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Mus. 435

Manuscript. Originally a tenor partbook from a set of three or four, containing Richard Dering's Italian madrigals, copied in the same order as in the principal source for these works (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tenbury MS 1016; scores); copyist unidentified, English, first quarter of the 17th century. Subsequently used by John Hilton (ii) for copying three motets by John Wilson for solo voice and unfigured bass; mid 17th century.

The madrigals by Dering are arranged in three sequences, which the copyist has numbered in three separately sequences: pieces for solo voice (items 1-3), for two voices (items 4-7) and for three voices (items 8-18). The motets by Wilson (items 19-21) are copied at the rear with the volume inverted.

Table of titles and composers in modern form. Display form found in manuscript.
The first column gives the modern numbering of the pieces; the second shows numbering used by the copyist(s).

1	1	Richard Dering	Vergine bella	ff. 1^r-v
2	2	Richard Dering	Donna, mentre io vi miro	ff. 1^v-2^r
3	3	Richard Dering	Così dunque	f. 2^v
4	1	Richard Dering	O miei giorni fugaci	f. 2^v
5	2	Richard Dering	O donna troppo cruda	f. 3^v
6	3	Richard Dering	O durezza di ferro	ff. 4^r-v
7	4	Richard Dering	Legasti, anima mia	ff. 5^r-v
8	1	Richard Dering	T'amo mia vita	ff. 6^r-v
9	2	Richard Dering	Crudelissima doglia	ff. 7^r-v
10	3	Richard Dering	Alme d'amor rubelle	ff. 8^r-v
11	4	Richard Dering	Ho visto al mio dolore	ff. 9^r-v
12	5	Richard Dering	Felice chi vi mira	ff. 10^r-v
13	6	Richard Dering	Che veggio? ohimé!	ff. 11^r-v
14	7	Richard Dering	Al fonte, al prato	ff. 12^r-v
15	8	Richard Dering	Pargoletta è colei	ff. 13^r-v
16	9	Richard Dering	Lungi dal vostro lume	ff. 14^r-v
17	10	Richard Dering	Lasso, ch'io moro	ff. 15^r-v
18	11	Richard Dering	O dolce mio martire	f. 16^r
19		John Wilson	Exurgat Deus	ff. 72^v-71^v
20		John Wilson	Usquequo obliviceris mei	ff. 71^r-70^r
21		John Wilson	Surge, amica mea	ff. 69^v-68^v

Upright format, 283 x 195 mm. 72 folios, foliated in modern pencil. Collation: A6 (ff. 1-6), B6 (ff. 7-12), C6 (ff. 13-18); then in sixes to the final gathering (L6 = ff. 67-72). Unused ruled staves on ff. 16v-68r. Early 17th-century binding of brown leather over boards, gold-tooled with fillets enclosing an ornamental centrepiece on the upper and lower covers. Bookplate 2. 19th-century shelfmark: I.5.45.

Provenance: from the Aldrich bequest. Listed in Archives 1717, position D13, as 'A Vol. of Italian Music'; there is an identical entry in Dowding (main hand). In Mus. 435 itself, the shelfmark 'D.13.' is written on the front flyleaf.

Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 17

For other manuscripts at Christ Church copied by John Hilton (ii), see the entry for Mus. 744-6.