EMIL BÖCHER. Vol. IV A. Official record of Böcher's military service ('Wehrstammbuch'), with related personal documents; 1914-1944.
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EMIL BÖCHER. Vol. IV A. Official record of Böcher's military service ('Wehrstammbuch'), with related personal documents; 1914-1944. ff. 22. Printed with MS additions. 210 x 155mm.
CHRONOGRAMS: mostly of German origin; circa 1654-circa 1702. Collected and partly transcribed by James Hilton, F.S.A., 1899. Mostly Latin, with French and German; Hilton's transcriptions in Latin and English. A note by Hilton on f. 1 gives the origin of the 17th and 18th century leaves in the volume as 'apparently from note books broken up by the bookseller at Munich who sold them to me from time to time in 1899.' He bequeathed his collection of books of or relating to, chronograms, to the B...
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James Hilton, FSA: Chronograms: Chronograms and chronogrammatic verses, etc., collected, and with notes by James Hilton: circa 1654 - circa 1702, 1899: Mostly Lat.; partly Fr. and Germ. includes: ff. 2, 4 Ferdinand III; Emperor of Germany: Chronograms rel. to his eldest son, Ferdinand, King of...
EWALD OSERS CORRESPONDENCE: correspondence of Ewald Osers (b.1917), translator, with T. S. Eliot (b.1888, d.1965), poet, publisher and critic, and with Ashley Dukes (b.1885, d.1959), dramatist, critic, theatre manager and dramatic agent to T. S. Eliot, together with Osers' translation into German of Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral and related material, including autobiographical notes by Osers; 1945-1995. Mostly signed; partly copies, partly printed, partly typewritten. The correspondence co...
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includes: ff. 1-20, passim Ashley Dukes, author and dramatist: Ewald Osers, translator: Correspondence between Ewald Osers and Ashley Dukes: 1945-1947: Partly signed. Partly copies.ff. 1-20, passim Thomas Stearns Eliot, poet: Ewald Osers, translator: Correspondence between Ewald Osers and T...
HUMPHREY SEARLE COLLECTION. Music manuscripts and papers by and relating to Humphrey Searle, CBE (1915-1982), composer, broadcaster and Liszt scholar; 1880-1982, n.d. Scores are autograph and in pencil, and annotations, which appear in many scores and are not generally noted, are in ink except where otherwise stated. Opus numbers, and firm datings, where not present on the manuscripts themselves, are taken from Searle’s own lists of his works in Add. 71824. Published works bear a London impr...
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Humphrey Searle, CBE; composer: Music manuscripts, papers, etc., by and rel. to: 1880-1982, n.d.
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Music Collections
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English, French, German, Greek, Modern, and Spanish
HUMPHREY SEARLE COLLECTION. Vols xix-xxiii. ‘Hamlet’, opera in three acts after Shakespeare, op.48; 1965-8. Revised full score issued [Faber Music, 1968]. Vocal score published Faber Music, 1971. Five volumes.
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William Shakespeare, dramatist and poet: Humphrey Searle's opera 'Hamlet' after William Shakespeare: 1965-1968: Engl. and Germ.
L. Music by other composers. All autograph. 71807. HUMPHREY SEARLE COLLECTION. Vol. lxxxvii. ff. 61. Largest size 355 x 275mm. 1. ff. 1-9. R Gorer: ‘Sonata’ for piano; 1947. 2. ff. 10-16. Elizabeth Lutyens: ‘Sonata for Viola Solo’ op.5 no.4; 1938. Ink. Published Lengnick, 1946. 3. ff. 17-18...