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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71112
Title:
Scope & Content:: (ff. iii+207). Act I. Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer: Printed score of L'étoile du nord with MS. recitatives: circa 1855: Fr: Copy.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71112-71113
Title:: GIACOMO MEYERBEER: 'L'Étoile du nord', opéra comique in three acts (libretto, Eugène Scribe); 1854
Scope & Content:: Printed full score, Paris: Brandus & cie., with spoken dialogue struck through and recitatives inserted in manuscript. Conductor's markings in blue crayon throughout. The first two printed leaves of Act II are missing. Apparently at one time in the publisher's hire library. Purchased by the ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1854
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71113
Title:
Scope & Content:: (ff. ii+263). Acts II & III. Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer: Printed score of L'étoile du nord with MS. recitatives: circa 1855: Fr: Copy.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71115
Title:: WOMEN WRITERS: collection of letters by women writers and educationalists, mostly referring to their current projects; [circa 1780?]-1833. Partly French. Purchased at Phillips's, 12 Nov. 1992, lot 158. Paper; ff. 11. British Library arrangement. 1. ff. 1, 4. Letters from Hannah More to Lady Juliana Penn (née Fermor, daughter of Thomas, 1st Earl of Pomfret, and widow of Thomas Penn), and to one of her daughters; [circa 1780?-1785]. 2. ff. 2-3. Letter from Madame de Genlis to Lady Julian...
Scope & Content:: includes: ff. 1, 4 Hannah More, author: Lady Juliana Penn, née Fermor; daughter of Thomas, 1st Earl of Pomfret, and wife of T Penn: Letters to Lady J. Penn and her daughter from Hannah More: [circa 1780?-1785].f. 2 Lady Juliana Penn, née Fermor; daughter of Thomas, 1st Earl of Pomfret, and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1775-1833
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71117-71119
Title:: The Violeta Harris Collection of cuttings from illuminated manuscripts
Scope & Content:: The Violeta Harris Collection consisting of 3 boxes of cuttings from illuminated manuscripts: Add MS 71117 A-J: Ten cuttings from a Book of Hours; Add MS 71118 A-F: Six leaves from a Book of Hours; Add MS 71119 A-K: Seventeen cuttings from various manuscripts;
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century-15th century
Extent:: 3 boxes of parchment leaves, mounted separately

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71119 A
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. III A. Small square miniature of writing saints, probably evangelists, with associated text in French. From Flanders or north-east France; mid 14th cent. Art. Illuminations and Drawings FRENCH: Two miniatures of evangelists (?): mid 14th cent: Fr.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: Mid 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71119 A-K
Title:: VIOLETA HARRIS COLLECTION. Vol. III A-K. Seventeen cuttings from miscellaneous manuscripts; 14th-15th cent. Partly French. Vellum; 17 leaves (lettered). Various sizes. Arranged as follows: 1. A and B Two small square miniatures of writing saints, probably evangelists, with associated text in French. From Flanders or north-east France; mid 14th cent. 2. C Eight very small historiated initials, mainly enclosing scenes form the Life of Christ, cut form a missal written and illuminated i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 14th century-15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71119 B
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. III B. Small square miniature of writing saints, probably evangelists, with associated text in French. From Flanders or north-east France; mid 14th cent. Art. Illuminations and Drawings FRENCH: Two miniatures of evangelists (?): mid 14th cent: Fr.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: Mid 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71124
Title:: A-CC. MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS. Paper; ff. British Library arrangement A. Fragment, containing the valediction and signature from a letter written by Susanne Curchod, afterwards wife of Jacques Necker, [to Edward Gibbon?]; [1757?]. Autograph. French. Laid down on a sheet of album paper headed in a 19th-cent. hand, 'Signature of a letter adressed to Mr Gibbon by Susanna Chuchod [sic] afterwards Madame Neckar'. Apparently part of the letter of 24 Oct. 1757 at Add. 34886, ff. 21-22, w...
Scope & Content:: includes: f. 1 Susanne Necker, née Curchod; wife of Jacques Necker: Edward Gibbon, historian: Signature, etc., from a letter to [E. Gibbon?] from S. Curchod: 1757.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and German
Date Range:: 1685-1979
Extent:: 29 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71124 E
Title:
Scope & Content:: Humbert Ferrand, writer: Louis Hector Berlioz, composer: Letter to Humbert Ferrand from Louis Hector Berlioz: 1847: Fr.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1847
Extent:: 1 item

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