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Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 584
Title:: Complainte sur la mort d'Anne de Bretagne; Discours des Ceremonies du Sacre et mariage d'Anne de Foix avec Ladislaus Roy de Hongrie
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains two French works attributed to Pierre Choque (b. c. 1450, d. 1530), herald and king of arms at the court of Anne of Brittany (b. 1477, d. 1514), Queen of France. The first text is the Complainte sur la mort d'Anne de Bretagne, beginning with a dedication to the 'Sire de ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1514
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 27
Title:: Frédéric Chopin: Barcarolle in F sharp major for piano, op. 60
Scope & Content:: Autograph. Written in ink, on systems of two staves. Tempo direction ‘Allegretto’. Headed by the composer ‘Barcarolle / pour le piano / dedié a Madame la Baronne de Stockhausen / par F Chopin. Op. 60 / Leipsic Haertel. Paris Brandus (Schl.) - Londres Wessel.’ (f. 1r); ‘fine’ at end (f. 4r). With...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French
Date Range:: [1846]
Extent:: 1 volume (4 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 133
Title:
Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXXXIII. Honoré de Balzac: novel Une Ténébreuse Affaire; circa 1841. Printed early proof, with autograph annotations and corrections. French. See Oeuvres Complètes de Honoré de Balzac, ed. M. Bouteron and H. Longnon, vol. 26 (Paris, 1914), pp. 27-275. ff. ii+625. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1841
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 134
Title:
Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXXXIV. Honoré de Balzac: letter to Jean Thomassy; [1823]. French. See H. de Balzac, Correspondance, ed. R. Pierrot, vol. 1 (Paris, 1960), p. 218. f. 1. 191 x 147mm. Honoré de Balzac, novelist: Jean Thomassy: Letter to Jean Thomassy from Honoré de Balzac: [1823]:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: [1823]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 135
Title:
Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXXV. Honoré de Balzac: fragment of an early version of his article 'Monographie de la Presse Parisienne'; before 1842. Printed proof sheet with autograph annotations. French. See Oeuvres Complètes de Honoré de Balzac, ed. M. Bouteron and H. Longnon, vol. 40 (Paris,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: before 1842
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 136
Title:
Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXXXVI. Charles Baudelaire: poems 'Les sept vieillards' and 'Les petites vieilles'; [1859]. Fair copy made for Victor Hugo to whom the poems are dedicated. French. See C. Baudelaire, Oeuvres Complètes, ed. C. Pichois, vol. 1 (Paris, 1975), pp. 87-90. ff. 2. 208 x ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: [1859]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 142
Title:
Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXLII. Philippe Des Portes: rhymed maxims, epigrams and aphorisms; before 1606. Fair copies, with a few additions in other hands at the end. French. ff. 5. 190 x 138mm. Poetry FRENCH: Philippe Des Portes, poet: Rhymed maxims, etc., by Philippe Des Portes: bef. 160...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: before 1606
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 146
Title:
Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXLVI. Gustave Flaubert: short story 'Bibliomanie'; 1836. Fair copy. French. See G. Flaubert, Oeuvres Complètes. Oeuvres de Jeunesse Inédites, vol. 1 (Paris, 1910), pp. 132-147. ff. 14. 310 x 200mm. Gustave Flaubert, novelist: Short story Bibliomanie by Gustave F...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1836
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 147
Title:
Scope & Content:: STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXLVII. Joseph Fouché: letter to his colleagues and friends; 1794. French. ff. 2. 305 x 200mm. Joseph Fouché, Duc d'Otrante: Letter to his colleagues and friends: 1794: Fr.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1794
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Zweig MS 148
Title:: Autograph annotations by Anatole France. Signed ‘A.F’ at end. Anatole France [pseudonym of Jacques Anatole François Thibault]: Letter from M. B. in response to an article on orthography by Anatole France, marked up for printing by France; May 1898
Scope & Content:: Begins: ‘Monsieur, Au sujet de votre article de ce matin, ‘l'Orthographe' . . . Ends: ‘Veuillez , je vous prie etc.’ The letter is dated 16 May 1898 but probably in error for 17 May when Anatole France’s first article on orthography and spelling reform was published in the morning daily newspa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1898
Extent:: 1 item

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