ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. No. I. ff. 62. 1. ff. 1-11. No no no non voglio. 2. ff. 11b-22. In amor chi vuol godere. 3. ff. 23-30. Non te lo dissi o core. 4. ff. 30b-41. Luci belle non tanta fretta. 5. ff. 42-50. La fortuna. 6. ff. 51-62. Labri belli. Agostino Steffani, composer: Vocal music...
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Steffani (Agostino) and Marcello (Benedetto). Duetti; 17th century, 18th century. A set of 30 duets, numbered 1-29, with an additional unnumbered piece inserted between nos. 5 and 6. Nos. 7 and 9 are by Pietragrua (Carlo Luigi), nos. 8 and 10 possibly by the same; nos. 24...
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Steffani (Agostino) and Torri (Pietro). Duetti; early 18th century. A numbered set of 17 duets. Nos. 1 and 14 are by Pietro Torri. In score, with bass accompaniment (occasionally figured) only. Paper. ff. 73. 1. ff. 1-3. Torri (Pietro): Valli secrete. 2. ff. 3b-9. Crud...
Collection of partially scored, and complete compositions, of sacred music, largely of English origin, composed, for instruments, and voice; including: for Bass-violin, Lute, and Strings, and also including Madrigals, Anthems, Metrical Psalms or Hymns, and Services.
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Vol. I. ff. 53. Apparently written about 1547-1548, before the first Booke of the Common Prayer, 1549. In many cases the versions of the Psalms followed closely resemble those in the Prymer of 1544.Collection of partially scored, and complete compositions, of sacred music, largley of English or...
Collection of partially scored, and complete compositions, of sacred music, largely of English origin, composed, for instruments, and voice; including: for Bass-violin, Lute, and Strings, and also including Madrigals, Anthems, Metrical Psalms or Hymns, and Services.
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Vol. II. ff. 36. Apparently written about 1547-1548, before the first Booke of the Common Prayer, 1549. In many cases the versions of the Psalms followed closely resemble those in the Prymer of 1544. Collection of partially scored, and complete compositions, of sacred music, largley of English...
Collection of partially scored, and complete compositions, of sacred music, largely of English origin, composed, for instruments, and voice; including: for Bass-violin, Lute, and Strings, and also including Madrigals, Anthems, Metrical Psalms or Hymns, and Services.
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Vol. III. ff. 52. Apparently written about 1547-1548, before the first Booke of the Common Prayer, 1549. In many cases the versions of the Psalms followed closely resemble those in the Prymer of 1544. Collection of partially scored, and complete compositions, of sacred music, largley of Englis...
Declaration of expenses of the navy between Wales and Ireland by Sir Anthony Poyntz, Vice-Admiral, 8 April-23 September 1523
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A roll containing a declaration of expenses of Henry VIII's 'navye on the see between Wales and Irelond', by Sir Antony Poyntz (b. 1480, d. 1533), Vice-Admiral, 8 April-23 September 1523. The recto records the expenses for ten ships in the king's navy: the Minion, the George of Fowey, the Chris...
This manuscript contains a copy of Archidamus, one of the Orationes of the Ancient Greek rhetorician Isocrates (b. 436, d. 338 BC), in a Latin translation composed by Jane Lumley (b. 1537, d. 1578), Baroness Lumley. The manuscript is a presentation copy, probably intended as a New Year's gift fo...
Contents: ff. 2r-15r: Sworne Book of Honorius (Liber iuratus Honorii), or Liber Sacer,chapters 1-5 (chapter 4 in Latin, the remainder in English); ff. 15r-23r: A treatise on Suffumigations (mostly in English, final paragraphs in Latin); ff. 23r-27r: Lists of classes of angels and spirits (op...
?William Hopkinson, perhaps of St. John's College, Cambridge, (see Charles Henry and Thompson Cooper, Athenae Cantabrigienses, 3 vols (Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, 1858-1913) II 1586-1609, p. 5), A criticism of translations from the Hebrew Old Testament into Latin by Immanuel Tremellius (see his T...