Bannister, Henry (-Marriott)
Bannister, Henry (-Marriott)
Bannister, Henry (-Marriott), English music editor and bibliographer; b. Oxford, March 18, 1854; d. there, Feb. 16, 1919. He studied theology, and was ordained priest in 1878. He publ. the valuable editions Monumenti Vaticani di paleografia musicale latina (Leipzig, 1913; also in It. tr. by R. Baralli), a catalogue of the music MSS in the Vatican Library, including 141 plates; Anglo-French Sequelae (ed. by Dom Anselm Hughes and publ. by The Plainsong and Medieval Music Soc. in 1934); co-ed. Vols. 47, 49, 53, and 54 of Analecta Hymnica Medü Aevi (1886–1922); also publ. some MSS of the Abbey of Coupar-Angus in Scotland, with a brief description (Rome, 1910); ed. a Gallican sacramentary, Missale Gothi-cum, with introduction and liturgical notes (London, 1917-19). He was for many years librarian of the Bodleian Library at Oxford.
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire