Latin sacred music of Emanuele d'Astorga, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Thomas Morley
MS. Mus. d. 294
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Latin sacred music of Emanuele d'Astorga, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Thomas Morley
Shelfmark
MS. Mus. d. 294
Summary
Latin sacred music in score by Emanuele d'Astorga, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Thomas Morley. English mid-18th-century manuscript copied by 4 different hands.
Date
mid-18th cent.
Language
English
Latin
Physical facet
(186-214 blank); 8-10 staves to a page. Watermarks: fleur-de-lis above shield with LVG below (pp. 1-166); fleur-de-lis above shield with GR below (pp. 167-214). The volume seems to have have originally been at least three separate manuscripts (pp. 1-80, 81-144, 145-214), but it was one volume by the time Bever's bookplate was pasted on the upper pastedown. Binding: half calf with marbled paper covered boards (spine renewed).
Physical extent
220 pages
Custodial history
Bookplate of Thomas Bever (1725-1791); H. Sikes (name on upper pastedown, crossed out); James Bellamy (1819-1909) (signature on upper pastedown). Former shelfmark (Faculty of Music Library): M.S.L. 8. d. 2 (M.S.L. Bellamy 8. d. 2 (Misc. 3) on spine).
Acquisition
Transferred from the Faculty of Music Library, 1995.
Subject
Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with instrumental ensemble
17th century
Stabat Mater dolorosa (Music)
18th century
Music -- Manuscripts -- 18th century
Motets
Music
16th century
Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied
