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11. Add MS 42064

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Title:
'FANTASIO': a comic opera in three acts, with overture and orchestral accompaniments, etc., in score, by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880). Mainly autograph. Libretto by Paul de Musset, based on the play by Alfred de Musset, his brother. French. Published in 1872 and first performed in Paris at the Opéra-Comique, 18 Jan. 1872, and then in Vienna, 21 Feb. 1872, in a German translation made by Eduard Mautner and Richard Genée (Loewenberg, Annals of Opera, 2nd ed., 1955, col. 1020). This score is s...
Scope & Content:
Jacques Offenbach, composer: Comic opera 'Fantasio' by: 1872. Paul Edmé de Musset, Author: Libretto to comic opera 'Fantasio' by: 19th cent. Louis Charles Alfred de Musset, poet: Comic opera 'Fantasio' based on the play by: 19th cent. Eduard Mautner, Austrian writer and poet: German translati...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

12. 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)

13. Add MS 60616

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Add MS 60616
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)

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. Egerton MS 1693

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Egerton MS 1693
Title:
Miscellaneous papers of Robert Beale, 1569-1593
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous papers of Robert Beale, 1569-1593, comprising: continental correspondence; papers relating to Mary, Queen of Scots; and correspondence about the Church of England in the 1580s. This is a miscellaneous collection of papers once belonging to Robert Beale which have become separated...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1569-1593
Extent:
1 volume

19. Egerton MS 1900

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Egerton MS 1900
Title:
German translation of Niccolò da Poggibonsi’s Libro d’Oltramare; itinerary of a trip from Europe to the Holy Land and back; instructions for pilgrims to Jerusalem.
Scope & Content:
The main text of this manuscript recounts a first-person account of a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and Mount Sinai. Because of the contemporary note on one of the original flyleaves (f. 156r, copied in 17th century on f. 1v) stating that Gabriel Muffel (d. 1498), third son of the Nuremburg patrician ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
c 1465
Extent:
A paper codex

20. 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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