In fact, an early manuscript source is subtitled "A masque for the entertainment of the king".
Early conflicting manuscript sources make the exact scoring for the brass unclear.
Others survive in manuscript sources from the 18th and 19th century.
The motet is known from three contemporary manuscript sources.
All manuscript sources until the 15th century refer to him only as "Nithart".
There are two major manuscript sources for his music:
Texts for most can be found in other manuscript sources or later publications.
These words were probably frequently used in the language at the time but Chaucer, with his ear for common speech, is the earliest manuscript source.
The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799.
For this purpose he cited a further manuscript source, with catalogue number Z14.