Quintus partbook, one of a set of five partbooks, containing 150 5-voice madrigals by 28 composers, selectively copied (mostly) from Italian or Flemish prints & fully-texted throughout. In one hand; blank leaves separate sections in different clef combinations. Owned by James Bartleman (English bass, 1769-1821) whose ex libris is pasted into each book, and who added 4 tables of contents and a title page, and also lightly 'barred' some pieces for performance. A few pieces exist only in ms sources,or are unica.
Archive | Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob) |
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Shelfmark | MS. Tenbury 944 |
Image Availability | DIAMM does not have images of this source. |
Surface | Paper |
Numbering System | None / Unknown |
Format | portrait |
Measurements | 29.5cm x 19.6cm |
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General Description
Binding
Modern plain binding. The manuscript was unbound when it came to Bartleman c1800
Watermark
Paper from the Low Countries. Two watermarks throughout: - 1 closely resembles Heawood 481 (which H dates 'Schieland 1602); similar to arms of Burgundy & Austria but Golden Fleece beneath shield is inverted in the partbook paper; - 2 is less frequent (& less clear), showing a cockatrice suspending a crozier from its upraised leg: resembles Heawood 838 (which originated in Holland 1609)
Ruling
ruled with a rastrum, ten staves per page, staff height 11.2-11.7cm
Scribe adds a rules line between staves for the text.
Foliation
No foliation or pagination; pieces are numbered consecutively with one madrigal per page
Surface
brown ink on good quality paper
Set: MSS Tenbury 940-944
Type: Partbooks
‡ denotes primary source study
‡ Hamessley, Lydia. 1992. The Tenbury and Ellesmere Partbooks: New Findings on Manuscript Compilation and Exchange, and the Reception of the Italian Madrigal in Elizabethan England. Music & Letters, 177-221. Notes: description of ms, ownership data, summary inventory of of contents.
‡ Hamessley, Lydia. 1989. The reception of the Italian madrigal in England: A repertorial study of manuscript anthologies, ca. 1580—1620. University of Minnesota, Ph.D. Notes: description of ms; inventory; discussion.
White (compiler). 1822. The Late Mr Bartleman's Musical Library. A catalogue of the very valuable and celebrated library of music books. Westminster: J Hayes. http://hdl.handle.net/1802/27719(Accessed: 6 June 2018). Pages: 32. Notes: sale catalogue: the ms appears at foot of p32 - item 1187, sold on day 8!.
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