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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58042
Title:: Edward Elgar: 'The Spirit of England'. 'To Women'
Scope & Content:: Full score. Annotated in green ink and with printer's pencil and crayon markings.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1915]
Extent:: 1 volume (12 + 6* folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58043
Title:: Edward Elgar: 'The Spirit of England'. 'For the Fallen'
Scope & Content:: Full score. Signed 'Severn House 1915'. Annotated in red and green inks and with printer's pencil markings.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1915
Extent:: 1 volume (25 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58044
Title:: Edward Elgar: 'With proud thanksgiving', arrangement of No. 3 ('For the Fallen') from 'The Spirit of England' for chorus and orchestra
Scope & Content:: Full score. Partly printed. Annotated in red and green inks and red and blue crayons.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1915-1917]
Extent:: 1 volume (i + 42 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58068
Title:: Edward Elgar: Miscellaneous works
Scope & Content:: 1. ff. 1-8. 'A child asleep', song for voice and piano (words: E. B. Browning from Albion Poets); [1909]. Annotated with printer's pencil markings. 2. ff. 9-12v. 'The Birthright, Marching song for Boys' (words: G. A. Stocks), partsong (SATB) arranged for unison voices, bugles and drums; [1914]...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1909]-1931
Extent:: 1 volume (26 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58437
Title:: THE ATTWOOD MANUSCRIPT. Exercises in theory and composition by Thomas Attwood (b.1765, d.1838) with autograph corrections by W. A. Mozart (K.506a); 1785-1787. Transcribed in Thomas Attwoods Theorie-und Kompositionsstudien bei Mozart, ed. E. Hertzmann, C. B. Oldman, D. Heartz and A. Mann in 'W. A. Mozart: Neue Ausgabe Sämtlicher Werk', X/30/1 (Kassel, 1965). See Add. 58075-58077 above for Oldman's correspondence and papers relating to the edition. See also D. Heartz, 'Thomas Attwood's Lessons...
Scope & Content:: Thomas Attwood, composer and organist: Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart, alias Wolfgang Amadeus; composer: 'The Attwood Manuscript': exercises in theory and composition by Thomas Attwood, with annotations by Mozart: 1785-7.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1785-1787
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58852
Title:: ISAAC ROSENBERG: poems, prose and letters of Isaac Rosenberg (b.1890, d.1918), poet, originally owned by Ruth Löwy, afterwards Lady Gollancz, together with labels and a catalogue for an exhibition at the Harrogate Festival, 1970; circa 1912-1918. Partly autograph, partly typewritten, with autograph corrections and additions. See Ian Parsons (ed.) The Collected works of Isaac Rosenberg, Poetry, Prose, Letters and Drawings (1979). For further Rosenberg material, see Add. 61743. Presented by Mi...
Scope & Content:: Isaac Rosenberg, poet: Ruth Löwy, afterwards Gollancz: Letters to Ruth Löwy from Isaac Rosenberg: circa 1912-1916, n.d. Isaac Rosenberg, poet: Poems and prose by Isaac Rosenberg: 1912-1918, n.d.: Autogr. and typewritten.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1912-1918
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 59678
Title:: Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur
Scope & Content:: Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, which was composed in Newgate Prison, London between March 1469 and March 1470. This unique manuscript copy was made shortly before the earliest printed version was published by Caxton in July 1485. The text differs significantly from the printed edition and...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1471-1483
Extent:: A paper codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 60604
Title:: Benjamin Britten: 'The Turn of the Screw', op. 54 (full score, Act II)
Scope & Content:: Partly autograph full score for Act II. In common with the full score for Act I, Britten's score in pencil was inked-over, at the composer's request, by Imogen Holst, so that it could serve as a conducting score for the first performance of the music; see the note (1979) by Rosamund Strode on t...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1954
Extent:: 1 volume (i + 181)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 61735
Title:: Farming memoranda of Ely Abbey
Scope & Content:: This may have originally been a manuscript flyleaf, on which working notes were recorded in preparation for more formal accounts. Contents: The memoranda comprise a list of valuations of livestock, seed, farm implements, ships etc., supplied by Ely Abbey to Thorney Abbey (refounded 972); an i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1007-1025
Extent:: A parchment folio, now divided into 3 separate strips

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 62099
Title:
Scope & Content:: CHANDOS MUSIC MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. I. G. F. Handel, 'Chandos' Anthems 'O sing unto the Lord' (ff. 2-37), 'As pants the hart' (ff. 38-82) and 'My song shall be alway' (ff. 84-129v). Full score. Inventory nos. 8, 7, 9. ff. iii+129. Red leather binding, gilt-tooled, [18th cent.?]. 298 x 237mm. Geor...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [18th century?]
Extent:: 1 item

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