1. Add MS 4920
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2. Add MS 4922
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- Add MS 4922
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- Scope & Content:
- HAWKINS COLLECTION. Vol. XIV (ff. 22). 'Regole per il contrappunto', possibly part of the joint work of Giovanni Maria and Giovanni Bernardino Nanini, Regole ... per fare contrappunto, 1619; 17th cent. Belonged, before 1778, to John? Stafford Smith. Giovanni Maria Nanino, composer: 'Regole per ...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
3. Add MS 5220
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- Add MS 5220
- Title:
- ‘Drawings of animals, monsters, skeletons, etc.’ from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, by different hands
- Scope & Content:
- Album of drawings by miscellaneous hands and of differing origin and date. The pages are not numbered. The drawings are listed as numbered items in pencil (1928). Folio number refers to the digital foliation. [f. 1] 1. Drawings of fish; pen, ink and wash; signed bottom right ‘HG fecit’; Insc...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 16th century-18th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume (42 drawings)
4. Add MS 5262
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- Add MS 5262
- Title:
- Drawings of shells, crustaceans and fish by Everard Kick, George Jago and others
- Scope & Content:
- 176 drawings executed in a variety of techniques, some of which are signed and dated. The drawings are executed on paper or parchment and pasted down on the folios of the manuscript. Summary description of contents: 1-7. Ink and grey wash studies of various types of fish with their name and a b...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- Early 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume (176 items)
5. Add MS 5272
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- Add MS 5272
- Title:
- Drawings of amphibians and reptiles by Eleazar Albin and others
- Scope & Content:
- Drawings of reptiles and amphibians executed in a variety of techniques, primarily watercolour, pencil, ink and chalk. The only exceptions are items 21 and 60, which are etchings. Various drawings bear inscriptions in English, some of which are abbreviated cross-references to James Petiver's Gaz...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- Early 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume (60 items)
6. Add MS 6940
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- Add MS 6940
- Title:
- Ardā vīrāf nāmah اردا ویراف نامه by Zartusht Bahrām
- Scope & Content:
- The Ardā vīrāf nāmah (اردا ویراف نامه), a poetical version in Persian by Zartusht Bahrām ibn Pazhdū of the book of Ardā Vīrāf, based on a Pahlavi original of the 9th/10th century describing Arda Viraf's journey through heaven and hell and his return home afterwards. Copied by the Rev. John Hadd...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Persian
- Date Range:
- Early 19th century
- Extent:
-
Codex; ff. ii+64+i
7. Add MS 10037
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- Add MS 10037
- Title:
- Jane Segar, The Divine Prophecies of the Ten Sibills
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains The Divine Prophecies of the Ten Sibills, written and illuminated by Jane Segar, sister of the Elizabethan herald and officer of arms Sir William Segar (b. c. 1554, d. 1633) and the courtier and painter Francis Segar (b. 1563, d. 1615). Jane presented the volume to Eliza...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1589
- Extent:
- 1 volume
8. Add MS 12219
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- Add MS 12219
- Title:
- Incidental music to Macbeth, which has been attributed to John Eccles
- Scope & Content:
- Incidental music to Macbeth, with symphonies and accompaniments for serpent and other instruments, in score, in the same hand as the Ode by John Eccles in Add MS 31456, and apparently autograph. In Add MS 29378, consisting almost entirely of works by Eccles, the composition of this music (ff. 57-...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- Late 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume (42 folios)
9. Add MS 12340
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- Add MS 12340
- Title:
- Facsimile of a Kawi inscription
- Scope & Content:
- ‘Fac-simile, in pencil, of an ancient manuscript in the Kawi character, found at Tagala, in the province of Cheribon [Cirĕbon].’ Crawfurd, 1820, vol. ii‚ pp. 216-17 says, ‘from the figures, signs of the zodiac, and other characters painted upon it, it is conjectured to be a treatise on astrolo...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Javanese, and Old Javanese
- Date Range:
- 1814
- Extent:
- 1 item
10. Add MS 14399
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- Add MS 14399
- Title:
- A collection of mostly English songs, as well as some lute music, cantatas and duets
- Scope & Content:
- passim. Songs for a treble voice, with a bass figured for harpsichord; except in no. 13, which is unaccompanied. Nos. 1-7 are in the hand of Matthew Lock. 1. 'Cupid once, when weary grown.' By Pelham Humfrey. [In , 1679.] f. 4b. 2. 'Cloris, qui domptetout le nionde.' Anonymous. f. 5b. 3. 'Hark, ...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English and French
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
