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Reference (shelfmark):: WOOS/35/2
Title:: 'Island Off La-Wa Ada'
Scope & Content:: Comprises the islands of Dolokhtiya and Duren. Portrays coastal outline, survey control points and place names.
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1934
Extent:: 1 map sheet

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 36
Title:: George Frideric Handel: Aria ‘E troppo bella troppo amorosa la Pastorella’, part of the cantata ‘Ho fuggito Amore anch’io’ (HWV 118), for voice and basso continuo
Scope & Content:: Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of two staves: vocal line in the alto clef and figured bass. In D; tempo direction ‘allegro’ (f. 1r). Annotations by Vincent Novello in the upper margin of f. 1r record that the manuscript formerly belonged to Domenico Dragonetti and attest to its authe...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1st half of the 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume (ii + 2 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 40
Title:: Joseph Haydn: Piano trio in E flat minor (Hob. XV:31)
Scope & Content:: Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. In two movements, as follows: ff. 1v-5r. ‘Andante’; instrumental lines marked ‘Violino’, ‘Cembalo o p:f:’ and ‘Violoncello’ (f. 1v). Headed ‘In Nomine Domini’ and ‘di me giuseppe Haydn m[anu] p[ro]pria / 795 [line over]’ on f. 1v. ff...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1794-1795
Extent:: 1 volume (9 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 127
Title:: Carl Maria von Weber: ‘Oberon’, opera in three acts (libretto by James Robinson Planché after C.M. Wieland): sketches for part of Overture and of Act III
Scope & Content:: Autograph short or condensed score. Written in ink on systems of two, three or four staves. As follows: f. 1r. ‘O Araby, dear Araby’ [no. 16]. Headed ‘Song Fatima’. f. 1v. ‘Mourn thou poor heart’ [no. 19]. Headed ‘Cavatina’. With annotations in red crayon and in pencil. f. 1v. Overture, eight ba...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: before 1826
Extent:: 1 volume (3 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 202
Title:
Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CCII. Arthur Rimbaud: Une Saison en Enfer (Brussels, 1873). Printed. Dedicated on verso of title-page to Stefan Zweig from O. Van den Daele, Mons, 8 Oct. 1908. See also Zweig 181 and Chris Michaelides 'Stefan Zweig's copy of Rimbaud, Une Saison en Enfer (1873) in Th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1873
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 215
Title:: Autograph book of Ignaz Moscheles
Scope & Content:: Autograph book of the pianist and composer Ignaz Moscheles. Most entries are written directly into the volume and are by musicians contributing musical quotations or complete short pieces. In addition, a number of items, including letters and drawings, are inserted. Includes inserted items dated...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Russian
Date Range:: 1764-1869
Extent:: 1 volume (159 folios)

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