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41. Add MS 37056

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Add MS 37056
Title:
Robert Alexander Schumann's Sonata in F minor: "Concert pour piano seul", dedicated to Ignaz Moscheles.
Scope & Content:
Sonata in F minor (the original MS.), described by the composer, on a slip pasted in at the beginning of the MS., as 'Concert pour Piano seul composé et dedié a Mr. Ignace Moscheles par Robert Schumann. Œuv. 14.' For this he afterwards substituted (f. 19), at the request of Haslinger the publish...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
5 Jun 1836
Extent:
1 volume (25 folios)

42. Add MS 44511

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Add MS 44511
Title:
Gladstone papers, correspondence: Vol. CCCCXXVI
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 1 Sir Andrew Clark, Baronet; physician: Correspondence with W. E. Gladstone: 1870-1892. ff. 5, 17 Ernest Leopold Walford, stockbroker: Letters to Sir A. Clark: 1890. f. 7 Jews: Memorandum by E. L. Walford on the Mosaic laws: [1890]. f. 7 Ernest Leopold Walford, stockbroker: Memoran...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
20 Sep 1890-Dec 1890
Extent:
1 item (ff. 266)

43. Add MS 62102

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Add MS 62102
Title:
Scope & Content:
CHANDOS MUSIC MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. IV. Volume of Cantatas, labelled 'Basso Continvo' on the front cover. Partly Italian. ff. i+66. Binding of dark red leather, gilt-ruled and stamped and labelled in blue leather. 275 x 422mm. 1. ff. 1-10v. J. C. Pepusch, English Cantatas 'Alexis' (ff. 1-3), 'Cl...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
[18th century]
Extent:
1 item

44. Add MS 62103

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Add MS 62103
Title:
Scope & Content:
CHANDOS MUSIC MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. V. Thomas Roseingrave, Cantatas to English (three), Latin (one) and Italian (six) words, with two Italian arias, all for soprano voice and various instruments, in score. 'Score 1' is written on the spine; presumably one of the 'Two Books full of Cantatas for one V...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
[18th century]
Extent:
1 item

45. Burney MS 105, ff 1r-4r

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 105, ff 1r-4r
Title:
Scope & Content:
18th-19th century notes on the text, provenance and scribe of the present volume, in Italian, English and Latin, ff 1r, 3r. Extract from St Jerome's Catalogus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum on the copying of texts, f 4r.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:

4 folios

46. Cotton MS Galba C I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Galba C I
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and the Low Countries, 1558-1564
Scope & Content:
Records and papers concerning England and the Low Countries, 1558-1564. f. 2 Queen Elizabeth I: minutes of her instructions to Thomas Gresham: to travel to Antwerp, and liquidate some debts. December 1558 and March 5, 1558-9. f. 3 Queen Elizabeth I: her commission to William Howard, Earl of E...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1558-1564
Extent:
1 volume

47. Cotton MS Otho E IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho E IV
Title:
Letter-book of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham (d. 1592) as English Ambassador in France, 1580-1582
Scope & Content:
This is the letter-book (1580-1582) of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham (1537-1592), English Ambassador in France. (Cobham preferred to use the family title of Cobham as surname rather than the actual family name of Brooke). The volume was badly damaged in the fire of the Cotton MSS in 1731, so na...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1580-1582
Extent:
1 volume.

48. Egerton MS 943

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 943
Title:
Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy), with a commentary in Latin
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2v-62r: Inferno, with Latin commentary. Incipit, 'In principio istius Comedie videndum est quicquid Auctor intendit declarare in universo'; f. 62v: Chapter list of Purgatorio; ff. 63r-126r: Purgatorio, with Latin commentary; ff. 129r-186r: Paradiso, with Latin commentary up to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 188 folios

49. Harley MS 3448

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3448
Title:
Fiore de virtù e de costumi
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Fiore de virtù e de costumi (Flower of Virtue and of Manners), an Italian work on virtues and vices that was composed in the early 14th century. It consists of 36 chapters, each of which discusses a particular virtue or vice by drawing a comparison with an animal, cit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

50. Harley MS 3489

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3489
Title:
An atlas of portolan charts by Joan Martines
Scope & Content:
This atlas consists of a collection of sea charts, executed by the Italian cartographer and cosmographer Joan Martines (d. 1591) in 1578. The atlas's seven charts are laid down on a plane scale and span each verso and its opposing recto. Contents: ff. [1v-2r]: A map of the two hemispheres (Cha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1578
Extent:
1 volume

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