DICTIONARY OF MUSIC - El Atril

LIBRARIES AND COLLECTIONS OF MUSIC 701
music of the time of Edward IV., Henry VII.,
and Henry VIII. (comprising compositions by J.
Gwinnetli, R. Davis, W. Corbronde, G. Banaster,
J. Tuder, Sir 'William Hawt, Nesbet, Fowler,
and Garuesey) ; English, French, Scotch and
Latin ptsalters ; compositions by Blonie, de
Bacilly, Kircher, Mersenne, Morley, Salmon,
Dealing, Merbeck, Coperario, Lawes, King, Purcell,
and Finger ; ballads, songs, anil other
compositions adjusted to the compass of Mr.
Pepys' voice, and solos, duets, and trios for
stringed and wind instruments. Librarian
A. S. Ramsey.
d. St. Peter's College. In the College Library
is a valuable collection of MS. anthems, services,
masses, motets, etc., both Latin and English,
in separate part -books. The anthems and
services are by composers of the early 17th
century, and were probably collected when Dr.
Cosin was Master of Peterhouse (1634-60).
They are in various handwritings, and contain
some autograph compositions by Cambridge
organists of the period. The masses and motets
{in four part-books) date from the early part of
the 16th century, and contain many rare and
valuable compositions of the time of Henry
VII. and Henry VIII., including four masses
by Fayrfax, a Stabat Mater by Hunt, three
masses by Ludford, and eleven compositions by
Taverner. The collection coQtains works by
upwards of eighty different musicians, as well
as many anonymous compositions. There is a
catalogue by the Rev. Dr. Jebb, which was
printed in vol. xx. of The Ecclesiologist (1859).
See also an account of the collection (by E. C.
Hope) in The Antiquarian Magazine and
mUiographer (vol. iii. 1883). Librarian: J. H.
Grace.
e. Trinity College. The Library contains a
small collection of musical works and treatises,
including copies of the Psalterium Carolinum
of J. Wilson (1652) ; Locke's Present Practice
of Music Vindicated (1673) ; Carr's Vinculum
Societatis (1687) ; four volumes of Zarlino's
works (1589), and early editions of the works
of Byrd, "Watson, Morley, Playford, Bannister,
"Wilson, Gamble, Lawes, Mace, etc. Among
the MSS. the most valuable is a 15th-century
ToU of English carols, which has been published
by J. A. Fuller Maitland and "W. S. Roekstro
(London, 1891). A collection of lute music
(in tablature) by R. Taylor, R. Johnson, J.
Daniel, and T. Greaves, is also of interest.
Librarian : Rev. R. Sinker.
/. The University Library, besides a considerable
and somewhat miscellaneous collection
of printed music (chiefly of the 19th century),
contains a few musical MSS., consisting principally
of collections of well-known airs, dancetunes,
and lessons for the lute, bass viol and
recorder, arranged and composed by Bachelor,
Dowland, Holborne, Byrd, Tallis, R. and J.
Johnson, Alison, Cutting, Pilkington, Reade,
Nicolson, Robinson, and other composers of the
early part of the 17th century. They are written
in tablature, and date principally from 1600 to
1640. Besides these there is the tenor part of
a 16th-century collection of masses and motets
by Fayrfax, Prowett, Davy, Austen, Taverner,
Lovell, Pasche, and Ashwell. The Bass part of
this collection is in the library of St. John's
College, Cambridge. Amongst the masses in
this volume may be mentioned a ' Missa Regalis
and a mass, 'God save King Harry.' There is
also preserved here a 15th-century mass in two
parts, unfortunately wanting one page, and the
superius and tenor parts of an anonymous mass
of the time of Queen Mary. MS. installation
odes by Boyce and "Walmisley are also in the
library, and a collection of exercises for the
University musical degrees is being gradually
accumulated. Librarian : F. J. H. Jenkinson.
Canterbury. The Cathedral Library contains
a number of volumes of music and works
on music, including an incomplete copy of the
contra-tenor cantoris of Barnard's Church Music
(1641). Librarian : Dr. E. Moore.
Chatsworth, Derbyshire. The Library
of the Duke of Devonshire, though not very
rich in music, contains a few works of interest.
The chief rarities are a volume of Alius piarts
of works printed by Petrucci, comprising the
masses of P. de la Rue (Venice, 1503), A.
Agricola (Venice, 1504), A. de Fevin (Fossombrone,
1515), J. Mouton's Book I. (Fossombrone,
1515), and Josquin's Book I. (Fossombrone,
1516) ; there are also a few theoretical works ;
copies of 'TheMaske of Flowers' (1613) and
Coperario's 'Funeral Teares ' (1606) ; Campion
and Coperario's ' Songs of Mourning ' (1613),
and a number of single part-books of English
and Italian madrigals, among which are a basso
part of E. Bonnizoni's Primo Libra delle
Canzoni a quattro voci (Venice, 1569), and a
Canto part of the Lieti Amanti of 1586.
Librarian : Mrs. Strong.
Chester. The Cathedral Library contains
a good collection of modern church music.
Dublin, a. Royal Irish Academy of Music.
This Society possesses a good library of scores
and orchestral parts of the works of the great
composers. It also includes the Library of the
long defunct ' Antient Concerts.'
h. The Library of Christ Church Cathedral
contains valuable MS. copies of anthems and
services by Purcell, Child, Battishill, and others,
which are said to differ greatly from those
printed in England during the last seventy years.
Of especial interest is a volume of 144 pp. containing
a copy of an anthem by Handel,
'Blessed is he that considereth the poor,' for
chorus, solos, and orchestra, a different setting
from that written for the Foundling Hospital,
and not printed in Chrysander's edition of
Handel's works.
c. Trinity College. Besides a miscellaneous