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41. Add MS 23779

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Title:
Collection of compositions for strings and organ, by Giovanni Coperario [John Cooper, Music Master to the children of James I.].
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ff. 2b-62. String trios with a bass for organ, by Giovanni Coperario. See Quartets for Organ and Strings, below (p. 269). ff. 2b-62. Compositions for 2 treble viols and a bass with organ, by Giovanni Coperario. Score and organ part. They are divided into sets of three pieces (Fancy, Allemande,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century - 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (104 folios)

42. Add MS 24145

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Title:
Sigebert of Gembloux, Chronica sive Chronographia Universalis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript from the Benedictine abbey of Stavelot contains one of the more than forty extant copies of the world chronicle that Sigebert of Gembloux (b. c. 1028, d. 1112), a Benedictine monk at the abbey of Gembloux and St Vincent in Metz, wrote between c. 1086 and 1106. The world chronicle...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century-4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

43. Add MS 27278

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MEMORANDUM-BOOK of Sir Francis Bacon, afterwards Urd Verulam. The general title is, "Comentarius solutus sive Pandecta, sive Ancilla Memoriæ. Habet libros duos: 1. Comentarium transportatorum ex comentario vetere. 2. Commentarium novum et currentem." The first division alone is contained in the present volume, of which the special title is, "Lib. i. sive Comentarius transportatorum consistit ex diario et schedulis." It comprises memoranda for his conduct in public and private business, liter...
Scope & Content:
Diaries and Memoranda: Sir Francis Bacon: 1608, 1609. Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans: Note-book: 1608-1609.: Autogr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

44. Add MS 28504

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Title:
John Skelton, The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng; rule-book for the Esquire Youths, a society of bell-ringers
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an attempted facsimile of an early printed edition of The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng, by the English poet John Skelton (b. c. 1463, d. 1529). The satirical poem concerns the eponymous Elynour, the owner of a pub in southern England. It is written in a style known as 'Ske...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

45. Add MS 29485

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Title:
Almands, galliards, pavans, sarabands, etc., arranged for the virginals, on six-lined staves, with headings in Dutch.
Scope & Content:
Collection of pieces arranged for the Virginals, written on two staves of 6 lines each. Apparently made for Susanne van Soldt, 1599 (see f. 1); but the writing on f. 2 (in a different, but nearly contemporary hand — see also ff. 24-27) seems to connect the MS. with England. The names of the comp...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Dutch and English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

1 volume (27 folios)

46. Add MS 29996

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Title:
Motets, madrigals, fancies, by Thomas Tomkins and others, interspersed with political verses and satires, recipes etc.
Scope & Content:
Motets, madrigals, fancies, etc., annotated throughout by Thomas Tomkins, with some of his own compositions. The composers named are - Kyrton, ff. 6, 7 b. John Redford, ff. 6 b, 11, 17, 22 b, 36, 37, 40 b, 42 b. Richard Wynslate, f. 20. - Avere [Avory], f. 25. Philip Apprys [Price], of St. Paul'...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:

1 volume

47. Add MS 30387

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Title:
Dance and other music in lute notation, composed by Silvio Leopold Weis and Sigismund Weis, of Prague, in 1717-1724
Scope & Content:
Passim. Collection of solos for Lute. 1717-1724. The 'Weis' whose name is put to so many of them is probably Sylvius Leopold Weiss, but a few may be by his brother Sigismund, who was also a lutist, and by whom there is a composition on f. 33b. Probably other pieces besides those ascribed to them...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1717-1724
Extent:

1 volume (159 folios)

48. Add MS 30403

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Scope & Content:
Vol. VII.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1873-1876
Extent:
1 item

49. Add MS 30407

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Scope & Content:
Vol. XI.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1873-1876
Extent:
1 item

50. Add MS 30408

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Scope & Content:
Vol. XII.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1873-1876
Extent:
1 item

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