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circumscripsit, 1515. With the arms of, and dedicated to, 

 Matthaeus Lang, Cardinal Archbishop of Salzburg. 



Music. — The additions to the collection of music have 

 been especially important. Chief among them are the Bass 

 Part-Books of the following works printed at Venice by 

 Ottaviano Petrucci in the first decade of the sixteenth century : 

 *• Misse Alexandri Agricole ", 1504, " Misse De Orto ", 1505, 

 and " Misse Caspar," 1506 ; of the last two only one other 

 copy of the bass part is known to exist. The following rare 

 Spanish musical works have also been acquired : " Tractado 

 breve de principios de canto llano, ", by Juan Despinosa 

 (probably printed at Toledo, about 1525) ; " Libio de Musica de 

 Vihuela de Mano, Intitulado, El Maestro. Valencia, 1536, by 

 Luis Milan ; " Poema Harmonico," Madrid, 1695, by F. Guerau ; 

 and a " Manuale Chori," printed at Salamanca in 1506, by 

 Johannes de Porro. A number of rare musical works which 

 formed part of the Borghese Library have also been secured ; 

 several of these are believed to be unique. Among them are 

 a set of " Canzonette a tre voci," by an anonymous composer, 

 who styles himself " L'AfFetuoso," but is believed to 

 be Tomaso Pecci,. These books are engraved and probably 

 appeared at Siena about 1610. Equally rare are the 

 " Vivezze di Flora e Primavera, " 1622, the " Virtuoso 

 Ritrovo," 1626, " Principiante FanciuUo," 1625, and 

 " Dialoghi," Concerti, etc. " 1625, of Adriano Banchieri ; 

 the " Amorosa Schiera," of Orazio Tarditi, 1628 ; the 1st and 

 5th Books of the " Diversi Scherzi " of Antonio Cifra, 

 1613-17 ; an undescribed edition of the First Bookof Madrigals 

 of Orlando di Lasso, Venice, 1584; and hardly less rare than 

 these are Kapsberger's " Libro Primo d'Intavolatura di 

 Chitarone," Venice, 1604, and J. U. Steigleder's " Tabulatur- 

 Buch," Strasburg, 1627. 



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