Christ Church Library music catalogue: Mus. 179-82

Mus. 179-82

Printed. Four partbooks (Canto, Quinto, Basso, Basso Continuo) from an incomplete set of six or more. (No other copy of this edition is known to exist.)

Mus. 179-82
Strozzi, Berardo
Per compagnie musica concertata à 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 8. In honore della Beatissima Vergine, solita cantarsi nelle Compagnie di notte, insieme con le lettanie, alcuni motetti, una laude & sijmfonie per stromenti opera comoda & novamente composta dal Rdo. P. F. Berardo Strozzi predicatore generale de minore osseru.
Venice: Appresso Bartholomeo Magni, 1630
RISM A/I S6992
Mus. 179: Canto; Mus. 180: Quinto; Mus. 181: Basso; Mus. 182: Basso continuo.
Lacks: ?Alto; ?Tenor.

Provenance: from the Aldrich bequest, listed in Archives 1717, item G16, as 'Strozzii Musica concertata', qualified in Dowding (main hand) as 'â 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 8. parts with Instrumts in honore della beatissima Vergine. Venice 1630'.

Upright format, 225 x 167 mm. C17th wrappers of grey paper; each partbook now stitched into a folder of modern card and mounted impermanently on cords within an early C20 folder of stiff card and vellum. Original upper wrappers annotated in an unidentified C17th hand with the part-name and 'Musica Concertata / Strozzi'. Shelfmark-label on original upper wrapper of Mus. 180 now concealed beneath a modern label. Bookplate 2 in Mus. 180 only. C19th shelfmarks: I.3.87-90.

Microfilm: The printed music of Christ Church, Oxford, reel 7.
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