Library of Congress, Music Division

M1490 M535 A5

An oblong octavo book of roundels, in a formal Scottish hand with some rubrication, 152 pages, in near-contemporary calf elaborately gilt, with clasps.

With a title-page Ane buck off roundells...Collected and notted by dauid meluill. 1612, the compiler David Melvill, of Aberdeen, being the brother of James Melvill (1556-1614), Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages.

1612.

The binding bearing the name of Robert Ogilvie in gilt. Later owned by Lord Ashburnham. Recorded in 1916 as owned by Michael Tomkinson, of Franche Hall, Kidderminster. Recorded in 1958 as being somewhere in Australia.

This MS edited as The Melvill Book of Roundels, ed. Granville Bantock and H. Orsmond Anderton (Roxburghe Club, London, 1916).

68. Roundell
SiP 118: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book I, No. 5 ('Now thanked be the great God Pan')

Copy of the first stanza, in a musical setting.

Edited from this MS in the 1916 edition, No. 68, pp. 27, 139-41. Discussed in John P. Cutts, Dametas' Song in Sidney's Arcadia, RN, 11 (1958), 183-8. Recorded in Ringler, p. 567, and in Robertson, p. 427.

Ringler, p. 13. Robertson, p. 51. this setting first published in Thomas Ravenscroft, Pammelia (London, 1609).

8 Song
SuH 22: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, If care do cause men cry, why do not I complaine?

Copy of a ten-stanza version, in a musical setting.

Edited from this MS in the 1916 edition, pp. 47-8, 199-200. Recorded in Mumford, p. 12, and in Rollins, II, 313.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Padelford, No. 28, pp. 80-2. Jones, pp. 14-16.

No. 33
B&F 211: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Song ('Troule the blacke bowle to mee')
18th century.

II, 432: Troule the blacke bowle to mee. Edited in The Melvill Book of Roundels, ed. Granville Bantock and H. Orsmond Anderton (London, 1916), pp. 13, 52-3.

Quoted in The Knight of the Burning Pestle. Bowers, II, 432. The Melvill Book of Roundels, ed. Granville Bantock and H. Orsmond Anderton (London, 1916), pp. 13, 52-3.

ML 96 .P89

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed The Epicure by Mr Cowley, subscribed Mr Purcell, on all four pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.
CoA 34: Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. IX. Another

First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 56. Sparrow, p. 56.

Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in The Banquet of Musick (London, 1692). Works of Henry Purcell, XXII (London, 1922), pp. 100-3.

PR 1105.R7, 1916c

A music MS. 17th century?.
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B&F 209: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Song ('Troule the blacke bowle to mee')

Copy, in a musical setting.

Quoted in The Knight of the Burning Pestle. Bowers, II, 432. The Melvill Book of Roundels, ed. Granville Bantock and H. Orsmond Anderton (London, 1916), pp. 13, 52-3.