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1. Zweig MS 36

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 36
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Aria ‘E troppo bella troppo amorosa la Pastorella’, part of the cantata ‘Ho fuggito Amore anch’io’ (HWV 118), for voice and basso continuo
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of two staves: vocal line in the alto clef and figured bass. In D; tempo direction ‘allegro’ (f. 1r). Annotations by Vincent Novello in the upper margin of f. 1r record that the manuscript formerly belonged to Domenico Dragonetti and attest to its authe...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1st half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (ii + 2 folios)

2. Zweig MS 37

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 37
Title:
George Frideric Handel: ‘Floridante’, opera in three acts (libretto Paolo Antonio Rolli): final chorus ‘Quando pena la costanza’ from Act III
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of nine staves. No tempo direction. Headed ‘Coro’ (f. 1r) and with ‘Fine dell’ Opera à Londres ce 28 de Novembre 1721’ at the end (f. 4r). Part of Handel’s composition score of the opera. The discovery of this hitherto missing conclusion to the c...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1721
Extent:
1 volume (4 folios)

3. Zweig MS 38

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 38
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Oratorio ‘Joseph and his Brethren’ (words James Miller, after the book of Genesis), 1743: recitative ‘With Songs of ardent gratitude, and Praise’
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of two staves: vocal line in the alto clef and figured bass. Headed ‘Joseph’ in the upper margin, the music followed by ‘Segue il Coro Alleluja we will rejoice’, and with ‘Fine dell oratio. [sic] Joseph’ in the lower margin. Joseph and his Brethren wa...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1743-1744
Extent:
1 volume (1 folio)

4. Zweig MS 40

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 40
Title:
Joseph Haydn: Piano trio in E flat minor (Hob. XV:31)
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. In two movements, as follows: ff. 1v-5r. ‘Andante’; instrumental lines marked ‘Violino’, ‘Cembalo o p:f:’ and ‘Violoncello’ (f. 1v). Headed ‘In Nomine Domini’ and ‘di me giuseppe Haydn m[anu] p[ro]pria / 795 [line over]’ on f. 1v. ff...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1794-1795
Extent:
1 volume (9 folios)

5. Zweig MS 60

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 60
Title:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintet in E flat, for two violins, two violas and cello (K614)
Scope & Content:
Autograph full score. Written in ink on systems of five staves. Movement I (ff. 1r-6v), ‘All[egr]o di molto’; movement II (ff. 7r-10v) ‘Andante’; movement III (ff. 11r-12v) ‘Menuetto: Allegretto’ and ‘Trio’; movement IV (ff. 13r-18v) ‘All[egr]o’. Headed by Mozart ‘Quintetto:’ (f. 1r) and with hi...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
[1791]
Extent:
1 volume (18 folios)

6. Zweig MS 127

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 127
Title:
Carl Maria von Weber: ‘Oberon’, opera in three acts (libretto by James Robinson Planché after C.M. Wieland): sketches for part of Overture and of Act III
Scope & Content:
Autograph short or condensed score. Written in ink on systems of two, three or four staves. As follows: f. 1r. ‘O Araby, dear Araby’ [no. 16]. Headed ‘Song Fatima’. f. 1v. ‘Mourn thou poor heart’ [no. 19]. Headed ‘Cavatina’. With annotations in red crayon and in pencil. f. 1v. Overture, eight ba...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1826
Extent:
1 volume (3 folios)

7. Zweig MS 133

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 133
Title:
Scope & Content:
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXXXIII. Honoré de Balzac: novel Une Ténébreuse Affaire; circa 1841. Printed early proof, with autograph annotations and corrections. French. See Oeuvres Complètes de Honoré de Balzac, ed. M. Bouteron and H. Longnon, vol. 26 (Paris, 1914), pp. 27-275. ff. ii+625. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1841
Extent:
1 item

8. Zweig MS 137

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 137
Title:
(Enoch) Arnold Bennett: Newspaper article in the series 'Books and Persons', including a review of Conflicts by Stefan Zweig, written for the Evening Standard; London, 20 February 1928 (see f. 1)
Scope & Content:
Autograph draft. The review relates to novels by three European writers newly published in English translation. Begins: 'Not long since I saw an advertisement of [deletion] a novel . . .' Ends: ‘It has sparks of the divine fire’ The works discussed are: Thomas Raucat, L'Honorable Partie de ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1928
Extent:
1 item

9. Zweig MS 138

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 138
Title:
George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron: 'Note to the lines where Capel Lofft is mentioned'
Scope & Content:
Autograph fair copy. The prose note explains the allusion to Capel Lofft in Byron's 'Hints from Horace' (published 1811), lines 693-696: 'Hark to those notes, narcotically soft! / The cobber-laureats sing to Capel Lofft! /Till, lo! that modern Midas, as he hears, / Adds an ell-growth to his egre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1811
Extent:
1 item

10. Zweig MS 141

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 141
Title:
Scope & Content:
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXLI. Charles Darwin: fragment of 'Insectivorous Plants', with some mathematical calculations relating to meridians on the verso; n.d. Draft. Published in 1875. See The Works of Charles Darwin, ed. P. H. Barrett and R. B. Freeman, vol. 24 (1989), p. 307. f. 1. 165...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item