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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 57946
Title:: FORGERIES: miscellaneous collection of forged letters and papers of famous persons from 11th to 19th centuries; 19th-20th cent. Partly Latin and German. Many of the forgeries bear the stamp of the Forgery Collection of James Tregaskis. Purchased from T. & L. Hannas, of Bromley, 26 June 1973. Paper and parchment; ff. 47. Various sizes. Arranged in chronological order. 1. f. 1. Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury (1070-1089): Latin document on parchment, with the remains of seal ties, b...
Scope & Content:: James Tregaskis, bookseller: Forgeries: Forged letters and papers , collected by James Tregaskis: 19th-20th cent.: Partly Lat. and Germ. includes: f. 1 Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury: Charter signed by Lanfranc: circa 1930: Lat.: Forgery.ff. 2-17 Martin Luther, reformer: Letter and rel...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 1524-1999
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 57980
Title:: REGLEMENT VOR DIE K&OUML;NIGL. PREUSSISCHE INFANTERIE: fair copy of a military handbook containing regulations for the infantry, issued by Frederick the Great; 1743. German. Apparently published in Berlin in the same year (see f. 172). Divided into twelve parts covering formation, manoeuvres, equipment, etc., followed (ff. 173-175) by an index to the chapters and headings. A version of the title-page in French, which has been added in ink to the blank page immediately preceding the origi...
Scope & Content:: Prussia. Army of: Military Tactics: Regulations for the Royal Prussian Infantry: 1743: Germ.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1743
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58037
Title:: Edward Elgar: 'Sospiri' for strings, harp (or pianoforte) and harmonium (or organ), op. 70
Scope & Content:: Score. 'W. H. Reed freundschaftlichst zugeeignet'. On f. ii is typed 'This short orchestral piece has the violin part written for Reed'. Annotated in pencil.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: [1914]
Extent:: 1 volume (ii + 9 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58054
Title:: Edward Elgar: 'Ecce Sacerdos magnus' for chorus and orchestra and 'Sospiri, (Seufzer) Adagio für Violine mit Begleitung für pianoforte', op. 70
Scope & Content:: 1. ff. 1-30. 'Ecce Sacerdos magnus' for chorus and orchestra; 1888. Full score (ff. 1-15) and orchestral parts (ff. 17-30). The title and choral part in the score are cut from the printed vocal score. Vocal score published as part of A. E. Tozer (ed.), 'Modern Church Music for Catholic Choirs', ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German and Latin
Date Range:: 1888-1914
Extent:: 1 volume (i + 40 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58073
Title:
Scope & Content:: C. B. OLDMAN COLLECTION (PART 2). Vol. I (ff. viii+152). Letters, poems, and miscellaneous papers of Johann Andreas Stumpff (b.1769, d.1846), musical instrument maker of London; aft. 1808-1838, n.d. Partly drafts, copies and printed. Mostly German. For further papers and correspondence with J. B...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, and German
Date Range:: 1808-1838
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58073-58077
Title:: C. B. OLDMAN COLLECTION (PART 2): manuscripts and papers from the collection of Dr Cecil Bernard Oldman, C.B., C.V.O., Principal Keeper of the Department of Printed Books of the British Museum from 1947-1959; aft. 1808-1967, n.d. Supplementing Add. 56572-56574. See also Add. 71528. Presented by Mrs Sigrid Oldman, Aug.-Sept. 1973. Paper. Five volumes. British Library arrangement.
Scope & Content:: Dr Cecil Bernard Oldman, CB; Principal Keeper of Printed Books, British Museum: Manuscripts and papers of Dr Cecil Bernard Oldman: circa 1809-1967, n.d.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and German
Date Range:: after 1808-1967
Extent:: 7 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58075
Title:
Scope & Content:: C. B. OLDMAN COLLECTION (PART 2). Vol. III (ff. 120). Correspondence and papers; 1924-1967, n.d. Partly printed. 1. ff. 1-13. Letters and papers relating to the Attwood manuscript; 1924, 1960-1961. 2. ff. 14-106. Correspondence, etc., mostly with his co-editor, Professor Erich Hertzmann (b.1...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1924-1967
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58075-58077
Title:: C. B. OLDMAN COLLECTION (PART 2). Vols. III-V. Correspondence and papers of Oldman relating to his work as co-editor of the Attwood Manuscript, K.506a (Attwood's musical composition exercises while studying with Mozart, now Add. 58437), for the Neue Mozart Ausgabe (Series X/30, Band 1, Kassel, 1965); 1924-1967, n.d. Three volumes.
Scope & Content:: Thomas Attwood, composer and organist: Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart, alias Wolfgang Amadeus; composer: Correspondence and papers of C. B. Oldman rel. to T. Attwood and the Attwood manuscript: 1924-1967, n.d.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1924-1967
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 58079
Title:: MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS; 1701-1963, n.d. Paper; ff. 103. British Library arrangement. A. Letter from Jan Garrigue Masaryk in London to Group-Captain Malcolm Grahame Christie, recording the former's perceptions of Conrad Henlein, the Sudeten leader, and Edvard BeneÈ, the newly-elected President of Czechoslovakia; 6 Jan. 1936. The letter also describes Czech anxieties about the 'supernationalism which combined with gangsterism seems to be swaying Europe'. Pencil annotation [by M. ...
Scope & Content:: includes: f. 1 Jan Garrigue Masaryk, Czech statesman: Czechoslovakia: Group Captain Malcolm Grahame Christie: Conrad Henlein, Sudeten nationalist leader: Letter rel. to the Sudetenland to Group Capt. Malcolm Grahame Christie from Jan Garrigue Masaryk: 1936.f. 3 Revenue: England; Parliament:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and German
Date Range:: 1701-1963
Extent:: 1 item

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