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).
1 |
Giovanni de Macque |
My Sweet Lais |
f. 1r |
2 |
Stephano Venturi [del Nibbio] |
As Mopsus went |
f. 1v |
3 |
Horatio Vecchi |
Do not Tremble |
f. 2r |
4 |
[anon.] |
Thirsis on his fayre Phillis [breast] |
f. 2v |
5 |
Horatio Vecchi |
The white delightfull Swanne |
ff. 3r-v |
6 |
Giovanni Croce |
Cinthia thy Song and chaunting |
ff. 4r-v |
7 |
A[lfonso] F[errabosco] (i) |
Lady my flame still burning ['1. part'] |
ff. 5r-v |
8 |
A[lfonso] F[errabosco] (i) |
Sweet lord [your flame] ['2da. pars'] |
ff. 5v-4v |
9 |
Luca Marenzio |
Farwell Cruell and unkinde |
f. 6r |
10 |
Luca Marenzio |
Zephirus breathing |
f. 6v |
11 |
Luca Marenzio |
Fayre Shepheards Queene |
f. 7r |
12 |
Luca Marenzio |
Every singing bird |
ff. 7v-r |
13 |
Luca Marenzio |
When I beheld [the fair face] |
ff. 8r-8ar |
14 |
Luca Marenzio |
Sweet hart arise |
f. 8v |
15 |
Luca Marenzio |
How long with vayne complaining |
f. 9r |
16 |
Luca Marenzio |
Sweet singing Amarillis |
f. 9v |
17 |
[John Wilbye] |
[Die, hapless man] |
f. 10r |
18 |
|
[Fragment a4 in G (3 bars at end of no.17)] |
f. 10r |
19 |
|
[Fragments of no. 20 below] |
f. 10v |
20 |
[John Wilbye] |
[I fall, O stay me] [Part 1] |
f. 11r |
21 |
[John Wilbye] |
[And though my love abounding] [Part 2] |
f. 11v |
22 |
[John Wilbye] |
[I always beg] [Part 1] |
f. 12r |
23 |
[John Wilbye] |
[Thus love commands] [Part 2] [fragment only] |
f. 12v |
24 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
[Like two proud armies] |
ff. 12v-13r |
25 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
[When Thoralis delights to walk] |
ff. 13v-14r |
26 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
What have the gods [their consort sent] [Part 1] |
ff. 14r-v |
27 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
[Methinks I hear] ['2da parte'] |
ff. 15r-v |
28 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
[Three times a day my prayer is] |
ff. 15v-16r |
29 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
[Mars in a fury] |
f. 16r |
30 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
[Thule, the period of cosmography] [Part 1] |
ff. 16v-17r |
31 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
[The Andalusian merchant] ['2da pars'] |
ff. 16v-17r |
32 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
[A sparrow-hawk proud] |
f. 17v |
33 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
[Noel, adieu, adieu, thou Court's delight] |
ff. 18r-18br |
34 |
[Michael East] |
[Hence stars! too dim of light] |
f. 18v |
35 |
[Daniel] Norcome |
[With angel's face and brightness] |
f. 19r |
36 |
[John Mundy] |
[Lightly she whipped o'er the dales] |
ff. 19v-20r |
37 |
[Ellis Gibbons] |
[Long live fair Oriana!] |
ff. 20v-21r |
38 |
[John Bennett] |
All Creturs [now are merry, merry-minded] |
ff. 21r-v |
39 |
[John Hilton (i)] |
[Fair Oriana, beauty's queen] |
ff. 21v-22r |
40 |
Tho[ma]s Wilkes [=Weelkes] |
Could winters ice [is fled and gone] |
f. 23v |
41 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
now lett us merrie make [= make a merry greeting] |
ff. 23v-24r |
42 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
Take heare my harte |
ff. 24r-v |
43 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
[O care, thou wilt despatch me] ['first part'] |
ff. 24v-25r |
44 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
Hence care [thou art too cruel] ['2 pars'] |
f. 25r |
45 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
See wher the maides are singing |
f. 25v |
46 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
Why are you Ladies stayinge |
ff. 25v-26r |
47 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
Hark hare [= hark] I here some dancing |
f. 26r |
48 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
Ladies the birds right fairly |
f. 26v |
49 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
As wanton birds [when day begins to peep] |
ff. 26v-27v |
50 |
|
[Two full sections from an unidentified verse anthem] |
f. 27v |
51 |
[John Wilbye] |
[Where most my thoughts] |
f. 28r |
52 |
[John Wilbye] |
[Despiteful thus unto myself] |
f. 28v |
53 |
[John Wilbye] |
[Ah, cannot sighs, nor tears] |
f. 29r |
54 |
[John Wilbye] |
[Draw on, sweet night] |
ff. 29v-30r |
55 |
[John Wilbye] |
[Stay, Corydon, thou swain] |
ff. 30r-v |
56 |
[John Wilbye] |
[Long have I made these hills] |
ff. 31r-v |
57 |
[John Wilbye] |
[Sweet honey-sucking bees] ['1 pars'] |
ff. 31v-32r |
58 |
[John Wilbye] |
Yet swette take heed |
ff. 32v-33r |
59 |
[John Wilbye] |
[All pleasure is of this condition] |
ff. 33v-34r |
60 |
[John Wilbye] |
[Oft have I vowed] |
ff. 34v-35r |
61 |
[John Wilbye] |
[Down in a valley] ['first part'] |
ff. 35v-36r |
62 |
[John Wilbye] |
[Hard destinies, are love] ['2 pars'] |
ff. 36r-35r |
63 |
[Thomas Tomkins] |
[Above the stars] [Full sections only] |
f. 36v |
64 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
[Give me my heart, and I will go] |
f. 37v |
65 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
Say daintie dames [shall we go play] |
f. 37v |
66 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
[Phyllis, go take thy pleasure] |
ff. 38r-v |
67 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
[In pride of May] |
f. 38v |
68 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
[Now is the bridals] |
f. 39r |
69 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
[Sing, shepherds, after me] |
f. 39v |
70 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
[Lady, your eye my love enforced] |
ff. 39v-40r |
71 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
[We shepherds sing, we pipe, we play] |
f. 40v |
72 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
[I love, and have my love regarded] |
ff. 40v-41r |
73 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
[Come, clap thy hands] |
ff. 41r-v |
74 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
Phillis hath sworne ['2 pars'] |
f. 41v |
75 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
[Farewell, my joy] |
f. 42r |
76 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
[Now is my Cloris fresh as May] |
f. 42v |
77 |
[Thomas Weelkes] |
Unto our flockes [sweet Corolus] |
f. 42v |
78 |
|
[Verse anthem, textless, fragmentary] |
ff. 43v-44v |
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.
Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 4.