Johann Sebastian Bach, 'Das Wohltemperirte Klavier', part ii
Scope & Content:
Rotographs of the autograph manuscript of Johann Sebastian Bach, 'Das Wohltemperirte Klavier', part ii (Add. MS. 35021) and of another manuscript, not autograph, circ. 1774, of Bach's Prelude and Fugue in G, no. 15 of 'Das Wohltemperirte Klavier', part ii (Add. MS. 38068). Transferred to Musi...
FRENCH ILLUMINATION: Rotographs of part of a Book of Hours (Add. MS. 36684), executed in the region of St Omer, in Northern France, probably for a lady called Marguerite, mid 14th cent. (Another part of the same Book of Hours is MS. 754 in the Pierpont Morgan Lib., New York, and is reproduced in...
ENGLISH HISTORY: Rotographs of (1) manuscripts of 'The Libelle of Englysche Polycye', arranged in the order adopted by Sir G. F. Warner in his edition of 'The Libelle', Oxford, 1926 (see pp; lii-lvi), viz.:- MS. A: Oxford, Bodl. Lib., Laud. 704;-MS. A2: Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys Lib., 1461;-MS. B: BM. Harley 4011, ff. 120-137 b;-MS. F: Oxford, Bodl. Lib., Rawlinson Poetry 32, ff. 173-193;-MS. G: formerly in the possession of G. H. Gurney, of Keswick Hall, co. Norfolk, and now in ...
GERMAN ILLUMINATION: Photographs of miniatures in the alchemica treatise 'Splendor Solis', from Harley MS. 3469, executed in Germany, 1582. Presented by Joseph Wallace, Esq.
PARISH REGISTERS: Ultra-violet photographs of pages from Parish Registers in the British Museum, viz.:-(1) Add. MS. 24802 (Somerby, co. Leic., 1601-1715), ff. 1-13b passim;-(2) Add. MS. 34632 (Register of Burials of a parish in or near Boston, co. Linc., 1561-1564).