Hanboys (or Hamboys), John
Hanboys (or Hamboys), John
Hanboys (or Hamboys), John, English music theorist who flourished in the 15th century. He held an ecclesiastic rank. His Latin treatise Summa super musicam continuam et discretam, which describes the musical notation of his time, was printed by Coussemaker in his Scriptorum de musica medii aevi (Vol. I, Paris, 1864).
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