A Quintus partbook of a set of six volumes. Pieces arranged in four-voice, five-voice, and six-voice groups. The compiler, scribe, and original owner was the clergyman Thomas Myriell, rector at St. Stephen's Walbrook, who also wrote BrusBR II.4109 and much of LonBL 29427. History of manuscript following Myriell's death in 1625 has not been traced. Purchased by British Museum at a Puttick's sale in 1873.
GB-Lbl Add. MS 29376 (Tristitiae Remedium of Thomas Myriell)
British Library, London, England
partbook: 1616-18
| Archive | British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl) |
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| Shelfmark | Add. MS 29376 (Tristitiae Remedium of Thomas Myriell) |
| Image Availability | DIAMM does not have images of this source. |
| Surface | Paper |
| Numbering System | Pagination |
| Measurements | 305 x 195 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 209 compositions, 208 from 53 composers, 1 is anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
Covers of original dark brown leather glued onto modern cardboard; front and back covers of each book have identical gold tooled designs: square and fleur-de-lis pattern in corners, oval in center, and initials 'T M' [= Thomas Myriell].
Watermark
dragon entwined around castle
Liminary Note
Each book has elaborately decorated engraved title page, with inscription: 'Tristitiae Remedium. Cantiones selectissimae, diversorum tum authorum, tum argumentorum; labore et manu exaratae THOMAE MYRIELL. A.D. 1616.'
Notation
black void mensural
Foliation
Original ink pagination 1-341; modern pencil foliation: 1-163.
Index
none, but list (in Myriell's hand) of represented composers appears on verso of first original folio in Bassus book.
Surface
paper
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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20 motets, 90 anthems, 81 English secular piece = 191 + 4 duplicates = 195
Bateson-4, Bennet-1, Bicci-1, Bull-4, Byrd-11, Byrd/(T. Mudd II)-1, Coperario-1, Coste/(Byrd)-1, Croce-6, Daman-2, Deering-3, M. East-3, Eremita-1, Faignient-1, A. Ferrabosco 1-6, A. Ferrabosco II-5, Ford-1, Gibbons-2, N. Giles-1, (Hanford)-1, Hooper-1, M. Jeffries-3, Kindersley-1, Kirbye-2, J. Lugge-1, T. Lupo-6, Marenzio-9, Milton-9, Morley-8, J. Mundy-2, Palestrina-1, Pallavicino-2, (R. Parsons I)-1, Peerson-11, P. Philips-1, P. Philips/(Wilder)-1, Ravenscroft-4, Simmes/(M. East)-1, Stubbs-2, Tallis-3, Tomkins-6, J. Tomkins/(Tomkins)-1, Tye-1, Orazio Vecchi-2, Ward-19, Weelkes-13, W. White-1, Wilbye-19, T. Wilkinson-3, anon-1
6 paper partbooks (D-ii + i + 225 + i folios, A-i + 249 + i, T-ii + 217 + i, B-iii + 277 + iii, Q-ii + 215 + i, S-ii + 95 + ii). Sizes-D: 340 x 190; A: 330 x 230; T: 320 x 195; B: 320 x 200; Q: 305 x 195; S: 350 x 192. Original ink pagination (D: 1-341; A: 1-339; T: 1-341; B: 1-341; Q: 1-341; S: 230-341); modern pencil foliation (DATB: 1-176; Q: 1-163; S: 1-58). Each book has several sections of unnumbered folios with blank staves only. Covers of original dark brown leather glued onto modern cardboard; front and back covers of each book have identical gold tooled designs: square and fleur-de-lis pattern in corners, oval in center, and initials "T M" [= Thomas Myriell]. No index, but list (in Myriell's hand) of represented composers appears on verso of first original folio in B book.
Copied by Thomas Myriell (see below), who also wrote BrusBR II.4109, part of LonBL 29427, and several other manuscripts not within scope of this catalogue (see MonsonM and WillettsMC). Each book has elaborately decorated engraved title page, with inscription: "Tristitiae Remedium. Cantiones selectissimae, diversorum tum authorum, tum argumentorum; labore et manu exaratae THOMAE MYRIELL. A.D. 1616." Pieces arranged in four-voice, five-voice, and six-voice groups. One watermark throughout: dragon entwined around castle.
1616-8; some pieces perhaps added in 1620's (MonsonM). Copied in London. The compiler, scribe, and original owner was the clergyman Thomas Myriell, rector at St. Stephen's Walbrook. History of manuscript following Myriell's death in 1625 has not been traced. Purchased by British Museum at a Puttick's sale in 1873.
Vol 4
Composers: Change "A. Ferrabosco I-6, A. Ferrabosco II-5" to "A. Ferrabosco I-7, A. Ferrabosco II-4."
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MSS Additional 29372-29377
Partbooks · 6 sources
GB-Lbl Add. MS 29376 (Tristitiae Remedium of Thomas Myriell)
Current source
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Di Grazia, Donna M. 2010. New perspectives on Thomas Myriell's _Tristitiae remedium_ and Add. Ms. 29427. Early Music, 38:1: 101-12.
Charteris, Richard (editor). 1984. Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder (1543-1588): Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 96. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: I,xiv,xvii-xviii; II.xii. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Charteris, Richard. 1984. Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder (1543-1588): A Thematic Catalogue of his Music with a Biographical Calendar. New York. Pages: 75-6,85-6,187. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Duffy, John. 1980. The Songs and Motets of Alfonso Ferrabosco, the Younger (1575-1628). Ann Arbor. Pages: 215ff,248,304,307,444-50. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Sadie, Stanley (editor). 1980. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London. Pages: XX, 288. Notes: facsimile (partial).
Morris, Christopher (compiler). 1978. The Oxford Book of Tudor Anthems. London. Pages: 14, 332-51. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).
Monson, Craig. 1977. Thomas Myriell's Manuscript Collection: One View of Musical Taste in Jacobean London. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 30: 419-65. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list; concordances; facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
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. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Willetts, Pamela J. 1972. The Identity of Thomas Myriell. Music and Letters, 56: 431-3. Notes: physical description (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Willetts, Pamela J. 1968. Musical Connections of Thomas Myriell. Music and Letters, 49: 36-42. 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: 34, 241-2. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music. London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: III, 134-55, 221; IX, 167-8; XII, 120, 122; XIX, 327. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).
King, William Joseph. 1962. The English Anthem from the Early Tudor Period through the Restoration Era. Boston University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 349-50; II, 1-10. Notes: transcription (partial); facsimile (partial).
Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1953. Catalogue of the Musical Manuscripts at Peterhouse, Cambridge. Cambridge. Pages: I, 10-3, 281; II, 150-3; III, 390. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list.
Lewis, Anthony (editor). 1951-. Musica Britannica: A National Collection of Music. London. Pages: XXII, 30-3, 73-4, 114-26, 133-57, 174, 179ff; XXIII, 126-30. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).
Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1949-79. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik. Kassel. Pages: VIII, 1178-9. Notes: physical description (partial).
Fellowes, Edmund H (editor). 1937-50, 1962. The Collected Works of William Byrd. Pages: XV, 166, 175. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Fellowes, Edmund H (editor). 1923-48. Tudor Church Music. London, Oxford et al. Pages: II, xxi, xxxvi-xxxvii; IV, xxxvi; V, xxviii. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Madden, F. 1843-. Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum. Pages: [1861-75], 631-2. Notes: physical description (partial).
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