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
Bat. cum Privil. Ordin. Gener, Belgii Faederati--Title cartouche., Features include ornate title cartouche (top left) with cherubs, male and female figures and royal coat-of-arms supported by lion and unicorn, arms of Scotland supported by cherubs (above scale cartouche at top right), compass indicator and coasts shaded outwards., In Latin with some place names in English; explanations and title for index to places in Dutch and English., No. 7 of 69 maps bound together in composite atlas., Relief shown pictorially., Scale [ca. 1:960 000]., Scale statement reads: Milliaria Germanica Communia 15 in uno Gradu, with scale bar graded [0]-10; Milliaria Scotica Communia quorum 50 in uno Gradu, with scale bar graded [0]-34; Milliaria Gallica quae et Horae Itineris 20 in uno Gradu, with scale bar graded [0]-14., Shows grid, rivers and tributaries, lochs (shaded), trees, place and county names, settlements (symbols classified by importance in legend), territorial boundaries., Shows Scotland including the Hebrides and Orkney Islands., and The four cardinal points are written in the borders.
Descriptio ac delineatio geographica detectionis freti, sive, transitus ad occasum supra terras
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Map depicts the Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (era of the Union of the Crowns), reigning between the years 1603-1707.
Alternative Title:
Tabula nautica, qua repraesentantur orae maritimae, meatus, ac freta, noviter a H. Hudsono Anglo ad Caurum supra Novam Franciam
Description:
Bound in after p. [2]., In pencil on recto: 170., Map cut and folded irregularly., Map has multiple small stains on both the recto and verso., and Scale [ca. 1:9,000,000].
Charts and title pages in English, text in Dutch., Map oriented with North at bottom left., and Volvelle on p. [17].
Publisher:
Jodocus Hondius excudit,
Subject (Geographic):
Europe --Maps --Early works to 1800, Great Britain --Maps --Early works to 1800, Netherlands --Maps --Early works to 1800, and North Sea --Maps --Early works to 1800
Inserted folding leaf : ""Effigies tabvlae smaragdinae."" : 2 representations of the emerald tablet of Hermes. In Hebrew on the left and an exotic tongue (representing Chaldean?) on the right.
Description:
Engraved plate, 185 x 235 mm., tipped in inside front cover., MS consists of 3 loose quires in cover., On paper., and Single columns 175 x 120 mm. bordered in pencil, without ruling.
Subject (Name):
Hermes, Trismegistus. Tabula smaragdina
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy and Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis