The Lambeth and Caius Choirbooks

Abstract

The Lambeth and Caius Choirbooks (London, Lambeth Palace Library, ms.1; Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, ms.667/760 [since 1947 deposited in the University Library, Cambridge]) are two of the most important sources of music by composers of the generations of Fayrfax and Ludford. Their importance is heightened by the fact that, of the scores of such choirbooks that must once have existed in England, only one other, the famous Eton Choirbook (Eton College, ms.178.), survives in anything remotely like a complete state.