Blanks between ff. 62-63 [4],112-113 [3] not included in modern foliation. Not digitized. and Water staining at top edge. Some discoloration but minimal loss of text.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Missals
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
Known as the Braye Lutebook, after Adrian Verney-Cave, 6th Baron Braye, (1874-1952), the volume consists of a collection of lute music, by, or in the style of, John Dowland ([1563] - [1626]). A number of dances such as pavans, galliards, a saltcell, and the Antike, also the only contemporary source for Benedick�s song in the last act of Much Ado about Nothing.
Description:
Accompanied by transcription of verses, and some cookery recipes.
Subject (Topic):
Lute music--16th century, Recipes--Early works to 1800, and Songs--16th century