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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41629
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Scope & Content:: PERABO COLLECTION. Vol. II. Compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Peter Schubert and Robert Alexander Schumann, viz.:- (1) 1st Oboe part of the Cantata 'Herr Gott dich loben alle wir'(no. 130), by [Johann Sebastian Bach], circ. 1740, with title and directions by the composer. Autograph....
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1735-1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41631
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Scope & Content:: PERABO COLLECTION. Vol. IV. Drei Sonaten fürs Klavier dem Hochwürdigsten Erzbischofe und Kurfürsten zu Köln Maximilian Friedrich meinem gnädigsten Herrn gewidmet und verfertiget von Ludwig van Beethoven alt eilf Jahr. Speier. In Rath Bosslers Verlage. Printed. Beethoven's copy of his three early...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1783
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41632
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Scope & Content:: PERABO COLLECTION. Vol. V. Mass in B (op. 141) for soloists, 4-part chorus and orchestra, with figured bass, in score, by Franz [Peter] Schubert. Autograph, except for the title-page with dedication to Joseph Spendou. The 'Kyrie' is dated 11 Nov. 1815 (f. 1), the 'Gloria' 6 Dec. 1815 (f. 9) with...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1815
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41634
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Scope & Content:: PERABO COLLECTION. Vol. VII. Music by Johann Michael Haydn and Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber, viz.:- (1) 'Messa de Requiem', in Bb, for four voices, two violins, viola, two oboes, two horns, two fagotti, tromboni, two clarini and drums, and figured bass for organ with violoncello, by Gi...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1804
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41866
Title:: RHAPSODIE in Eb (op. 119, no. 4) for pianoforte, by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). Autograph. Written at Ischl at the end of June 1893 (Litzmann, Clara Schumann JohannesBrahms Briefe, 1927, nos. 656, 658, 661 and 662; Thematisches Verzeichniss, Simrock, 1897, pp. 123-124). The MS. differs in a few places from the first published edition by Simrock, 1893. Brahms later amended the notation of the Ab major passage bars 4-8 on f. 2 and the similar passage on f. 2b (op. cit., no. 664). A few pencil...
Scope & Content:: Johannes Brahms, composer: Rhapsody in E_ (op. 119, no. 4): 1893.: Autogr.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Jun 1893
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 42181 B
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Scope & Content:: B. Letter from Rupert [Chawner] Brooke to Harriet Monroe, editor of Poetry,: A Magazine of Verse (Chicago), enclosing (ff. 4-6) the typescript of his five war sonnets; Blandford, 26 Jan. 1915. The first, fourth and fifth were duly published op. cit., vi, Apr. 1915, pp. 18, 19, and all were print...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 26 Jan 1915
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 42509
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Scope & Content:: Vol. I (ff. 17). Exercise-book, containing eleven poems, circ. 1904- 1906. Those at ff. 2, 3, 5 and 7 bear autograph notes in pencil, half-erased, recording their publication in the Rugby School magazine Phoenix, no. 2, Nov. 1904, and no. 3, Mar. 1905. All are printed, with approximate dates of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1904-1906
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 42510
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Scope & Content:: Vol.. II (ff. 16). Scribbling pad, with notes in pencil, containing:- (a) notes of military lectures and personal memoranda made whilst in the Royal Naval Division training at Blandford; Oct.-Dec. 1914. ff. 1-10;- (b) drafts of war poems, some cancelled, consisting of lines of War Sonnets, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1914
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 42714
Title:: 'MEMOIRS OF THE EARLY LIFE OF JOHN ELLIOTT, of Elliott House, Near Ripon-Yorkshire, Esqre and, Lieut: of the Royal Navy: written by himself, at the request of his Wife, for the use, and amusement of his children only', extending from his birth (11 Jan. 1759) to the Battle of the Saintes (12 Apr. 1782). The most important part of the work is an account (ff. 7b- 45 b) of the second voyage of Captain James Cook, in H.M. S. 'Resolution,' in which Elliott served as a Midshipman, 1772-1775. Elliot...
Scope & Content:: Lieutenant John Elliott, RN; of Elliott House, near Ripon: Memoirs of his early life, early 19th cent: 1759-1782: Autogr. Brenzett, Kent: Deeds and papers rel. to: 1448-1777.: fr. includes: f. i Lieutenant John Elliott, RN; of Elliott House, near Ripon: Signet: n.d. f. 1b Captain James Cook, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 1 item

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