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91. Add MS 57337

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Title:
The Anderson Pontifical
Scope & Content:
The Anderson Pontifical (also known as the Brodie Pontifical) contains an imperfect Pontifical and an imperfect Benedictional, probably written in a major southern English scriptorium at the end of the 10th century or the first quarter of the 11th century. A few Old English glosses and musical n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
c 988-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

92. Add MS 58853

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ITALIAN CANTATAS: 'Parole di Gio. Patritio Carey messe in musica da Diuersi Autori', settings for soprano solo accompanied by a figured bass; mid-17th cent. The signature of 'Guglmo Reymes' (i.e. William Reymes) is on ff. 1 and 83v (for comparison see Sloane 514). Folio i is the bookplate of 'Maurice Burrus', 1937. For a discussion on the identification of the author of the texts as the minor English poet, Patrick Cary see Pamela J. Willetts, 'Patrick Cary and his Italian poems', B.L.J. 2, n...
Scope & Content:
Poetry ITALIAN: Music: Patrick Cary, English poet: 'Parole di Gio. Patritio Carey messe in musica da Diuersi Autori', settings for soprano solo accompanied by a figured bass: mid-17th cent.: Ital. includes: ff. 2-35b, 78-83b Carlo Rainaldi, Italian architect, composer and instrumentalist: Five...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 item

93. Add MS 59874

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JANE AUSTEN: ''Volume the Second'', comprising later autograph copies of early compositions dating from circa 1790-1793. Imperfect, lacking twelve leaves. Included are two brief epistolary novels ''Love and Friendship'' and ''Lesley Castle'', and a parodic ''History of England'', the latter illustrated with coloured vignettes by Jane Austen''s sister Cassandra. Other contents include ''A Collection of Letters'' dedicated to a childhood friend Miss Cooper and ''Scraps'' dedicated to a niece F...
Scope & Content:
Jane Austen, novelist: `Volume the Second'' of Jane Austen: circa 1790-1793.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1790-1793
Extent:
1 item

94. Add MS 62540

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Title:
Atlas of Sicily, England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland
Scope & Content:
Atlas book containing two maps by Laurence Nowell (1530-c. 1570), antiquary, covering Sicily, England, Wales, Ireland and part of Scotland. With itineraries partly in the hand of William Cecil, first Baron Burghley (1520-1598), royal minister. f. 2v: Map of Sicily by Laurence Nowell, possibly ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1564
Extent:

1 volume

95. Add MS 65194

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Title:
Abridgement of the Book of Assizes, bound by the 'Scales Binder'
Scope & Content:
Contents: The abridgement of the Book of Assizes, an anonymous alphabetical abridgement of material from the year books of the Court of Assizes, compiled in the mid fifteenth century, and distinct from the fourteenth-century Liber Assisarum. This abridgement was first published in 1509 by Rich...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1456-1465
Extent:

Paper codex

96. Add MS 65381

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Title:
''VOLUME THE THIRD'': notebook containing two early novels, ''Evelyn'' and ''Catharine, or the Bower'', by Jane Austen; 6 May 1792-19 Aug. 1809, n.d.
Scope & Content:
Mostly autograph. This is the third of the surviving three volumes of Jane Austen's juvenilia; ''Volume the First'' is in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (MS Don.e.7) and ''Volume the Second'' is in the British Library (Add. 59874). All contain copies, with some later additions and revisions, of or...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 May 1792-19 Aug 1809
Extent:
1 item

97. Add MS 71544

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Title:
JOHN LENTON: ‘Instrumentall Musick for New Yeares Day’; 1699. 1st treble part only. In the hand of the same scribe throughout: the fact that the end of the music (f. 8) is signed ‘J: L:’ suggests that the manuscript may well be autograph. The title page reads: ‘Instrumentall Musick For New Yeares day 1699. By John Lenton, Composer to his Ma[jes]tie’. Dedication (f. 1v) ‘To The Most Illustrious Princess, Her Royall Highness Princess Ann of Denmark, The Author humbly Dedicates’. The music comp...
Scope & Content:
Anne of England: 'Instrumentall Musick for New Yeares Day 1699' by John Lenton, dedicated 'To The Most Illustrious Princess, Her Royall Highness Princess Ann of Denmark': 1699. John Lenton, violinist and composer: 'Instrumentall Musick for New Yeares Day', 1st treble part: 1699: possibly autogr.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1699
Extent:
1 item

98. Add MS 74286

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Title:
Collection of original letters from Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, to Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
This manuscript principally contains a collection of 43 original letters written from Robert Devereux (b. 1565, d. 1601), 2nd Earl of Essex, to Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603). Although some of the letters are undated, all but the first were written between the time of Essex's expedition to Fra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1590-1601
Extent:
1 volume

99. Add MS 74287

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Title:
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, autograph draft of Discourse on War with Spain
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is an autograph draft of Discourse on War with Spain, by Robert Devereux (b. 1565, d. 1601), 2nd earl of Essex. Essex wrote the work on board his ship the Due Repulse, during his return voyage from Cadiz to England in early August 1596. The Discourse is written in the form of a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1596
Extent:

1 volume

100. Add MS 78425

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Title:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLVIII. Miscellaneous collected papers of John Evelyn; 17th cent.
Scope & Content:
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCLVIII. Miscellaneous collected papers of John Evelyn; 17th cent. 1. `Avertimente & precetti &c'; 17th cent. [italics]Italian[/italics]. An anonymous treatise in short sections, including those on health, honour and reputation, fashion, negotiation, etc. Presumably ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

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