Il primo [-quinto] libro di madrigali
By: d'Archadelt ; a quatro voci con una nuova gionta ultimamente impressi. 
Contributors: Bates, Joshua, 1788-1864, former owner, donor; Gardane, Antonio, 1509-1569, printer
Publisher: Appresso di Antonio Gardane
Published: 1543
Place of publication: In Venetia
Language: ita
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Italian Madrigals
Work titles: Madrigals, voices (4), book 1-5
Notes: "Altus": 5 partbooks bound together.

Signatures: [píþ] H-Ḿþ I-Ḿþ L-Ṕþ I-Ḿþ I-Ḿþ.

Title page vignette (a lion and a bear facing one another, jointly holding up a sphere.)

Also available on microfilm in the Boston Public Library Music Department.

Gift: Joshua Bates; 18590915.

Text in Italian.

Catalogued 20151127 bhealy

Boston Public Library (Allen A. Brown Collection) copy bound in vellum. Front pastedown includes donors' ex libris (bookplate) of the Boston Public Library identifying copy as a gift of Joshua Bates, received September 15, 1859. Title page includes embossed stamp of the Boston Public Library. Printed on antique laid papers featuring vertical chainlines, horizontal wire lines, and watermark visible at left-of-center of head of page. Rear pastedown includes affixed label of the Boston Public Library detailing circulation regulations.