A collection of anonymous non-liturgical motets, mass-movements, and hymns [manuscript], ca. 1605.

3 ms. part books ; 12 x 20 cm (obl. 8vo)

Collection of motets and fantasias by British and Continental composers; copied in the early 17th century. Most works are unattributed; the only attributed pieces are Two fantasias, numbers 40-41 by "Mr. Bird" (originally attributed to William Byrd, but thought not to be by Charteris, although number 23 appears to be by Byrd), and number 46 by Luca Marenzio. Unattributed composers include: Christian Erbach, Ivo de Vento, Jacob Regnart, Michael Deiss, Jean de Chaynée, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Christian Hollander, Clemens non Papa, Orazio Vecchi, Gregor Aichinger, Francisco Guerrero and Thomás Luis de Victoria.

Altus (iii, 48, i leaves), tenor (iv, 48, ii leaves), bassus (iv, 48, ii)
Cantus part is lacking. All but one of the motets includes text underlay.
Two music copyists; first hand leaves 1r-44r, second hand leaves 44v to end. Verbal text probably added later by two different scribes.
Songs listed in the Folger index of first lines of poems.
Incomplete table of contents.
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For an analysis of various extant collections of this kind, see the article by T. Dart and P. Brett in Harvard Library Bulletin, XIV (1960) 343-365.
Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music: http://www.diamm.ac.uk/jsp/ArchiveList.jsp?alCountryKey=19&alCityKey=350
McWilliams, Elizabeth L. The music manuscripts in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.: a description and thematic catalogue. Washington, D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library, [ca. 1973], no. 5.
McWilliams, Elizabeth L. The music manuscripts to 1800 at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.: a description and thematic catalogue. University of Maryland: M.Mus. Thesis, 1974, no. 3.
Schmitt, Samuel Armstrong, "The Paston manuscripts in context: a study of Folger Shakespeare Library MSS V.a.405-407." Ph.D. diss., Catholic University of A merica, 2004.

In original vellum binding.

Edward Paston -- William Hayman Cummings (bookplate)
Formerly Folger MS 460328.

Purchased from William H. Schab, N.Y. book dealer, 1946.

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2006. "Noyses, sounds, and sweet aires" (catalog entry 95)

Charteris, R. Annotated catalogue of the music manuscripts in the Folger, 91

Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library V.a.405-407
Microfilm image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library V.a.405-407

V.a.405-407

460328