Stichtelycke rymen om te lezen oft' zingen vols. 1-3 - Camphuysen, Dirk Rafaelszoon 1586-1627; Butler, Joseph (Amsterdam Matthysz I.B.W. Wees, 1652)
Dirck Rafaelz Camphuysen (c. 1586-1627) was a poet and preacher. This collection of songs became widely used and has been printed in a variety of editions.
First edition with new music composed by Joseph Butler.
Three volumes in both partbooks, the third volume has only text, no music.
For each song there are two parts printed of the left page: a basic version (in smaller print) and an elaborate version with diminutions (in larger print), on the right page one finds the text with multiple verses.
Even though these two partbooks look very similar in many aspects, they have been added to the Koopman collection separately. The bassus-part had been in his collection for years already when Ton Koopman received the cantus-part as a present from his friend and former secretary Elsbeth Gransbergen. The bindings look very similar, so it seems likely that they have been bound by the same binder at about the same time.
Cantus: from the collection of Elbeth Gransbergen, with a letter by antiquarian bookseller Ton Bolland (11 june 1999), with an estimate of the value.
Keywords: 17th Century (1601-1700); Poetry; Song; Moral education; Domestic music-making; Netherlands