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Mus. 318-19

Printed. Two partbooks from a set of three (wanting the Cantus), in six tracts.

Mus. 318-19(1)
Selectissimarum sacrarum cantionum (quas vulgo moteta vocant) flores, trium vocum: ex optimis ac praestantissimis quibusq; divinae musices authoribus excerptarum. Iam primum summa cura ac diligentia collecti & impressi. Liber primus.
Louvain: Ex typographia Petri Phalesii, 1569
RISM B/I 15694
Mus. 318: Tenor; Mus. 319: Bassus.
Lacks: Superius.
Mus. 318-19(2)
Recueil des fleurs produictes de la divine musicque a trois parties, pars Clemens non Papa, Thomas Cricquillon, et aultres excellens musiciens. Premier livre.
Louvain: De l'imprimerie de Pierre Phalese, 1569
RISM B/I 15699
Mus. 318: Tenor; Mus. 319: Bassus.
Lacks: Superius.
Mus. 318-19(3)
Selectissimarum sacrarum cantionum (quas vulgo moteta vocant) flores, trium vocum: ex optimis ac praestantissimis quibusq; divinae musices authoribus excerptarum, iam primum summa cura ac diligentia collecti & impressi. Liber secundus.
Louvain: Ex typographia Petri Phalesii, 1569
RISM B/I 15695
Mus. 318: Tenor; Mus. 319: Bassus.
Lacks: Superius.
Mus. 318-19(4)
Recueil des fleurs produictes de la divine musicque a trois parties, pars Clemens non Papa, Thomas Cricquillon, et aultres excellens musiciens. Second livre
Louvain: De l'imprimerie de Pierre Phalese, 1569
RISM B/I 156910
Mus. 318: Tenor; Mus. 319: Bassus.
Lacks: Superius.
Mus. 318-19(5)
Selectissimarum sacrarum cantionum (quas vulgo moteta vocant) flores, trium vocum: ex optimis ac praestantissimis quibusq; divinae musices authoribus excerptarum, iam primum summa cura ac diligentia collecti & impressi. Liber tertius.
Louvain: Ex typographia Petri Phalesii, 1569
RISM B/I 15696
Mus. 318: Tenor; Mus. 319: Bassus.
Lacks: Superius.
Mus. 318-19(6)
Recueil des fleurs produites de la divine musicque a trois parties, pars Clemens non Papa, Thomas Cricquillons, et autres excellens musiciens. Tiers livre.
Louvain: De l'imprimerie de Pierre Phalese, 1569
RISM B/I 156911
Mus. 318: Tenor; Mus. 319: Bassus.
Lacks: Superius.

Provenance: see below for marks of early ownership. Part of the Aldrich bequest, listed in Archives 1717, item K4, as 'A Collection of Mottets for 3 Voices'; in Dowding (main hand) the entry is qualified: 'Only the Tenor. Louvain 1569', emended by Havergal to read 'Tenor & Bassus'.

Oblong format, 213 x 155 mm. Late C16th bindings of limp white vellum, stabbed at fore-edges for ties. Voice-names are written in ink on the upper outside covers, in unidentified hands. The titlepages of the top tracts in both volumes are annotated 'Rich. Forster. Ex dono Magistri Henrici Billingesley'. The latter name corresponds to the initials 'H B' stamped on the front and rear covers of Mus. 306-9 and Mus. 508-9. All three sets have the initials 'A B' in C17th pencil on their front flyleaves or uppermost titlepages. Mus. 319 also has the name 'Elizabeth Waren' in C17th pencil on the inside lower cover. Shelfmark 'K.4' on the front flyleaf of both volumes. Bookplate 2 in both volumes. C19th shelfmarks: I.4.30-31.

Microfilm: The printed music of Christ Church, Oxford, reel 14.
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