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1. Add MS 4900

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Banks collection. Vol. XLIV. Miscellaneous writings, ornamented with initials, portraits of saints, royal arms, etc., cut from a printed book.
Scope & Content:
The principal items are:- (1) Fragments of a transcript of a calendar (latest date 1537), for the months of May to October, giving the dates on which fairs are held in those months in various towns of England and Wales (Carmarthen). A few dates are also given in the lives of British sovereigns...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume (68 folios)

2. Add MS 18990

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Album Amicorum of Libertus Opstraet van der Moelen, of Utrecht; containing inscriptions with coloured arms, and paintings of flowers, etc., 1628-1634. Dispersed through the volume are French songs, with music notation, seemingly written by the owner of the volume
Scope & Content:
The musical contents of the volume are described below. Superius and (in nos. 1-4) bassus parts of the following unaccompanied compositions, apparently in the hand of, and composed by, Libertus Opstraet van der Moelen, of Utrecht. 1. 'Ach! ach!...fiere mort.' ff. 8b, 30b. 2. 'De quelle ingrate...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and French
Date Range:
1628-1634
Extent:
1 volume (30 folios)

3. Add MS 19269

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Collections formed by Joseph Haslewood for the work privately printed in 1817 intitled Lyrical Gleanings, comprising madrigals, odes, songs, and sonnets, "chiefly by anonymous writers of the 16th and 17th centuries". The collections consist principally of the titles of works, with pieces extracted from them.
Scope & Content:
Includes: ff. 52, 107, 141b. Words of portions of three masques, namely: — 1. 'A Pleasant Comedie, called 'Wily Beguilde' ... printed by H. L. for Clement Knight... 1606.' ff. 52-53b. 2. 'Woo her and win her'; from 'The Lord's mask.' 'Thomas Campion,' 1613. f. 107. 3. Air (Tritonides), begins '...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1817
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 22307

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Letters and songs, in the handwriting of Robert Burns; containing 174 items. The first nine consist of letters and fragments of letters of Burns addressed to James Johnson, engraver, of Edinburgh, in 1788-1794: these are followed by 162 songs, a few of them not in Burns''s handwriting, which with three exceptions appeared in Johnson''s Scots'' Musical Museum, Vols. II.-V. After the songs is a coarse poem, entitled Libel Summons, dated 4 June, 1786. lastly, there are two letters of Burns; the...
Scope & Content:
On f. 128 are the melody and words of the song ''Here''s his health in water,'' beginning ''Altho'' my back be at the wa''.'' In the hand of Robert Burns, the author of the words. Published afterwards in Johnson''s Scots'' Musical Museum, vol. v, no. 430. James Johnson, Engraver, of Edinburgh: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 23723

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1. VARIOUS pieces in prose and verse, chiefly relating to the visits of James I. to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Some of the verses have musical notes appended. Eng. and Lat. ff. 1-25. The musical works are as follows. Songs, without accompaniments, from a collection of English p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 28550

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Fragment of a register of the Cistercian abbey of Robertsbridge, Sussex, in Latin. Also included are some musical pieces.
Scope & Content:
1. Part of a chronicle of the abbey; 1308-1333. Imperfect at the beginning. At the end is a reference to a continuation of the work in a later part of the original volume. f. 1. 2. Reports of suits in the courts of Exchequer and the King's Bench, with regard to claims of the abbey at Salherst,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 29987

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Madrigals, ballads, and motets by Italian composers (mainly anonymous), including: Jacobus de Bolonia. Johannes de Florentia. Franciscus de Florentia. Frater Bartolinus de Padova. Giovanni de Chascina. Ser Lorenzo, prete di Firenze Ser Gheradello. Bonavitus Corsini, pitor. Frate Andrea de ser Vi. Donato da Chascina. Frate Vincenzo. Nicholo del Proposto. Frate Guigliemo di S. Spirito. Francescho degli Organni. Don Paghollo. Rosso de Chollegrana.
Scope & Content:
ff. 2b-69b passim. 'Madriali,' 'Ballate,' 'Cacce,' etc., by little-known Italian composers of the 14th century. There are similar collections in the Biblioteca Laurenziana at Florence (87) and in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris. Unless the contrary is stated, the compositions are for 2 voice...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-16th century
Extent:

1 volume (88 folios)

8. Add MS 31549

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Two cantatas, and end-chorus of the Opera "Sanzio", by Antonio Caldara.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-3b. 'Senti, deh, senti, oh Clori': Cantata for a soprano voice, with a bass for harpsichord, in score, by Antonio Caldara. Autograph. At the end is written '20 Maggio, 1715, in Roma; et è una grande ragazzata.' [1715.] ff. 4-10. 'Amor del gran Sancio': concluding chorus (à 4), with accom...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (10 folios)

9. Arundel MS 44

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Arundel MS 44
Title:
Conrad of Hirsau (?), Speculum virginum
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Notated antiphon ‘Audite o lucis filie’ from the Epithalamium in the Speculum Virginum; musical notation: neumes on 4-line staves. ff. 1v-129v: Conrad of Hirsau (?), Speculum virginum; this work is in the form of a dialogue between the teacher, a Benedictine named Peregrinus, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

10. Arundel MS 248

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Arundel MS 248
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Scope & Content:
Codex membranaceus, in 4to., ff. 201, sec. xiv., baud una manu exaratus, quondam liber Henrici Savil Junioris ex dono Thomæ Foxcroft de Christall, postea Thomæ Bromhead de Bremley in parochia de Ledes Generosi. 1. Albertani Causidici Brixiensis librorum de doctrina dicendi et tacendi, consolat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-15th century
Extent:
1 item

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