Christ Church Library music catalogue: Mus. 264-6

Mus. 264-6

Printed. Three partbooks (Canto, Alto, Basso) from an otherwise lost set of five, wanting the Tenor and Basso Continuo.

Mus. 264-6
Quarta raccolta de sacri canti a una, due, tre, et quattro voci con il basso per l'organo. De diversi eccellentissimi autori. Fatta da Don Lorenzo Calvi musico nella Cathedrale di Pavia. Novamente composta, & data in luce.
Venice: Appresso Alessandro Vincenti, 1629
RISM B/I 1629⁵
Mus. 264: Canto; Mus. 265: Alto; Mus. 266: Basso.
Lacks: Tenore; Basso per l'organo.

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Provenance: from the Aldrich bequest, listed in Archives 1717, item G1, as 'Calvy's Cantica Sacra', to which a later hand has added '3 Books'. In Dowding (main hand), this is expanded to read 'Venice 1629. Monteverde, Palatino, Donati con stromenti, Alessandro Grande, Turino &c.'

Upright format, 240 x 170 mm. C17th wrappers of thick grey paper, now within early C20th bindings of limp vellum with ties. The original wrappers are annotated with voice-names and 'Calvi 1. 2. 3. & 4. voci' in an unidentified C17th hand. Shelfmark 'G.1' on original upper wrapper of Mus. 264 only. Bookplate 2 in Mus. 264 only. 19th-century shelfmarks: I.3.171-3.

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