Mus. 204-6

Printed. Three partbooks (Alto, Quinto, Basso) from an otherwise lost set of five.

Mus. 204-6 Pallavicino, Benedetto, ca. 1551-1601 Di Benedetto Pallavicino maestro di capella del sereniss. s. Duca di Mantova il settimo & l'ultimo libro de madrigali a cinque voci. Antwerp: Appresso Pietro Phalesio, 1613 RISM A/I P799 Mus. 204: Alto; Mus. 205: Quinto; Mus. 206: Basso. Lacks: Canto; Tenore.

Provenance: from the Aldrich bequest, listed in Archives 1717, item I14, as 'Another piece of Pallavisini's', qualified in Dowding (main hand) as 'à 5 Antw. 1613. Alto. Basso. Quinto. the other parts wanting'.

Oblong format, 217 x 165 mm. Early C17th wrappers of grey paper; each partbook is now sewn into a folder of modern card and mounted impermanently on cords within an early C20th folder of stiff card and vellum. On the original upper wrapper of each partbook, an unidentified English hand, mid C17th, has added the voice-name, followed by 'Pallavicino. 5. Parts. 2.'; for other sets of partbooks in the collection annotated by the same hand, see Mus. 320-3, which is the only one of those sets not to have been subsequently rebound. Bookplate 2 in Mus. 204 only. C19th shelfmarks: I.3.112-14.

Microfilm: The printed music of Christ Church, Oxford, reel 8.
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