US-NYp Mus. Res. Drexel 4184

Public Library, Music Division, New York, United States

partbook: 17th century and c. 1500 (flyleaves)

Archive Public Library, Music Division, New York, United States (US-NYp)
Shelfmark Mus. Res. Drexel 4184
Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Format landscape
Measurements 145 x 195 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: NYorkP 4180-5
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Provenance
  • Gloucester? England
Contents Contains 93 compositions, 89 from 30 composers, 4 are anonymous.
General Description

A Sextus partbook from a set of six volumes, including polyphony-bearing flyleaves cut from older, unrelated music manuscript. The original owner and scribe was John Merro. Main corpus copied by John Merro, who also wrote most of LonBL 17792-6; music on flyleaves copied by two or three scribes. Main corpus probably copied in western England, perhaps at Gloucester; flyleaves also of English origin, but specific provenance unknown.

Rear flyleaf the top half of a page from a choirbook, whose other fragments are in Wells, Cambridge and Cleveland. The front flyleaf is missing, but is perhaps now the Fayrfax fragment in Cambridge, which is the bottom half of the page which forms the rear flyleaf. These and other related fragments are brought together in a 'virtual manuscript' here.

Owned in 19th century by the antiquarian Edward F. Rimbault; purchased by the Philadelphia banker and philanthropist Joseph W. Drexel (1833-88) at a Sotheby's sale of Rimbault's library in 1877. Drexel collection bequeathed in 1888 to Lenox Library, incorporated since 1895 in New York Public Library.

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Binding

Rebound in 1950 in modern covers of dark brown leather.

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Notation

not indicated

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Ruling

Staff height 13 (15-18 on flyleaves)

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Foliation

Original ink foliation in each book, with errors and omissions; some modern foliation.

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Decoration

A few small inked initials; no other decoration

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Surface

paper

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DIAMM Note

Images of the endpapers kindly provided by Bob Kosovsky of the NY Public Library.

Included in the Tudor Partbooks project at the Universities of Oxford and Newcastle.

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rear endpaper verso

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Fallows, David. 1993. The Drexel Fragments of Early Tudor Song. Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 26: 5-18. Notes: discussion; contents list (partial); description of MS.

Charteris, Richard. 1984. Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder (1543-1588): A Thematic Catalogue of his Music with a Biographical Calendar.  New York. Pages: 159,194. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Monson, Craig. 1982. Voices and Viols in England, 1600-1650: The Sources and the Music.  Ann Arbor. Pages: 133-58. Notes: discussion (with inventory).

Daniel, Ralph T, and Peter Le Huray. 1972. The Sources of English Church Music 1549-1660. Early English Church Music, vol. Supplementary Volume 1.  London.

Bray, Roger W. 1969. The Interpretation of Musica Ficta in English Music, C. 1490-C. 1580 [dissertation]. Oxford University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I:172,176; II:76,79,86.

Warren, Edwin B. 1969. Life and Works of Robert Fayrfax. Musicological Studies and Documents, vol. 22.  American Institute of Musicology. Pages: 56,61,156-7. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Brett, Philip. 1965. The Songs of William Byrd. Cambridge University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 33-4, 110,135-43,235-7.

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: ll, 218; XII,115-7,120-1; XIII.206; XIX,326; XXI, 94-105,203; XXIII,146; XXIX,128,134; XXX, 178. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Kerman, Joseph. 1961. Byrd's Motets: Chronology and Canon. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 14: 359-82. Pages: 363, 365. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Stevens, John E. 1961. Music & Poetry in the Early Tudor Court.  Cambridge. Pages: 362,375,378, 426-8.

Lewis, Anthony (editor). 1951-. Musica Britannica: A National Collection of Music.  London. Pages: IX,228; XVIII,110; XXII,6-8,46-7, 53-5, 114-32, 173, 177-8, 181, 185-7; XXIII, 126, 128, 133; XXXVI, xix, 160ff; XLIV, 184,186,188-91,194. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1949-79. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik.  Kassel. Pages: XV,1847.

Fellowes, Edmund H (editor). 1937-50, 1962. The Collected Works of William Byrd. Pages: XV, 59-62, 107-10, 166, 172, 175; XVII, 150-3, 158, 162. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).

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Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550

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