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1161. Add MS 33566

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Title:
" RELATIONE del Viaggio di Gerusalemme ": account by Vincenzo Favi of a pilgrimage from Venice to Jerusalem in 1615, going by way of the Mediterranean and Egypt and returning through Damascus, Aleppo, and Alexandretta; with a dedicatory letter to Charles Emanuel, Duke of Savoy. At the end are:- Corso e valuta delle monete." f. 148;-and an Index. f. 151. Illustrated with a map of the route (f. 6), and numerous plans and sketches, in pen and ink, of buildings, etc., many bearing the name of ...
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Jerusalem: Pilgrimage of V. Favi to, with drawings and plans: 1615.: Ital. Voyages and Travels: From Venice to Egypt, Jerusalem and Syria, by V. Favi: 1615.: Ital. Duchy of Savoy: dedicated to: in 1615. Palestine: Travels in, by V. Favi: 1615.: Ital. Gio. Cales, alias de Kales: Illustrations...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

1162. Add MS 33591-33594

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Title:
Papers and Correspondence of Sir Ralph Sadler, 4 volumes
Scope & Content:
Mary of Scotland: Correspondence and papers of Sir R. Sadleir relating to her reign and captivity: 1554-1585. Sir Ralph Sadleir: Correspondence and papers rel. to negotiations betw. England and Scotland: 1554-1585. Elizabeth I of England: Correspondence of Sir R. Sadleir: 1559-1585. Sir Willi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1554-1585
Extent:
4 volumes of bound letters

1163. Add MS 33733-33791

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Title:
Grenville Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
form part of the Grenville Library, bequeathed to the British Museum in 1847 by the Rt. Hon. Thomas Grenville. They were transferred to the custody of the Keeper of MSS. in 1890.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
Late 14th century-19th century
Extent:
60 items

1164. Add MS 33933

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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)

1165. Add MS 33951

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Giuseppe Verdi: Attila. Opera in four acts.
Scope & Content:
'Attila': Opera, in 4 Acts, by Giuseppe Verdi; with very slight variations from the original (Add MS 35156), which was probably completed early in 1846, the Opera having been produced at the Fenice theatre in March of that year. In score, the bassoon, trombone and drum parts being generally writ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

1 volume (253 folios)

1166. Add MS 33955

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LIBRO DE' SORTI: a tract on Sortilegy, to be consulted by the cast of three dice. Italian. Paper; ff. 39. xviith cont. With rather coarsely executed coloured drawings. A leaf is missing after f. 15. Quarto.
Scope & Content:
Sortilegy: Book of Fate: 17th cent.: Ital. Fate: Book of: 17th cent.: Ital. Divination: Book of Fate: 17th cent.: Ital. Dice: Book of Fate, to be consulted with three dice: 17th cent.: Ital. Art. Illuminations and Drawings ITALIAN: Book of Fate : coloured drawings: 17th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

1167. Add MS 33964

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ORIGINAL LETTERS of sovereigns and noblemen, actors, artists, and authors; arranged in each class, according to the nationalities of the writers, under the beads of England, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States of America; 16th-19th centt. The names of writers are given in the Index. Among them are:- Qu. Elizabeth. William III. John, Duke of Marlborough. Francis I. of France. Catharine de'Medici. Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia. Mary...
Scope & Content:
George Colman, senior: Letters to, conc. C. Macklin's acting at Covent Garden: 1774. John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough: Letter, when Envoy at the Hague, conc. treaty with Sweden: 1701. includes: f. 1 Elizabeth I of England: Letter to Lord North: 1593. f. 1 Roger North, 2nd Baron North: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Swedish
Date Range:
16th century-19th century
Extent:

2 files

1168. Add MS 33965

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Title:
Original letters of musicians, arranged as in the preceding volume. Among them are letters of:- Dr. Thomas Augustus Arne, Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, Dr. William Boyce, Orlando Gibbons, Henry Lawes, Matthew Locke, André Ernest Modeste Grétry, Hector Berlioz, François Adrien Boieldieu, François Gounod, Étienne Henri Méhul, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, George Frederic Handel, Joseph Haydn, Franz Liszt, Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Robert Alexander Schumann, Louis Spoh...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 1 E- T- Allan, husband of Mad. Caradori-Allan: Letter to P. F. Laporte: 1834. ff. 1, 372 Pierre François Laporte, actor and impresario: Letters to him: 1832-1841.: Fr. f. 3 Thomas Augustine Arne, composer: Letter to G. Woodfall: n.d. f. 3 George Woodfall, Printer: Letter to, from D...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Polish, and Swedish
Date Range:
16th century-19th century
Extent:

1 volume (418 folios)

1169. Add MS 34003

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Title:
Fantasias and other compositions for organ, violin, spinettina, or lute, in 2, 3, 4, and 5 parts, in score, by Girolamo Frescobaldi
Scope & Content:
Fantasias and other compositions. The only pieces to which a name has been given are a 2-part 'fuga per l'organo', beginning with a 'canzona' (f. 3), and a 'Toccata per spinettina sola over Luto' (f. 36) in 3 parts. Contents: Fantasias, etc., for Organ, written on from two to five staves of 5...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:

1 volume (68 folios)

1170. Add MS 34005

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Title:
Three sacred choral pieces: Psalm by Benedetto Marcello, anonymous Mass, and Requiem by Francesco Durante
Scope & Content:
ff. 2-17b. 'Non ti contristi’: psalm XXXVI. No. 36 from the 'Parafrasi sopra i primi 50 Salmi'; for 4 voices, in score, by Benedetto Marcello. After 1726 (date of publication). One short passage has been omitted (see f. 6b). The MS. is in two hands, of which the second, commencing at f. 9b, may ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

1 volume (121 folios)

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