Research Catalog

Title

Francis Sambrooke : his booke [microform].

Author

New York Public Library. Music Division. Manuscript. Drexel 4302.

Publication

[ca. 1609-ca. 1619]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Tregian, Francis, -1619
• Drexel Collection.

Description

[2 l.], 29-560 p.; 41 cm.

Alternative Title

Sambrooke book.

Note

• Contains 1 hymn, 2 lamentations, 56 motets, 6 anthems, 1 carol, 190 Italian secular works, 1 English secular work, 8 instrumental dances, 3 works without texts (1 fragmentary).
• Signature of John Alcock with date, 1745 appears on p. 1.
• Once thought to have been copied by Francis Tregian (hypothesis now discredited by Thompson, 1992 and 2001).

Access (note)

• Requires permission of the curator; please use *ZB-137.

Indexed In (note)

• Wikipedia
• Catalogue of the valuable library of the late Edward Francis Rimbault, comprising an extensive and rare collection of ancient music, printed and in manuscript...[London : Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1877]
• Hugo Botstiber, "Musicalia in der New York Public Library," Sammelbande der Internationalen Musikgeselschaft 4 (1902-3)
• Joseph Kerman, "Master Alfonso and the English madrigal," Musical quarterly 38 (1952)
• Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music, 1400-1550 (1982), v. 2
• New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed., vol. 24
• Ruby Reid Thompson, "The 'Tregian' manuscripts: A Study of Their Compilation," British Library Journal 18 (1992)
• Ruby Reid Thompson, "Francis Tregian the Younger as Music Copyist: a Legend and an Alternative View," Music and Letters 82 (February 2001).

Reproduction (note)

• Microfilm.

Provenance (note)

• Purchased by John Parker sometime after 1662; owned by John Alcock by 1745, also owned by Edward Rimbault.

Call Number

*ZB-137

OCLC

NYPG05-C10051

Author

New York Public Library. Music Division. Manuscript. Drexel 4302.

Title

Francis Sambrooke : his booke [microform].

Imprint

[ca. 1609-ca. 1619]

Access

Requires permission of the curator; please use *ZB-137.

Indexed In:

Wikipedia, Drexel 4302.

Catalogue of the valuable library of the late Edward Francis Rimbault, comprising an extensive and rare collection of ancient music, printed and in manuscript...[London : Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1877], p. 90-91, lot 1379.

Hugo Botstiber, "Musicalia in der New York Public Library," Sammelbande der Internationalen Musikgeselschaft 4 (1902-3), p. 741-46.

Joseph Kerman, "Master Alfonso and the English madrigal," Musical quarterly 38 (1952), p.222-244.

Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music, 1400-1550 (1982), v. 2, p. 264-65.

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed., vol. 24, p. 17.

Ruby Reid Thompson, "The 'Tregian' manuscripts: A Study of Their Compilation," British Library Journal 18 (1992), 202-04.

Ruby Reid Thompson, "Francis Tregian the Younger as Music Copyist: a Legend and an Alternative View," Music and Letters 82 (February 2001).

Reproduction

Microfilm. New York, N.Y. : The New York Public Library, 1988. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (MN: *ZZ-26172)

Microfilm. New York, N.Y. : The New York Public Library, 1946. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (MN: *ZZ-237)

Provenance

Purchased by John Parker sometime after 1662; owned by John Alcock by 1745, also owned by Edward Rimbault.

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Added Author

Drexel Collection.

Tregian, Francis, -1619, copyist.

Sambrooke, Francis. Former owner

Alcock, John, 1715-1806. Former owner

Parker, John. Former owner .

Rimbault, Edward F. (Edward Francis), 1816-1876. Former owner

Added Title

Sambrooke book.

Research Call Number

*ZB-137 [Microfilm]

Drexel 4302 (Locked case)