PSALTER, with antiphons, litany and prayers; a calendar prefixed. Latin. Vellum; ff. 222. Written in Germany late in the xvth century. With illuminated initial letters. Small Octavo. Liturgies LATIN: Psalterium: 15th cent. Art. Illuminations and Drawings GERMAN: Psalter. Initials: late 15th ce...
ANTIPHONS, verses, and responses, for processions at various festivals. Latin. At f. 5 b is " Memoria passionis domini nostri Jesu Christi, incepta in ecclesia beate Marie ad gradus Coloniensis, anno domini 1523." With later additions. Vellum; ff. 58. xvith cent. In the original binding of stamp...
BREVIARY, With other church offices, in Latin, viz. 1. ]Psalter, with antiphons; followed by the canticles, creeds, benedictions, etc. f. 1. 2. " Hymnarium." f. 55. 3. Litany and services for the dead. f. 60 b. 4. " Officium beate Marie semper uirginis." f. 64. 5. Capitula, with music. f...
MADRIGALS and motets in four parts, Italian and English; the latter being chiefly taken from Bennett's Madrigals to Foure Voyces, 1599. Paper; ff. 69, 67, 67, 58. xviiith cent. Oblong Octavo. Music: Motets, madrigals, etc.: 18th cent.
SIXTY-Two airs and dances, by William Lawes; the theorbo and dividing-bass parts only. Paper; ff. 35, 35. xviith cent. Oblong Octavo. William Lawes, composer: Music: 17th-19th centt.
'Macbeth'; by John Eccles, in score. Evidently transcribed from Add MS 29378, ff. 57-95, with the singers' names added in pencil from Add MS 12219. The history of this copy is related in a notice extracted from William Linley and prefixed to Add. 12219 (f. 3).
MOTETS for six voices by Alfonso Ferrabosco [the younger]. Altus and Tenor parts only. Autograph? Paper; ff. 12,12. Early xviith cent. Quarto. Alfonso Ferrabosco, junior; composer: Motets: 17th cent.: Autogr. (?).
MOTETS for two or three voices, with bass. The name of Carissimi occurs. In four parts. Paper; ff. 58, 52, 47, 44. xviith cent. Folio. Giacomo Carissimi, composer: Church-music: 17th - 19th centt.
CONCERTO in G minor for harpsichord and a string quartet, by Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach. In parts. Paper; ff. 30. xviiith cent. Obl. Folio. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, composer: Concerto and sonata: 18th cent.