Doni, Gio. Battista (Giovanni Battista), 1593 or 1594-1647
Published / Created:
MDCXL [1640]
Call Number:
Monteverdi 5
Image Count:
9
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:
Author's presentation inscription to Malatesta Albani. Unidentified armorial bookplate. Shelfmark in ms. on t.p. verso: M VIII 4. Accompanied by 3 leaves of ms. notes. From the Albi Rosenthal Collection of Monteverdi and the birth of opera. and Signatures: [dagger]⁸(-[dagger]1, blank?) A-3F⁴ 3G².
Publisher:
Nella stamperia d'Andrea Fei,
Subject (Name):
Doni, Gio. Battista (Giovanni Battista), 1593 or 1594-1647. Compendio del trattato de' generi e de' modi della musica. and Rosenthal, Albi, 1914-2004
Subject (Topic):
Music, Greek and Roman, Music--Acoustics and physics, and Musical instruments
Initials (?) on title page: B.D.B. Manuscript note on page 172: Nil advo[?] paruum est, tibi quin solatia pro[ce]ssit [undeciphered] punctum unum grande te[?]num hab[undeciphered].
Bound with the author's A king and no king. London, 1631; and The maids tragedy. London, 1661., Imperfect: signature C1 slightly mutilated., Mainly by Beaumont., Manuscript annotation on back flyleaf., and Signatures: A2, B-I4.
Publisher:
Printed for William Leake, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Crown in Fleet street, between the two Temple Gates,
Dedication signed: John Donne [the younger]., Imperfect: p. [1]-[4] mutilated; port. wanting. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's copy, with manuscript annotations in his hand (originally Charles Lamb's book which Coleridge apparently borrowed, see note on back board). Ms. notes by George T. Strong, of New York., Printer's name from Wing CD., Signatures: A⁴ B-2D⁸ (2D8, blank)., and With frontis. portrait (A1v) of John Donne.
Publisher:
In the Savoy, Printed by T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, at the sign of the Anchor, in the lower-walk of the New-Exchange,
Subject (Name):
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,--1772-1834--Autograph., Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,--1772-1834--Ms. notes., Donne, John, 1604-1662., Lamb, Charles,--1775-1834--Ownership., and Strong, George Templeton,--1820-1875--Ms. notes.
Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand and with many corrections, of a collection of 31 psalms in English verse. The volume contains Psalms 75-105, though the manuscript is incomplete at beginning and end. Many corrections have been pasted into the manuscript; elsewhere, text has been crossed out and written over in the same hand.
Description:
Binding: stitched. and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Religious life and customs--17th century.
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--O.T.--Psalms.--English., English poetry--17th century., and Religious poetry, English.
Corrected proof, first edition. Stamped: Temple Press. Tipped in: autograph letter signed to Samuel Everitt from Joseph Conrad, 1921 August 21. Tipped in: Motto, typescript.
Accompanied by: Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, containing several works in verse and prose apparently composed by Dorothy Calthorpe. The volume opens with three poems in couplets: "Philismena to Philander," "Philander to Philismena," and "In commendations of a country Life it being so innocent," and a short prose "Discription of the Garden of Edden." These are followed by a longer prose narrative: "A Short History of the Life and Death of Sir Ceasor Dappefer, or els a pleasent histtory of Jewlious and Dorinda the truth of it was so lately represented that some of those worthy persons are stil liueing and ownes what is here repated." The story, which Calthorpe claims is based on the lives of her father and grandfather, traces the business success and courtships of a father and son. "A Castell in the aire, or the pallace of the man in the moone" is a prose work containing both religious reflection and descriptions of "visiones" of Roman gods, eagles and celestial gardens. and The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New : newly translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised ...London: Henry Hills and John Field, 1660. Ownership and presentation inscriptions include "Dorothy Harvey her book Giuen me by my uncell Nicholas Jun 15 1686. Pray for NH, he pray for thee;" "Given to Anne the Hon.ble Ly. Middeleton by Mrs. Caroline Acton, Decr. 1836;" and "Jane Anne Broke from her Godmother Anne Hon.ble Lady Middleton July 28 1860." Bound in black gilt-panelled morocco, with a six-compartment gilt spine. Marbled endpapers.
Alternative Title:
Writings, [1672-1684]
Description:
Dorothy Calthorpe was probably connected to the Calthorpe family of Ampton in Suffolk, but she has not been further identified. and Purchased from Sotheby's on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2006.