Christ Church Library music catalogue: Mus. 37 (pp. 59-74)

Mus. 37 (pp. 59-74)

Manuscript. Madrigals by [Pomponio Nenna], copied in score by Richard Goodson Sr, with text-incipits but otherwise largely without text-underlay. English, late 17th century. Goodson himself did not provide the attributions to Nenna; these were supplied in annotations by Malchair (see below).

Table of titles and composers as shown in the manuscript. Display in modern form.

1	Pomponio Nenna	Sio taccio [il duol s'avanza]	pp. 59-60
2	Pomponio Nenna	La mia doglia [s'avanza]	pp. 60-61
3	Pomponio Nenna	Madonna [poi ch'ancider mi volete]	pp. 61-62
4	Pomponio Nenna	Ahi dispietata e cruda	pp. 63-64
5	Pomponio Nenna	O mia luce ò [mia gioia]	pp. 64-66
6	Pomponio Nenna	Se gl'occhi vost'io miro	pp. 66-67
7	Pomponio Nenna	Sospir che dal bel peetto	pp. 68-69
8	Pomponio Nenna	Asciugate i begli occhi	pp. 69-70
9	Pom[ponio] Nenna	Ripiglia Ergasto	pp. 71-72
10	Pomponio Nenna	Aure liete [e soavi]	pp. 73-74

Upright format, 363 x 240 mm. Gathering of 4 bifolios; 8 folios in total; paginated 59-74 in modern pencil. No early bookplate. Now bound into Mus. 37, a late 18th-century guardbook bound in white parchment over boards.

Provenance uncertain. The madrigals copied here derive from printed partbooks from the Aldrich bequest, but the manuscript itself may once have formed part of the Goodson bequest.

Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 5.

Malchair was the first to observe the link between this score and Mus. 908-12, tract 19. See his annotation to the front flyleaf of Mus. 908: 'Ten of this set may be seen in score in a Vol: of Goodsons Collection in this Library' (the last three words of this entry subsequently deleted). In Mus. 37 (pp. 59-74) itself, Malchair has added Nenna's name at the head of each madrigal.