Mus. 256

Printed. Tenor partbook from an otherwise lost set of three.

Mus. 256 Castro, Jean de, ca. 1540-ca. 1600 Di Giovanni de Castro madrigali a tre voci nuovamente ristampati. Tenore. [only]. Antwerp: Appresso Petro Phalesio, 1620 RISM A/I C1498

Provenance: from the Aldrich bequest, listed in Archives 1717, item I15, as 'Guiovanni's madrigals', and in Dowding (main hand) as 'Gio. di Castro's Madrigals à 3. Antw. 1620. The Tenor only'.

Oblong format, 210 x 170 mm. Early C17th wrappers of grey paper; now within an early C20th binding of limp vellum with ties. On the original upper wrapper, an unidentified English hand, mid C17th, has added 'Giovanni De Castro Tenore. 3. Partes'; 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. C19th shelfmark: I.3.163.

Microfilm: The printed music of Christ Church, Oxford, reel 10.
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