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2431. Add MS 33793

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" COLLECTION de Portraits et Médaillons de cheveux de Louis XVI., de la partie de sa famille renfermée avec lui dans la Tour du Temple, et des Princes de son auguste race réunis dans le moment en Angleterre," consisting of pen-and-ink portraits, elaborately designed and executed by [Alexandre César Anibal Firmin], Marquis de Sy, together with looks of hair of the following persons:-Louis XVI., f. 9;-Marie Antoinette, f. ll;-Louis XVII., f. 13;- Elisabeth Philippe Marie Helène [Madame Elisabe...
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Louis XVI of France: Portraits and " medaillons de cheyeux " of members of his family: 1813. François Philibert Bertrand Nompar, Comte de Caumont: was bound under his directions: in 1813. Hering: Bound: in 1813. Art. Portraits: Portraits and " medaillons de cheveux " of Louis XVI., and member...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1813
Extent:
1 item

2432. Add MS 33795

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1. " P. SERVIUS HONORATUS super Bucolica et Georgica Virgilii." Written at Louvain by Nicolaus de Haga, in 1464 (f. 81). f. 2. 2. " Commentum Juvenalis," beg. " More omnium satyricorum ex abrupto incipit " ; preceded by a life of Juvenal, etc., beg. " Junius Juvenalis Aquinas fuit." f. 83. With the colophon (f. 192 b), " Et in hoe commentum Juvenalis explicit per me magistrum Johannem Alues. in profesto Sci. Johannis bap[t]iste, anno dni. MmoCCCCmo septuagesimo tercio, in felici studio Lou...
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includes: f. 2 Virgil: Servius' commentary on the Eclogues and Georgics: 1464.: Lat. f. 2 Publius Servius Honoratus Grammaticus: Explanatio super Bucolica et Georgica Virgilii: 1464. f. 2 Nicholas de Haga: Servius' commentary on Virgil written at Louvain by: 1464. ff. 2 et seqq MSS. dated (to A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1464-1473
Extent:
1 item

2433. Add MS 33933

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The Wode Psalter or St Andrews Psalter: contra-tenor part-book containing musical settings of metrical psalms from the 1564 Scottish Psalm Book and other music
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Most of the music was collected and copied by Thomas Wode (or Wood). Wode was a former monk who worked at St Andrews after the Reformation in Scotland, eventually becoming vicar there. At the core of the collection are harmonisations of the psalms by Scottish composer David Peebles. Over a perio...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
c 1564-c 1625
Extent:
1 volume (94 folios)

2434. Add MS 33950

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LETTER-BOOK Of James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, containing copies of his letters to the Pretender, Cardinal Alberoni, the Duke of Mar, and others, written from Paris, Madrid, Valladolid, Coruña, Lugo, etc., and relating to a projected invasion of Scotland from Spain and to other Jacobite schemes; 4 Nov. 1718- 27 Sept. 1719. The letters, which are in the hands of secretaries, number 199 in all, including 23 to the Pretender and 57 to Alberoni. The correspondents (whose names are given in th...
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James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde: Letter-book of correspondence with the Old Pretender, Cardinal Alberoni, etc.: 1718-1719. includes: ff. 1, 2 b, 5, 7, 34, 38, 39 b, 42 b, 44, 46, 47 b, 48 b, 69 b, 70 b, 73, 76, 77, 79 b, 82, 83 b, 86 Prince James Francis Edward Stuart,; the 'Old Pretender'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

2435. Add MS 33953

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" PIÈCES touchantes la ville d'Anvers "; 1521-1585. Flemish and French. Included are:- 1. " Tax ende settinghe " of the contribution assigned to Antwerp of a levy of 12,000 foot-soldiers imposed on Brabant by an ordinance of 21 Oct. 1521. f. 3. 2. Lotter from the Three Estates of Brabant to the States-general, on the condition of Antwerp after the Spanish Fury; [Nov. 1576]. Fr. Two copies. ff. 13, 146. A Flemish version is printed in Bor, Oorsprongk ... der Nederlandsche Oorlogen, vol. i...
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Antwerp, Netherlands: Papers relating to: 16th cent.: Flem. and Fr. includes: ff. 13, 146 Netherlands, United Provinces: Letter to the States-General on the condition of Antwerp: 1576.: Fr.: Copies. ff. 13, 146 Duchy of Brabant: Letter from the Estates of, on the condition of Antwerp: 1576.: F...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Flemish, and French
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item

2436. Add MS 33964

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ORIGINAL LETTERS of sovereigns and noblemen, actors, artists, and authors; arranged in each class, according to the nationalities of the writers, under the beads of England, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States of America; 16th-19th centt. The names of writers are given in the Index. Among them are:- Qu. Elizabeth. William III. John, Duke of Marlborough. Francis I. of France. Catharine de'Medici. Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia. Mary...
Scope & Content:
George Colman, senior: Letters to, conc. C. Macklin's acting at Covent Garden: 1774. John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough: Letter, when Envoy at the Hague, conc. treaty with Sweden: 1701. includes: f. 1 Elizabeth I of England: Letter to Lord North: 1593. f. 1 Roger North, 2nd Baron North: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Swedish
Date Range:
16th century-19th century
Extent:

2 files

2437. Add MS 33965

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Original letters of musicians, arranged as in the preceding volume. Among them are letters of:- Dr. Thomas Augustus Arne, Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, Dr. William Boyce, Orlando Gibbons, Henry Lawes, Matthew Locke, André Ernest Modeste Grétry, Hector Berlioz, François Adrien Boieldieu, François Gounod, Étienne Henri Méhul, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, George Frederic Handel, Joseph Haydn, Franz Liszt, Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Robert Alexander Schumann, Louis Spoh...
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includes: f. 1 E- T- Allan, husband of Mad. Caradori-Allan: Letter to P. F. Laporte: 1834. ff. 1, 372 Pierre François Laporte, actor and impresario: Letters to him: 1832-1841.: Fr. f. 3 Thomas Augustine Arne, composer: Letter to G. Woodfall: n.d. f. 3 George Woodfall, Printer: Letter to, from D...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Polish, and Swedish
Date Range:
16th century-19th century
Extent:

1 volume (418 folios)

2438. Add MS 33966

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Song: 'Amour, fuis loin de moi', with pianoforte accompaniment, by Marie Antoinette, Queen of France.
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'Amour, fuis loin de moi'; with pianoforte accompaniment, in score, by Marie Antoinette, Queen of France. Holograph. On f. 1 is written in pencil, 'Donné par Mr. Bèche [one of the three brothers of that name attached to the French king's band, about 1750-1774] à [? L. Francœur] maître de chapell...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:

1 item (2 folios)

2439. Add MS 33967

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RÔLE of Leicester in the tragedy of " Marie Stuart," by Pierre Antoine Lebrun. The part was taken by François Joseph Talma, in whose hand are the alterations in the text; 6 Mar. 1820. Paper ; ff. 18. Quarto. Bequeathed by Andrew George Kurtz, Esq., of Wavertree, Liverpool
Scope & Content:
François Joseph Talma, Actor: Rôle of Leicester, with alterations in hi, hand, in P. A. Lebrun's tragedy of " Marie Stuart": 1820.: Fr. Pierre Antoine Lebrun, Dramatist: Rôle of Leicester in his tagedy of " Marie Stuart," with alterations in the hand of F. J. Talma: 1820.: Fr. Drama: Rôle of L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1820
Extent:
1 item

2440. Add MS 33968

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VISITORS' BOOK containing signatures of thore who paid their respects to Napoleon III. on New Year's Day, 1870. A note on f. 2 in French states that there are more than 1400 autographs in it, and that the volume was stolen from the Tuileries shortly after the capture of Sédan. Paper; ff. 47. Narrow Folio. Bequeathed by Andrew George Kurtz, Esq., of Wavertree, Liverpool
Scope & Content:
Napoleon III of France: Visitors-book on New Year's Day: 1870.: Fr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
01 Jan 1870
Extent:
1 item

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