METRICAL PSALMS or Anthems for 4 and 5 voices, being Sir William Leighton's Tears or Lamentations of a Sorrowful Soul, 1614. Cantus part only, with accompaniments for lute (in tablature) and treble viol written below. The other composers named are J. Bull, W. Bird, J. Coperario, J. Dowland, Alph...
15th century Canons, by Sydrach Rahel. CANONS for 4 voices to the first lines of the Psalms (Vulgate version), by Sydrach Rahel, with a dedication, in French, to James I, from which it appears that they are intended to be accompanied by the lute (? in unison). At the end are canons on the 'Oratio Dominica' (à 5), and on the words 'Viuat Jacobus primus, rex Angliae, in eternum' (two settings, à 2). See Cat. of Music, i, p. 115. Temp. James I. The MS. was formerly numbered Add. 5341, but was...
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The first lines of the Psalms in the Latin Vulgate version, set as Canons (in 4 parts, unless the contrary is stated) by Sydrach Rahel. From the dedication to James I, in French, it appears that they are intended to be accompanied by the lute, i.e. in unison with the voices. Included also are the...
'THE HISTORY of the Israelites from the death of Saul to their carrying away captive into Babylon': a harmony of the books of Kings and Chronicles, made from printed texts with paste and scissors, notes and headings being inserted in manuscript. This is one of a series of harmonies made by Nicho...
CATALOGUE and Papers relating to the library given by Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, viz.:- 1. Copy of indenture quadripartite for the government of the library, made 1 Jan. 1574/5 between Archbishop Parker, the Master and Fellows of Corpus, the ...
MEMORANDUM-BOOK of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Lord Treasurer, circ. 1592. Autograph. The entries are chiefly notes of letters to be written, petitions, and Council business. The only dated entries are of May and June, 1592. At ff. 2, 3 are notes on the pedigree of Egerton of Ridley, co. Chest...
'A BOOKE of soche jewells and other parcells as are deliuered to the charge and custodie of Mistris Mary Radclyffe, one of the gentlewom[en] of the Quenes Maiesties privie chambre, a[nd] were parcell of soche jewells and were in charge of Mistris Blanche Parrye, mense Julii, 1587.' The inventory...
TABULA librorum de historiis anitiquitatum ac diuinitate tractancium in librariis et domibus religiosis subscriptis repertorum, nulla mencione habita de libris communiter impressis seu de materiis predictis minime tractancium': list in a contemporary copyist's hand of MSS. of history or divinity...
'CATALOGUS Librorum Manuscriptorum Johannis Theyer': list of 336 MSS. collected by john Theyer of Cooper's Hill, Brockworth, co. Glouc., and inherited on his death (1673) by his grandson, Charles Theyer, and by him sold to Robert Scott, bookseller, from whom they were ultimately purchased by Cha...
