These that bee certaine signes (Questi ch'inditio) / Noe Fagnient -- The faire Diana (Non piu Diana) / Giouan de Macque -- Ioy so delights my hart (Gioia s'abond'all cor) / Gio Petraloysio Prenestino [Palestrina] -- False Loue now shoot (Amor ben puio) / Gio Petraloysio Prenestino [Palestrina] -- O griefe, if yet my griefe (Dolor, se'l mio dolor / Baldessar Donato -- As in the night (Come la note) / Baldessar Donato -- In vayne hee seekes for beautie (Per diuina bellezza) / Filippo di Monte -- What meaneth Loue to nest him (Perche s'annida Amore) / Gio Petraloysio Prenestino [Palestrina] -- Sweet Loue when hope (Amor quando fioriva) / Gio Petraloysio Prenestino [Palestrina] -- Lady that hand (Donna la bella mano) / Mare' Antonio Pordenone -- Who will ascend (Chi salira) / Giaches de Vuert -- Lady your looke so gentle (Donna bella e gentile) / Cornelio Verdonch -- From what part of the Heauen (In qiual parte del ciel) / Filippo di Montte -- In euery place (ogni luogo) / [Anon] -- Thirsis to dye desired (Tirsi morir volea) / Luca Marenzio -- Susanna fayre (Susann' un iovr) / Orlando di Lasso -- Susanna fayre (Susann' un iovr) / Alfonso Ferabosco -- When shall I cease (To the note of Chi per voi non) / Noe Faignient -- I must depart (Io partiro) / Luca Marenzio -- I saw my lady weeping (Vidi pianger Madonna) / Alfonso Ferabosco -- So gracious (Sci tanto gratiosa)/ Giouan Ferrettie -- Cruell vnkind (Donna crudel) / Giouan Ferrettie -- What doth my prety darling (Che fa hoggil mio sole) / Luca Marenzio -- Sleepe mine onely Iewell (Sonno scendosit) / Stefano Felis -- Sound out my voice (to the note of Vestiv' I colli) / Gianetto Palestina -- Liquide & watry perles (Liquide perle) / Luca Marenzio -- The Nightingale (Le Rossignol) / Orlando di Iasso -- Within a greenwood (In un Roschetto) / Giouan Ferretti -- Sometime when hope reliu'd mee (Gia fu ch' io) / Rinaldo del Melle -- Rubyes and perles (Perle rugini) / Alfonso Ferabosco -- O sweet kisse (O dolcissimo bascio) / Alfonso Ferabosco -- Sometime my hope (Gia fù mio dolce speme) / Alfonso Ferabosco -- Lady that hand (Donna la bella mano) / Lelio Bertany -- My hart alas (Alma giu dotta) / Gironimo Conuersi -- Lady if so spight mee (Donna se voi m'odiate) / Alfonso Ferabosco -- When I would thee embrace (Quand' io voleva) / Giouan Gattista Pinello -- Thirsis enioyed the graces (Godea Tirsi gl'amori) Alofonso Ferabosco -- The nightingale (Le Rossignol) / Alofonso Ferabosco -- The faire yong virgine (La verginella) / William Byrd -- I will goe dye for pure Loue (Io moriro d'amore) / Luca Marenzio -- These that bee certaine signes (Questi ch' inditio) / Alfonso Ferabosco -- So far frō my delight (Se lungi dal mio sol) / Alfonso Ferabosco -- Loe here my hart (Ecco ch' io lasso) / Luca Marenzio -- Zephirus brings the time (Zephiro torna) / Gironimo Conuersi -- I was full neere my fall (Fui vicin' al cader) / Alfonso Ferabosco -- I soung sometime (Cantai gia) / Luca Marenzio.
Collection of Italian madrigals with English texts.
Six part books, each with separate dated title page and register. Third word of title, part 2, “ALTVS”; part 3, “TENOR”; part 4, “QVINTVS”; part 5, “SEXTUS”; part 6, “BASSVS”.
Signatures: A₂ A-H₄; A₂ A-H₄; A₂ A-H₄; A₂ A-G₄ (B₂ missigned D₂); A₂ A-B₄; A₂ A-H₄.
With a table of contents at the end of each part book.
The last leaf of the Tenor, Quintus, and Bassus parts is blank.
Line 1 of each table of contents has “contayned,” except the Bassus which has “conteyned.”
On the title page verso is printed a large coat of arms, facing a dedication page to Gilbert Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury (1552-1616).
This appears to be a second edition of the Musica Transalpina, not printed in 1588 as stated on the title page, but ca. 1593-94: see Jeremy L. Smith, Thomas East and Music Publishing in Renaissance England (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 67-68, 152-53; Peter Clulow, 'Publication Dates for Byrd's Latin Masses', Music and Letters 47 (1966): 1-9.
Frederick Locker, with his bookplate; William Augustus White; John Whipple Frothingham, with his bookplate.
Yonge, Nicholas, -1619, publisher.
East, Thomas, 1540?-1608?, printer.
Shrewsbury, Gilbert Talbot, Earl of, 1552-1616, dedicatee.
Faignient, Noé, active 1560-1600, composer.
Macque, Giovanni de, approximately 1550-1614, composer.
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da, 1525?-1594, composer.
Donato, Baldassare, -1603, composer.
Monte, Philippe de, 1521-1603, composer.
Pordenon, Marc'Antonio, composer.
Wert, Giaches de, 1535-1596, composer.
Verdonck, Cornelis, 1563-1625, composer.
Marenzio, Luca, 1553-1599, composer.
Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594, composer.
Ferrabosco, Alfonso, 1543-1588, composer.
Ferretti, Giovanni, approximately 1540-approximately 1609, composer.
Felis, Stefano, approximately 1550-approximately 1603, composer.
Mel, Rinaldo del, approximately 1554-approximately 1598, composer.
Bertani, Lelio, approximately 1550-approximately 1620, composer.
Conversi, Girolamo, active 1571-1575, composer.
Pinello, Giovanni Battista, approximately 1544-1587, composer.
Byrd, William, 1539 or 1540-1623, composer.
Bedford, Francis, 1799-1883, binder.
Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 1821-1895, former owner.
White, William Augustus, 1843-1927, former owner.
Frothingham, John Whipple, former owner.