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W. de Wycombe (Wicumbe, and perhaps Whichbury) (late thirteenth century) was an English composer and copyist of the Medieval era. He was precentor of the priory of Leominster in Herefordshire. He may have been the composer of the most famous tune from medieval England, Sumer is icumen in, though the identification is considered by most scholars to be tenuous. Wycombe is also known variously as Willelmus de Winchecumbe, Willelmo de Winchecumbe or William of Winchcomb. <a href="https://www.last.f