Copyist's manuscript consisting of 22 chamber duets by Steffani.
Alternative Title:
Libro di duetti dello Stefani dell’ Illmo. Sigre. Alfonso Marsili
Description:
Agostino Steffani, Italian composer, especially known for his chamber duets for two voices and continuo., Also listed in finding aid for General Collection Manuscript Music Miscellany., Binding: contemporary parchment., and Blanks not scanned.
Subject (Name):
Marsili, Alfonso and Steffani, Agostino,--1654-1728
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
Containing a collection of extracts of church music by various composers. 18th century vocal settings of biblical texts, anthems, and hymns, for solo voices and 4 part chorus in different settings. Most are written to be accompanied by continuo, but few are orchestrated. Contains pieces by Henry Aldrich (1647-1710), Henry Purcell ([1658/9]-1695), Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674), Alessandro Stradella (1642-1682), Pelham Humfrey (1647-1674), Matthew Lock (1621-1677), Charles King (1687-1748), Jeremiah Clarke (1669-1707), and John Weldon (1674-1736), whose anthem Let God Arise is apparently unpublished.
Description:
Anonymous musical MS., Binder's blanks omitted from scanning., and With index.