Entries relating to music in the English patent rolls of the fiftenth century (1405-1485) - Grattan Flood, W.H. 1848-1928 (Oxford Unversity Press, 1913)
Autograph dedication to A.F. Hill (?=Australian composer, conductor & violin teacher Alfred Francis Hill 1869-1960)
The patent rolls (Latin: Rotuli litterarum patentium) are a series of administrative records compiled in the English, British and United Kingdom Chancery, running from 1201 to the present day.
The Musical Antiquary, one of the first British musicology journals, was published quarterly by Oxford University Press from October 1909 to July 1913, when publication ceased without explanation. Its dated but unnumbered issues contain between sixty and seventy pages printed in a single-column format.
Ex libris Arthur F. Hill FSA 1905 (Plate with violin)
Keywords: 15th Century (1401-1500); Music history; United Kingdom