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Mus. 968-73

Printed. Complete set of six partbooks, in 7 tracts.

Mus. 968-73(1)
Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594 Grove
Mellange d'Orlande de Lassus. Contenant plusieurs chansons, à quatre parties. Desquelles la lettre profane à este changée en spírituelle.
La Rochelle: Par P[ierre] Haultin, 1575
RISM A/I L882
Mus. 968: Superius; Mus. 969: Contratenor; Mus. 970: Tenor; Mus. 973: Bassus.
Mus. 968-73(2)
Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594 Grove
Sacrae lectiones novem ex propheta Iob, quatuor vocum. Autore Orlando di Lasso.
Nuremberg: In officina Theodorici Gerlachii, 1575
RISM A/I L881
Mus. 968: Discantus; Mus. 969: Altus; Mus. 970: Tenor; Mus. 973: Bassus.
Mus. 968-73(3)
Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594 Grove
Sacrae cantiones, vulgo motecta appellatae, quinque vocum, tum viva voce, tum omnis generis instrumentis cantatu commodissimae.
Nuremberg: In officina Theodorici Gerlachii, 1575
RISM A/I L880
Mus. 968: Discantus; Mus. 969: Altus; Mus. 970: Tenor; Mus. 971: Vagans; Mus. 973: Bassus.
Mus. 968-73(4)
Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594 Grove
Moduli. Quinque vocum, Orlando Lassusio auctore.
La Rochelle: Apud P[ierre]. Haultinium, 1576
RISM A/I L888
Mus. 968: Superius; Mus. 969: Contratenor; Mus. 970: Tenor; Mus. 971: Quinta pars; Mus. 973: Bassus.
Mus. 968-73(5)
Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594 Grove
Fasciculus aliquot cantionum sacrarum, quinque vocum, nunc primum in lucem editus. Authore Orlando di Lasso, illustriss: Bavariae Ducis Wilhelmi musici chori magistro.
Munich: Excudebat Adamus Berg, 1581
RISM A/I L925
Mus. 968: Discantus; Mus. 969: Altus; Mus. 970: Tenor; Mus. 971: Quinta vox; Mus. 973: Bassus.
Mus. 968-73(6)
Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594 Grove
Magnificat octo tonorum, sex, quinque et quatuor vocum, nunc primum excusa, et per Orlandum di Lasso, excellentissimum musicum composita.
Nuremberg: In officina typographica Catharinae Gerlachin, & haeredum Iohannis Montani, 1580
RISM A/I L923
Mus. 968: Discantus; Mus. 969: Altus; Mus. 970: Tenor; Mus. 971: Quinta vox; Mus. 972: Sexta vox; Mus. 973: Bassus.
Mus. 968-73(7)
Byrd, William, 1542 or 3-1623 Grove DNB
Tallis, Thomas, ca. 1505-1585 Grove DNB
Cantiones, quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur, quinque et sex partium, autoribus Thoma Tallisio & Guilielmo Birdo Anglis, serenissimae Regineae Maiestati à privato sacello generosis, & organistis.
London: Excudebat Thomas Vautrollerius, 1575
RISM B/I 15753 Early Music Online; STC (2nd ed.), 23666 EEBO; ESTC S118138
Mus. 968: Superius; Mus. 969: Contra tenor; Mus. 970: Tenor; Mus. 971: Discantus; Mus. 972: Sexta pars; Mus. 973: Bassus.

Provenance: 'I.G.' (see below). Then part of the Aldrich bequest, listed in Dowding (main hand) as item N.2.2; a full listing of tracts is given there.

Oblong format, c. 190 x 140 mm. Late C16th or early C17th bindings of brown leather over boards; the upper and lower covers of all six partbooks are gold-tooled with fillets, and a central panel flanked by the initials 'I G'; spines gold-tooled with small ornaments between the raised bands. Fragments of green ties at fore-edges. Lower inside cover of Mus. 973 annotated '7: setts' in a late C16th or early C17th English hand. Bookplate 2 in all volumes. 19th-century shelfmarks: F.1.7-12.

Microfilms: The printed music of Christ Church, Oxford, reels 68 and 69.
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For another copy of tract 3, see Mus. 962-7.
For another copy of tract 5, see Mus. 962-7.
For another copy of tract 6, see Mus. 962-7.
For further copies of tract 7, see Mus. 962-7, Mus. 979-83, and a.2.59.