K.4.g.3.

SEBASTIANO FESTA: ‘Perch’al viso d’amor portava’ (words, Petrarch); after 1542. Written on the versos of the title pages of the four printed part-books of Quatuor vocum musicæ modulationes numero xxvi. (Antuerpiae: Apud Guilielmum Vissenacum, 1542) in a contemporary hand, and not attributed here to the composer. The piece is also found in Moteti e canzone libro primo (Rome, 1520 or 1521) and as item 24 in Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, MSS. Magl. XIX, 164-167. For a modern edition after the printed copy, which includes significant differences from this version, see W. H. Rasmussen, Literary Sources of Secular Music in Italy (ca. 1500) (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1943), pp. 66-7. This set of part-books was previously the fifth item in a set of bound volumes comprising K.4.g.2., K.4.f.5., K.4.g.1., a fourth item not in the British Library, K.4.g.3. and K.4.d.16. Each book is numbered ‘Li.1.’, etc., at the top of every folio, in the same hand as these musical additions, and this hand has also added a few folio numbers and corrected ‘Iacob. du pont’ to ‘Nico. payen.’ as the composer of ‘Cœnantibus illis accepit Iesus panem’ (and, in the discantus part, also of ‘Dixerunt viri tabernaculi mei’). The name ‘Mercurius’ is written on the title page of each part of K.4.g.2., and the Bassus part of the same includes a flyleaf bearing the names ‘Ambrosa Bemond de Sion’ (in a sixteenth-century hand) and ‘Anthony Dixson, 1641’. Purchased from Quaritch, Apr. 1911.

4 vols. Each ff. 48. 161 x 201mm.