Spem in alium nunquam habui. Motet in forty parts. Reissued by permission of the Trustees of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust from Tudor Church Music, vol.VI. [Score]. Elephant folio. [iii], 20pp. Pale blue paper wrappers, toned and with tears to corners and edges, loss to lower right rear wrapper with small tears and holes to lower corner of final 5 leaves. From the collection of American composer George Perle. 20 x 14 inches (50 x 36 cm.). *NB: Please select Large Flat as shipping option at checkout.

Spem in alium (Latin for "Hope in any other") is a 40-part Renaissance motet by Thomas Tallis, composed in c. 1570 for eight choirs of five voices each. It is considered by some critics to be the greatest piece of English early music. H. B. Collins described it in 1929 as Tallis's "crowning achievement", along with his Lamentations.