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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 30413
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. XVII. Voyages and Travels: George Smith's travels in Syria and Mesopotamia: 1873, 1874, 1876. Syria: George Smith's notes of travels in: 1873, 1874, 1876. Mesopotamia: Notes of travels in, by G. Smith: 1873, 1874, 1876.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1873-1876
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 30485
Title:: Pavans, galliards and songs for the virginals by William Bird, Thomas Tallis, James Harding, Thomas Weelkes, Dr. John Bull and others; taken principally from Lady Nevill's virginal book.
Scope & Content:: 'Extracts from Virginal Book— Lady Nevill's' (so described in an 18th-century hand, on the remains of what appears to be the original vellum cover), containing a few pieces from that collection, of which the original is in the possession of the Marquis of Abergavenny. Written on two staves of 6 ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume (119 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 31922
Title:: A collection of songs, ballads, and instrumental pieces, composed early in the reign of Henry VIII
Scope & Content:: passim. Compositions for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in parts, apparently written early in the reign of Henry VIII (see for 1882-1887, p. 7). {Severeal published by the Roxburghe Club in 1912} {See J. E. Stevens 'Rounds and Canons from an early Tudor Song Book', Music and Letters,...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume (129 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 33933
Title:: The Wode Psalter or St Andrews Psalter: contra-tenor part-book containing musical settings of metrical psalms from the 1564 Scottish Psalm Book and other music
Scope & Content:: Most of the music was collected and copied by Thomas Wode (or Wood). Wode was a former monk who worked at St Andrews after the Reformation in Scotland, eventually becoming vicar there. At the core of the collection are harmonisations of the psalms by Scottish composer David Peebles. Over a perio...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: c 1564-c 1625
Extent:: 1 volume (94 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34034
Title:: Manuscript of Middlemarch: a study of provincial life, by George Eliot. Volume 1.
Scope & Content:: Vol. I, ff. 291.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34035
Title:: Manuscript of Middlemarch: a study of provincial life, by George Eliot. Volume 2.
Scope & Content:: Vol. II, ff. 302.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34036
Title:: Manuscript of Middlemarch: a study of provincial life, by George Eliot. Volume 3.
Scope & Content:: Vol. III, ff. 313.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34037
Title:: Manuscript of Middlemarch: a study of provincial life, by George Eliot. Volume 4.
Scope & Content:: Vol. IV, ff. 311.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34114
Title:: A collection of Romances in French (The 'Spalding Manuscript')
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff.1r-105r: A Chanson de Geste on the First Crusade with the colophon, 'Ci finist le siege d'Antioche onesque le conquest de Jerusalem de Godefrei de Boilon'; the only other known copy is in Oxford, Bodey Hatton MS 77 (according to Meyer, 'Récit de la première croisade', 1876; includ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1400
Extent:: Parchment codex

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