Oxford. Christ Church, Library, Mus 79

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  • Christ Church Mus 79
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Date
  • 1750–1790
Language
  • Latin
  • Italian
Title
  • Alfonso Ferrabosco partbook 2: altus
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Description
  • One of a complete set of five partbooks, containing motets and madrigals by Alfonso Ferrabosco. Continuation of Christ Church Mus 78. Continued by Christ Church Mus 80-82.
    Contents: Layer 1 (ff. 1r-8v). Layer 2 (ff. 9r-20v). Layer 3 (ff. 21r-44v). Layer 4 (ff. 45r-50v). Layer 5 (ff. 51r-94v).
    Contents note: The main copyist numbered the pieces in two sequences, the first covering the motets (Layers 1-3), the second the madrigals (Layer 5). Most of the layers include pages of unused ruled staves headed by item-numbers, on which copying of additional pieces was evidently envisaged; thus, within the original numbering sequences, there are unused pages reserved for the copying of motets 9 and 22-4, and madrigal 11. Layer 4 ends with unused pages, as if for the addition of further Lamentations.
    Extent: ff. iii (modern paper); iii (16th century paper) + foliated 94 (16th century paper) + ii (16th century paper).
    Dimensions: 280 x 215 mm.
    Hand: Unidentified copyists.
    Musical notation: Manuscript score.
    Binding: All five partbooks are bound in late 16th-century bindings of limp vellum, gold-tooled with fillets enclosing elaborate central decorative panels. Stubs of green ribbon ties remain in place at the foredge heads and tails of the covers. The outside upper covers have been annotated in ink with part-names ('Cantus', etc.).
    Additional information: For a detailed description, please see www.chch.ox.ac.uk/library-and-archives/digital-library.
    Provenance: Provenance uncertain; most likely from the Goodson bequest, less likely from the Aldrich bequest. Not listed in any of the 18th-century catalogues of the Christ Church music collections until Malchair (f. 5), where the set is described in the section devoted to the Goodson bequest, as follows: 'Five books vellum bound . the several / parts of some Lattin Mottetts'.
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