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301. Add MS 30900

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Title:
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: String quartet in E flat. Autograph.
Scope & Content:
Quartet in E flat (Allegro moderato, Adagio non troppo, Minuet, Fugue), for 2 violins, viola, and basso, in score, composed [by Mendelssohn] in March, 1823. Autograph. At the beginning are the initials 'L. e. g. G,' which appear on so many of his compositions. This work was not published till De...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Mar 1823-30 Mar 1823
Extent:

1 volume (10 folios)

302. Add MS 30930

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Title:
Henry Purcell: Autograph manuscript of fantazias, sonatas and sacred part-songs.
Scope & Content:
The vocal music, for between three and five voices and continuo, has been copied from one end of the manuscript (folios 3r-29v) and the instrumental music from the other (folios 72v-30r reversed).
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1678-1690
Extent:
1 volume

303. Add MS 30930, ff 1-29v

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Title:
Henry Purcell: Devotional songs for three, four and five voices, with continuo.
Scope & Content:
ff. 3-29. Anthems in score, from miscellaneous autograph vocal and instrumental music by Henry Purcell.1. 'Plung'd in ye confines of dispair' (3 voices). f. 3. 2. 'O all ye people, clap your hands' (4 voices). f. 4. 3. 'When on my sick bed I languish' (3 voices). f. 6. 4. 'Lord, not to us' (3 vo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1678-1690
Extent:
29 folios

304. Add MS 31549

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Title:
Two cantatas, and end-chorus of the Opera "Sanzio", by Antonio Caldara.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-3b. 'Senti, deh, senti, oh Clori': Cantata for a soprano voice, with a bass for harpsichord, in score, by Antonio Caldara. Autograph. At the end is written '20 Maggio, 1715, in Roma; et è una grande ragazzata.' [1715.] ff. 4-10. 'Amor del gran Sancio': concluding chorus (à 4), with accom...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (10 folios)

305. Add MS 31697

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Title:
Sonatas, for the viola-da-gamba, with a bass, in score, by Carl Friedrich Abel.
Scope & Content:
passim. Compositions for Viola da Gamba, with a bass for harpsichord, in score, by C. F. Abel. ff 83. Solos for 'Viola da Gamba,' by C[arl] F[riedrich] Abel. Unless the contrary is stated, they are Sonatas and are accompanied by a bass (for harpsichord), in score. Some, if not all, were writte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
2nd half 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (83 folios)

306. Add MS 31707

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Title:
'Symphony in E flat', in score, by Franz Joseph Haydn.
Scope & Content:
ff. 40. 'Sinfonie in E flat' ['Mit dem Paukenwirbel'], for 2 trumpets (clarini), drums, 2 horns, 2 clarinets, 2 oboes, flutes, bassoons, 2 violins, viola, violoncellos, and basses, in score, by Haydn, 1795. Autograph. Folios 23, 23b, and 26, are said to have been supplied — evidently late in life...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1795
Extent:
1 volume (40 folios)

307. Add MS 31853

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Title:
John Norden's chorographical description of the shires
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–31r: ‘A Chorographicall discription of the seuerall Shires and Islands of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Sussex, Hamshire, Weighte, Garnesey and Jarsey, performed by the traueyle and uiew of John Norden, 1595.’ This manuscript was dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I (f. 2r). Only the last page (f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1595
Extent:
1 volume

308. Add MS 31908

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Title:
"PROIETS pour le medailler de Louis XIV., avec les desseins de Seb. Le Clerc et des nottes du Roy, des Ministres, et de l'Academie Royale des Inscriptions." A collection of scraps and cuttings, being designs; for historical medals drawn by Sébastien Leclerc, accompanied with descriptions ; and sketches and suggestions for designs transmitted to Leclere by order of the Ministers or the Academy. Paper; ff. 29. Late XVIIth cent. Folio.
Scope & Content:
Sébastien Le Clerc: Designs for historical medals of Louis XIV.: 17th cent. Louis XIV of France: Designs for medals of, by S. Le Clerc: 17th cent. Art. Illuminations and Drawings FRENCH: Designs for historical medals, by S. Le Clerc: 17th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

309. Add MS 31950

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Title:
Biblical and Genealogical roll chronicle from Creation to King Henry VI of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: An abbreviated version in English of a genealogical chronicle from Creation to the beginning of the reign of Edward IV, of the type known as the 'Considerans' chronicle. This is one of a group of chronicles, named from the opening words of the prologue, ‘Considerans historie sacre pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 roll

310. Add MS 32006

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Title:
An English arma Christi roll
Scope & Content:
This so-called arma Christi roll is one of the ten extant late-medieval English rolls with the Middle English poem O Vernicle - a poem on the different instruments of Christ's suffering - illustrated with images of the arma Christi at its relevant stanzas. The reason why the poem was frequently ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the fifteenth century
Extent:

Parchment roll

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