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Ad preces nostras deitatis aures. Musical manuscript setting for 4 voices. Complete set of parts for Cantus, Altus, Tenor and Bassus. Italian, late 16th or early 17th century

Large oblong octavo (ca. 170 x 232 mm.). Each part notated in ink on 6 hand-ruled staves per page on one side of the leaf. Watermark of a fleur-de-lis within a circle.

Occasional very minor foxing and staining; minor acidification affecting several note heads; lightly creased and browned at folds.

Not located in RISM manuscripts database and possibly an unrecorded composition.

The Spanish composer Tomás Luis de Victoria set the same text, included in his Hymni totius anni, secundum Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae consvetitudinem published in Rome in 1581.

Item #39431

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