Mus. 939

Printed; two tracts, both defective, but with missing pages supplied in late C17th MS.

Mus. 939(1) Matteis, Nicola, fl. 1672-1699 Ayres for ye violin[.] Preludes allmands sarabands courantes gigues divisions and double compositions fitted to all hands and capacities by Nicola Matteis[.] The first part. [London]: [1676?] Title-page missing, and supplied in contemporary MS. Also lacks introductory 'To the Reader', and music pp. 1-4 and 33-6, all of which are again supplied in contemporary MS.

Mus. 939(2) Matteis, Nicola, fl. 1672-1699 Other ayrs preludes allmands sarabands &c with full stops for the violin by Nicola Matteis[.] The second part. [London]: [1676?] Copy lacks pp. 1-2, 59-62 and 65-8, all of which are supplied in contemporary MS.

Provenance: probably from the Aldrich bequest. This is one of four items listed in Dowding at position Q2: 'Airs in parts / 4 Vols.'; all are identifiable from shelfmarks written into the volumes themselves. (The others are Mus. 940, Mus. 954 and Mus. 955.)

Oblong format, 220 x 117 mm. Late C17th binding of brown leather over boards, gold-tooled with fillets and ornaments on the covers and spine. (For a related though not identical binding, see Mus. 499-501.) The missing pages in both tracts were evidently supplied in MS before binding; the copyist has not been identified. Annotations include the following: 'Roben' (tract 1, p. 5); 'Thoma' (tract 2, verso of titlepage); 'A catch of Moses and Aron' (tract 2, p. 70). Shelfmark 'Q.2. Vol. 4.' on front flyleaf. Bookplate 2. C19th shelfmark: E.1.4.

Microfilm: The printed music of Christ Church, Oxford, reel 66.
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