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Testantur hoe tot
Virginis matris M.D. XXXVI.
IV.
Lond. init.: LB. i. init.
Schlettstadt.
I June 1540.
to undertake an
of his complete works. Numbers of
The
When
life (iii).]
BEATVS
Nouembres Roterodami in
bellico robore praestantium.
Proximam sibi
9. cantorculum] Erasmus master
in music was the famous Jacob
Obrecht or Hobrecht (1505), organist
of Utrecht Cathedral, whose career
has been the subject of much research.
He afterwards held musical posts in
Cambray Cathedral, 1483-5, in St.
Donatian’s at Bruges, 1489-90, in
Antwerp Cathedral, 1491-1504. Be¬
theless his position at Antwerp. In
1504 he went to Italy for his health
and entered the court of Hercules
of Ferrara, but died in the following
year of the plague. See Glareanus,
Dodecachordon, Basle, 1547, pp. 256, 296,
456; Fétis, Biogr. Univ. des Musiciens,
vol. vi; E. Vander Straeten, La Musique
aux Pays-Bas, vol. iii, pp. 182-90; and
ADB., where on the ground of cer¬
tain difficulties it is suggested that two