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Reference (shelfmark):: Loan MS 131/1
Title:: Former box of Loan MS 131 (The 'Burdett Psalter-Hours')
Scope & Content:: A cardboard box for a Times Book Club subscription, formerly used to house the Burdett Psalter-Hours (Loan MS 131). A label on the front inscribed 'Very Old Book bequeathed by JANE BURDETT 1694'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 1 box

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 97
Title:
Scope & Content:: MS Mus. 97. DONALD MITCHELL COLLECTION. Vol. i. Gustav Mahler: cancelled folio from the draft orchestral full score of the third movement, ‘Rondo-Burleske’, of the Symphony no.9 in D major; [probably 1909]. Autograph. Written in ink on paper of 24 staves. The recto contains bars 412-25 and the v...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1909
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1587
Title:: MS Mus. 1587. George Frideric Handel: Keyboard music; between circa 1717 and 1775. Sonatas, suites and other works for keyboard instrument by Handel and other composers. Copy in ink. The first part of the manuscript (ff. 1-52r) was made by the copyist RM1 in about 1717. (For copyists, see J. P. Larsen: Handel’s Messiah: Origins, Composition, Sources (Copenhagen: Einar Munksgaard, 1957)). This is apparently the earliest surviving English copy of Handel’s keyboard music. In this part of the ma...
Scope & Content:: includes: ff. 1-46 James Stevens, composer and pianist: 'Concertetto concitato', for piano and orchestra: circa 1960: Photocopy. ff. 1-52r. George Frideric Handel, composer: Keyboard suites, HWV 426-432, 434, 438. Not all complete, and some with additional movements from HWV 8, 428, 442, 495, 5...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1712-1775
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1769
Title:: Benjamin Britten: Music for the film Instruments of the Orchestra, later published as The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Variations on a theme of Purcell), op. 34. Autograph draft
Scope & Content:: Draft score. The music was originally composed for the film Instruments of the Orchestra (1946). No earlier sketches are known to survive, and it seems that Britten composed the piece directly into the present draft score. The title-page bears Britten's signature and the words 'Orchestral Film' ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1945
Extent:: 1 volume (15 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F137/32
Title:
Scope & Content:: Printed papers on the Punjab troubles of 1919, including Brigadier-General Dyer's report on the Amritsar shootings and a secret report by the Government of the Punjab on the supposed political background to the riots.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1919
Extent:: Unspecified

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 1374
Title:: Dīvān-i Navā’ī / ديوان نوائي
Scope & Content:: The Divan of Nava'i without preface. The first five ghazals, out of twenty-two rhyming in alif, are the same as in Or. 401 and are in the same order. The rest of the volume shows a considerable degree of agreement with the same copy, from which it chiefly differs by frequent omissions. Content...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chagatai, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Codex, ff. 189

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 3478
Title:: Maps on European paper
Scope & Content:: Maps on European paper, some with cloth backing, various size. (1) Pictorial map of the country between the Irrawaddy and Salween rivers in the area east of Mandalay. Towns and administrative seats marked in Burmese. (2) Another pictorial map, in red, green and black, of the same region. (3)...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Burmese, Chinese, and English
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 volume (9 sheets)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 7455
Title:: [馬禮遜漢英字典草稿] [Malixun Han Ying zi dian cao gao] [Preliminary draft of Morrison's Chinese-English dictionary]
Scope & Content:: The preliminary draft of Morrison's Chinese-English dictionary, with an introductory essay in English on the problems of Chinese/Western language dictionaries. It is arranged by radical order. It contains different sections, including "Mr Morrison's orthography of the Chinese language" and a tabl...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese and English
Date Range:: 1810
Extent:: 1 volume (139 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8209
Title:: Oudeli ke jia hua ci dian. 歐德理客家話詞典. [Eitel's Hakka Dictionary].
Scope & Content:: Dictionary of Hakka compiled by Dr Ernst Johann Eitel, German-born protestant missionary in China and civil servant in Hong Kong (1838-1908).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese and English
Date Range:: 1838-1908
Extent:: 4 volumes (1475 folios).

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9046
Title:: Tegúrtā d-Heraqlídús - ܬܐܓܘܪܬܐ ܕܗܪܩܠܝܕܘܣ
Scope & Content:: The Tegúrtā d-Heraqlídús, also known as the Bazaar of Heraclides, composed originally by Nestorius. The text is a vindication of Nestorius'' theology and actions. In it, he affirms the unity of Jesus as both God and man and rejects the belief system that came to be known as Nestorianism. The c...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:: 1906
Extent:: 1 text, 148 ff

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