Mus. 346-9

Printed. Complete set of four partbooks.

Mus. 346-9 Frisius, Johannes, 1505-1565 [Tenor:] Brevis musicae isagoge Ioanne Frisio Tigurino authore. Accesserunt priori aeditioni omnia Horatii carminum genera: item heroica, elegiaca &c. quatuor vocibus ad [a]equales, in studiosorum adolescentum gratiam composita. Zürich: apud Frosch, 1554 RISM A/I F2002 Mus. 346: Discantus; Mus. 347: Altus; Mus. 348: Tenor; Mus. 349: Bassus.

Provenance: probably from the Aldrich bequest; listed in Dowding (main hand), item Q6, as 'Brevis Musices Isagoge / à Johan. Frisio. Tigur. Ant. / Omnia Horatei Carminum Genera / Musica adaptata à 4 voc. Tigur. 1554'. In Malchair 1787, the set is listed among the Goodson books (f. 11: 'Above all thing - Music in 4 parts to the / Odes of Horace'); but this may reflect the shelving arrangments that resulted from the relocation of the collections from the Old Library to the New Library in c. 1763.

Oblong format, 155 x 105 mm. Stab-bindings of limp vellum cut from an English notarial document dating probably from the last quarter of the C17th; upper covers annotated with voice-names in an unidentified late C17th hand, almost certainly not Aldrich's. Shelfmark 'Q.2' written in ink on front flyleaf of each partbook. Bookplate 2 in all four partbooks. Inside Mus. 348, a loose leaf annotated in the hand of J.B. Malchair: 'The Odes of Horace set to music for a trible Counter tenor and Bass. Marvelous indeed. Printed'. C19th shelfmarks: I.4.58-61.

Microfilm: The printed music of Christ Church, Oxford, reel 17.
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