Christ Church Library music catalogue: Mus. 33

Mus. 33

Manuscript. English and Italian madrigals, copied in score from printed editions by two unidentified copyists; also sections of verse anthems added by a third copyist. English, early 17th century. The manuscript may have existed as one or more bundles of stab-bound or unbound sheets before it acquired its current late 18th-century binding, and is clearly incomplete at the end, since item 78 lacks its conclusion.

Copyist 1: items 1-16 (ff. 1-9).
Copyist 2: items 17-78 (ff. 10-44), excepting the following:
Copyist 3: items 50 (f. 27v) and 63 (f. 36v).

Table of titles and composers in modern form. Display form found in manuscript.

1	Giovanni de Macque	My sweet Lais	f. 1^r
2	Stefano Venturi del Nibbio	As Mopsus went	f. 1^v
3	Orazio Vecchi	Do not tremble	f. 2^r
4		Thirsis in his fair Phyllis' breast	f. 2^v
5	Orazio Vecchi	The white delightful swan	ff. 3^r-v
6	Giovanni Croce	Cynthia, thy song and chanting	ff. 4^r-v
7	Alfonso Ferrabosco (i)	Lady, my flame still burning	ff. 5^r-v
8	Alfonso Ferrabosco (i)	Sweet lord, your flame	ff. 5^v-4^v
9	Luca Marenzio	Farewell, cruel and unkind	f. 6^r
10	Luca Marenzio	Zephirus breathing	f. 6^v
11	Luca Marenzio	Fair shepherds' queen	f. 7^r
12	Luca Marenzio	Every singing bird	ff. 7^v-r
13	Luca Marenzio	When I beheld the fair face	ff. 8^r-8a^r
14	Luca Marenzio	Sweetheart, arise	f. 8^v
15	Luca Marenzio	How long with vain complaining	f. 9^r
16	Luca Marenzio	Sweet singing Amaryllis	f. 9^v
17	John Wilbye	Die, hapless man	f. 10^r
18		(Fragment a4 in G)	f. 10^r
19		(Fragment of no. 20 below: I fall, O stay me)	f. 10^v
20	John Wilbye	I fall, O stay me (part 1)	f. 11^r
21	John Wilbye	And though my love abounding (part 2)	f. 11^v
22	John Wilbye	I always beg (part 1)	f. 12^r
23	John Wilbye	Thus love commands (part 2)	f. 12^v
24	Thomas Weelkes	Like two proud armies	ff. 12^v-13^r
25	Thomas Weelkes	When Thoralis delights to walk	ff. 13^v-14^r
26	Thomas Weelkes	What, have the gods their consort sent	ff. 14^r-v
27	Thomas Weelkes	Methinks I hear Amphion's warbling strings	ff. 15^r-v
28	Thomas Weelkes	Three times a say my prayer is	ff. 15^v-16^r
29	Thomas Weelkes	Mars in a fury	f. 16^r
30	Thomas Weelkes	Thule, the period of cosmography	ff. 16^v-17^r
31	Thomas Weelkes	The Andalusian merchant	ff. 16^v-17^r
32	Thomas Weelkes	A sparrow-hawk proud	f. 17^v
33	Thomas Weelkes	Noel, adieu, adieu, thou Court's delight	ff. 18^r-18b^r
34	Michael East	Hence stars! too dim of light	f. 18^v
35	Daniel Norcombe	With angel's face and brightness	f. 19^r
36	John Mundy	Lightly she whipped o'er the dales	ff. 19^v-20^r
37	Ellis Gibbons	Long live fair Oriana!	ff. 20^v-21^r
38	John Bennet	All creatures now are merry, merry-minded	ff. 21^r-v
39	John Hilton (i)	Fair Oriana, beauty's queen	ff. 21^v-22^r
40	Thomas Weelkes	Cold winter's ice is fled and gone	f. 23^v
41	Thomas Weelkes	Now let us make a merry greeting	ff. 23^v-24^r
42	Thomas Weelkes	Take here my heart	ff. 24^r-v
43	Thomas Weelkes	O care, thou wilt despatch me	ff. 24^v-25^r
44	Thomas Weelkes	Hence, care, thou art too cruel	f. 25^r
45	Thomas Weelkes	See where the maids are singing	f. 25^v
46	Thomas Weelkes	Why are you ladies staying	ff. 25^v-26^r
47	Thomas Weelkes	Hark, hark, I hear some dancing	f. 26^r
48	Thomas Weelkes	Lady, the birds right fairly	f. 26^v
49	Thomas Weelkes	As wanton birds, when day begins to peep	ff. 26^v-27^v
50		(Two full sections from an unidentified verse anthem)	f. 27^v
51	John Wilbye	Where most my thoughts	f. 28^r
52	John Wilbye	Despiteful thus unto myself	f. 28^v
53	John Wilbye	Ah, cannot sighs, nor tears	f. 29^r
54	John Wilbye	Draw on, sweet night	ff. 29^v-30^r
55	John Wilbye	Stay, Corydon, thou swain	ff. 30^r-v
56	John Wilbye	Long have I made these hills	ff. 31^r-v
57	John Wilbye	Sweet honey-sucking bees	ff. 31^v-32^r
58	John Wilbye	Yet sweet take heed	ff. 32^v-33^r
59	John Wilbye	All pleasure is of this condition	ff. 33^v-34^r
60	John Wilbye	Oft have I vowed	ff. 34^v-35^r
61	John Wilbye	Down in a valley	ff. 35^v-36^r
62	John Wilbye	Hard destinies, are love	ff. 36^r-35^r
63	Thomas Tomkins	Above the stars	f. 36^v
64	Thomas Weelkes	Give me my heart, and I will go	f. 37^v
65	Thomas Weelkes	Say, dainty dames, shall we go play	f. 37^v
66	Thomas Weelkes	Phyllis, go take thy pleasure	ff. 38^r-v
67	Thomas Weelkes	In pride of May	f. 38^v
68	Thomas Weelkes	Now is the bridals	f. 39^r
69	Thomas Weelkes	Sing, shepherds, after me	f. 39^v
70	Thomas Weelkes	Lady, your eye my love enforced	ff. 39^v-40^r
71	Thomas Weelkes	We shepherds sing, we pipe, we play	f. 40^v
72	Thomas Weelkes	I love, and have my love regarded	ff. 40^v-41^r
73	Thomas Weelkes	Come, clap thy hands	ff. 41^r-v
74	Thomas Weelkes	Phyllis hath sworn she loves the man	f. 41^v
75	Thomas Weelkes	Farewell, my joy	f. 42^r
76	Thomas Weelkes	Now is my Cloris fresh as May	f. 42^v
77	Thomas Weelkes	Unto our flocks, sweet Corolus	f. 42^v
78		(Verse anthem, textless, fragmentary)	ff. 43^v-44^v

Oblong format, 397 x 307 mm. 48 folios, plus 3 additional sheets as follows: f. 8a pasted to f. 8; ff. 18a and 18b bound between ff. 17 and 18. Apparently a succession of single sheets, formerly either unbound, or joined by stab-bindings; the tightness of the current binding largely conceals earlier groupings of the sheets. The following sheets have printed staves: ff. 3-6 and 8-9 (sheets signed 'T.[homas] E.[ast]'); f. 8a (cut fragment of a larger sheet; 4-lined staves). The final folio is largely torn away. Unused ruled staves on ff. 8av, 18ar, 18bv, 22v-23r, 37r and 43r. Foliation is modern, and was adjusted in 1989 (these adjustments will not be present in microfilms made before that date). Late 18th-century binding of white parchment over boards, undecorated except for two parallel fillets at edges. Spine in contrasting brown leather; at centre of upper cover, a red leather inset, tooled in gold: 'SCORES / OF MADRIGALS / FANTASIAS &.C '. The volume was bound at Christ Church in the late 18th century as part of an uncompleted binding project intended to protect previously unbound items from the Aldrich and Goodson bequests. (For a list of other volumes in related bindings, see the entry for Mus. 3.) Nothing remains of any earlier binding. Bookplate 2 on the inside upper cover. 19th-century shelfmark: H.1.33.

Provenance unknown, but presumably from either the Aldrich or the Goodson bequest. The earliest catalogue entry for this item is in Malchair 1787 (f. 1), where it is listed as 'Scores of Madrigals probably Collected / by Morley - Larg folio longways. Vellum / Macque / Venture / Marenzio'.

Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 4.