The book appears to originate from Arundel in Sussex, and to have been created sometime in the late 1520s; the then Master of Arundel College, Edward Higgons,[1] seems to have presented it to the collegiate chapel of Saint Stephen's in Westminster, where he was a canon beginning in 1518.
The choirbook is now housed at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
The major contributors to the Caius Choirbook are Robert Fayrfax and Nicholas Ludford; between them they contributed at least eleven of its fifteen pieces.
Other composers represented in the Caius Choirbook include William Cornysh, Edmund Turges, and Henry Prentes.
There is in addition a Mass by William Pasche, based upon Christus resurgens, a processional antiphon for Easter.