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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37406
Title:: Collection of Madrigals and other Compositions, for voice, and violins, in parts, across five volumes, by various anonymous, English, and Italian composers.
Scope & Content:: In parts, across five volumes: Italian Madrigals; and other Compositions, for violins, mostly anonymous, containing treble, contra-tenor, quintus, and bassus parts; Madrigals and other compositions, for voices, mostly by English composers; including: 'Fuerunt mihi lachrime mee', attributed in T...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: after 1601
Extent:: 1 of five volumes (95 folios) (Part books)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37409
Title:: "ISTORIO del Conclave...di papa Alessandro VIII.," etc.: anonymous relation of the conclave ending 6 Oct. 1689 in the election of Card. Pietro Ottoboni. Dedicated to Card. Pietro Ottoboni, the pope's great-nephew and Secretary of State. In three parts. Dedication beg. "Quest' opera se mon in dono," Discorso a lettori, "A colui che trattando," and part i. (f. 29 b) "Era succeduta dopo lungo." Ends "nel Vaticano." Dat. Rome, 25 Dec. 1689. Another copy is in Add. MS. 8423, f. 132. Paper; ff. 18...
Scope & Content:: Alexander VIII; Pope: Istoria del Conclave: 1689.: Ital. Pietro Ottoboni, nephew of Pope Alexander VIII: Istoria del Conclave, addressed to: 1689. Manetti,of Florence family: Arms on binding. Bindings ITALIAN: Red leather tooled with arms of Manetti: 17th cent.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1689
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37448-37471
Title:: JOURNALS, correspondence and other papers of Joseph Hékékyan Bey, an Armenian in the Egyptian service, 1829-1874, including records and sketches of archaeological excavations in Egypt. Hékékyan was born circ. 1807, the son of a translator in the service of Mehemet Ali, who paid for his education in England, at Stonyhurst College and elsewhere, and his training in engineering and manufactures, 1818-1830. On his arrival in Egypt he was employed in superintending cotton factories, technical sch...
Scope & Content:: Joseph Hékékyan, Bey: Journals, correspondence and papers: 1829-1874. Egypt: Journals, correspondence, etc., of Hékékyan Bey: 1829-1874.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Armenian, English, French, German, Greek, Modern, and Italian
Date Range:: 1829-1874
Extent:: 24 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37461
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. XIV. (ff. 403), 1821-1844. includes: f. 1 Samuel Briggs: Letter to Signora Hékékyan: 1821.f. 3 Samuel Briggs: Letter to Rev. J. Tristram: 1821.ff. 5, 7, 28, 397 Samuel Briggs: Correspondence with Hékékyan Bey: 1824-1862, n.d.f. 9 J- Johnstone: Project for a railway: circ. 1827.f.9 Railway...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1821-1844
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37461-37463
Title:: Vols. XIV.-XVI. GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE in Western languages. Three volumes. The names of the writers are given in the Index. Folio.
Scope & Content:: Antiquities: Correspondence, drawings, etc., of Hékékyan Bey relating to Egyptian archaeology: 1851-1874.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Armenian, English, French, German, Greek, Modern, and Italian
Date Range:: [1821-1874]
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37462
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. XV. (ff. 661), 1845-1857. includes: f. 1 Poulain et Franchier; engineers: Letter to Hékékyan Bey: 1845.ff. 2, 8 Jeffrey Morris: Letter to Hékékyan Bey: 1845.f. 4 Gennaro Galli: Letter to Hékékyan Bey: 1845.: Ital.ff. 7-239 passim, 376, 398, 398 b, 582-589, 599-603, 606, 609, 611, 61...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Armenian, English, French, German, Greek, Modern, and Italian
Date Range:: 1845-1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37463
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. XVI. (ff. 568), 1858-1874, and undated. includes: f. 1 Alexander II; Emperor of Russia: Note on Russian foreign policy, by Hékékyan Bey: 1858. ff. 3, 7 Samuel Saunders: Letters to Hékékyan Bey: 1843-1858. ff. 5, 9, 16, 21, 25 Vice-Admiral Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt, CB: Letters to Hékékya...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1858-1874
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37641-37647
Title:: "ARMS of the Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church; 1342-1903. Compiled by Gustave Arthur Bouvier, 1884-1903." Seven volumes, each containing several parts, the arms being in trick, in colour, or engraved, with descriptions and biographical details in MS. At the end of each part, except in four cases (vols. i. pt. 1, v. pts. 4, 5, vi. pt. 1), is an index of names and sometimes of mottoes. The last three volumes contain also many letters and portraits; the names appear in the Index to this Catal...
Scope & Content:: Court of Rome: Arms of Cardinals: 1342-1903. Heraldry: Arms of cardinals, collected by the same.: 1342-1903. Gustaye Arthur. Bonvier: Arms of cardinals, 1342-1903, compiled by: 1884-1903.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1884-1903
Extent:: 7 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37645
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. V. (ff. 186). 1721-1816. includes: f. 159 Giovanni Andrea Miotti, Bishop of Parma: Letter to G. A. Bouvier: 1886.: Ital.f. 170 Canon Federico Tassinari: Letter, as secretary of the Archbishop of Bologna, to G. A. Bouvier: 1888.: Ital.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37646
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. VI. (ff. 111). 1817-1866. includes: f. 24 Canon Baruzzi: Letter, as secretary to the Bishop of Imola, to G. A. Bouvier: 1886.: Ital.f. 27 Michele Seri-Molini, Bishop of and Cingoli: Letter to G. A. Bouvier: 1886.: Ital.f. 34 Frederick Joseph Weld: Letter to G. A. Bouvier: 1886.f. 55...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

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