Mus. 100-4

Printed. Complete set of five partbooks.

Provenance: see below for annotations by early owners. From the Aldrich bequest, listed in Archives 1717, item F10, as 'Madrigali de Floridi Vertuosi 5 Voc.', and in Dowding (main hand) as 'Antw. 1600. à5 voc. Carrara, Dragone, Marenzio, Palestrina, Eremita &c. &c.'

Oblong format, 207 x 156 mm. Early C17th wrappers of grey paper, annotated on the upper covers with voice-names and 'Madrigali De ffloridi Virtuosi a 5. voc.' in an unidentified early C17th hand. (The upper cover of Mus. 103 is also annotated 'à cinque voce'.) There are extensive annotations and pen-trials on the last page of Mus. 103, transcribed below; to judge from the references there, they date from the period 1616-31. Bookplate 2 in Mus. 101 only. 19th-century shelfmarks: I.3.8-12.

Microfilm: The printed music of Christ Church, Oxford, reel 2.
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Annotations and pen-trials on the last page of Mus. 103 include the following:

• 'John Rous of Yarlington in the coun...' [?? = the diarist John Rous (1584-1644)].
• 'Michael Drayton esquier as he writes him self in his poetry' [= the poet Michael Drayton (1563-1631), who styled himself 'Esquire' after 1603].
• 'Carlton Embassadour in the Lowcuntrie for his maiesty of greate Brittan who before was of venice I have understood by good intelligence' [= Sir Dudley Carleton, Viscount Dorchester (1573-1632), English ambassador to Venice in 1610-15, and at the Hague in 1616-28].
• 'Jacobs Ladder you may se most excellently set forth in stone at bath [i.e. the west front of Bath Abbey] where Buishop Montague' [= James Montagu (c.1568-1618), Bishop of Bath and Wells in 1608-1616, who restored the nave of Bath Abbey].
• 'by the meanes of Richard Craddock'.
• 'Significantly in the Brabant tung which commeth now to the high Duch and doth take some part of the English as many say'.