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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11585
Title:: A collection of madrigals, carols, motets, graces, trios, quartets, and examples of harmony
Scope & Content:: ff. 2-34. Madrigals, etc., in score. Unless the contrary is stated, they are for 3 voices and unaccompanied. 1. 'Che (sic) prend' amor a gioco'; with accompaniments for 2 strings and a figured bass for harpsichord. 'Cavalier Tarquinio Merula, maestro di capella nella Chiesa Maggiore di S. Maria ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: before 1782
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11588
Title:: A collection of madrigals, canons, sonatas, songs, portions of operas, and other short compositions transcribed by Dr. Charles Burney
Scope & Content:: ff. 2-16. 'Recercari (10) et Canzoni (5) Francese (sic) fatte sopra diversi oblighi in partitura da Girolamo Frescobaldi .... Libro Prirno. 1615.' Transcribed and commented on by Dr. Charles Burney. ff. 16b-66b passim. Madrigals, etc, in score, transcribed by Dr. Charles Burney, and included i...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1783
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11589
Title:: Part of a catalogue of the Tudway Collection, a treatise, part of a transcript of the 'Regole del contrappunto pratico di Nicola Sala', and some motets
Scope & Content:: The MS. contains parts of a thematic Catalogue of the works in the Tudway Collection, and of a musical treatise. ff. 19b-24b. 'Chants from the Studij di Palestrina’: short pieces of harmonized plain-song, transcribed by Dr. Charles Burney. The following are the names of the composers: — '[? Gio...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: after 1794
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11590
Title:: Part of a transcript by Dr. Charles Burney of the 'Regole del contrappunto pratico di Nicola Sala'
Scope & Content:: Only a few unimportant headings have been omitted. This is continued in Add MS 11589 and 11591.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: after 1794
Extent:: 1 volume (100 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11591
Title:: A collection of songs, numbers from operas, and part of a transcript of the 'Regole del contrappunto pratico di Nicola Sala'
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-22. Transcript by Dr. Charles Burney of the 'Regole del contrappunto pratico di Nicola Sala' . . . 1794, only a few unimportant headings having been omitted. This is continued in Add MS 11589 and 11590. ff. 23-66 passim. Numbers from Operas, in full score, transcribed by Dr. Charles Burne...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: after 1794
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12032
Title:
Scope & Content:: VITA del glorioso San Magno;-Historia di Papa Alessandro Terzo, et di Federico Barbarossa, Imperatore; in verse;-Di Pietro Justiniano, de' fatti de Venetiani, libro xvi. ;-I trionfi, et le gran feste fatte dalla serenissima Signoria di Venetia, nella venuta del christianissimo et invittissimo He...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12033
Title:
Scope & Content:: HISTORY Of the actions of Mattaleno, successor of Cola di Rienzo, as Tribune of Rome; in xi. chapters. Italian. On paper, xviith cent. Small Quarto. [12,033.] Mattaleno [di Porta Casa?], Tribune of Rome, after Rienzi: History of his actions.: Ital.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12038
Title:
Scope & Content:: MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS and Dissertations, chiefly in Italian; amongst them are the following:-Discorso militare, al Signore Francisco Serdonati;-Lettera ad un prencipe Italiano, dat. Padova, 15 Sept. 1579 ; Orig.; - Epistola Johannis Baptistæ Dionisii ad Tiberium Jamnellum, dat. Perusiæ, id. Dec....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 16th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12046
Title:
Scope & Content:: TORQUATO TASSO. Il Manso, overo de l'Amicitia, Dialogo. A copy corrected by the autbor, and presented by him to his friend Giovanni Battista Manso, Marquis of Villa, by whom it was given to the library of the monastery of S. Onofrio, at Rome, (where Tasso was buried,) as appears by the original ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 16th century-1618
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12061
Title:
Scope & Content:: TRANSCRIPTS of numerous Papal Indulgences granted to Paters, Ave Marias, Rosaries, Crowns, Medals, Crosses, etc., by the Popes Adrian VI., Paul III., Pius IV., Pius V., Gregory XIII., Sixtus V., Clement Vlll., and Paul V., from the year 1522 to 1606 inclusive. A few printed Indulgences from the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

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