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Reference (shelfmark):: Tyson MS 7-8
Title:: FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN: ‘Serenada à 2. Violini, 2. Flauti, 2. Corni, Viola e Basso, del Sgr. Hayden’ in D major, Hob.II/D3; late 18th or early 19th cent, circa 1970. Copies, in ink. The title is written on the second horn part (f. 1). This serenade is listed as by Haydn in Breitkopf & Härtel’s catalogue of 1768, but apparently no other manuscript sources of it are known. Two volumes.
Scope & Content:: Franz Joseph Haydn, composer: Alan Walker Tyson, musicologist: Parts for Serenada, Hob.II/D3 by Franz Joseph Haydn, with score in the hand of Alan Walker Tyson: late 18th or early 19th cent.; circa 1970: Copies.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1760-1975
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Tyson MS 12-13
Title:: GIOVANNI PAISIELLO: ‘La Pazza per Amore’, opera in two acts (to a libretto by Giambattista Lorenzi after Guiseppe Carpani’s translation of Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières’ ‘Nina’); after 1790. Copy of the score, in ink, written on paper ruled with ten or twelve staves, in the same hand throughout, with a few annotations in pencil. For soloists, chorus, clarinets, bassoons, horns and strings. The opera was first performed in a one-act version with spoken dialogue at the Royal Palace a...
Scope & Content:: Giambattista Lorenzi, librettist: Giuseppe Carpani, writer of plays: Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières, writer of plays: Giovanni Paisiello, composer: 'Nina', ossia 'La Pazza per Amore' by Giovanni Paisiello, to words by Giambattista Lorenzi after the translation by Giuseppe Carpani of 'Ni...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: after 1790
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Tyson MS 16-17
Title:: MOZART: ‘Cosi fan tutte osia La Scuola degli amanti: Drama giocoso in due Atti Rappresentato nel Teatro di Corte a Vienna L’Anno 1790’ (libretto, Lorenzo da Ponte), K588; circa 1790-5. Copy, in Italian. Score, written in ink on paper ruled with ten or twelve staves to the page, with some pencil annotations in Tyson’s hand. The title page of Act 1 is inscribed ‘Si vende in Vienna presso Wencislao Sukowaty Editore di Musica, e Copista dell’ Imperial Teatro nella Piazza di St. Pietro Nro 554. i...
Scope & Content:: Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart, alias Wolfgang Amadeus; composer: Lorenzo Da Ponte, librettist and poet: Jakob Klein, music copyist: 'Cosi fan tutte' by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, to words by Lorenzo Da Ponte, partly in the hand of Jakob Klein: circa 1790-5: Ital: Copy.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: [1760-1840]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: WOMAT
Title:: War Office 'Material'
Scope & Content:: Miscellaneous types of mapping material collected and received by the Directorate of Military Survey and predecessors, typically incorporating information awaiting use in new or revised maps.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1890-1945
Extent:: 260 map trays and 50 boxes of foolscap folios, approximately

Reference (shelfmark):: WOOG
Title:: War Office 'Originals of G.S.G.S. maps'
Scope & Content:: The series comprises compilation material in various states of preparation for printing and issuing as a finished War Office product
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1889-1928
Extent:: 780 map sheets and 100 pages of text, approximately.

Reference (shelfmark):: WOOS
Title:: War Office 'Original Surveys'
Scope & Content:: Field sheets and fair drawings with associated documentation, arising from surveys undertaken by British Army units. Primarily covering areas of British interest in Africa and the Middle East, the series also includes material relating to Jamaica, British Honduras, the Falkland Islands, St Helen...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1903-1955
Extent:: 2,100 map sheets and 3,500 pages of text, approximately

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 1-131
Title:: Stefan Zweig Collection: Music manuscripts
Scope & Content:: Music manuscripts from the collection of Stefan Zweig.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Russian, and Spanish
Date Range:: [1671-1999]
Extent:: 131 items

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