Mus. 273-8

Printed. Complete set of six partbooks.

Provenance: from the Aldrich bequest. The entries for this item and several others that resemble it are in disarray in Archives 1717 and Dowding, on account of the fact that various sets - some of them exact duplicates - fitted the catalogue descriptions of 'Monteverde's 5 parts ... Madrigali. Antw. 1615'; there is evidence of sets having being moved to new shelfmarks in a bid to distinguish them from one another. This set initially occupied shelfmark I30, and bears a label with that mark on the original outside lower wrapper of Mus. 275; but this has been emended to read 'G.29'. In Burney 1778 (f. 3), this is one of three sets listed at the position for I30. In Malchair 1787 (f. 15, no. 44), however, it is at the position for G29. The change of shelfmark was therefore made between 1778 and 1787.

Oblong format, 220 x 170 mm. Early C17th wrappers of grey paper, now within early C20th bindings of limp vellum with ties. On the original upper wrapper of each partbook, an unidentified English hand, mid C17th, has written 'Monteverdes 5. Partes', followed by the voice-name; for other sets of partbooks in the collection annotated by the same hand, see Mus. 320-3, which is the only one of those sets not to have been subsequently rebound. The original upper wrapper of Mus. 273 has also been annotated by Malchair. Bookplate 2 in Mus. 278 only. C19th shelfmarks: I.3.180-5.

Microfilm: The printed music of Christ Church, Oxford, reel 11.
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For other copies of this edition, see Mus. 283, Mus. 502-7, Mus. 533-7 and Mus. 581-5.