Mus. 721-4Manuscript. Four partbooks from a set of five (the Tenor volume is mission), comprising a manuscript copy of Sigismondo d'India's Il quinto libro de madrigali a cinque voci, first published in Venice in1616. Copyist unidentified; probably Italian, 1620s. The first page (f. [0r]) of Mus. 724 has the following inscription in a 17th-century hand: 'Il Quarto [sic] libro de Madrigala di Sigismond d'India [etc]'. For a copy of the 1616 printed edition of these works, see Mus. 908-12(4). Table of titles and composers in modern form. Display form found in manuscript.
Upright format, 275 x 215 mm. Collation: each partbook comprises a single gathering of nine nested bifolios (= 18 folios), foliated in modern pencil. Unused ruled staves on ff. 11v-18v in each partbook. The partbooks are now bound into folders of modern card, and mounted impermanently on cords within an early 20th-century folder of thick card and vellum. Bookplate 2. 19th-century shelfmarks: K.3.28-31. Provenance: a 17th-century inscription on f.[0r] of Mus. 724 reads as follows: 'my cozen William Drurys bockes / lent me by my cozen Abington / his sister / she promised me to lend me his violl'. Then from the Aldrich bequest, listed in Archives 1717, item K23, as 'Madrigals', qualified in Dowding (main hand) as 'MS. à 5 voc. di Sigismondo d'India'. Microfilm: manuscript music, reel 49.
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