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Ashgate Publishing has available a series (Music in Medieval Europe) that looks to be of interest to musicians with a fair knowledge of early practices and theory. Unfortunately, as you can see from the listed prices, they are expensive. We have a list of books we already want to order from Ashgate; we are wondering if there’s enough interest in these that they should be appended to that order.
While we will not be taking deposits (yet), we would hope that anyone who expresses an interest would carry through on that interest as we do so dislike expensive stock that collects dust rather than orders. Please drop us a line at owner@potboilerpress.com if you are seriously interested, with which books you are interested in and how many. And passing this information along to others would, as always, bring a smile to our lips and a song to our heart (albeit not necessarily one in medieval Occitan or Church Latin).

Series Editor: Thomas Forest Kely, Harvard University.
“This series of … volumes provides an overview of the best current scholarship in the study of medieval music. Each volume is edited by a ranking expert, and each presents a selection of writings, mostly in English which, taken together, sketch a picture of the shape of the field and of the nature of current inquiry. The volumes are organised in such a way that readers may go directly to an area that interests them, or they may provide themselves with a substantial introduction to the wider field by reading through the entire volume. The editors introduce readers to an enormous swathe of musical history and style, and present the best of recent musical scholarship. Taken together, they will increase access to a rich body of music, and provide scholars and students with an authoritative guide to the best of current thinking about the music of the middle ages.”
1. Ars antiqua: Organum, Conductus, Motet. Edited by Edward Roesner, New York University, 2008. Hardback, $275.00 (“The ars antiqua began to be mentioned in writings about music in the early decades of the fourteenth century, where it was cited along with references to a more modern “art,” an ars nova. The essays in this collection address the broad range of issues regarding ars antiqua polyphony: the nature and definition of genre; the evolution of the polyphonic idiom; the workings of the creative process including the role of oral process and notation and the continuum between these extremes; questions about how this music was used and understood; and of how it fits into the intellectual life of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.”)

2. Ars nova: French and Italian Music in the 14th Century. Edited by John L. Nádas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. Hardback, $275.00 (“This collection of articles brings together scholarship that reflects a broad methodological and chronological span of analysis of the ars nova, the polyphonic tradition which blossomed in France and Italy in the fourteenth century.”)

3. Chant and its Origins. Edited by Thomas Forrest Kelly, Harvard University, 2008. Hardback, $250.00 (“Plainchant is the music that underpins essentially all other music of the middle ages and is most abundantly preserved. It is a subject that has engaged a great deal of debate in the last fifty years and the complex issues that have arisen in the course of this research form the basis of this collection of articles.”)

4. Embellishing the Liturgy: Tropes and Polyphony. Edited by Alejandro Planchart, University of California at Santa Barbara, 2008 c. 500 pages. Hardback, $250.00 (“The tropes, together with the sequences, represent the main creative activity of European musicians in the ninth, tenth and eleventh centuries. This volume provides an introduction to the study of tropes in the form of an extensive anthology of major studies and a comprehensive bibliography, and it constitutes a classic reference resource for the study of one of the most important musico-liturgical genres of the central middle ages.”)

5. Instruments and their Music in the Middle Ages. Edited by Timothy J. McGee, 2008 c. 500 pages. Hardback, $250.00 (“This collection of twenty-nine influential articles and papers about medieval musical instruments and their repertory considers the construction of the instruments, their playing technique, the occasions for which they performed and their repertory. Taken as a whole, they paint a broad and detailed picture of instrumental performance during the medieval period.”)

6. Oral and Written Transmission in Chant. Edited by Thomas Forrest Kelly, Harvard University, 2008. Hardback, $250.00. (“The early history of chant is a history of orality. In this volume, scholars of medieval music have taken up the ideas and techniques of scholars of folklore, oral transmission and ethnomusicology—for the chant is, in fact, an ancient music transmitted for a time in oral culture. Ironically, the use of written documents is also vital for the study of chant, involving analysis of oral issues in the writing of music.”)

7. Poets and Singers: On Latin and Vernacular Monophonic Song. Edited by Elizabeth Aubrey, University of Iowa, 2008. Hardback $250.00 (“The essays gathered here represent the principal themes and issues that have occupied scholars of late medieval monophonic songs over the last half century: their place in history and society; the role of women as composers and performers; poetic and musical structures, styles and genres; relationships between poems and melodies; written and oral transmission; and performance practices.”)

(Please refer to an earlier blog entry, “Digitized Books and Manuscripts“,  for pricing information.)

Agreement, 1598, Yorkshire: Bowes, Sir Jerome, d. 1616, M.P., Ambassador to Russia 1583-1584). Certified copy of his Agreement, signed “H[ierom]e Bowes”, in English, as executor of his brother Raphe (d. May-June 1598), late “one of the gentlemen Pencioners attendant on her Majesties person”, with Jerome Markham of Keldholme, N Yorkshire, referring back to the sale on 29th April 1586 by Markham and his brother John of the manor of Astwood, the rectory of Feckenham, and properties in Ipsley, (all near Astwood Bank on the Worcestershire-Warwickshire border), with other properties in Holderness (Aldbrough and Cowlden, now Cowden) and Bourne, Lincolnshire, inherited from the Markhams’ grandfather Geoffrey and father John.

Antiphonal: Let us sing unto the Lord/Cantemus Domino, gloriose enim honorificatus est: equum et ascensorem projecit in mare, 1499, France. The text and music on this leaf are part of the responsory Cantemus domino . . . in the eighth mode (beginning with the words “et ascensorem”), the third responsary at Matins for the Fourth Sunday of Lent, the text for which is excerpted from the canticle of Moses (Exod. 15:1–19).

Antiphonal: Nox praecessit, dies autem appropinquabit, 1540, Spain. Part of a set of propers for the season of Advent.

Antiphonary, 1150, Germany (?), with neumes, part of the text from the Feast of St. Agatha.

Antiphonary, ca. 1250

Aurora, Puzzle Initial from, 1220, Oxford. Peter Riga’s Aurora, a verse paraphrase of the Bible including commentary composed near the end of the 12th century, served as a useful memory aid for students of the Scriptures.

Aurora: Leviticus, 11.419-508, Oxford, 1210. A page from a verse translation of the Bible by Petrus Riga.

Bible: (Galatians 6:4-10 and Colossians 1:12-16), 1150, unknown place of creation.

Bible: And behold, waters issued out from under the Threshold of the temple”, (Ezekial 27:11 – 30:3 and 44:17-47:4), 1220, Paris. A double-page spread from a small Paris Bible.

Bible: And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat (II Chronicles 16:4 – 18:34), 1250, Bologna (?). The end of the reign of Asa, king of Judah, and part of the reign of Jehoshaphat.

Bible: I Samuel 22:15 – 25:8, Paris, 1275

Bible: Isaiah 61:3–66:10 (Peaceable Kingdom leaf), Paris, 1250

Bible: Jeremiah 35:7 – 37:12, Paris, 1260

Bible: Mark, chapts. 9-10, including the Transfiguration, 1250, France.

Bible: Shishak despoils the temple (II Chronicles 11:12 – 14:13), 1270, Paris (?). Accounts of parts of the reign of Rehoboam (including the spoliation of Jerusalem by Pharaoh Shishak), the reign of Abijah, and the beginning of the reign of Asa.

Bible: The Branch and Millennial Peace (Zechariah 6:2 – 7:1), 1190, Paris(?). Concerns the four chariots emerging from between the two mountains of brass. The horses of each are a different color (red, black, white, grizzled) and the symbolism is obscure to Zechariah who asks an angel to explain it all to him.

Bible: Woe unto Tyre (Ezekiel 26:10–28:19), Paris, 1250. A prophecy against Tyre.

Book of Hours, 1415, France. Excerpts from None and Vespers from the Hours of the Cross.

Book of the Dead: Non intres in iudicio cum servo tuo domine. (Book of the Dead/Matins), 1420, Italy.

Breviary and Ferial Psalter, 1472, Autun. These leaves come from a Burgundian prayer book on vellum that contained both a psalter and a breviary.

Breviary, 1450, Germany, four small fragments from.

Breviary, various selections from, 1425, Paris.

Breviary: Litany of the Saints, France, 1425

Calendar: Mayus h[abet] dies xxxi. luna xxx., France, 1460

Charter of Elizabeth Symmis, Sussex, 1540, granting her daughters various properties “in confirmation of a grant of her late husband”.

Charter of John Smythe, Suffolk, 1542. A feoffment to Robert Raye.

Confirmation of Constitutional Structures, 1544, Vienna. Ferdinand I (1503-1564), Holy Roman Emperor (1556-1564). Document signed (‘Ferdinand’) as King of the Romans, Vienna, 23 August 1544, a confirmation of the constitutional structures as defined by the Golden Bull.

Contract of Sale for 1350 lire, 1497, in or near Bologna. in Latin with English summary, for Tommaso, son of the noble Niccolò, of Barbarolo, near Bologna, N. Italy and his brother Baldassare, whose share is worth 300 lire, to Gregorio and Stefano indivisibly, sons of the late Pietro Schiatino of Gena in the county of Bologna, of about a dozen properties in Barbarolo and Gena, in area about 400 tornature or Bolognese acres.

De Pace, in illud Evangelii Matthaei cap. V, Vers. 9, 1500, France. “Auctor incertus (Augustinus Hipponensis?)”. The leaf contains a discussion of peace and peacemakers, based on the line in the Beatitudes

Decree of the Inquisition in Mexico, 1574. Signed by Dr. Moya y Contreras. Mexico, 24 August 1574. The first Inquisitor, Dr. Moya y Contreras, issued this multipart decree. The bulk of it relates to the reality of the post-Trentine world: All masses are to be said in Latin, only the Counsel of Trent–approved catechisms, liturgies, etc., are to be used.

Decretals of Gregory IX, 1275, France.

Decretals of Gregory IX, 1300, England. Two part sheets from an English ms. copy of the second book of the Decretals of Pope Gregory written at the beginning of the C.14. The commentary is roughly contemporaneous.

Gradual fragment.

Gradual, Germany, 14th century.

Grammar, 1350, Germany. Two pieces from a complete bifolium from a grammatical text, including the opening of a chapter on participles, 29 lines.

Grant of Alfonso V of Aragon and Sicily, “the Magnanimous, to Rambau de Corbera, of a “vast” territory in Sardinia, specifically in Gallura (from present-day Santa Teresa Gallura to around Casteisardo), 1421.

Grant, 1561, London. John, Ironmonger of London, Grant to Thomas Shypton, currier, his fellow citizen of London, in Latin, for £100 paid last Michaelmas “at the font of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, between two and four in the afternoon”, for land at Eversholt, Bedfordshire, comprising 13 acres lately held by Roger Barnewell, a total of 9 acres in several parcels lately held by Ambrose Gregory, previously by John Arnold alias Cowper, and a dwelling with garden and small piece of land at Church End, and two enclosures at Potters End, formerly of the late John Ponter.

Land Grant, 1250, England. This appears to be a 13th century grant with warranty. Adam, son of William, the merchant, of Cowick (West Riding), grants to William of Cargil one section of land in Cowick. Witnessed by John, son of Thomas de Snayth, cleric, and John Godard, Hugh, son of Alan. Land Grant, 1560, Hampton (England). Elizabeth Dei Gracia Angli Francia et Hibernia Regina Fidei Defensor ELIZABETH I (1533-1603), Queen of England. With the Great Seal of Elizabeth. Hampton: 1560.

Lectionary: Et habebat in dextera sua stellas septem…, 1460, Spain. This leaf is from a lectionary giving the lessons from matins, and, given its size, is likely from a breviary. It begins with part of the second and the third short lesson for matins on the Tuesday in the octave of the Ascension and continues with the lessons for the Wednesday in the octave (altogether Rev. 1:16–20). Then, for the octave day, follows a sermon of St. Leo for the feast of the Ascension, and part of the Venerable Bede’s homily on the gospel “Behold I send the promised of my father . . .” (Luke 24:49 ff.).

Legal Document, 1576, Venice. An interesting document, unusually complete with its lead seal, written by the 96th Doge of Venice Aloysius [Luigi] Mocenigo during the last year of his reign (and life). It is a letter in which Mocenigo guarantees the truthfulness of the documents drawn up by the notary ‘Paulus de Grandis Venes’.

Legal manuscript, 1275, Venice. A glossed civil law manuscript, perhaps the Institutes of Justinian.

Letter of Attorney, 1362, Yorkshire. Letter of attorney from Thomas Playce of Bolleby (Boulby) to Dom William de Buston, parson of the Church of Esynvtone (Easington), and John de Whetelay, to deliver seisin to John de Buston, Joan his wife and heirs of John, in two messuages and eight bovates of land in Bolleby.

Letters of Jan van Raust, seigneur of Cantecroy (Canticrode) and Mortsel, near Antwerp, Belgium, concerning rents and lands called “karremans velt” in Schooten, 1438.

Letters of Jean de Maillen, lieutenant of Claude de Wahau in his lordship of Baillonville, provost of the castle lands &c of Poillevache concerning rents from property at Daische, 1541.

Letters of Reward from Charles II “le Mauvais”, King of Navarre, to the Vicomte d’Avranches, telling him to reward one Jehan le Roussel dit Friquet, “aide de nostre cuisine”. Countersigned by Phillibert Froissart – who, as near as can be found, has absolutely no relationship whatsoever to Jean Froissart, the chronicler.

Letters of Wouter van Berchem, Flemish, 1553, to the Vidimus (the bergermaster, aldermen, and council of Antwerp) concerning rent.

Letters Patent (“Wir Otthainrich von gottes genaden Pffalzgrave”), 1556, Bavaria. With seal.

Lettre de rémission signée “Henry” en faveur de Henry Philibert, écuyer, seigneur de Venterol près de Gap. 1602. A letter of remission from Henri IV to Henry Philibert, Lord of the Ventero, after a duel that led to the death of the Lord of Gayet, said duel being a month after the Edict of Blois (April 1602) prohibiting duels.

Liber interpretationis hebraicorum nominum ["Baladad signifies"], 1400, Paris. The “Liber interpretationis hebraicorum nominum” (“Book of Interpretation of Hebrew Names”) was often found as part of the fore- matter of medieval and Renaissance Bibles penned in France, especially in Paris. It is an alphabetical list, with quite fanciful etymologies or origins, of Hebrew proper names in the Bible.

Litany of the Saints: Sancte Luca o[ra pro nobis], France, 1460.

Martyrology, 1150, Italy. Text is from the conclusion of thelife of St. Valentine and the opening of the lives of Saints Faustinus and Jovita.

Miscellaneous deeds, letters, and rentebriefs in miscellaneous languages.

Missal, 1150, Germany.

Missal, 1450, Germany. Recovered from a binding; the binding or the recovery process meant that “the areas within the initial’s rectangle that would have been gold are clearly indicated by a terra cotta color that marks the presence of gesso” – i.e., one can see an illuminated initial half-way done.

Missal, with Neumes, 1120, Germany. Among the texts included here are Mass texts (1) for Ash Wednesday, (2) for the Thursday after Ash Wednesday (Isaias 38:3-6) and the Gospel of Matthew 8:5-13 (though the scribe has mistakenly written John), and (3) for the Friday after Ash Wednesday (including Isaias 58:6-8).

Missal: Inclina aurem tuam accelera ut eruas me, 1300, Italy. Propers for the eighth Sunday after Pentecost, part of the communion and the post-communion prayer for the seventh, and the beginning of the ninth, including part of the epistle. Psalter and antiphon: Nec potuerunt stare, 1230, Rome. The text begins with the last words of Psalm 35; then follow the antiphon “Expugna i[m]pugnantes me” for that psalm, the incipit “Revela” (for the antiphon “Revela Domino viam tuam” that accompanies Psalms 36–37 as the 11th and 12th psalms for matins on Monday in the Roman office), and the complete text for Psalm 36.

Notarial Deed, 1559, relating somehow to Astaffort, south of Agen, in southwest France.

Office of the Dead: [Legem pone mihi Domine in via tua…], Bruges, 1450

Psalter, 1350, Italy.

Psalter, 1440, Bruges (?). Latter part of Psalm 66 (67) and part of the canticle Benedicite omnia opera Domini Domino . . . (Daniel 3:57–88 & 56, according to the versification of the Vulgate).

Psalter: Denitbus suis (part of Psalm 34), 1450, France.

Psalter: In terra deserta (Ps. 62 – 63), France, 1450

Receipt of Salt, French, 1397. The “Prioress and Community of the church and abbey of Montivilliers” have requested a receipt of the purchase of “eight septiers of salt, on which the ‘gabelle’ has not been paid, by the measure of Paris”, said salt to be used only for household reasons.

Royal Deed, 1558, Westminster. Issued under the names of Phillip II (of Spain) and Mary (Tudor); the document establishes the rightful claim to the property – “a house (mesuagium), a barn, 20 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 30 acres of pasture, 30 acres of forest and 30 acres of heath and scrub with their appurtenances” – of the plaintiffs Thomas Peers Benos (?) and Edward Tyndalh (Tyndale), suing through their attorney John Redston against one Robert Mason”.

Writ, 1592, Westminster. Writ addressed in the name of Elizabeth I to the Sheriff of Derbyshire (Thomas Griseley), in Latin with transcription and translation, to warn James, Thomas and Francis Barlow (‘Barley’ throughout the document), that they are bound by their concord with Gilbert [Talbot, 7th] Earl of Shrewsbury, and unless they have performed it or given “triple security for his claim”, they are to be summoned to appear before the Justices [of the Common Pleas] at Westminster on the day after Trinity Sunday, the Sheriff to make sure this writ and the summons are in court, fee paid 20s to the farmer of fines.

(Please refer to an earlier blog entry, “Digitized Books and Manuscripts“,  for pricing information.)

Agenda. Das ist, Kyrchenordnung, Leipzig, 1540. A Protestant Ceremonial written for Heinrich of Saxony (den Frommen).

Aron, Pietro, Toscanello in Musica, 1539.

Benedictionale Ecclesiae, et Diocesis Constantiensis, Constance, 1597.

Dowland, John, Andreas Ornithoparcus His Micrologus or Introduction containing the Art of singing, 1609.

Giovanelli, Pietro, compiler, Novi [atque catholici] thesauri musici. Liber Primus [-Quintus], quo selectissime planeque, novae, nec unquam in lucem aeditae cantiones sacrae (quas vulgo moteta vocant) continentur octo, septem, sex, quinque, ac quatuor vocum, a prestantissimis ac huius aetatis, precipuis Symphoniacis compositae, quae in sacra Ecclesia catholica, summis solemnibusque, festiuitatibus, canuntur, ad omnis generis instrumenta musica, accommodatae Petri Ioannelli Bergomensis de Gandino, summo studio ac labore collectae, eiusque, expensis impressae. 1568. Approximately 250 motets included; six part-books of cantus, altus, tenor, bassus, quintus, and sextus. List of motets available upon request.

Guidetti, Giovanni Domenico, Directorium Chori Ad Usum OmniumEcclesiarum Cathedralium, & Collegiaturum…In Hac Postrema Editione A Canonico Florido De Sylvestris, Rome; 1642.

Kirchenordnung Vie es inn Des Durchleughtigen, 1570. Protestant liturgy produced for Count Palatine Wolffgang Duke of Zweibrucken and Neuberg. It was completed and supervised by Melanchthon and Brenz on the basis of the Wurttemberg church-rule of 1553

Koswick, Michael, Compendiaria Musice artis aeditio, 1518.

Liber processionum secundum Ordine[m] Fratru[m] Predicatorum. 1494

Marcos y Navas,Francisco, Arte, ó compendio general del canto-llano, figurado, y organo, en método facil, ilustrado con algunos documentos, ó capítulos muy precisos para el provechamiento, y enseñanza. Dividido en cinco tratados, de los que el primero manifiesta la teórica del canto-llano: el segundo su práctica, con el oficio de difuntos, sepultura, misa, y procesion: el tercero, y quarto la especulativa, y práctica del canto figurado, y de organo, segun el moderno estilo; y el quinto las nueve lamentaciones, y la bendicion del cirio, vestidas, ó adornadas de cláusulas sobre su mismo canto-llano. Madrid: Por D. Joachin Ibarra … se hallará en la librería de Gerónymo Solano. 1777 (The first 75 pages is a manual on how to sing Gregorian Chant, complete with a Guidonian Hand; the other 500+ pages are Gregorian Chant. I’ve digitized just the manual section.)

Misale ad vsum insignis ecclesie Sarisburiensis. 1555

Missale ad Sacrosancte Romane ecclesie Vsum. 1529

Morley, Thomas, A plaine and easie introduction to practicall musicke, 1597.

Ordeninge der Misse, wo de vann denn Kerckheren unnde Seelsorgern ym lande tho Meckelnborch, im Fürstendom Wenden, Swerin, Rostock unnd Stargharde schal geholden werden. M. D, XL. 1540

Pontifical, use of Rome, 1478. Manuscript, mostly finished. The music and text are completed, but the capitials were left unilluminated.

Processional, 1494. Manuscript.

Processional, including a Carmina Burana text with music, with added Aquinas hymn 23, 1480/1530. Manuscript. “A well-executed liturgical manuscript with plain-chant music.”

Processionarium s[e]c[un]d[u]m morem almi ordinis predicator[um] nuper impressum. Atq[ue] per quosdam predicti ordinis fratres solertissime correctum & emendatu(m): cu[m] quibusdam in eo decenter additis. 1519

Psalmodia, hoc est, Cantica sacra veteris ecclesiae selecta, Wittemberg, 1579.

Psalter of the Virgin. 1490

Rituum Ecclesiasticorum Sive Sacrarum Cerimoniarum S. S. Romanae Ecclesiae Libri Tres Non Ante Impressi…1516

The Whole Book of Psalmes, collected into English meetre, by John Hopkins and Thomas Sternhold, 1591.

(Please refer to an earlier blog entry, “Digitized Books and Manuscripts“,  for pricing information.)

ab Orto, Garcia, Aromatum et simplicium aliquot medicamentorum apud Indos nascentium historia. 1567

Absdorf Rentbook, 1529. Manuscript.

Altamiras, Juan, Nuevo arte de cocina sacado de las escuela de la experiencia economica. 1770. Available both in electronic form (digitized photographs) and as a photocopy (via the bookstore’s web site).

Amman, Jost, Cleri totius Romanae ecclesiae subjecti, seu, pontificiorum ordinum omnium omnino utriusque sexus, habitus, artificiosisimis figuris…., together with Franciscus Modius singularis: in quo cujusque ordinis ecclesiastici origo, progressus, & vestitus ratio breviter ex variis historicis quasi delineatur. 1585.

Breviary for monastic use in the diocese of Liege 1450. Manuscript.

Brunschwig, Hieronymous, A Most Excellent and Perfecte Homish Apothecarye or Homely Physick Booke for all the Grefes and Diseases of the Bodye. 1561.

Brunschwig, Hieronymus, adapted by Walther Hermann Ryff, Das New Gross Distillier Buch Wolgegrundter Kunstlicher Distillation,. 1545.

Carta de privilegio y confirmacion issued to Francisco de Cárdenas, 1535. Issued by Charles I of Spain. Manuscript.

Carta executoria de hidalguia in favor of Francisco de Frias, 1546. Manuscript.

Carta executoria de hidalguia in favor of Rodrigo Ortiz de Abezia, issued by Phillip II of Spain, 1578. Manuscript.

Carta Executoria de Hidualguia in favour of Donna Guiomar de Alarcon Ulloa, 1593, issued by Phillip II of Spain. Manuscript.

Chacon, Pedro, De triclinio, sive de modo convivandi apud priscos romanos, & de conviviorum apparatu. 1689.

Diocles et al., The treasury of healthe conteynyng many profitable medycines gathered out of Hypocrates, Galen and Avycen. 1550.

Ercker, Lazarus, Beschreibung Allerfurnemisten Mineralischen Erkt unnd Bergwercks arten. 1580.

Examen omnium electuariorum (a pharmacopoeia by Brasavola), printed together with Morborum internorum; copied separately on the DVD. 1548.

Fitzherbert, John, Surveyinge. 1546.

French Manuscript Account and Recipe Book, 1534 – ca. 1675. Manuscript.

Gesner, Konrad, The newe iewell of health : wherein is contayned the most excellent secretes of phisicke and philosophie, deuided into fower bookes, in the which are the best approued remedies for the diseases as well inwarde as outwarde, of all the partes of mans bodie : treating very amplye of all dystillations of waters, of oyles, balmes, quintessences, with the extraction of artificiall saltes, the vse and preparation of antimonie, and potable gold / gathered out of the best and most approved authors, by that excellent Doctor Gesnerus ; also the pictures, and maner to make the vessels, furnaces, and other instrumentes there unto belonging. 1576

Grundliche und Nutze…Beschreibung der Weinhawer und Byerbrewer Practickl und det gantzen Kellermeistery Kunst. 1581

Household Document, 1503, Spain. Isabel I. Manuscript; list of items for the chamberlain to turn over to the underr-chamberlain.

Lontizer, Adam, Kreuterbuch, Künstliche Counterfeytunge der Bäume, Stauden, Hecken, Kreuter, Getreyde, Gewürtze… 1577

Mascall, Leonard, A Booke of the Arte and Maner how to Plant and Graffe all sortes of Trees, how to set Stones and sowe Pepins, to make wilde Trees to Graffe on, as also remedies and Medicines. 1582.

Morborum internorum prope omnium curatio (originally published with Examen omnium; copied separately.) 1548.

Pruebas de hidalguía in favor of Andrés Blasquez, 1568, Manuscript.

Rituals of the Burgundian Court under Charles the Bold, in Spanish, 1598. Manuscript.

Ryff, W.H., Confectbuch unnd Hauss Apoteck. Frankfurt, 1593.

Spiegel der astzney…durch…Othonem Brunfelß…gebesert. 1532.

Statuti Delll’Arte di por Santa Maria. Seconde Parte. 1580. Silk Guild Statutes from Florence; the first part was apparently never published.

Tusser, Thomas, Five Hundred points of good Husbandry. 1638.

Unicum (Notary’s handbook), 1535, Bologna. Manuscript. Only partly photographed (23 pages out of approximately 220). The book is not in very good condition, and setting it down in a position suitable for photographing every page would damage it even further.

(Please refer to an earlier blog entry, “Digitized Books and Manuscripts“,  for pricing information.)

Bolton, Edmund, The Elements of Armories. 1610. First edition.

de Tournes, Jean, Alliances Généalogiques des Rois et Princes de Gaule. 1561. édition originale.

Le Feron, Jean, Catalogue des noms, surnoms, faits et vies, des connestables, grands maistres, chanceliers,  mareschaux et admiraux de France: ensemble des preuosts de Paris. 1598.

Legh, Gerard, The Accedens of Armory. 1568.

Scohier, Jean, L’estat et comportement des armes. 1597.

Vulson, Marc de, La Science héroïque traitant de la noblesse, de l’origine des armes de leurs blasons, & symboles, des tymbres, bourlets, couronnes, cimiers, lambrequins, supports, & tenans, & autres ornements de l’escu : de la devise, & du cry de guerre, …. 1644. 2 volumes in 1. (Photographed, but undergoing final editing of photos. Should be available by the end of March 2010.)

For the past several years, I have been digitally photographing various items in my books-and-manuscripts collection, mostly pre-17th-century, with one as late as 1770 and three or four others in the 17th century – but most were published or written comfortably before 1600. The books include pontificals, processionals, music books (Dowland, Morley), heraldica (Bolton, Legh, Le Feron), herbals / distillation / apothecarial recipes / cookbooks (Brunschwig’s Homish Apothecary,  Gesner’s Newe Iewell of Health), and a host of folia, bifolia, scraps of folio, documents, pamphlets, etc.

DVD’s are now available that contain the photographs. The whole set is somewhat over 50 gigabytes, and thus will not fit onto one (4.2 Gigabyte capacity) DVD. Please write (owner@potboilerpress.com) regarding which books you would like, and I will do my best to fit it or them onto the fewest number of DVD’s. Some books, and all the folia, bifolia, and ‘bits and pieces’ will fit on a data CD, which has a much lower capacity.

DVD’s will cost $3.50.

CD’s will cost $2.00.

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I should say that I photographed the books under less than ideal conditions; while everything is readable, the color is often unnatural, and often only the text block is photographed rather than the whole page. Thus the current photos are better for textual rather than codicological studies.