US-SM EL 25 A 51 (Ellesmere partbooks)

Huntington Library, San Marino, California, United States

partbook: c.1600, with later additions to mid-17th century

Archive Huntington Library, San Marino, California, United States (US-SM)
Shelfmark EL 25 A 51 (Ellesmere partbooks)
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Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Format portrait
Measurements 308mm x 206mm
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General Description

Sextus partbook, one of a set of six partbooks, containing 83 pieces - mostly Italian madrigals with an admixture of In nomines. In 4 scribal hands, one of them also in GB-Lbl Add MSS 40657-61. ii + 72 +ii pages.

The initials "W H" on covers may suggest the books were originally owned by William Herbert, third earl of Pembroke (1580-1630). Once in the possession of John Egerton, second earl of Bridgewater (1623-1688), who has written a shelf-mark on one of the fly-leaves of each volume. Remained in the Bridgewater Library (whose bookplate is found in the front of each volume) until the entire contents of the library were sold to Mr. Huntington in 1917 for location in the Huntington Library.

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Binding

Dark brown leather with a gilt-stamped oval decorative device between the initials "W H" on both the front and back covers. Each volume also bears the voice designation stamped in gilt above the oval decorative device.

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Watermark

Close variants of Heawood 481 (the latter almost identical to Briquet 2291), with the Golden Fleece suspended below the crowned shield facing in the opposite direction.

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Ruling

13.0-13.7mm

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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: partial inventory.

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.

Charteris, Richard. 1987. The Huntington Library Part Books, Ellesmere MSS EL 25 A 46-51. Huntington Library Quarterly, 59-84. Notes: description, inventory.

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