Mus. 129-34

Printed. Complete set of six partbooks, in two tracts.

Mus. 129-34(1) Philips, Peter, 1560 or 61-1628 Di Pietro Philippi Inglese organista delli sereniss. prencipi Alberto et Isabella Archiduchi d'Austria &c. Il primo libro de madrigali a sei voci nuovamente ristampati & corretti. Antwerp: Appresso Pietro Phalesio, 1604 RISM A/I P1992 Mus. 129: Canto; Mus. 130: Alto; Mus. 131: Tenore; Mus. 132: Quinto; Mus. 133: Sesto; Mus. 134: Basso. See other copies of this work.

Mus. 129-34(2) Philips, Peter, 1560 or 61-1628 Di Pietro Philippi Inglese organista delli sereniss. prencipi Alberto et Isabella Archiduchi d'Austria &c. Il secondo libro de madrigali a sei voci novamente composto & dato in luce. Antwerp: Appresso Pietro Phalesio, 1603 RISM A/I P1997 Mus. 129: Canto; Mus. 130: Alto; Mus. 131: Tenore; Mus. 132: Quinto; Mus. 133: Sesto; Mus. 134: Basso. See other copies of this work.

Provenance: from the Aldrich bequest, listed in Archives 1717, item I23, as 'Philippi's Songs', qualified in Dowding (main hand) as 'Madrigali à 6. voc. Antw. 1604'. (A duplicate set of tract 1, which in the mid C18th was also located at shelfmark I23, is now Mus. 586-91.)

Oblong format, 213 x 170 mm. Early C17th bindings of limp vellum; upper and lower cover gold-tooled with rules and ornaments (elaborate central panel; cherubs at corners of inner fillets); spines also gold-tooled with fillets and ornaments. Stubs of green ties at fore-edges. Upper covers annotated with short title ('Peeter Philipes his Songs of 6 voyces') and voice-names by an unidentified early C17th hand, possibly the same hand as on the original upper covers of Mus. 105-6. Shelfmark 'I.23' written in ink at head of spines in all six partbooks. Bookplate 2 in all six partbooks. C19th shelfmarks: I.3.37-42.

Microfilm: The printed music of Christ Church, Oxford, reel 4.
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For another copy of tract 1, see Mus. 586-91.
For another copy of tract 2, see Mus. 538-43.