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2022. Add MS 65134
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- Add MS 65134
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- Scope & Content:
- WALTER LEIGH COLLECTION. Vol. XXX. 'Man kann nie wissen', incomplete translation by Leigh of the opening scene of Bernard Shaw's play, 'You Never Can Tell'; 1926. With annotations in another hand. ff. 12. 205 x 162mm. In a notebook with limp covers. Walter Leigh, composer: Incomplete German t...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English and German
- Date Range:
- 1926
- Extent:
- 1 item
2023. Add MS 65382-65525
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- Add MS 65382-65525
- Title:
- NOVELLO COLLECTION Music manuscripts written or collected by the publisher and editor, Vincent Novello (b.1781, d.1861), with related items, some added to the collection after his death; 1750-1960, n.d. The collection is made up of autograph manuscripts of various composers, copies or arrangements in the hand of Vincent Novello, and copies in other hands. Some of the manuscripts were already bound when they entered Novello's possession, others were grouped together and bound into volumes for...
- Scope & Content:
- Vincent Novello, organist, composer and publisher: Music manuscripts collected by V. Novello, with later additions to the collection: 1750-1960, n.d: Partly autogr. copies and arrangements.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, German, Italian, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1750-1960
- Extent:
- 162 items
2024. Add MS 65457-65461
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- Add MS 65457-65461
- Title:
- B. COMPOSITE VOLUMES A. SECULAR VOCAL MUSIC
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English, German, and Latin
- Date Range:
- [1812-1849]
- Extent:
- 5 items
2025. Add MS 65459
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 65459
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- Scope & Content:
- NOVELLO COLLECTION. Vol. LXXVIII. Secular and sacred vocal and instrumental music; after 1813 (watermark)-1849, n.d. Full, vocal, chorus or instrumental scores. Partly autograph but mostly copies, in the hand of Vincent Novello except where stated. ff. 84. Overall size 245 x 315mm. 1. ff. 1-...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English, German, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1813-1849
- Extent:
- 1 item
2026. Add MS 68893-68901
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- Add MS 68893-68901
- Title:
- 'THE WRECKERS': opera by Ethel Smyth, (words, H. B. Brewster, English translation by the composer and Alma Strettell) ; circa 1906-1939. Copyist's full score, annotated libretti, and other performance material. With autograph annotations. Partly German. The opera, in three acts, was composed in 1903-1904 to Brewster's original French libretto as 'Les Naufrageurs', and first staged in Leipzig in 1906 in German as 'Strandrecht'. The English text was produced for the first English stage perform...
- Scope & Content:
- Alma Strettell, afterwards Harrison; writer: Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE; composer: Henry Bennet Brewster, writer: Annotated full score, libretti, costume designs, etc., for opera 'The Wreckers' by Ethel Mary Smyth, libretto by Henry Bennet Brewster, translated by Alma Strettell: circa 1906-1939: Part...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English and German
- Date Range:
- c 1906-1939
- Extent:
- 13 items
2027. Add MS 68923-68932
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 68923-68932
- Title:
- CODEX SINAITICUS PAPERS: letters and papers relating to the acquisition of the Codex Sinaiticus (Add. 43725) by the British Museum in 1933, and to the raising in 1934-1937 by public subscription of over half the purchase price, together with a volume of newspaper cuttings, papers relating to the binding by Douglas Cockerell, the publication of leaflets, etc.; 1933-1937, n.d. Partly copies. Partly French, German, Italian and Welsh. See also Add. 63650, f. 6. For further materials relating mai...
- Scope & Content:
- Sir George Francis Hill, KCB; Director, British Museum: Correspondence rel. to acquisition of Codex Sinaiticus: 1933-1935. British Museum: Papers rel. to acquisition, etc., of Codex Sinaiticus: 1933-1937, n.d. Sir Frederic George Kenyon, GBE; Director, British Museum: Correspondence rel. to ac...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, German, Italian, and Welsh
- Date Range:
- 1933-1937
- Extent:
- 10 items
2028. Add MS 68932
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- Add MS 68932
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- CODEX SINAITICUS PAPERS. Vol. X (ff. 287). 1. ff. 1-54. Newspaper cuttings relating to the acquisition of the manuscript by the British Museum; 1933-1934, n.d. Partly German and Welsh. 2. ff. 55-217. Papers, including photographs, relating to the first (ff. 55-149) and second (ff. 150-204v) e...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, German, and Welsh
- Date Range:
- 1933-1936
- Extent:
- 1 item
2029. Add MS 68944-69035
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- Add MS 68944-69035
- Title:
- BERNARD STEVENS COLLECTION. Music manuscripts and papers of Bernard Stevens (b.1916, d.1983); 1936-1984, n.d. Autograph unless otherwise stated. Purchased from Mrs Bertha Stevens, widow of the composer, 3 Feb. 1989. Paper. Ninety-two volumes in ninety-four parts. Arranged as follows: A. Orchestral Works: 68944-68963. B. Works for Brass and Military Band: 68964-68968. C. Concertos: 68969-68978. D. Instrumental and Chamber Music: 68979-68993. E. Operas: 68994-68998. F. Works for ...
- Scope & Content:
- Bernard George Stevens, composer: Music manuscripts and papers of Bernard George Stevens: 1936-1984, n.d.: Autogr.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English and German
- Date Range:
- 1936-1984
- Extent:
- 93 items
2030. Add MS 69025-69035
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 69025-69035
- Title:
- L. CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English and German
- Date Range:
- [1940-1984]
- Extent:
- 11 items