WILLAERT, Adrian (ca 1494-1562). A volume containing six alto partbooks of motets and masses by a number of important Renaissance composers: Adriani VVillaert mvsici celeberrimi ac chori divi marci illvstrissimae reipvblicae Venetiarvm magistri mvsica qvatvor vocum (Motecta vulgo appellant). Venice: Antonio Gardano, 1545. Oblong 4o (154 x 214 mm.), Altus part only (of 4). 20ff including title-page with Gardano's woodcut lion and bear device, typographic music, table on last leaf, woodcut capitals. [Bound with:] Adriani VVillaert musici celeberrimi... Liber secundus. Venice: Antonio Gardano, 1545. Altus part only (of 4). 20ff including title-page, typographic music, last page with table. RISM Einzeldrucke vor 1800, W-1107. [Bound with:] WILLAERT. Del primo libro de i motetti a Qvattro voci... [Venice: Antonio Scotto], n.d.. Altus only (of 4). 18ff including title-page with gothic scrollwork device, typographic music, table on penultimate page, last page with Scotto's woodcut device ("in tenebris fulget"). [--Libro secondo] WILLAERT. Motetti...di Adrian Wuillaert. [Venice: Antonio Scotto], n.d. Altus part only (of 4), 16ff including title-page with gothic scrollwork device, table of contents on verso, typographic music. [Bound with:] Contratenor modvlationvm qvatvor vocum. N.p, n.d. Altus only (of 4). 24ff including title-page, 2p. "Index mvtetarum," 21ff including typographic music, woodcut capitals (many touched with hand-coloring). Containing motets by Willaert, Jacques Arcadelt, Jean l'Heritier, Philippe Verdelot, Johannes Lupi, Nicholas Gombert and others. [Bound with:] Missae cvm qvatuor vocibvs. N.p., n.d. Altus only (of 4). 21ff including table on title-page verso, typographic music, woodcut capitals. containing Masses by Cristóbal de Morales(1), Nicholas Gombert(1), Jachet de Mantua(3).Binding: Nuremberg binding of the second half of the 16th century, blind-rolled calf over wooden boards, center panel stamped ALTUS, the various rolls with small portraits of biblical figures (Jacob's dream, Isaac's sacrifice, etc.), possibly by Christoph Heusler (Master of the Guild in 1578) or Caspar Hermann, who died in 1588. Provenance: acquired from Bernard Quaritch Antiquarian Books, 1979. See Haebler, Rollen und Plattenstempel I, pp.166-168.

WILLAERT, Adrian (ca 1494-1562). A volume containing six alto partbooks of motets and masses by a number of important Renaissance composers: Adriani VVillaert mvsici celeberrimi ac chori divi marci illvstrissimae reipvblicae Venetiarvm magistri mvsica qvatvor vocum (Motecta vulgo appellant). Venice: Antonio Gardano, 1545. Oblong 4o (154 x 214 mm.), Altus part only (of 4). 20ff including title-page with Gardano's woodcut lion and bear device, typographic music, table on last leaf, woodcut capitals. [Bound with:] Adriani VVillaert musici celeberrimi... Liber secundus. Venice: Antonio Gardano, 1545. Altus part only (of 4). 20ff including title-page, typographic music, last page with table. RISM Einzeldrucke vor 1800, W-1107. [Bound with:] WILLAERT. Del primo libro de i motetti a Qvattro voci... [Venice: Antonio Scotto], n.d.. Altus only (of 4). 18ff including title-page with gothic scrollwork device, typographic music, table on penultimate page, last page with Scotto's woodcut device ("in tenebris fulget"). [--Libro secondo] WILLAERT. Motetti...di Adrian Wuillaert. [Venice: Antonio Scotto], n.d. Altus part only (of 4), 16ff including title-page with gothic scrollwork device, table of contents on verso, typographic music. [Bound with:] Contratenor modvlationvm qvatvor vocum. N.p, n.d. Altus only (of 4). 24ff including title-page, 2p. "Index mvtetarum," 21ff including typographic music, woodcut capitals (many touched with hand-coloring). Containing motets by Willaert, Jacques Arcadelt, Jean l'Heritier, Philippe Verdelot, Johannes Lupi, Nicholas Gombert and others. [Bound with:] Missae cvm qvatuor vocibvs. N.p., n.d. Altus only (of 4). 21ff including table on title-page verso, typographic music, woodcut capitals. containing Masses by Cristóbal de Morales(1), Nicholas Gombert(1), Jachet de Mantua(3). Binding: Nuremberg binding of the second half of the 16th century, blind-rolled calf over wooden boards, center panel stamped ALTUS, the various rolls with small portraits of biblical figures (Jacob's dream, Isaac's sacrifice, etc.), possibly by Christoph Heusler (Master of the Guild in 1578) or Caspar Hermann, who died in 1588. Provenance: acquired from Bernard Quaritch Antiquarian Books, 1979. See Haebler, Rollen und Plattenstempel I, pp.166-168.

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WILLAERT, Adrian (ca 1494-1562). A volume containing six alto partbooks of motets and masses by a number of important Renaissance composers: Adriani VVillaert mvsici celeberrimi ac chori divi marci illvstrissimae reipvblicae Venetiarvm magistri mvsica qvatvor vocum (Motecta vulgo appellant). Venice: Antonio Gardano, 1545. Oblong 4^o (154 x 214 mm.), Altus part only (of 4). 20ff including title-page with Gardano's woodcut lion and bear device, typographic music, table on last leaf, woodcut capitals. [Bound with:] Adriani VVillaert musici celeberrimi... Liber secundus. Venice: Antonio Gardano, 1545. Altus part only (of 4). 20ff including title-page, typographic music, last page with table. RISM Einzeldrucke vor 1800, W-1107. [Bound with:] WILLAERT. Del primo libro de i motetti a Qvattro voci... [Venice: Antonio Scotto], n.d.. Altus only (of 4). 18ff including title-page with gothic scrollwork device, typographic music, table on penultimate page, last page with Scotto's woodcut device ("in tenebris fulget"). [--Libro secondo] WILLAERT. Motetti...di Adrian Wuillaert. [Venice: Antonio Scotto], n.d. Altus part only (of 4), 16ff including title-page with gothic scrollwork device, table of contents on verso, typographic music. [Bound with:] Contratenor modvlationvm qvatvor vocum. N.p, n.d. Altus only (of 4). 24ff including title-page, 2p. "Index mvtetarum," 21ff including typographic music, woodcut capitals (many touched with hand-coloring). Containing motets by Willaert, Jacques Arcadelt, Jean l'Heritier, Philippe Verdelot, Johannes Lupi, Nicholas Gombert and others. [Bound with:] Missae cvm qvatuor vocibvs. N.p., n.d. Altus only (of 4). 21ff including table on title-page verso, typographic music, woodcut capitals. containing Masses by Cristóbal de Morales(1), Nicholas Gombert(1), Jachet de Mantua(3).

Binding: Nuremberg binding of the second half of the 16th century, blind-rolled calf over wooden boards, center panel stamped ALTUS, the various rolls with small portraits of biblical figures (Jacob's dream, Isaac's sacrifice, etc.), possibly by Christoph Heusler (Master of the Guild in 1578) or Caspar Hermann, who died in 1588. Provenance: acquired from Bernard Quaritch Antiquarian Books, 1979. See Haebler, Rollen und Plattenstempel I, pp.166-168.

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