Ancient organ music

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Description

Title
Ancient organ music
Creator
Kerckhoven, Abraham van den, ca. 1618-1701
Liberti, Henricus, ca. 1600-1669
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon, 1562-1621
Contributor
Kerckhoven, Abraham van den, ca. 1618-1701
Liberti, Henricus, ca. 1600-1669
Saint-Saens, Camille, 1835-1921, provenance
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon, 1562-1621
Published / Created
[circa 1650s]
Description
Anglo-Flemish organ music, written in manuscript on paper, in several unidentified hands, known as the Novello Organ Book. The manuscript contains over one hundred works, including organ masses and other Roman Catholic liturgical music, possibly used by English recusants in the Low Countries. Also present are preludes and fugues, variations, fantasias, and other secular music. Composers include Abraham van den Kerckhoven, Henricus Liberti, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, and Jacobus de Cherf. A few works are dated 1651.
Annotations in English, French, Latin, and Flemish.
Binding: vellum boards, rebacked.
Cover: Presented to the library of the Musical Antiquarian Society by Vincent Novello, April 1844.
Formerly owned by John Watts, Vincent Novello, the Musical Antiquarian Society, Camille Saint-Saens, Eugene Gigout, and Leon Boellmann.
Inside front cover: Vincent Novello...kindly presented to me by my old friend John Watts, Feby 19, 1841.
p. 105 tipped in.
Pages [330-364] blank, unscanned.
Pages 90-99 omitted from pagination, numerous errors.
Preliminary page: signatures of Camille Saint-Saens and Eugene Gigout.
Title from cover.
Extent
1 30 cm.
print
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
Dutch; Flemish
English
French
Latin

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Osborn Music MS 533

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format
notated music
Genre
Musical works
Resource Type
Music (Printed & Manuscript)
Subject (Name)
Kerckhoven, Abraham van den, ca. 1618-1701
Liberti, Henricus, ca. 1600-1669
Saint-Saens, Camille, 1835-1921, provenance
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon, 1562-1621
Subject (Topic)
Catholics -- England -- 17th century
Organ music -- 17th century
Organ music -- Netherlands -- 17th century

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
9098163
Object ID (OID)
2057972

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