IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 300294 accession number: MU.MS.166.B DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 7 July 2021 updated: Monday 11 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Language: Latin, Italian For 2-4 voices, mostly on a cantus firmus. Editorial title. Manuscript in ink, in an anonymous hand. Paper (leaves 14-18, 23-28): 10 staves (195x247mm) ; watermark: "LVG" below Strasbourg bend ; counternark: "IV". Paper (leaves 19-22, 29-33): 12 staves (4 groups of three staves) (3-stave rastrum 40mm) ; watermark: "LVG" below Strasbourg bend ; counternark: "IV". Former classmark: 32.G.27. Probably received unbound. Bound and foliated as tract 2 in a miscellany, probably about 1890, and rebound separately in quarter morocco, marbled paper sides and vellum tips by the Cockerell Bindery, DC 6540, October 1979. Contents [1.] 32 [exercises in spieces counterpoint on the plainsong melody] Laudate Dominum omnes gentes -- [2] [6 canonic exercises in four parts] : Kyrie ; Amen ; Amen ; [3 without text] -- [3] Some examples of 2 and 3 parts by Zarlino [from] Page 237, 214, 225, 239, 241, 244, 247, [and others]. object type: 1 ms. score (leaves 14-33) ; 24 x 32 cm. title: [Collection of exercises in species counterpoint and canons] NOTES ----- type: history note value: Founder's bequest. Inscribed: "Fitzwilliam 1782". 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/300294 CATEGORIES ------ category: manuscript (music) DATING ------ creation date: 1770 - 1779 creation date earliest: 1770 creation date latest: 1779 CREATORS -------- maker: Zarlino, Gioseffe maker: Cockerell Bindery