Bible. Psalms. English. Coverdale. and Ghostly psalms and spiritual songs drawn out of the holy Scripture, for the comfort and consolation of such as love to rejoice in God and his Word
Description:
"In Rastell's 93a mm. textura and music types"--Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 5892., Caption title; imprint from colophon. Conjectural printer's name ("in the shop of J. Rastell for") and date from Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 5892., Compiled by Miles Coverdale., Description based on imperfect Beinecke Library copy consisting of 3 leaves only (C1.4, C2). Title supplied from digital surrogate., Imperfect: all except 3 imperfect leaves (ix, x, xii; C1.4, C2) wanting. Accompanied by 2 other related titles., and In verse, with music.
Publisher:
Imprynted by [that is, in the shop of J. Rastell for] me Iohan Gough,
Subject (Name):
Coverdale, Miles, 1488-1568, compiler, Gough, John, -1543 or 1544, publisher, and Rastell, John, -1536, printer
Subject (Topic):
Bible--Psalms--Paraphrases, English--Early works to 1800 and Hymns, English--Early works to 1800
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.
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
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 music for lute in German tablature notation, in an unidentified hand, including songs, dance music, and chorales. Includes arrangements of songs by Paul Hofhaimer (1459-1537), Hans Newsidler (1508-1563), Ludwig Senf (approximately 1486-1542 or 1543), and Thomas Stoltzer (-1526), and arrangements of chorales by Martin Luther (1483-1546). Dance music includes "Bentzenauer Tanz," possibly indicating creation in Switzerland.
Description:
Binding: 18th century vellum., Date of creation supplied by cataloger., Paper: Italian, with anchor watermark (Briquet 523)., Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal (Sotheby's sale, London, 2018 May 22, lot 87) on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection Fund, 2018., Staff notation;, Tablature., Title devised by cataloger., and Titles of contents in German.
Subject (Name):
Hofhaimer, Paul, 1459-1537, composer, Luther, Martin, 1483-1546, composer, Newsidler, Hans, 1508-1563, composer, Senfl, Ludwig, approximately 1486-1542 or 1543, composer, and Stoltzer, Thomas, -1526, composer
Subject (Topic):
Chorales, Dance music--16th century, Dance music--Switzerland, Intabulations (Lute), Lute music--16th century, and Songs, German--16th century
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.