John Carter Brown Library - First Printed Music in the Americas All licenses are dated 1601

Colophon on leaf 105 verso: Liber quatuor Passionum, & lamentationu[m] iuxta Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae normam feliciter explicit: concinatus, & in meliorem concentum redactus à Patre Fratre Ioanne Navarro Minorita, Provinci[a]e Apostolorum Petri, & Pauli Mechhuacanensis alumno. 23. Die Mensis Iunij: Anno verò à Natiuitate Christi Redemptoris nostri. 1604. Mexici. Apud Didacum Lopez Davalos

Signatures: pi⁴ A-2C⁴ chi²

The oldest printed music composed in America, its composer often confused with the Spanish polyphonist Juan Navarro, who died in 1580; see R. Stevenson, Music in Mexico

Text set in black letter type, notation in black letterpress, staves and running titles printed in red, bar lines in black, catch words

Title in ornamental border (printer's ornaments) with woodcut crucifixion scene, t.p. verso with emblem of the Franciscan order, final leaves chi1 verso and chi2 recto with woodcut ill. of Saints Peter and Paul and John the Baptist; ornamental initials, some printed in red, head- and tail-pieces

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675

Stevenson, Robert M. Music in Mexico

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.)

Medina, J.T. México

Sabin

John Carter Brown Library copy has previous owner name in ms. on t.p. (illegible) and drawing and notes on leaf chi2 verso

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