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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 28107
Title:: Bible ('The Stavelot Bible'), Volume 2
Scope & Content:: The second of two volumes of the Bible, the first being Add MS 28106. Contents: ff. 3v-239v: The Vulgate version of the Bible from Job to Revelation, with prefaces, tables of chapters, and Gospel canons, with a dated scribal colophon. On the flyleaves and leaves from other manuscripts used ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1093-1097
Extent:: A parchment codex, 241 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 28613
Title:: A collection of songs by Francis Joseph Haydn
Scope & Content:: A collection of songs by Francis Joseph Haydn. Autograph. Prefixed is a lithograph copy of a letter from Haydn to Anton Polzelli; Vienna, 20 Mar. 1808. Sketches, in the hand of Joseph Haydn, of the choruses, 'Awake the harp,' and 'The heav'ns are telling,' in his Oratorio, 'The Creation.'; bef...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century-19th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 28640
Title:: COPIES of political pamphlets, pieces in verse, prophecies, etc., chiefly relating to events of the reign of James I., and particularly to the proposed marriage between Charles, Prince of Wales, and the Infanta of Spain, about 1620-1625, and at subsequent periods; made by [John Rous, Rector of Stanton Downham, co. Suffolk. See Add. MS. 22,959]:- 1. "Vox populi, or Newes from Spaine; author Tho. Scotte of Norwold in Norff.;" Nov. 1620, f. 1. 2. Prophecy of Merlin: "A Prince out of the Nor...
Scope & Content:: John Rous, Rector of Stanton Downham, county Suffolk: Diary: 1620-1643. Political and Satirical Poems: Pieces relating to the Spanish match: 17th cent. Charles I of England: Diaries of political events, by Rev. J. Rous: 1625-1643. Charles I of England: Tracts and poems referring to his propos...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 29248
Title:: Marcantonio Cesti: 'La Dori', opera
Scope & Content:: 'La Dori': Opera, consisting of prologue and three acts, by Marcantonio Cesti, 1663. The instruments employed in the introductory sinfonia, the ritornellos, and the accompaniment to the concluding sextet are evidently strings, the recitatives, airs, etc., being accompanied by a figured bass for h...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: after 1663
Extent:: 1 volume (82 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 29370
Title:: A collection of songs, excerpts from operas, and an anthem, by by Dr. Thomas Augustine Arne
Scope & Content:: ff. 8, 20, 113b. Songs, by Dr. Thomas Augustine Arne, with instrumental accompaniments, in score; mid 18th cent. 1. 'The kind appointment Cœlia made': cantata, with flutes, oboes, and violins, f. 8. 2. 'A wretch, long tortured with disdain': cantata, with horns, flutes, oboes, and violins, and a...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Mid 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 29997
Title:: Sketches of musical compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven, including C sharp minor quartet, Op. 131, composed in 1826.
Scope & Content:: Sketches of musical compositions in the hand of Beethoven. The volume may be divided into two portions, of which the former (ff. 2-5) contains what appear to be sketches of the C-sharp minor quartet, op. 131; and the latter, miscellaneous sketches, most of them apparently dating from the end of ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 1 volume (42 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 30308
Title:: Two anthems, 'The King shall rejoice' and 'As pants the hart', by George Frederick Handel, in full score.
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-16. Original draft, with numerous alterations, of the Dettingen Anthem, 'The King shall rejoice,' with accompaniments for three trumpets, drum, two oboes, bassoon, two violins, viola, and bass, and chorus for two trebles, alto, tenor, and bass, in full score. At the beginning is written, '...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1718-1743
Extent:: 1 volume (27 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 30309
Title:: Anthems, in score, by Handel, transcribed by Edmund Thomas Warren.
Scope & Content:: Anthems, in score, by Handel, transcribed, at least as far as f. 41, by Edmund Thomas Warren. The remainder were probably copied by Warren at a rather later period. The first four are nos. 6, 4, 5, and 8, of the Chandos Anthems as published by Arnold. They are written for solo voices and (unless...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume (111 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 30310
Title:: Compositions by George Frederic Handel, in full score. Autograph.
Scope & Content:: ff. 2-12b. Cantata, begins 'Lungi dal mio bel Nume'; for a treble voice, with a figured bass for harpsichord, in score. [By Handel.] 'Roma. Il dì 3 di Marzzo, 1708.' Autograph. No. 25 of the Händel-Gesellschaft's edition of the Cantatas. HWV 127a. At f. 8 begins a transcript of the song in a lat...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume (62 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 30480
Title:: Services, anthems, and a few part-songs, for five voices. Volume 1. Cantus.
Scope & Content:: Anthems, services, motets and other part works, some intended for string instruments, by English composers. Cantus part-book. For other voice parts from this set see Add MS 30481-30484. f. 2. Evening Service, in F. The Nunc Dimittis and the beginning of the Magnificat has been removed from the...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume (89 folios)

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