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1. Add MS 10767

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Title:
Caterina Vigri, Le sette armi spirituali, and other devotional works
Scope & Content:
This is a composite manuscript, made up of three parts: Part 1, ff. 1-57 (with historic foliation in ink in the lower margin of the rectos, ff. 354-410); Part 2, ff. 59-100; Part 3, ff. 101-136. Part 1 contains Le sette armi spirituali (The Seven Spiritual Weapons), a visionary work written by...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 21984

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Title:
Cicero, De senectute, written by Ippolita Maria Sforza
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains De senectute, a Latin treatise on the subject of aging and death, by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC). The manuscript's colophon indicates that it was written by Ippolita Maria Sforza (b. 1445, d. 1488), daughter of Francesco I Sforza (b. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1458
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 23623

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Title:
Collection of 17th-century compositions by Dr. John Bull, and possibly others
Scope & Content:
ff. 181. Compositions, apparently for Organ (see no. 26), by Jan Bull, sc. Dr. John Bull, with the possible exceptions of nos. 2, 9-12, 47, and 50-52. Transcribed on two staves of 6 lines shortly before and after his death, 18 January-16 November, 1628, etc., and probably composed while he was o...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Dutch, English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1628
Extent:
1 volume (181 folios)

4. Add MS 29987

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Title:
Madrigals, ballads, and motets by Italian composers (mainly anonymous), including: Jacobus de Bolonia. Johannes de Florentia. Franciscus de Florentia. Frater Bartolinus de Padova. Giovanni de Chascina. Ser Lorenzo, prete di Firenze Ser Gheradello. Bonavitus Corsini, pitor. Frate Andrea de ser Vi. Donato da Chascina. Frate Vincenzo. Nicholo del Proposto. Frate Guigliemo di S. Spirito. Francescho degli Organni. Don Paghollo. Rosso de Chollegrana.
Scope & Content:
ff. 2b-69b passim. 'Madriali,' 'Ballate,' 'Cacce,' etc., by little-known Italian composers of the 14th century. There are similar collections in the Biblioteca Laurenziana at Florence (87) and in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris. Unless the contrary is stated, the compositions are for 2 voice...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-16th century
Extent:

1 volume (88 folios)

5. Add MS 33933

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Title:
The Wode Psalter or St Andrews Psalter: contra-tenor part-book containing musical settings of metrical psalms from the 1564 Scottish Psalm Book and other music
Scope & Content:
Most of the music was collected and copied by Thomas Wode (or Wood). Wode was a former monk who worked at St Andrews after the Reformation in Scotland, eventually becoming vicar there. At the core of the collection are harmonisations of the psalms by Scottish composer David Peebles. Over a perio...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
c 1564-c 1625
Extent:
1 volume (94 folios)

6. Add MS 40076

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Title:
Rule and Privileges of the Poor Clares
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6r: The Rule of the Poor Clares, a copy of the Bull of Clement VI, confirming that of Clement IV (made 31 December 1266), which in turn confirms and recites the Rule of the Poor Clares, as drawn up by Rinaldo, Bishop of Ostia and Velletri (afterwards Pope Alexander IV), and ap...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1446-1448
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 41623

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Title:
An illustrated Herbal (the 'Codex Bellunensis')
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-147v: A herbal from northern Italy; the text is chiefly an adaptation of Dioscorides, De Materia Medica in Latin, with occasional entries in Italian, including a list or index of plants (ff. 137r, 138r-v, 142r-145r, 147r-v). Other texts inserted in the main text are: ff. 128r-v, 134r-v, 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:

Paper codex

8. Add MS 58853

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Title:
ITALIAN CANTATAS: 'Parole di Gio. Patritio Carey messe in musica da Diuersi Autori', settings for soprano solo accompanied by a figured bass; mid-17th cent. The signature of 'Guglmo Reymes' (i.e. William Reymes) is on ff. 1 and 83v (for comparison see Sloane 514). Folio i is the bookplate of 'Maurice Burrus', 1937. For a discussion on the identification of the author of the texts as the minor English poet, Patrick Cary see Pamela J. Willetts, 'Patrick Cary and his Italian poems', B.L.J. 2, n...
Scope & Content:
Poetry ITALIAN: Music: Patrick Cary, English poet: 'Parole di Gio. Patritio Carey messe in musica da Diuersi Autori', settings for soprano solo accompanied by a figured bass: mid-17th cent.: Ital. includes: ff. 2-35b, 78-83b Carlo Rainaldi, Italian architect, composer and instrumentalist: Five...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 item

9. EAP008/2

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EAP008/2
Title:
Archivio delle Tradizioni Popolari della maremma Grossetana
Scope & Content:
This collection consists of audio recordings of performances, songs, poetry and interviews regarding the traditions and festivities related to May and the Epiphany, audio visual recordings of May celebrations and images of both Epiphany and May celebrations in the Province of Grosseto in Tuscany...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1975-1995
Extent:
35 audio CDs containing approximately 25:31:23 minutes of audio recordings, 1 DVD containing approximately 1:02:03 minutes of audio visual recordings and 2 CDs containing 6,159 thumbnail jpeg images with 6,159 jpeg images and 39 tiff images.

10. EAP008/3

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EAP008/3
Title:
Archive of Paolo Nardini
Scope & Content:
This collection consists of images from a rehearsal of a show celebrating the Epiphany and audio recordings of interviews and songs relating to the traditions and festivities associated with Epiphany celebrations in the Province of Grosseto in Tuscany. Originals dated as: c 1980 - 2005.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1980-2005
Extent:
5 CDs containing 19 images saved as tiff and approximately 2:16:40 minutes of audio recordings in wav format.

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