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Reference (shelfmark):: 7898.a.9.
Title:: Letter
Scope & Content:: Letter to Sir John Stainer from William Henry Gladstone 1877
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1877
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 15504a2/7
Title:: Photographs of Chengdu
Scope & Content:: Collection of 37 black and white photographs of the city of Chengdu, China.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese and English
Date Range:: before 1926
Extent:: 37 black and white photographs

Reference (shelfmark):: 16099.d.31
Title:: Tōshisen ehon 唐詩選畫本 [唐詩選画本]
Scope & Content:: Variant titles: Ehon tōshisen 繪本唐詩選 [絵本唐詩選]; Tōshisen ehon 唐詩選繪本 [ 唐詩選絵本]. Imprint: Edo: various publishers, 1788 [Tenmei 8]-1836 [Tenpō 7]. Description: 6 parts in 30 volumes, now rebound in 1 volume western style. 22.5 x 15.5 cm. Contents: An illustrated anthology of Chinese poetry from th...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1788-1836
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: 43567
Title:: Turdus viscivorus : Mistle Thrush - Turdidae
Scope & Content:: Original species name: Mistle Thrush, Turdus viscivorus Sound category: song Behavioral note: on perch in tree on right; other birds mainly distant, except for Raven on flight from nest on nearby crag. Background sounds: Sheep, Wren, Woodpecker, Raven, Tits, distant river Distance from subje...
Collection Area:: Sound Archive
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 8 Apr 1995
Extent:: 1 recording

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1385,B1432,A1436,A1440-4,1446,A1636,A1853,A1870,A1871,A1940,B3864,A3889-90,A4206,A5132,B5255
Title:: Letters (84) and one postcard from W. M. Rossetti to A. C. Swinburne; 2 Jan. 1866-20 Sept. 1906. Also included are a letter to Swinburne from Lucy Rossetti, [April?] 1876 (1446, ff. 104-105), and a letter from W. M. Rossetti, not to Swinburne, but possibly to J. C. Hotten, 11 Jan. 1867 (1446, f. 18). The letters in 1446, ff. 9-10b, 52, 52b, 102-103b, and 154, 154b, and in A1871 are imperfect. Vol. A IV, f. 33 is not part of the letter on ff. 31-32b, but is the missing portion of the second l...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 2 Jan 1866-20 Sep 1906
Extent:: 20 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur A20-21; B50-51; C39-45; C68-69; D236-69; E113; F35-41; G27-31
Title:: Moorcroft Collection: journals, correspondence and notes of William Moorcroft (1765?-1825), veterinary surgeon in the Bengal Army and superintendent of the Company's stud in Bengal 1808-25, apparently employed as a secret agent, chiefly relating to his journey to Bukhara 1820-25 and describing the Himalayan regions through which he passed.
Scope & Content:: Moorcroft Collection: journals, correspondence and notes of William Moorcroft (1765?-1825), veterinary surgeon in the Bengal Army and superintendent of the Company's stud in Bengal 1808-25, apparently employed as a secret agent, chiefly relating to his journey to Bukhara 1820-25 and describing th...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1812-1825
Extent:: 51 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: a.26.h.
Title:: DANCE TUNES; 18th cent. Added to the printed collection Select Minuets Collected from the Operas, the Balls at Court, the Masquerades, and all Publick Entertainments. For the Harpsichord, Violin, or German Flute. Compos’d by Mr Handel, Dr Greene, Mr M. C. Festing [and] Mr Hudson (Printed for I. Walsh, [1739]). The minuets are printed on one side of the page only, and the additions, all for solo instrument, are made on the versos. Purchased, 12 Oct. 1910. ff. 111. 106 x 195mm. 1. f. 2v. [Ji...
Scope & Content:: Music: Dance tunes, added to a printed collection: 18th cent.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: a.30.a.
Title:: DANCES FOR THE VIOLIN OR FLUTE: with instructions for the flute; 1732-42. Bound after the printed volume The Compleat Tutor to the Violin, the Fifth book (Ino. Young, 1727). Ink, in various different hands. Inscribed ‘Robert Needham 1732’ (f. v). Purchased, 20 Nov. 1950. ff. xvi + 37. 110 x 215mm. Comtemporary mottled calf boards with simple blind-stamped design. 1. f. i. ‘Prince Eugene’s March’. Printed in John Playford, The Dancing Master, ... Volume the Second (Printed by W. Pearson, [1...
Scope & Content:: Music: Dances, with instructions for the flute: 1732-42. includes: f. 24 Maurice Greene, organist and composer: Henry Carey, composer: Tune of the song, 'The busy fly', sometimes attributed to: 1732: Copy.f. 26 George Frideric Handel, composer: 'A Minuet by Mr Handell': 1732: Copy.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1732-1742
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: a.76.b.(3.)
Title:: ‘SPIETATO OH! DIO’; late 18th – early 19th cent. The melody only of a song for soprano, with a blank stave ruled beneath, probably for a guitar accompaniment. Written onto two blank pages between pp. 37 and 38 of Frederic Schuman’s printed volume A Collection of the most celebrated Songs set by Several Authors adapted for the Guittar (Printed for Mlle Rauche, [1763]). A different, also anonymous setting of the same words is found in MS 1384 of the Santini-Bibliothek in Münster. The verso of ...
Scope & Content:: Music: Song, 'Spietato oh! Dio', and melody in C major: late 18th - early 19th cent.: Ital.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: Late 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: A.233.
Title:: ‘ADIEU NOUS VOUS VERRIONS UN JOUR’; 17th cent. The words only of a ‘chanson francois’ added to the final page (f. 36v) of the bass part of the printed madrigal collection De Floridi Virtuosi d’Italia (In Anversa: Appresso Pietro Phalesio, 1600). The title page of the bass part is inscribed ‘Giovanni Vuatchin’. Purchased, 22 May 1873. Two parts; ff. 36 + 36. 158 x 208mm.
Scope & Content:: includes: Bass part, f. 36v Poetry FRENCH: Chanson, 'Adieu nous vous verrions un jour': 17th cent.: Fr.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

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