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1. Add MS 5036-5062

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Add MS 5036-5062
Title:
A collection of pieces, including motets, madrigals, masses, anthems, duets and other works
Scope & Content:
A collection of pieces, including motets, madrigals, masses, anthems, duets and other works. Prefixed to Add MS 5036 is a letter from Gabriel Mathias to the trustees of the British Museum, containing an extract from the will of James Mathias esq, from which it appears that these volumes are all...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1760
Extent:
27 volumes

2. Add MS 11581-11591

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Add MS 11581-11591
Title:
Extracts from various early musical writers, by Charles Burney, Mus. Doct., with remarks and criticisms by him
Scope & Content:
Also includes extracts and examples of various compositions.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
11 volumes

3. Add MS 27579

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Add MS 27579
Title:
"Cato: sive, speculum morale; privatum vitæ genus concernens," etc. Printed. Frankfurt, 1585. Interleaved for an Album Amicorum of Johannes. Cellarius, of Nuremberg, 1599-1606
Scope & Content:
Containing paintings, coats of arms, verses, mottoes, and autographs. Among the names are those of Johannes Fabricius, f. 75;-John Doland [Dowland], with the subject of a fugue, f. 88;-Thomas Sackevila, "Engelender," f. 100 b;-Nicolaus Taurellus, f. 118. Johannes Cellarius, of Nuremburg: Album: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
1585-1606
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 31239

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Add MS 31239
Title:
A collection of pieces transcribed, and mostly composed by, Samuel Wesley.
Scope & Content:
f. 1b. 'Faint is my head‘: 4-part Hymn, in score, the melody being in the tenor; the music by Dr. William Boyce, the words by the Rev. C[harles] Wesley; about 1825-1829. ff. 4b-10, 11b, 12b. Double Chants (with one exception), for 4 voices, with a compressed score for organ below, in score, mos...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1825?-1829?
Extent:
1 volume (48 folios)

5. Add MS 34726

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Add MS 34726
Title:
A collection of motets, songs, an anthem, a lamentation, and examples of harmony
Scope & Content:
Motets, in score, in the hand of John Travers; middle 18th cent. 1. ‘Conserva me, Domine’ (3 voices). ‘Parsley.’ f. 17. 2. Exurge, Domine’ (3 voices). ‘Woods.’ f. 17b. 3. ‘Singularis privelegii‘ (3 voices). Imperfect at the end. Anonymous, f. 18b. 4. ‘Soli Deo gloria’ (3 voices). Anonymo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (120 folios)

6. Egerton MS 1312

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Egerton MS 1312
Title:
ALBUM of Johann Veit Stoll, containing autograph inscriptions, dated at Altorf, in the years 1643-1651. In the original covers. [Bibl. Eg. 1,312.]
Scope & Content:
Includes: ff. 12b, 17. Canons, sc; 1644, 1648. (1) ‘Ubi deficit auxilium humanum‘ (2 voices in hypodiapason), by Joh. Andreas Herbst, Director of Music at Nuremberg, 1644. f. 12b; — (2) ‘Jesus, sola hæreditas‘ (3 voices — ‘alter in subdiapason ‘), by Joh. Sigismundus Hager, organist, of Nurembe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1643-1651
Extent:
1 volume

7. Egerton MS 2451

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Egerton MS 2451
Title:
A collection of motets, a madrigal, a requiem, and a capriccio
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-92, passim. Motets for several voices, with a figured bass for organ (unless the contrary is stated), in score; 19th cent. Apparently transcribed by Abbate F. Santini for Rev. E. Goddard, to whom the whole volume afterwards belonged. 1. ‘Benedictus‘ (for two choirs of 4 voices each). ‘Ales...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Egerton MS 2465

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Egerton MS 2465
Title:
A collection of harmonised melodies, and settings of the 'Te Deum', in the hand of Abbate Fortunato Santini
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-15. 'Octo melodæ octo modorum harmoniæ factæ, ut modulabantur sæculo vii ad præscriptum Adami de Fulda et Franchini Gaforij'; in the hand of Abbé Fortunato Santini, by whom they appear to have been collected, and in part harmonized, for his friend the Rev. Edward Goddard. They are set to t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
after 1840
Extent:
1 volume (27 folios)

9. Egerton MS 2468

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Egerton MS 2468
Title:
A collection of motets, fragments of masses, examples of harmony, a song and a miserere
Scope & Content:
ff. 3-46b, passim. Motets, etc., in score. Unless the contrary is stated, they are for 4 voices without accompaniment; 18th cent. 1, 2. Two settings (à 8 and 5, with figured basses) of ‘Beatus vir qui timet Dominum‘; each of them followed by a ‘Gloria Patri.’ Anonymous, ff. 3, 11. Nos. 3-6 (in a...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (64 folios)