Delighted to be able to say that we've been awarded a grant to expand the #GreensleevesProject by recording a selection of #Tudor & #Stuart #music & #song associated with clothing. Huge thanks to the wonderful @continuoconnect.bsky.social for their generosity! #earlymusic #earlymodern

Today's #marginal #musician is a #fool playing #pipeandtabor. From a #15thCentury #bookofhours, c1440-1460 Gent. Universiteitsbibliotheek, MS 186 #MarginaliaMonday #earlymusic #manuscriptmonday #illuminatedmanuscript

Oliver is in the bath again

#lisleletters #otd 1536 The #silkwoman Eleanor Whalley sends a gift to Lady LIsle: it may please you to receive of this bearer, the Master of Barthelot’s ship of Calais, one hundred of #quinces, beseeching your ladyship to accept them a’worth at this present #earlymodern #tudor #tudors #quince

Fantastic wallpaper in our bathroom at Hever

Lovely to play #Tudor music at Hever last Saturday #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #musicianlife #musicianslife #Hever #Tudors

Todays #marginal #musician is playing the #organ. From the Black Hours of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, c1466-77 Austrian National Library, Codex Vindobon. 1856 #organist #15thCentury #illuminatedmanuscript #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #bookofhours #renaissance #marginalia #earlymusic

Today is #WorldChocolateDay! Here is a #17thcentury #ballad extolling the virtues of #chocolate, printed in the year that the first chocolate (and coffee) house was opened in London.... From Chocolate, or an Indian Drinke, 1652. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5KJ... #earlymusic #earlymodern #otd

"Do not expect to hear of all your good at once" a song and chorus from Ben Jonson's #Masque of Augurs (1622). Music by Nicholas Lanier, who was born #onthisday 1588. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYMW... #earlymusic #earlymodern #benjonson #courtmasque

Today's #marginalmusician is playing the #lute. Not sure if it's a woman sitting on an animal, or a hybrid creature, part human, part something else. From the Crohin-La Fontaine Hours, Bruges, 1480-85. Getty Ms. 23 (86.ML.606) #earlymusic #bookofhours #lutenist #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday

Yesterday's office. So lovely to be back at Athelhampton

#ThrowbackThursday: Playing #Tudor music at the #NationalPortraitGallery in 2024. For a Youth Late event, part of the 6 Queens exhibition. #tudors #henryviii #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #musicianlife #

A lovely entry: George Yonge, musician, given a gift of over £6 at the request of the Archbishop of Canterbury (!) for teaching students at the Merchant Taylors' school plainsong for 30 years @passamezzo.bsky.social @katherineschof8.bsky.social

Throwback Thursday: Teaching Danny Dyer to play the lute. (Filming Danny Dyer's Right Royal Family at Ingatestone c2018/9 #earlymusic #throwbackthursday

Not sure what today's #marginal #musician is playing. I'd have said #TrombaMarina, but it has more than one string and is plucked. Also, he looks a bit like a #snowman... From Pierre Michault, Doctrinal du temps présent et Danse aux aveugles, 1475-80 BNF Français 1654 #earlymusic #marginaliamonday

A #17thCentury #broadsideballad, describing the sights & sounds of #BartholomewFair, which was held #otd at #Smithfield from the 12th to the 19th Centuries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC_2... #earlymusic #earlymodern #historyoflondon #onthisday #onthidayinhistory #ballad

8 August is #InternationalCatDay, so here is a #cat playing the #portativeorgan. (With a bonus #dog playing the #shawm on the full page) From an illuminated prayerbook, c1480-90 Walters Ms. W.438 #internationalcatday #earlymusic #illuminatedmanuscript #marginalia

Today's marginal #musician (if he is a musician) is blowing on a pair of #bellows. From a #bookofhours made in Flanders in 1480 for Jan van der Scaghe & his wife Anne de Memere Premonstratensian Canonry in Nová Říše, NR 90 #illuminatedmanuscript #15thC #marginaliamonday #marginalia #15thcentury

#ThrowbackThursday: Playing for Aurelian Townshend's #masque #TempeRestored at the Banqueting House in 2013. It was lovely to be part of this project - a great team, and some particularly good cakes! #earlymusic #earlymodern #inigojones #courtmasque #heritage #17thC

31 July is #unusualinstrumentday, so here is a marginal creature (part man, part something else, and with wings on his ears) playing a pair of #bellows with a #woodenspoon for a bow... From a #15thCentury #missal (use of Cambrai) Le Labo - Cambrai 146 #earlymusic #illuminatedmanuscript #marginalia

Hello UK friends - please, please could you sign this petition against the job cuts at my place of work - 1 in 4 us will be out of a job by August next year if we don't stop the cuts. And once you've signed it, please share. We need your help! www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...

Today's marginal #musicians are a couple of #shepherds with their #dogs, taking a break from playing #bagpipe &#pipeandtabor. From a #15thCentury missal Bibliothèque municipale de Rouen, Ms Y 1 #earlymusic #marginalia #marginaliamonday #illuminatedmanuscript #bagpipes #dog

Looking for #earlymodern English descriptions of #fairy clothing. Can anyone help? #earlymodernsky I have the 1635 'description of the king and queene of fayries, their habit', and its expansion in Musarum Deliciae, 1655, but would be interested in other sources.

#ThrowbackThursday: Playing and dancing the #17thCentury #dance 'Newmarket' at the National Horse Racing Museum in #Newmarket in 2021 #earlymusic #earlymodern #historicaldance #playford #englishdancingmaster #recorder

Today's marginal #musicians are a creature playing the #shawm and a #monkey playing the #organ... From a #15thCentury missal, secundum usum Rothomagensem Bibliothèque municipale de Rouen, Ms Y 1 #earlymusic #marginalia #marginaliamonday #illuminatedmanuscript

bjgplife.com/between-inne... Sharing this insightful article by my amazing brother, a GP and musician. Arts and sciences really can inform each other.

The #GreensleevesProject: Clothing in #EarlyModern Music and Song passamezzo.bandcamp.com/album/the-gr... A short #EP, including all 18 verses of #Greensleeves... Many more pieces to follow over the next 2 years. #earlymusic

Throwback Thursday: Singing at the British Museum's Festival of Archaeology in 2019 #throwbackthursday #earlymusic #britishmuseum #musicianlife #musicianslife

We spent Sunday at Christchurch College, Oxford, recreating aspects of #tudor life for their 500th anniversary celebrations www.chch.ox.ac.uk/news/christ-... #earlymusic #earlymodern #historicalinterpretation #tudors #16thCentury

Today's #marginal #musician is an #angel playing the #lute with a plectrum. Attributed to Jean Bourdichon. #15thCentury Missal, Use of Poitiers. Bibliothèque Mazarine, Ms 420 #earlymusic #illuminatedmanuscript #marginaliamonday

The Tudor Tailor have created a kit to make your very own Greensleeves fashion doll... shop.tudortailor.com/products/kit... @ninyamikhaila.bsky.social #tudor #tudortailor #tudors #tudorfashion #historicalclothing #earlymodern #greensleeves #greensleevesproject

Can anyone help me with a transcription? Am struggling with the word underneath 'gowne' and to the right of 'dames'.

Here's my new post - on stitching, and costumes, and the 'smock' that might be a 'she-angel' in A Winter's Tale. With thanks to @katharineedgar.bsky.social for textile knowledge. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/inkles-and...

Over 60 medieval manuscript fragments from St John's Library's collection have been uploaded to Digital Bodleian 🥳 These medieval fragments were removed from college library books and are now known collectively as MS 235. You can view them here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/partners/st-... (a 🧵)

A photograph from our #Greensleeves #conference at @antiquaries.bsky.social - Lady Greensleeves with a matching #Tudor #fashion doll made by the incomparable @ninyamikhaila.bsky.social #tudorbarbie #tudors #historicaldress #earlymodern #tudortailor

7-13 July is #GreatBritishPeaWeek! In #earlymodern Britain, #peas in their pods were known as #peascods, and here are a couple of melodies named for this: In #Peascod Time and Gathering Peascods. (Also a couple of other Summer dances) #earlymusic www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9rS...

Today's #marginal #musician is a hooded animal (cat?/rat?/monkey?) playing the #recorder. From a #bookofhours c1520. Fundacion Lazaro Galdano Ms 115517 #earlymusic #earlymodern #illuminatedmanuscript #16thcentury #marginaliamonday

A #17thCentury #ballad in praise of #chocolate for #WorldChocolateDay From Chocolate, or an Indian Drinke, 1652. Richard de Winter: tenor Robin Jeffrey: guitar Alison Kinder: treble viol www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5KJ... #earlymusic #earlymodern #song #earlymodernsky #foodhistory #historyoffood

Our Greensleeves conference is underway, but it's not too late to join in online! www.youtube.com/live/Wfhs3UQ...

Throwback Thursday. At Bolsover Castle for Ben Jonson's masque, Love's Welcome in July 2014.

Today is the last day for signing up to our #multidisciplinary #Greensleeves #conference, either in person or online. Recordings will be available if you can't be there for the livestream. www.sal.org.uk/event/greens... @antiquaries.bsky.social

Today's marginal #musician is a strange hybrid creature (dog/man/snail/something else?) playing the #rebec. From a #15thCentury #bookofhours Bibliotheque Municipale de Nantes, Ms 21 #earlymusic #marginaliamonday #illuminatedmanuscript

Six greenmen and their fireworks, viz:

Good morning all! No time for breakfast? No indeed. Rush rush, busy day. Have fun too!

One for #throwbackthursday Playing Elizabethan music on the Golden Hinde about 20 years ago. #earlymusic #musicianlife #musicianslife #violin #violinist

18 June is #InternationalPicnicDay, so here are some outdoor #dining scenes from the #16thCentury, complete with #acrobats and #musicians, in the margins of Lassus' setting of Psalm 31, c1565 BSB Mus ms A 1(1 #earlymusic #earlymodern #otd #onthisday #illuminatedmanuscript #sheetmusic #orlandolassus

Today's marginal #musicians are all #angel #trumpeters. From Sebastian Stayger von Irsee's #BookofHours, 1565 BSB Clm 30074 #illuminatedmanuscript #renaissance #16thCentury #earlymusic #earlymodern #trumpet #angels #marginaliamonday

After all the teasers, here is the #greensleevesproject video at last. A real privilege to work with such an amazing team. @antiquaries.bsky.social @callumcoates.bsky.social @ninyamikhaila.bsky.social @sallypointer.bsky.social #earlymusic #earlymodern #tudor #tudor www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAHn...

Thy garters fringed with the golde, And siluer aglets hanging by, Which made thee blithe for to beholde, And yet thou wouldst not loue me. www.greensleevesproject.uk @callumcoates.bsky.social #tudor #tudors #earlymodern #materialculture #historicalcostume #greensleeves #greensleevesproject

So many glorious musical details in #Lassus' "Domine labia mea aperies", c1565. Marginal #musicians playing the #harp, #trumpet, #lute & singing from #music books; instrumental borders. BSB Mus ms A I(1 #earlymusic #earlymodern #marginaliamonday #sheetmusic #16thC #iconography #earlymodernsky