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2851. Add MS 41600

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Add MS 41600
Title:
TREATISE ON THE COMPOTUS, with other astronomical and chronological matter. A list of the contents and of the miniatures in the manuscript is given in F. Saxl and H. Meier, Verzeichnis astrologischer und mythologischer illustrierter HSS., vol. iii (ed. H. Bober), Handschriften in Englischen Bibliotheken, part i, 1953, pp. 82-88. See also Brit. Mus. Quart., iii, 1928-1929, pp. 13-14 and plate vii. (1) 'Incipit liber computi et kalendarii et pertinentium ad illa pulcerimus', beg. ' Quoniam s...
Scope & Content:
Art. Illuminations and Drawings ITALIAN: Treatise on the Compotus, etc.: tinted drawings and miniatures of the Zodiac, constellations, planets, etc.: circ. 1454. includes: ff. 1, 5 b, 11, 39, 54, 74 b Barozzi family, of Venice: Arms(?): circ. 1454. ff. 1, 5b, 11, 39, 54, 74 b Heraldry: Arms[of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1454
Extent:
1 item

2852. Add MS 41612-41617

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Add MS 41612-41617
Title:
Registers, transcripts, charts etc.
Scope & Content:
Purchased (together with 41667 G) at the sale of Charles Henry Wyndham, 3rd Baron Leconfield (Sotheby's sale-cat. 23-24, Apr. 1928). See also Hist. MSS. Comm., 6th Report, App., pp. 287-319, and Brit. Mus Quart., iii, 1928-1929, pp. 57-58.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
[1260-1699]
Extent:
6 items

2853. Add MS 41616

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Add MS 41616
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Scope & Content:
MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, viz.:- (1) 'The Royall Slaue / A Tragicomedy / The Scene Sardes / Acted before the King at Oxford', [30 Aug. 1636], [by William Cartwright]. Of earlier date than the printed edition of 1639, and wanting the Prologue and Epilogue dedicated to the University of Oxford, the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

2854. Add MS 41623

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Add MS 41623
Title:
An illustrated Herbal (the 'Codex Bellunensis')
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-147v: A herbal from northern Italy; the text is chiefly an adaptation of Dioscorides, De Materia Medica in Latin, with occasional entries in Italian, including a list or index of plants (ff. 137r, 138r-v, 142r-145r, 147r-v). Other texts inserted in the main text are: ff. 128r-v, 134r-v, 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:

Paper codex

2855. Add MS 41628-41635

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Add MS 41628-41635
Title:
PERABO COLLECTION of musical autographs collected by Johann Ernst Perabo, pianist (b. Wiesbaden 1845, d. Boston, Massachusetts, 1920)
Scope & Content:
The majority of the musical compositions occur in the sale-cat. of List and Francke, of Leipzig, 1882, having been previously in the possession of members of the publishing house of Haslinger, of Vienna; for the principal sources of the letters see Add. MS 41628. The collection was given by Pera...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
[1735-1910]
Extent:
8 items

2856. Add MS 41636

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Add MS 41636
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Scope & Content:
Vol. I (ff. 367). 1795-1882. includes: f. 1 John Jacob Astor, musical instrument manufacturer: Letter to Messrs Broadwood and Son: 1795.: Photogr.f. 2 Thomas Campbell, poet: Certificate by: 1842.ff. 3-125 passim John Sliegh, humorous artist: Letters and verses to A. J. and Mrs Hipkins: 1...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1795-1882
Extent:
1 item

2857. Add MS 41636-41639

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Add MS 41636-41639
Title:
HIPKINS PAPERS. Correspondence, etc., of Alfred James Hipkins, F.S.A. (1826-1903), relating mainly to his researches on ancient musical instruments and musical pitch, and including letters, etc., from Alexander John Ellis, F.R.S. (on pitch), Victor Mahillon of Brussels (on keyboard instruments), Charles Russell Day (on Indian musical instruments) and contemporary musicians, artists, actors and literary personalities. The collection also includes letters written to members of his family. The ...
Scope & Content:
Music: Correspondence and papers, with drawings and photographs, of A. J. Hipkins rel. to antique keyboard instruments, musical pitch, etc.: 19th-20th centt. Alfred James Hipkins, FSA: Correspondence and papers: 19th-20th centt.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
[1795-1927]
Extent:
4 items

2858. Add MS 41637

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Add MS 41637
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Scope & Content:
Vol. II (ff.334). 1883-1889. includes: f. 1 Friedrich Max Müller, PC; philologist: Letters to A. J. Hipkins: 1861-1883.f. 3 Frederic George Stephens, art critic: Letters to A. J. Hipkins: 1883, 1902.f. 5 Henry, John Dale, pianoforte manufacturer, of Cheltenham: Letter to A. J. Hipkins: 1...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1883-1889
Extent:
1 item

2859. Add MS 41639

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Add MS 41639
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Scope & Content:
Vol. IV (ff. 331). 1895-1927 and n.d. includes: f. 1 Sir Walter Besant, novelist: Letter to A. J. Hipkins: 1895.ff. 2, 6, 11 Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Baronet; composer: Letters to A. J. Hipkins: 1893-1895.ff. 5, 74 Sir Isidor George Henschel, musician: Letters to A. J. Hipkins:...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1895-1927
Extent:
1 item

2860. Add MS 41647

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Add MS 41647
Title:
TWO TREATISES, in Italian, the first anonymous, the second by Dante Alighieri, viz.:- (1) Moral tract, in eight main divisions ('trattati') with sub-sections, without title, but with the following opening rubric:-'Questo libro da chonoscimento per che si possino consolare, etc.'. The purpose of the work is recorded by the author thus (f. 4): 'Si mi puosi in quuore di molti detti di saui chauena trouato di fare una operetta nella quale io mostrassi per ordine tutta la misera condizione de l...
Scope & Content:
Robert A. Tripple, bookseller, of Philadelphia: Label: 19th cent. Lucy Wharton Drexel: Bookplate: 19th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: Drexel (Lucy Wharton): 19th cent. includes: f. iii Peter Doyle, bookseller, of Philadelphia: Label: 19th cent.ff. 1-50 b Philosophy: Anonymous moral tr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

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