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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71121
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'DER JUNGE LORD'. Act II (ff. 127). Hans Werner Henze, composer: Ingeborg Bachmann, writer: Comic opera, 'Der Junge Lord' by Hans Werner Henze, libretto by Ingeborg Bachmann: [1965]: Annotated in Germ., Ital. and Engl: Autogr.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, German, and Italian
Date Range:: [1965]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71322
Title:
Scope & Content:: MAXWELL DAVIES MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. lxxi. Songs to words by Dante (J27), ‘for baritone & smallish orchestra’ (f. 1v); 1967. Sketches and drafts in short score, with indications of instrumentation; dated Barters Town, Feb. 1967 (f. 2). With sketches (ff. 19-23) for unidentified works, including ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1967
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71603
Title:
Scope & Content:: MARGARET GARDINER PAPERS. Vol. I (ff. 163). Correspondence and papers; 1962-1965. 1. ff. 1-17. Nuclear disarmament; 1962-1964. 2. ff. 18-82v. British writers' protest on Vietnam; 1965. 3. ff. 83-163. West European artists' protest on Vietnam; 1965. includes: f. 3 Cyrus Stephen Eaton, i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: 1962-1965
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

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