IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 131145 accession number: MU 1328 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 24 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 127 songs for 1-3 voices and continuo (unfigured bass) In three books. Caption on p. 68: "Second book : containing dialogues for two voyces: to be sung to the theorboe-lute or basse-viol."; caption on p. 91: "Third book. Containing short ayres or balads for three voyces: which may be sung either by a voyce alone, or by two or three voyces." The three-part songs are printed in table-book format with the parts printed separately on facing pages. Preface signed: John Playford. Ms. note on fly-leaf: "Other Composers in this book are: Mr. Edward Colman, Jeremy Savile, Lady Deering, Tho. Brewer, John Playford, Robert Johnson, Mr. Warner, John Goodgroome, W. Caesar, Simon Ives, William Tompkins, John Cobb, & Mr. Jenkins." The music is printed from moveable type. Signatures: pi² [A]-Z² Aa-Ff² Engraved frontispiece. Printer’s device on title page; ornamental initials. Numbers 53-54 omitted in paging. Errors in the page numbering (21 numbered 12; 102 numbered 192; 60-61 numbered 56-55; 107 not numbered; 108-109 numbered 104-105). Former classmark: 31.I.15. References: RISM B/I, 1659 Wing, W2909 Day & Murrie. Songbooks, 14 object type: Composed by John Wilson, Charles Colman, Henry Lawes, William Lawes, Nicholas Laneare, William Webb and other excellent masters of musick. title: MU 1328 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/131145 PEOPLE ------------------- Cooper, Gerald TECHNIQUES ---------- printing CATEGORIES ------ category: printed music category: archive document DATING ------ creation date: 1659 - 1659 creation date earliest: 1659 creation date latest: 1659 CREATORS -------- maker: Playford, John maker: Playford, John maker: Wilson, John, 1595-1674 maker: Coleman, Charles, ca. 1605-1664 maker: Lawes, Henry, 1596-1662 maker: Lawes, William, 1602-1645 maker: Lanneare, Nicholas, 1588-1666 maker: Webb, William, c1600-1657 maker: Colman, Edward, 1622-1669 maker: Savile, Jeremy maker: Dering, Mary, Lady, 1629-1704 maker: Brewer, Thomas, 1611-ca. 1665 maker: Johnson, Robert, 1583-1633 maker: Warner, Mr. maker: Goodgroome, John, ca.1630-1704 maker: Smegergill, William maker: Ives, Simon, 1600-1662 maker: Tompkins, William maker: Cobb, John, fl 1630-1650 maker: Jenkins, John, 1592-1678 maker: Godbid, William, d.1679