Commentaries on Aristotle's Analytica Priora and Analytica Posteriora
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This composite manuscript consists of two texts with commentaries on Aristotle that were separately produced in Italy in the 14th century, and joined together at a later stage. Contents: Part 1: ff. 1r-46r: Commentary by Jacobus de Clohac on the Analytica priora of Aristotle, entitled: 'Sum...
Giuliano di Giovanni Ricci, Sunto e Ristretto delle Casaste e Famiglie Fiorentine
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Contents: ff. 1r-89r: Giuliano di Giovanni Ricci, Sunto e Ristretto delle Casaste e Famiglie Fiorentine, beginning: ‘Sunto, e Ristretto Delle Casate, e Famiglie Fiorentine antiche, e moderne, con la distinzione de’ tempi , c cominciarono ad hauere honori nella Citta si per la maggiore, come pe...
Manuscripts from the music library of the industrialist and collector Paul Hirsch (1881-1951). Administrative context: Hirsch's music library in Frankfurt am Main, Germany was one of the finest private libraries of its kind. Hirsch began to assemble his collection in 1896, focussing in particu...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
VINCENZO BELLINI (b.1801, d.1835): ‘La Sonnambula’, opera in 2 acts to a libretto by Felice Romani, after A. E. Scribe and J. Aumer; circa 1850. Full score, in ink. Italian.Copy, in several hands, with performance markings in pencil and red and blue crayon, on pages ruled with 16 staves. Cuts in...
GAETANO DONIZETTI (b.1797, d.1848): ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’, opera in 3 acts to a libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, after Sir Walter Scott; circa 1850. Full score, in ink. Copy in several hands on pages ruled with between 10 and 20 staves (a 21st stave has been added by hand at the bottom of ff. 23...
JOHANN SIMON MAYR (b.1763, d.1845): ‘Elisa, ossia Il Monte di S. Bernardo’, opera in 1 act to a libretto by Gaetano Rossi; 1815 (dated, vol. 2, f. ii). Full score, in ink. Copy, on pages ruled with between 10 and 16 staves. Italian. The front of each volume bears the stamp ‘Gran magazzino di mus...