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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 65105-65134
Title:: WALTER LEIGH COLLECTION. Musical compositions and papers of Walter Leigh (b.1905, d.1942); 1926-1979, n.d. All manuscripts are autograph and in pencil unless otherwise stated. Further music manuscripts of Walter Leigh are Add. 54350, 62673, 69418 and 69419. For accounts of the composer's life and selective lists of works see Roger Wimbush, 'The younger English composers: II. Walter Leigh', in The Monthly Musical Record, Vol. 68, no. 797 (June 1938), pp. 138-142, and the article on Leigh in D...
Scope & Content:: Walter Leigh, composer: Musical compositions, etc., by Walter Leigh: 1926-1979, n.d.: Mostly autogr.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, German, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:: 1926-1979
Extent:: 30 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 65132
Title:
Scope & Content:: WALTER LEIGH COLLECTION. Vol. XXVIII. Letters, work lists and papers; 1926-1979, n.d. ff. 45. British Library arrangement. 1. ff. 1-17. Letters to and from Leigh, and to members of Leigh's family after his death; 19[2?]6-1968, n.d. Partly French and German. Correspondents include Paul Hindem...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, and German
Date Range:: 1926-1979
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 65134
Title:
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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

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