Christ Church Library music catalogue: Mus. 721-4

Mus. 721-4

Manuscript. Four partbooks from a set of five (the Tenor volume is mission), comprising a manuscript copy of Sigismondo d'India's Il quinto libro de madrigali a cinque voci, first published in Venice in1616. Copyist unidentified; probably Italian, 1620s. The first page (f. [0r]) of Mus. 724 has the following inscription in a 17th-century hand: 'Il Quarto [sic] libro de Madrigala di Sigismond d'India [etc]'. For a copy of the 1616 printed edition of these works, see Mus. 908-12(4).

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

			Mus. 721	Mus. 722	Mus. 723	Mus. 724
1	[India, Sigismondo d']	Felice primavera ['Prima parte']	f. 1^r	f. 1^r	f. 1^r	f. 1^r
2	[India, Sigismondo d']	Danzan le Ninfe ['Seconda parte']	f. 1^v	f. 1^v	f. 1^v	f. 1^v
3	[India, Sigismondo d']	Fuggio quel disleale	f. 2^r	f. 2^r	f. 2^r	f. 2^r
4	[India, Sigismondo d']	Quel neo quel vago neo	f. 2^v	f. 2^v	f. 2^v	f. 2^v
5	[India, Sigismondo d']	Quando quel bianco lino	f. 3^r	f. 3^r	f. 3^r	f. 3^r
6	[India, Sigismondo d']	Quando tra le dorate nubi ['Prima parte']	f. 3^v	f. 3^v	f. 3^v	f. 3^v
7	[India, Sigismondo d']	Riso tu Padre e figlio ['Seconda parte']	f. 4^r	f. 4^r	f. 4^r	f. 4^r
8	[India, Sigismondo d']	Ecco l'onde d'Argento	f. 4^v	f. 4^v	f. 4^v	f. 4^v
9	[India, Sigismondo d']	Sospir che del bel petto	f. 5^r	f. 5^r	f. 5^r	f. 5^r
10	[India, Sigismondo d']	Amor fatto di neve	f. 5^v	f. 5^v	f. 5^v	f. 5^v
11	[India, Sigismondo d']	Quando mia cruda sorte	f. 6^r	f. 6^r	f. 6^r	f. 6^r
12	[India, Sigismondo d']	La dove son i pargoletti amori	ff. 6^v-7^r	f. 6^v	f. 6^v	f. 6^v
13	[India, Sigismondo d']	Madonna udite	f. 7^r	f. 7^r	f. 7^r	f. 7^r
14	[India, Sigismondo d']	Cura gelata e ria	f. 7^v	f. 7^v	ff. 7^v-8^r	f. 7^v
15	[India, Sigismondo d']	Hoggi naque ben mio	f. 8^r	f. 8^r	f. 8^r	f. 8^r
16	[India, Sigismondo d']	Soura le verdi chrome	f. 8^v	f. 8^v	f. 8^v	f. 8^v
17	[India, Sigismondo d']	Io mi sento morir	f. 9^r	f. 9^r	f. 9^v	f. 9^r
18	[India, Sigismondo d']	La giovinetta scorza ['Prima parte']	f. 9^v	f. 9^v	f. 9^v	f. 9^v
19	[India, Sigismondo d']	E lombra fresca e lieta ['Seconda parte']	f. 10^r	f. 10^r	f. 10^r	f. 10^r
20	[India, Sigismondo d']	Le piu belle cittelle ['Mascherata de Contadire']	ff. 10^v-11^r	ff. 10^v-11^r	ff. 10^v-11^r	ff. 10^v-11^r

Upright format, 275 x 215 mm. Collation: each partbook comprises a single gathering of nine nested bifolios (= 18 folios), foliated in modern pencil. Unused ruled staves on ff. 11v-18v in each partbook. The partbooks are now bound into folders of modern card, and mounted impermanently on cords within an early 20th-century folder of thick card and vellum. Bookplate 2. 19th-century shelfmarks: K.3.28-31.

Provenance: a 17th-century inscription on f.[0r] of Mus. 724 reads as follows: 'my cozen William Drurys bockes / lent me by my cozen Abington / his sister / she promised me to lend me his violl'. Then from the Aldrich bequest, listed in Archives 1717, item K23, as 'Madrigals', qualified in Dowding (main hand) as 'MS. à 5 voc. di Sigismondo d'India'.

Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 49.