Details: 349 Pieces RISM Catalog

Scoring: V, orch

Original Title: [at head of f.2r:] Francis Sambrook his booke.

Material:

Source type:
Source type: Manuscript copy
Content type: Notated music
Date:
1600-1624 (17.1q)
Material:
Format, extent: score: 251f.
Dimensions: 41,4 x 27,5 cm

Copyist:

Notes: Contains 349 pieces; various "partes" of works are inventoried and counted separately
Compiled by Francis Tregian (1619+) while imprisoned at Fleet Prison, London, between 1613 and 1619
Binding: contemporary calf, tooled and stamped in gold. Written in score format, with each system running across the opening from the verso to the succeeding recto leaf. Text is generally underlaid to only the bass voice
On upper cover: "This Book is worth its weight in gold- / This I found Myself"
f.1r: "John Allcock- / 1745"
f.1v: "N.B. All Leaves that are torn out of this book were / plain ones and very much damag'd by Sea-water / All the following Music was wrote out of the Vatican (or Pope's Library), at Rome"
In a different hand: "I do not find any authority for this assertion of Doctor Alcock. / John Parker. The name of Francis Sambroke (the same whom I suppose / to have been former possessor of this book) is subscribed to a / Copy of Verses printed together with Milton's Sonett in a / Collection of "Choice Psalmes put into Musick for three Voices" - "composed by Henry & William Lawes" - Published with an / engraved head of King Charles I. in 1648. / J. Parker"
In E. F. Rimbault's hand: "Francis Sambrooke died 1660 aged 70, and was / buried in Salisbury Cathedral. / Edward F. Rimbault"
f.236v: "N.B. All the leaves w: ch are torn out, were / plain ones-"
Score: 1-570p.

Bibliographic reference: vol.2, p.264-265