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1. Add MS 10546/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 10546/1
Title:
Detached binding formerly attached to Add MS 10546 (the 'Moutier-Grandval Bible')
Scope & Content:
Add MS 10546/1 is a portion of the former cover, now kept separately, of black velvet with six copper round plaques (repoussé) showing the Crucifixion, the Lamb of God and the symbols of the Evangelists that was made for Henry Speyr-Passavant, a former owner of the manuscript between 1822 and 183...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1822-1836
Extent:
Detached binding of black velvet and six copper plates

2. Add MS 18855/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 18855/1
Title:
Illuminated calendar leaves
Scope & Content:
Two double-sided leaves from an illuminated calendar by Simon Bening (b. 1483, d. 1561). The leaves were formerly bound at the end of a Book of Hours (Add MS 18855), but they were removed in 1927 and are now kept separately. Two further leaves from the same calendar are in the Victoria and Alber...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1540s-1550s
Extent:
Two parchment leaves

3. Add MS 31422

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 31422
Title:
A collection of quartets, a pieces for organ
Scope & Content:
f. 1. 'Toccata Quarta per l' Elevazione,' by Frescobaldi [from II Secondo Libro di Toccate . . . di Cimbalo et Organo, 1616]; 17th-18th cent. f. 2b. A figured bass, apparently for Organ, by Lotti; 17th-18th cent. Probably the accompaniment to some responses. ff. 3-18b passim. Quartets 'a Viol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (18 folios)

4. Add MS 31749

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 31749
Title:
Quartet, in B flat for 2 violins, viola, and violoncello, in score, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscript of the string quartet in B flat, K. 172, by Mozart. * ff. 14. Quartet in B flat for 2 violins, viola, and violoncello, in score, by Mozart, 1773 [op. 94, no. 5]. Autograph. According to Kochel's thematic catalogue (no. 172), the MS. was in 1860 in the possession of Richard...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1773
Extent:

1 volume (13 folios)

5. Add MS 40010/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 40010/1
Title:
Detached former binding from Add MS 40010
Scope & Content:
Detached binding from Add MS 40010, a collection of entries from manorial court records and extracts from manorial rentals of the tenants of the Cistercian monastery of Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire during the 14th and early 15th centuries. A parchment binding with a metal clasp fastened ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 detached binding

6. Add MS 71118 A

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 71118 A
Title:
Leaf from a Book of Hours, St Catherine
Scope & Content:
Contents: A folio from a Book of Hours with a miniature of St Catherine on the recto. The verso is blank. Decoration: A full-page miniature in colours on a gold ground in a frame with foliate decoration.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment folio

7. Arundel MS 542/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 542/1
Title:
Detached binding formerly attached to Arundel MS 542
Scope & Content:
Detached binding of brown leather, formerly used to bind Arundel MS 542.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

1 detached binding

8. Egerton MS 3145/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3145/1
Title:
Detached binding from Egerton MS 3145
Scope & Content:
An earlier binding (18th century?) for Egerton MS 3145, of stamped brown leather on beech boards covered with badly worn green velvet with impressions of corner-pieces and bosses. This binding appears to have been made for a larger manuscript and is now kept separately.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
Leather, beech, and velvet binding formerly attached to Egerton MS 3145 (Epistles and Revelation (Gregory-Aland 699; Scrivener paul. 266; von Soden δ 104), concluding portion of the manuscript of the entire New Testament of which Add. MS 28815 is the earlier portion)

9. Egerton MS 3157/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3157/1
Title:
Detached binding formerly attached to Egerton MS 3157
Scope & Content:
Detached binding formerly attached to Egerton MS 3157, of wooden boards covered in tooled dark brown leather, with one central metal boss on each board.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 detached binding

10. Egerton MS 3277/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3277/1
Title:
Detached former binding of Egerton MS 3277 (the 'Bohun Psalter')
Scope & Content:
18th-century binding with spine pasted to inside lower cover, formerly attached to Egerton MS 3277 (the 'Bohun Psalter').
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
Detached former binding