Manuscript, on parchment, in Anglicana script, produced in England during the early fourteenth century.
Alternative Title:
Destruction of Jerusalem.
Description:
Binding: nineteenth-century brown morocco with gilt Derby crest., One of the flyleaves has the name Thomas Redyng in a late sixteenth-century hand., The text is incomplete, ending at line 4902 of 5166 lines., and Volume interleaved with blank paper pages between each parchment page. These blank pages are not digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
Jerusalem--History--Siege, 70 A.D.--Poetry
Subject (Name):
Derby, Edward Smith Stanley,--Earl of,--1752-1834--Binding and Derby, Edward Smith Stanley,--Earl of,--1752-1834--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library and Titus and Vespasian (Middle English poem)
13 items at front of volume (with one fragment), 21 written from back. Openings numbered discretely from both ends., Anonymous MS., Copy of tenor parts, evidently by a singer for choir use. Composers include: Daniel Roseingrave (1650-1727); John Blow (1649-1708); Robert Creyghton (1639-1734); Henry Hall ([1655]-1707); Anthony Walkeley (1672-1718); Jeremiah Clarke ([1673]-1707); William Pennycourt; John Jackson (d.1688)., Numerous blanks unscanned., Pagination supplied by cataloger., and With incomplete index.
Subject (Name):
Blow, John, d. 1708, Clarke, Jeremiah, 1669?-1707, Creighton, Robert, ca. 1639-1734, Hall, Henry, ca. 1656-1707, Jackson, John, d. 1688, and Roseingrave, Daniel, d. 1727
Subject (Topic):
Anthems, Morning service music, and Sacred vocal music
Consisting of a collection of canons, catches, canzonets, and glees for 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices. 75 pieces, of which approximately 50 are signed and dated by Hayes. Some are poems set to music (by Hayes?) -- writers include: Samuel Westley [sic], Mr. Shenstone, Robert Herrick, Edmund Spenser, Philip Griffin, John Gay, Alexander Pope, and Robert Dodsley.
Description:
Although noted in contents on pastedown, p. 5-8 wanting., Bookplate of Sir Walter Parratt (1841-1924)., Holograph MS., and There is an index of titles on the front endpaper.