-19, anon-19
1 partbook (T-i paper + 52 parchment + ii paper folios), 145 x 200. FlorL Ashbr. 1085 is A book from same set. Modern pencil pagination, 1-101. Original parchment covers, with ornate centerpiece stamped in gold front and back; initials "RI" and "M" on front, "DC" on back. No index. Copied by two main scribes and four additional scribes. Staff height 10.5.
Full-page miniature on p. 1; ornamented initials on fields of blue or gold for pieces on pp. 2-16 and pp. 65-80. Space left for decorative initials on other pages, but initials never added. Historiated initial on p. 2 contains coat of arms of Daillon family (Rifkin).

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