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Reference (shelfmark):: 3437.g.19.
Title:: PSALM TUNES; after 1712. Added in MS. on inter-leaves to the printed volume The Whole Books of Psalms…by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others (Printed by William Pearson, 1712). Those marked a, below, are for 4 voices and, unless the contrary is stated, taken from an edition of Thomas Ravenscroft’s Whole Book of Psalmes; those marked b, from John Playford’s 3-part setting of the same collection (? chiefly the 1713 edition); and those marked a, b, from both these latter works. At the be...
Scope & Content:: Robert Parsons, composer: Thomas Tallis, composer and organist: John Ward, composer: Thomas Morley, composer and writer: Music: Psalms: Thomas Ravenscroft, composer and editor: John Playford, the elder; composer and music-publisher: Giles Farnaby, composer: John Farmer, composer: John Bennet, co...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: after 1712
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 3439.a.7.
Title:: ARTHUR HENRY MANN: notes on psalm tunes; circa 1920. Written on the paginated flyleaves of a printed edition of John Patrick’s The Psalms of David in Metre (Printed for D. Brown et al., 1724). The notes describe the provenance of each of the tunes printed at the start of the publication. Presented, Feb. 1949. pp. 23+[i]+22+328+[vi]. 160 x 94mm.
Scope & Content:: includes: pp. 1-23 Arthur Henry Mann, organist, editor and composer: Notes rel. to the Psalm Tunes in John Patrick's metrical psalter: circa 1920: Autogr.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1920
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 7898.a.9.
Title:: Letter
Scope & Content:: Letter to Sir John Stainer from William Henry Gladstone 1877
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1877
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 8175.a.65
Title:: United States Sanitary Commission, Extracts from a Narrative of Privations and Sufferings of United States Officers & Soldiers, etc [With four photographs], London: Alfred William Bennett, 1865
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1865
Extent:: Printed book

Reference (shelfmark):: 15504a2/7
Title:: Photographs of Chengdu
Scope & Content:: Collection of 37 black and white photographs of the city of Chengdu, China.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese and English
Date Range:: before 1926
Extent:: 37 black and white photographs

Reference (shelfmark):: 16099.d.31
Title:: Tōshisen ehon 唐詩選畫本 [唐詩選画本]
Scope & Content:: Variant titles: Ehon tōshisen 繪本唐詩選 [絵本唐詩選]; Tōshisen ehon 唐詩選繪本 [ 唐詩選絵本]. Imprint: Edo: various publishers, 1788 [Tenmei 8]-1836 [Tenpō 7]. Description: 6 parts in 30 volumes, now rebound in 1 volume western style. 22.5 x 15.5 cm. Contents: An illustrated anthology of Chinese poetry from th...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1788-1836
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: 43567
Title:: Turdus viscivorus : Mistle Thrush - Turdidae
Scope & Content:: Original species name: Mistle Thrush, Turdus viscivorus Sound category: song Behavioral note: on perch in tree on right; other birds mainly distant, except for Raven on flight from nest on nearby crag. Background sounds: Sheep, Wren, Woodpecker, Raven, Tits, distant river Distance from subje...
Collection Area:: Sound Archive
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 8 Apr 1995
Extent:: 1 recording

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS A1385,B1432,A1436,A1440-4,1446,A1636,A1853,A1870,A1871,A1940,B3864,A3889-90,A4206,A5132,B5255
Title:: Letters (84) and one postcard from W. M. Rossetti to A. C. Swinburne; 2 Jan. 1866-20 Sept. 1906. Also included are a letter to Swinburne from Lucy Rossetti, [April?] 1876 (1446, ff. 104-105), and a letter from W. M. Rossetti, not to Swinburne, but possibly to J. C. Hotten, 11 Jan. 1867 (1446, f. 18). The letters in 1446, ff. 9-10b, 52, 52b, 102-103b, and 154, 154b, and in A1871 are imperfect. Vol. A IV, f. 33 is not part of the letter on ff. 31-32b, but is the missing portion of the second l...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:: 2 Jan 1866-20 Sep 1906
Extent:: 20 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur A20-21; B50-51; C39-45; C68-69; D236-69; E113; F35-41; G27-31
Title:: Moorcroft Collection: journals, correspondence and notes of William Moorcroft (1765?-1825), veterinary surgeon in the Bengal Army and superintendent of the Company's stud in Bengal 1808-25, apparently employed as a secret agent, chiefly relating to his journey to Bukhara 1820-25 and describing the Himalayan regions through which he passed.
Scope & Content:: Moorcroft Collection: journals, correspondence and notes of William Moorcroft (1765?-1825), veterinary surgeon in the Bengal Army and superintendent of the Company's stud in Bengal 1808-25, apparently employed as a secret agent, chiefly relating to his journey to Bukhara 1820-25 and describing th...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1812-1825
Extent:: 51 volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: a.26.h.
Title:: DANCE TUNES; 18th cent. Added to the printed collection Select Minuets Collected from the Operas, the Balls at Court, the Masquerades, and all Publick Entertainments. For the Harpsichord, Violin, or German Flute. Compos’d by Mr Handel, Dr Greene, Mr M. C. Festing [and] Mr Hudson (Printed for I. Walsh, [1739]). The minuets are printed on one side of the page only, and the additions, all for solo instrument, are made on the versos. Purchased, 12 Oct. 1910. ff. 111. 106 x 195mm. 1. f. 2v. [Ji...
Scope & Content:: Music: Dance tunes, added to a printed collection: 18th cent.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

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