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1511. Add MS 70948-70951

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Title:
CHARNWOOD AUTOGRAPHS: collection of autograph letters and documents, etc., formed by Dorothea Mary Roby Benson (d. 1942), wife of Godfrey Rathbone, 1st Baron Charnwood; circa 16th-20th cent. Partly French, German, Italian, Russian. Partly printed. Many of the letters were printed, and a few reproduced, in Lady Charnwood's An Autograph Collection (1930), and in Call Back Yesterday (1937). Purchased from the heirs of Baroness Charnwood, and from the British Museum, March 1992. Paper. Folio. ...
Scope & Content:
Dorothea Mary Roby Benson, née Thorpe; wife of Godfrey, 1st Baron Charnwood: Autograph letters and documents collected by Dorothea Mary Roby Benson: 16th-20th cent: Partly Fr., Germ., Ital. and Russ: Partly printed.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, and Russian
Date Range:
c 16th century-20th century
Extent:
4 items

1512. Add MS 71120-71121

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Add MS 71120-71121
Title:
'DER JUNGE LORD': comic opera in two acts by Hans Werner Henze (libretto, Ingeborg Bachmann); [1965]
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Mostly in condensed score, a few sections in full score. Notated in pencil throughout, with a small number of additions in ink, and annotations in German, Italian and English by Henze and others in pencil and coloured crayon, some apparently relating to the making of a piano vocal sco...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, German, and Italian
Date Range:
[1965]
Extent:
2 items

1513. Add MS 71252-71445

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Add MS 71252-71445
Title:
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Music manuscripts of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (b. 1934); [1942?]-1992. Autograph, except where stated. Dates not derived from the manuscripts are taken principally from the work-list in Stanley Sadie (ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980), vol. 5, and Colin Bayliss, The ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
[1942?]-1992
Extent:
194 volumes

1514. Add MS 71535

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Add MS 71535
Title:
CANTATAS AND ARIAS: a collection of twenty Italian cantatas for solo voice and continuo and five Italian arias for solo voice, strings and continuo; 1723. Copied in four different hands: hand A, nos. 1-6; B, nos. 7-19, 27; C, nos. 20-24, 28; D, nos. 25-26. ff. 54, 74, 89-90 and 95-6 are ruled but otherwise blank. In the list below, all are cantatas for soprano and basso continuo unless otherwise stated. Bass occasionally figured (figures added in pencil to no. 2). Catalogue numbers for canta...
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-4v, 41-44 Andrea Stefano Fiorè, composer: Two cantatas: 1723: Ital: Copy.ff. 5-8v, 25-40 Benedetto Marcello, composer: Four cantatas: 1723: Ital: Copy.ff. 9-12v George Frideric Handel, composer: Cantata 'Se pari è la tua fè': 1723: Ital: Copy.f. 45 Martino de Leonardis, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1723
Extent:
1 item

1515. Add MS 71575

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Add MS 71575
Title:
TUSCANY: 'Martirelogio de Beni in Commune di Pagonico e Tassignagno', inventory and plans of properties in Paganico and Tassignano, Tuscany; circa 1485 (or 1538?). The plans, which are early examples of the genre are drawn to shape but not to scale. With later 16th- and 17th-century annotations and (f. 14) additions. Purchased from Sam Fogg, Dec. 1994. Paper; ff. 16. 290 x 215mm. Watermark resembling Briquet 5922.
Scope & Content:
Maps and Plans: Inventories: Paganico, Tuscany: Inventories and plans of property in Paganico: circa 1485-1538: Ital.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1485
Extent:
1 item

1516. Add MS 71603-71608

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Add MS 71603-71608
Title:
MARGARET GARDINER PAPERS: correspondence and papers of Margaret Gardiner, patron of the arts and former Secretary, 'For Intellectual Liberty', mainly concerning political protests organised by her in the 1960s and 1970s, together with files of general political and personal correspondence; 1904-1988, n.d. Partly printed and copies. Partly French, German and Italian. Purchased from Margaret Gardiner, May 1994. Six volumes. British Library arrangement. Classified as follows: A. Corresponde...
Scope & Content:
Margaret Gardiner, Secretary, For Intellectual Liberty: Republic of Vietnam: Correspondence and papers of Margaret Gardiner concerning Vietnam, Republic of: 1904-1988, n.d.: Partly Fr., Germ.,Ital.: Partly printed, copy and signed.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1904-1988
Extent:
6 items

1517. Add MS 71688

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Add MS 71688
Title:
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...
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1654-c 1702
Extent:
1 item

1518. Add MS 71712 A-B

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Add MS 71712 A-B
Title:
SUPPLEMENTARY BOSSY PAPERS: further memoirs and papers of Raoul Bossy (b.1894, d.1975), Rumanian diplomatist and author; 1925-circa 1947
Scope & Content:
Supplements Add. MSS. 63730-63741. Mostly French, partly Rumanian and Italian. Partly printed. Purchased from Miss Ilinca R. Bossy, daughter of Raoul Bossy. Paper. Two parts. British Library arrangement.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Romanian
Date Range:
1925
Extent:

2 items

1519. Add MS 71715

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Add MS 71715
Title:
Miscellaneous Letters, etc.; 1615-1673. Partly French and Italian. Presented by Richard H. Byne of San Antonio, Texas, in December 1995. Paper: ff. ii+5. Quarto. Binding of full blue morocco, unsigned but probably by Riviere, with gilt doublures and foredges, lettered on the front cover, 'Sir Edward Waldegrave [rule] Autograph letter signed / concerning / the Earls of / Southampton and Pembroke / 1615'. For item (1) see (f. ii) Sotheby's sale-cat. 17 Feb. 1936, lot 181, and Messrs. Maggs' ...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 1 George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham: Sir Edward Waldegrave, 1st Baronet: Theobald Maurice, Secretary to the Privy Council of the Elector Palatine: Letter to Theobald Maurice from Sir Edward Waldegrave, rel. to George Villiers: 1615: Fr.f. 2 Vittoria de' Medici, wife of Fe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1615-1673
Extent:
1 item

1520. Add MS 72001-72065

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Add MS 72001-72065
Title:
TIPPETT COLLECTION (PART IV): music manuscripts and notebooks of Sir Michael Tippett (b.1905, d.1998); circa 1923-1994, n.d. Autograph except where otherwise stated. Supplementing the collections in Add. 61748-61804, 63820-63840, 71099-71103 and 72066-71103; other Tippett MSS. are Add. 59808 and 61891, Eg. 3786. All published works are published by Schott & Co., London, unless otherwise stated. For biographical background information see I. Kemp, Tippett: the Composer and his Music (1984...
Scope & Content:
Sir Michael Kemp Tippett, OM; CH; composer: Music manuscripts and notebooks of Sir Michael Kemp Tippett: circa 1923-1994, n.d.: Partly Fr. and Ital: Partly copies.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
c 1923-1994
Extent:
65 items

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