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Liber primus sacrarum cantionum quinque vocum. Autore Guilielmo Byrd organista regio, Anglo.

Byrd, William, 1539 or 1540-1623. author.; Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.; Britwell Library, former owner.
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Title
Liber primus sacrarum cantionum quinque vocum. Autore Guilielmo Byrd organista regio, Anglo.
Uniform title
Cantiones sacrae. Liber 1
Created/published
[London] : Excudebat Thomas Est ex assignatione Guilielmi Byrd. Cum priuilegio. Londini, 25. Octob. 1589.
Description
[160] p. : music ; (4to)
Associated name
Byrd, William, 1539 or 1540-1623. author.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Britwell Library, former owner.
Note
Five partbooks, each with separate dated title page and collating A-D⁴. At head of title, part 1: "Superius."; part 2: "Medius."; part 3: "Contratenor."; part 4: "Tenor."; part 5: "Bassus.".

Copy filmed at UMI microfilm Early English Books, Tract Supplement reel E3 a fragment with title page to "Contratenor" only.

Stationers' register: Entered 6 December 1596.
Exhibited
Copy 2 Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2006. "Noyses, sounds, and sweet aires" (catalog entry 91)
Copy 1 Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2003. Elizabeth I (catalog p. 41)
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 4247
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S106990
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Genre/form
Printing privileges.
Annotations.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.

Call number
STC 4247 copy 1
Folger-specific note
HH41/20. Vellum binding, signed by F. Bedford, stamped with the Miller arms in gilt on both covers. Leaves numbered in manuscript, not all consecutively. Trimmed at head. Provenance: James Bartleman - Britwell Court - Harmsworth copy
Call number
STC 4247 copy 2
Folger-specific note
HH41/20a. Unbound. Imperfect: superius, medius, tenor only. Manuscript barlines. Provenance: Harmsworth copy

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