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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37766
Title:
Scope & Content:: LETTERS and papers relating to the ownership of the Mozart quartets contained in the preceding MSS., Add. 37763-37765. They consist of (1) A list of Mozart autographs in the possession of J. A. Stumpff, in his own hand, followed by a printed copy of the same. ff. 1, 2;-(2) The sale-catalogue of ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1847-1854
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37832
Title:: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, copied and illuminated by William Morris
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in the translation by Edward Fitzgerald, first published in 1859, handwritten and decorated by William Morris (b. 1834, d. 1896) in 1872. The figures depicted in the decorated borders were designed by William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones (b....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37943
Title:: Oscar Wilde, autograph draft of Lady Windermere's Fan: Acts I-IV
Scope & Content:: Copyright: © Estate of Oscar Wilde. Autograph draft of Oscar Wilde's play, Lady Windermere's Fan, with corrections and annotations. Incomplete and differing greatly from the published version. First performed at the St James's Theatre, 20 February 1892, and published 1893.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1891]
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37944
Title:: Oscar Wilde, autograph draft of A Woman of No Importance, titled Mrs Arbuthnot, with corrections and additions
Scope & Content:: Copyright: © Estate of Oscar Wilde. Autograph draft of Oscar Wilde's play, A Woman of No Importance, titled Mrs Arbuthnot, with many corrections and additions. Gerald Arbuthnot is named Aleck in Acts I-III, but Gerald in Act IV; Hester is named Mabel throughout. First performed at the Haymarket ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1892-1893]
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37945
Title:: Oscar Wilde, two typed versions of Mrs Arbuthnot, with autograph corrections
Scope & Content:: Copyright: © Estate of Oscar Wilde. Two typed versions of Oscar Wilde''s play Mrs Arbuthnot, later retitled, A Woman of No Importance, with autograph corrections. The second version (f. 92) is nearer to the final printed version. At folio 92 is a suggested cast, differing considerably from the a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1892-1893
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37946
Title:: Oscar Wilde, autograph draft of An Ideal Husband
Scope & Content:: Copyright: © Estate of Oscar Wilde. Autograph drafts of Oscar Wilde's play, An Ideal Husband. Includes Acts I, II (two versions), III and IV. Act IV appears to represent the earliest version, in which Mabel Chiltern is named Violet up to f. 216, where the change to Mabel is made. Acts I, II a an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1894]
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37947
Title:: Typescript of An Ideal Husband, by Oscar Wilde, with autograph corrections
Scope & Content:: Copyright: © Estate of Oscar Wilde. Typewritten copy of a draft of Oscar Wilde's play, An Ideal Husband, with autograph corrections.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1894]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37948
Title:: Oscar Wilde, early drafts of Acts II and IV of Lady Lancing
Scope & Content:: Copyright: © Estate of Oscar Wilde. Autograph and typewritten drafts of Oscar Wilde''s play The Importance of Being Earnest, titled Lady Lancing. Acts II and III were compressed into Act II in the published version. At folio 1 is a draft in pencil of part of the final version of Act I, and at fo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1894
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37977
Title:: Memoirs of the diplomat Sir James Melville of Hallhill (1559–1594)
Scope & Content:: An autograph copy of Melville's memoirs. This manuscript is most likely the one Robert Trail found in Edinburgh Castle in 1660 and identified as Melville's handwriting. Trail gave it to Melville's grandson George Scott of Pitlochie, who published it with significant alterations in 1683. The 182...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38068
Title:
Scope & Content:: PRELUDE and Fugue in G : no. 15 of "Das wohltemperirte Klavier," part ii., by Johann Sobastian Bach. Autograph. Paper; f. 1. circ. 1744. Oblong folio. Bound up with 35021. Johann Sebastian Bach, composer: Prelude and fugue: circ. 1744.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1744
Extent:: 1 item

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