Mus. 230*

Printed. Bassus partbook from an otherwise lost set of six.

Mus. 230* East, Michael, ca. 1580-1648 The third set of bookes: wherein are pastorals, anthemes, neopolitanes, fancies, and madrigales, to 5. and 6. parts: apt both for viols and voyces. Newly composed by Michaell Easte, Batchelar of Musicke. London: Printed by Thomas Snodham, and are to be sold by Matthew Lownes, 1610 RISM A/I E6 Mus. 230*: Bassus. Bassus only. See other copies of this work.

Provenance: probably from New College, Oxford, and possibly from the Goodson bequest. The front flyleaf is annotated in a C17th hand: 'William King his booke and witnes John Longland'. In the early C19th this volume was shelved in the Christ Church sequence at I.3.2 (later moved to I.3.138 dupl.), adjacent to Mus. 93 (I.3.1), a copy of King's printed Poems of Mr Cowley (Oxford, 1668). King's name also appears at the start of Mus. 88 (formerly I.1.52). These three items are not listed in any of the C18th Christ Church catalogues. However, King's immediate successor as organist of New College was Richard Goodson Sr, and two items of likely New College provenance - Mus. 974-8 and Mus. 1001 - did reach Christ Church as part of the Goodson bequest. Mus. 230* may have travelled by the same route.

Upright format, 215 x 178 mm. Early C17th stab-sewn binding of limp vellum. No early bookplate. C19th shelfmarks: I.3.2, then I.3.138 dupl.

A complete set of this publication, probably from the Aldrich bequest, is at Mus. 225-30.

Microfilm: The printed music of Christ Church, Oxford, reel 9.
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