Mus. 821-3

Printed; complete set of three partbooks. The 'Treble or Tenor' partbook includes the first state (subsequently cancelled) of sigs. C and D1.

Mus. 821-3 Porter, Walter, d. 1659 Mottets of two voyces for treble or tenor and bass. With the continued bass or score: to be performed to an organ, harpspycon, [sic] lute or bass-viol. London: Printed by William Godbid for the author, 1657 RISM A/I P5219 Mus. 821: Treble or tenor; Mus. 822: Bassus; Mus. 823: Basso continuo. See other copies of this work.

Provenance: from the Aldrich bequest, listed in Archives 1717, item D16, as 'Mottets for two Voices by Walter Porter Ed:'; there is an equivalent entry in Dowding (main hand).

Upright format, 295 x 195 mm. Late C17th covers of marbled paper over thin card; each partbook is now stitched into a folder of modern card and mounted impermanently on cords within an early C20th folder of stiff card and vellum, together with Mus. 818-20. Shelfmark 'D.16' on original lower covers of all three partbooks. Bookplate 2 in all three partbooks. C19th shelfmarks: K.4.35-7.

Microfilm: The printed music of Christ Church, Oxford, reel 45.
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For two other copies of this edition, both with the second state of the 'Treble or Tenor' partbook, see Mus. 818-20 and Mus. 878-80.

At the rear of the folder containing Mus. 818-20 and Mus. 821-3, the bifolio of blank paper stamped with a design of red diamonds and hearts (now mounted on a cord) appears once to have formed part of the binding of Mus. 817, and is therefore of Goodson provenance.

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