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
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
Sacrae cantiones, voices (5) (1562) and Sacrae cantiones, vulgo motecta appellatae, quinque vocum
Description:
(from Index p. [7]) Confitemini Domino -- Omnia quae fecisti -- Hierusalem -- Videntes stellam -- Deus qui sedes -- Heu quantus dolor -- Veni in hortum meum -- Angelus ad pastores -- Exaudi Domine, cum secunda parte -- Taedet animam meam -- O Domine, cum secunda parte -- Adversum me loquebantur -- Quàm benignus es -- In me transierunt -- Nisi Dominus -- Non vos me elegistis -- Legem pone -- Ilustra faciem -- Surrexit pastor bonus -- Surgens Iesus -- Confundantur superbi -- Clare sanctorum -- Sicut mater consolatur filios -- Benedicam Domino -- Caligaverunt oculi mei., Bound with: Regnart, Jacob. Sacrae aliquot cantiones. Monachii : Excudebat Adamus Berg, anno Domini 1575 -- Salé, François. Francisi Sale musici caesarei Sacrarum cantionum ... liber primus. Pragae : Typis Georgii Nigrini, anno 1593 -- [Music manuscript]., From the library of Emperor Rudolf II of Prague. Latin inscription on front pastedown. Bookplate removed. Bound in blindstamped half vellum and boards decorated with a ms. leaf., Modern foliation: ff. 8-31., Signatures: 2a-2f⁴., Tenor part only of motets for 5 voices., and Woodcut armorial crest of the dukes of Bavaria on t.p. verso.
Publisher:
In officina typographica Catharinae Gerlachiae,
Subject (Name):
Rudolf--II,--Holy Roman Emperor,--1552-1612--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied and Motets
Berg, Adam, d. 1610, printer Regnart, Jacob, 1540 (ca.)-1599
Published / Created:
anno Domini 1575.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 853
Image Count:
56
Resource Type:
Music (Printed & Manuscript)
Description:
(from Index, t.p. verso) Intuemini, quantus sit iste -- Hodie nobis de caelo pax vera descendit -- Angelus ad pastores ait -- O admirabile commertium -- Reges terrae congregati sunt -- Nunc dimittis seruum tuum -- Tribulationes cordis mei -- Ad Dominum cum tribularer -- Lamentabatur Iacob de duobus filijs suis -- Aue Regina Coelorum -- Ecce nunc tempus acceptabile -- Stetit Iesus in medio -- Domus mea domus orationis vocabitur -- Ad te, Domine, leuaui animam meam -- Beatus qui intelligit super egenum -- Resonet in laudibus -- Ego pro te rogaui Petre -- Coenantibus illis -- Ascendit Deus in iubilatione -- Homo quidam fecit coenam -- Exspectans exspectabo -- Exsultent iusti in conspectu Dei -- Aduenit ignis diuinus -- O decus Trebnitiae -- Tollite iugum meum super vos., Bound with: Lasso, Orlando di. Orlando Lassi Sacrae cantiones ... Noribergae : In officina typographica Catharinae Gerlachiae, 1586., Date precedes publisher statement on t.p.; the word "tenor" within elaborate border follows the date and precedes the publisher statement., Dedicated to Emperor Maximilian II, whose arms appear on t.p., From the library of Emperor Rudolf II of Prague. Latin inscription on front pastedown. Bookplate removed. Bound in blindstamped half vellum and boards decorated with a ms. leaf. Imperfect: f2 mutilated., Modern foliation: ff. 32-59., Portion of p. 43-44 excised., Signatures: a-g⁴ (g4 verso blank)., and Tenor part only of motets for 5 or 6 voices.
Publisher:
Excudebat Adamus Berg,
Subject (Name):
Rudolf--II,--Holy Roman Emperor,--1552-1612--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied and Motets