Kerckhoven, Abraham van den, ca. 1618-1701 Liberti, Henricus, ca. 1600-1669 Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon, 1562-1621
Published / Created:
[circa 1650s]
Call Number:
Osborn Music MS 533
Image Count:
166
Resource Type:
Music (Printed & Manuscript)
Description:
Anglo-Flemish organ music, written in manuscript on paper, in several unidentified hands, known as the Novello Organ Book. The manuscript contains over one hundred works, including organ masses and other Roman Catholic liturgical music, possibly used by English recusants in the Low Countries. Also present are preludes and fugues, variations, fantasias, and other secular music. Composers include Abraham van den Kerckhoven, Henricus Liberti, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, and Jacobus de Cherf. A few works are dated 1651., Annotations in English, French, Latin, and Flemish., Binding: vellum boards, rebacked., Cover: Presented to the library of the Musical Antiquarian Society by Vincent Novello, April 1844., Formerly owned by John Watts, Vincent Novello, the Musical Antiquarian Society, Camille Saint-Saens, Eugene Gigout, and Leon Boellmann., Inside front cover: Vincent Novello...kindly presented to me by my old friend John Watts, Feby 19, 1841., p. 105 tipped in., Pages [330-364] blank, unscanned., Pages 90-99 omitted from pagination, numerous errors., Preliminary page: signatures of Camille Saint-Saens and Eugene Gigout., and Title from cover.
Subject (Name):
Kerckhoven, Abraham van den, ca. 1618-1701, Liberti, Henricus, ca. 1600-1669, Saint-Saens, Camille, 1835-1921, provenance, and Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon, 1562-1621
Subject (Topic):
Catholics -- England -- 17th century, Organ music -- 17th century, and Organ music -- Netherlands -- 17th century
Manuscript music copied by Burney, possibly for use in his General History of Music. Music includes madrigals by Gioseffo Zarlino, Ruggiero Giovannelli, Alfonso Ferrabosco, and Luca Marenzio; motets by Johannes Lupi, and songs by John Dowland and Henry Lawes. An index written in an unidentified hand is laid in.
Description:
Binding: 19th century marbled boards., Blanks not scanned., Label on cover: A collections [sic] of Italian mss in the handwriting of Dr. Burney, many of which he introduced in his history of music., Label on spine: Madrigals, &c., 1567, &c., Page [1]: stamped signature of Charles Hackett., and Words in Italian, Latin, and English.
Subject (Name):
Burney, Charles, 1726-1814, Dowland, John, 1563?-1626, Ferrabosco, Alfonso, 1543-1588, Giovannelli, Ruggiero, ca. 1560-1625, Lawes, Henry, 1596-1662, Lupi, Johannes, d. 1539, Marenzio, Luca, 1553-1599, and Zarlino, Gioseffo, 1517-1590
Subject (Topic):
Music -- History and criticism -- Early works to 1800, Vocal music -- 16th century, and Vocal music -- 17th century
Manuscript on parchment of gospel and liturgical texts with musical notation for the Vigil of Christmas and the Holy Week. Includes a variety of feriae.
Description:
Decoration: headings in red; yellow heightening of majuscules and cadel; numerous elaborately decorated cadels; neumatic chant notation on four-line staff. and Script copied by two hands in a rather angular southern gothica textualis formata (rotunda).
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven. and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript on parchment of a gradual containing the Mass of the Dead, Kyrie, Sanctus and Agnus Dei, and other feasts.
Description:
Binding: 19th-century binding of reddish brown leather over cardboard; both covers blind-tooled., Decoration: rubrics in red; red stroking of majuscules; red or blue 1-line versals; alternately red and blue 1- or 2-line flourished initials with primitive penwork in the contrasting color; litterae duplices in various places., Notation in cheironomic neumes., Script: copied by various hands writing northern gothica textualis libraria., and Signature of 18th-cent. owner on front flyleaf: "Ex museo Josephi de Fabert, D.M. 1782."
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy.
Subject (Topic):
Graduals (Chants), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Compositions in 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 parts. Composers include: Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778), John Bennet, Thomas Bateson ([1570]-1630), Giovanni Croce ([1557]-1609), John Dowland (1563-1626), Michael East ([1580]-1648), Thomas Ford ([1580]-1648), John Farmer, Alfonso Ferrabosco (1543-1588), Andrea Feliciane, Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625), Henry Harington (1727-1816), Simon Ives (1600-1662), George Kirbye (d. 1634), Roland de Lassus (1532-1594), Luca Marenzio (1553-1599), Thomas Morley (1557-[1603]), Beniamino Palavincino, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594), Henry Purcell ([1658]-1695), Ludovico Grossi Viadana ([1564]-1645), Tomas Luis de Victoria ([1548]-1611), Stefano Venturi del Nibbio, Thomas Weelkes (d. 1623), and John Wilbye (1574-1638).
Description:
3 blank leaves at end unscanned., Binder's title: Madrigals and canons, &c., Miscellaneo[us], Bookplate of Warren-Horne., Musical MS copied and signed by Warren-Horne., Pagination skips p. 65-66., and With index.
Subject (Name):
Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778, Bateson, Thomas, Bennet, John, fl. 1599-1614, Croce, Giovanni, ca. 1557-1609, Dowland, John, 1563?-1626, East, Michael, ca. 1580-1648, Farmer, John, fl. 1591-1601, Feliciani, Andrea, d. 1596, Ferrabosco, Alfonso, 1543-1588, Ford, Thomas, d. 1648, Gibbons, Orlando, 1583-1625, Harington, Henry, 1727-1816, Ives, Simon, 1600-1662, Kirbye, George, ca. 1565-1634, Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594, Marenzio, Luca, 1553-1599, Morley, Thomas, 1557-1603?, Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da, 1525?-1594, Pallavicino, Benedetto, ca. 1551-1601, Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695, Venturi del Nibbio, Stefano (fl. 1592 - 1600), Viadana, Lodovico da, ca. 1560-1627, Victoria, Toma´s Luis de, ca. 1548-1611, Weelkes, Thomas, ca. 1575-1623, and Wilbye, John, 1574-1638
Subject (Topic):
Canons, fugues, etc. (Voices (4)), Madrigals--Early works to 1800, and Songs
Manuscript on parchment of a ferial psalter containing a calendar, a psalter with hymns and antiphons, canticles, a litany, and the Office of the Dead.
Description:
Binding: early binding; undecorated brown leather over wooden boards., Decoration: rubrics in red (rare); red or blue paragraph marks. Red stroking of majuscules. Alternately red and blue versals; brown or grey cadels, often decorated with a grotesque human face; numerous 2-line dentelle initials; large foliate initials on ff. 7v, 52r, 63v, 74v; these are accompanied by three-margins left floral borders., and Script: copied in northern gothica textualis formata (textus rotundus) with English features.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Psalters.
Contains 12 illuminated historiated initial miniatures, 3 additional miniatures, and 833 large and small ornamental initials and marginal decorations., From the Belle Skinner Collection., Gradual for the use of the monks of the Congregation of St. Justina, of the Order of St. Benedict, at the monastery of St. Peter of Saviliano., Ms., in red and black., and On last leaf: Istud Graduale est monachorum congregationis Sancte Iustine ordinis Sancti Benedicti de obseruantia deputatum monasterio Sancti Petri de Sauiliano.
Subject (Name):
Benedictines--Italy--Savigliano., San Pietro (Monastery : Savigliano, Italy), and Skinner, Belle--Provenance.
Manuscript on parchment of a processional for use by a Dominican nuns' convent. Includes processionals for Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, and Easter among others.
Description:
Binding: original binding; reddish brown leather over wooden boards. Both covers blind-tooled., Decoration: red rubrics (often missing); 2-line red plain initials for the prayers; black cadels of the same height, stroked in red., Purchased by Thomas E. Marston in 1949 from C.A. Stonehill., and Script: written in somewhat irregular northern gothica textualis formata. Musical notation is in nota quadrata.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy.
Subject (Topic):
Holy Week music., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Processionals (Liturgical books)--Early works to 1800.