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1. Add MS 4159

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Title:
State papers of John Thurloe, Secretary of State, 1652-1660, with other state papers, c. 1578-1629 and 1661-1692.
Scope & Content:
Many of the documents here formed part of the original collection of John Thurloe (d. 1668), Secretary to the Council of State and subsequently to the two Cromwells, Lord Protectors. They illuminate both the domestic and international politics of the period, as also the scope of Thurloe's intell...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1578-1700
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 19402

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Title:
Letters to sovereigns of Scotland, volume 2, 1603-1624
Scope & Content:
The second volume of a collection of letters sent to sovereigns of Scotland, between 1603 and 1624. Including letters by: Princess Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia; Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales; Prince Charles; Sir Francis Bacon; and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. f. i Printed title-page:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1603-1624
Extent:
1 volume.

3. Add MS 31707

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Title:
'Symphony in E flat', in score, by Franz Joseph Haydn.
Scope & Content:
ff. 40. 'Sinfonie in E flat' ['Mit dem Paukenwirbel'], for 2 trumpets (clarini), drums, 2 horns, 2 clarinets, 2 oboes, flutes, bassoons, 2 violins, viola, violoncellos, and basses, in score, by Haydn, 1795. Autograph. Folios 23, 23b, and 26, are said to have been supplied — evidently late in life...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1795
Extent:
1 volume (40 folios)

4. Add MS 60615

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Children's Crusade', op. 82 (short score)
Scope & Content:
Autograph music manuscript, in pencil, including discarded passages. Dated by Britten: 'November 10th 1968' (f. 20v). Title page (f. 1): 'Kinderkreuzzug 1939 (Brecht) / For Boy's [sic] voices (solo & chorus) / 2 pianos & percussion / (with electric organ to support voices)'; list of voic...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1968
Extent:
1 volume (36 folios)

5. Add MS 60616

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Children's Crusade', op. 82 (full score)
Scope & Content:
A partly autograph music manuscript, in pencil, setting a text by Bertolt Brecht (translated by Hans Keller). Signed and dated by Britten: 'Aldeburgh October-November 1968' (f. 1), with an additional folio dated in a copyist's hand: 'Sept. '69' (f. 48). The volume comprises: title page (f. 1), ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1968-1969
Extent:
1 volume (48 folios)

6. Arundel MS 501

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Arundel MS 501
Title:
Miscellany, assembled from fragments of several different codices; includes the confession of faith of a town in Germany; a fragment of the Regimen acutorum, attributed to Hipppocrates; a fragment of Hidlebert of Lavardin, Sermo de communi consensu; and medical texts
Scope & Content:
Miscellany, assembled from fragments of several different codices. The manuscript was formerly bound together with Arundel MSS 499 and 500, and foliated consecutively with these volumes, as ff. 18-43 (the current foliation is as ff. 1-26). Folios 15 and 16 were originally part of Arundel MS 44, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
11th century - 16th century
Extent:
A parchment and paper codex, 26 folios

7. Cotton MS Augustus III/1

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Cotton MS Augustus III/1
Title:
A collection of drawings, maps and diagrams from the reign of Henry VIII; prints belonging to or associated with the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a miscellaneous collection of drawings of armies, men-at-arms and landscapes, maps, and what are thought to be the original designs for King Henry VIII’s tents for the Field of Cloth of Gold. The second volume is now bound as Cotton MS Augustus III/2. Cotton MS Augustus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1500-c 1577
Extent:
1 volume

8. Cotton MS Galba D XIII

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Cotton MS Galba D XIII
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and Germany, 1558–1603
Scope & Content:
Records and papers concerning England and Germany, mainly between 1558 and 1603. f. 1r-1v: Letter from Queen Elizabeth I to Frederick IV, Elector Palatine. Commending his agent Philip de Hoghensax. Woodstock, July 29 1574. Latin. ff. 2r-3v: Letter from George Michael Lingelsheim to Sir Henry S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, German, Low, and Latin
Date Range:
1558-1603
Extent:
1 volume

9. Cotton MS Titus B VII

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Cotton MS Titus B VII
Title:
Letters to the Earls of Leicester, Sussex and others
Scope & Content:
Letters to the earls of Leicester, Sussex, and others, mainly from the reign of Elizabeth I and James I (1558-1625). f. 1r partial contents list of letters. ff. 2r-3v Letter from Robert Zinzan to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Reporting his delivery of the Queen’s present of horses to King ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
1558-1625
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 1582

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Harley MS 1582
Title:
State papers, 1553-1596
Scope & Content:
This volume is entitled on the spine, 'Original Letters and Papers on State Affairs'. It contains a wide range of materials on English relations with, and intelligence on, France, the Low Countries and Germany in the late 16th century. It has also been termed, not entirely happily but with a g...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1553-1596
Extent:

1 volume.

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