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11. Add MS 58853

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Add MS 58853
Title:
ITALIAN CANTATAS: 'Parole di Gio. Patritio Carey messe in musica da Diuersi Autori', settings for soprano solo accompanied by a figured bass; mid-17th cent. The signature of 'Guglmo Reymes' (i.e. William Reymes) is on ff. 1 and 83v (for comparison see Sloane 514). Folio i is the bookplate of 'Maurice Burrus', 1937. For a discussion on the identification of the author of the texts as the minor English poet, Patrick Cary see Pamela J. Willetts, 'Patrick Cary and his Italian poems', B.L.J. 2, n...
Scope & Content:
Poetry ITALIAN: Music: Patrick Cary, English poet: 'Parole di Gio. Patritio Carey messe in musica da Diuersi Autori', settings for soprano solo accompanied by a figured bass: mid-17th cent.: Ital. includes: ff. 2-35b, 78-83b Carlo Rainaldi, Italian architect, composer and instrumentalist: Five...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 item

12. Add Roll 61174

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Roll 61174
Title:
Notarised copy of the will of Cecilia Foscari
Scope & Content:
A notarised copy of the will of Cecilia, daughter of John Veneno and widow of Frederico Foschari, made by Caesar Ziliolus, notary and secretary to the doge of Venice. 5 May 1567, bearing the notarial mark of Caesar Ziliolus and signatures. The original will was made by Jacopo Grasolarius of St...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1567
Extent:

1 roll

13. Cotton MS Caligula C III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula C III
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and Scotland (originals and copies), 1568/9–1585, including a diary of John Lesley, bishop of Ross (d. 1596), 1571 (4r–40r); letters of Mary, queen of Scots (1542-67; d. 1587) (ff. 171, 244–248, 261–262, 423, 618, 620); and the pleading of Thomas Howard, 4th duke of Norfolk (d. 1572) (f. 189)
Scope & Content:
Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans foliis 597. 1. A tract in 12mo. entitled, "Commentaria diurna Jo. Leslie episcopi Rossensis:" being the bishop’‘s journal, in his own hand, from April 11 to Oct. 16, 1571. 1. 2. Various papers and memorandums on the affairs of Scotland, and the nobility ther...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1571-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 item

14. Cotton MS Julius C III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius C III
Title:
A collection of original letters addressed to Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the correspondence of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), first Baronet, of Conington Hall in Huntingdonshire, antiquarian and founder of the Cottonian Library. Whereas the British Museum’s catalogue describes this manuscript as a ‘collection of 328 original Lett...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1592-1649
Extent:

1 volume

15. Harley MS 2920

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2920
Title:
Collection of texts relating to the order of service, made for an Italian house of Poor Clares
Scope & Content:
A collection of texts relating to the order of service, probably made for an Italian house of Poor Clares, as suggested by repeated references to the Order's founders St Francis and St Clare of Assisi (e.g. ff. 10v, 16r, 27r). The manuscript was written in two parts: the first part (ff. 1-24) wa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1518-3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

16. Harley MS 3571

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3571
Title:
A Life of the Virgin Mary and Christ, in Italian
Scope & Content:
This manuscript features an Italian text that can be described as a vita of the Virgin Mary and Christ, although it also highlights the role of St Joseph after Christ's death. The narrative starts with the Virgin's birth and childhood and ends with her assumption into heaven. Perhaps another ver...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

17. IOR/P/1003 Jun 1877 nos 04-18

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IOR/P/1003 Jun 1877 nos 04-18
Title:
Outbreak of plague in Turkish Arabia and the quarantine arrangements which have been made for preventing the spread of the disease
Scope & Content:
pp 153-71. Copy communications forwarded to the Home Department regarding the outbreak of plague at Baghdad, Tehran, along the Euphrates and the Tigris, quarantine arrangements and other measures - disinfection, destruction of woollen goods - taken to prevent its spread. Includes reports and te...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
Mar 1876-Jun 1877
Extent:
19 pages

18. MS Mus. 1707

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1707
Title:
Claudio Monteverdi: letter to the Marchese Enzo Bentivoglio
Scope & Content:
Autograph. The letter, written from Venice, concerns aspects of the music for the festivities at the marriage of the Duke Odoardo Farnese to Margherita, second daughter of Cosimo II de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, in Parma the following year. Bentivoglio had commissioned Monteverdi to write t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
18 September 1627
Extent:

2 folios

19. R.M.20.a.3

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.a.3
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Agrippina (dramma per musica by Vincenzo Grimani), HWV 6. Autograph
Scope & Content:
f. i. is an inserted leaf with a note (‘The 1st scena of this Opera is missing’) by F. Nicolai, originally before f. 1, now bound at the end of the volume, after f. 121. Points of note: 1. f. 1. All is wanting before the words ‘a poveri dispensa l’or’ in Act I, sc. 1. 2. f. 1v. Agrippina’s r...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
[1709]
Extent:
1 volume (i + 121 folios)

20. R.M.20.a.5

Reference (shelfmark):
R.M.20.a.5
Title:
George Frideric Handel: Alessandro (dramma per musica by Paolo Antonio Rolli after a libretto by Ortensio Mauro), HWV 21. Autograph
Scope & Content:
The numbering of the scenes differs in the MS. from H-G., which follows the printed libretto. ff. 29v, 38v, 51v, 84v, 96v, 99v, 107v and 119v are blank. Points of note: 1. f. 5. Act I, sc. 1. At the end of the opening recitative: ‘Il nemico fugge dal muro all’arrivo di Alessandro’. H-G. print...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1726
Extent:
1 volume (122 folios)

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