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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 5319-5337

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Add MS 5319-5337
Title:
Manuscript music presented by Sir John Hawkins
Scope & Content:
A collection of manuscript music formerly owned by Sir John Hawkins, chiefly copied by Mr. John Stanley
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
19 volumes

3. Add MS 10338

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Add MS 10338
Title:
A collection of anthems, songs, duets, trios, services, cantatas, motets, and other pieces, in the hand of George Jeffreys
Scope & Content:
ff. 4-13. 'Fantazies,' or Fancies, for strings and organ, in score, by George Jeffreys. 1-6. Six 'of 3 Parts for the Violls and the Virginall.' Autograph. In the 5th Fantasia, a few notes have been added to the virginal part to make it suitable for playing on the organ. f. 4. 7. Another 'of 2 pa...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
after 1669
Extent:
1 volume

4. 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

5. Add MS 11608

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Add MS 11608
Title:
A collection of songs, motets, duets, canons, anthems and part-songs
Scope & Content:
passim. Duets and dialogues, the latter with a bass, in score. 1. Dialogue (Strephon and Daphne), begins 'Come, my Daphne.' 'William Lawes.' f. 2. 2. Another (treble and bass), begins 'What if I dye.' By the same, f. 7b. 3. 'Come, Cloris; hye wee to ye Bower.' 'Henry Lawes.' f. 8b. 4. Dialogue (...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1656-1659
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 14396

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Add MS 14396
Title:
A collection of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Xaver Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn and Sigismond Neukomm.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-13v. Franz Xaver Mozart: "Ich bin der erste Buffo", op. 13. Aria, with symphonies and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, horns, clarinets, drums, and strings, in score, composed in 1808 for a private performance of his father's "Der Schauspieldirektor." Autograph. It was written for the com...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:

1 volume

7. Add MS 24215

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Add MS 24215
Title:
Original letters of Italian litterati and artists, 1474-1845
Scope & Content:
The writers are: Luigi Pulci; Florence, 7 June, 1474, f. 1. Jouianus Crassus; n.d. Lat. Partly verse. f. 2. Agnolo Politiano; 6 Apr. 1485, f. 3. Hermolaus Barbarus [afterwards Patriarch of Aquileia]; Milan, 9 kal. Nov. [24 Oct.] 1488. Lat. Copy. f. 4. Joannes Sabadinus de Arientis; Bologna, 10,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1474-1845
Extent:
1 volume

8. Add MS 28325

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Add MS 28325
Title:
A collection of Latin and French plays, including some set to music
Scope & Content:
Plays acted apparently at the College of Toul, on the Moselle, and at Aosta. 1. "Hormisdas Tragedia," in five acts with arguments; dedicated to Thomas of Savoy [Prince de Carignan]. Latin; with entractes in French. f. 1. 2. "Action touchant la misere d'vne Ame Dainnée," f. 33. 3. "Eustache,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1634-c 1648
Extent:
1 volume

9. Add MS 29386

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Add MS 29386
Title:
A collection of catches, canons, songs, vocal trios, excerpts from oratorios, excerpts from operas, and a duet
Scope & Content:
passim. Catches, Rounds, etc., for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in score. Most of them are in the hand of Edmund T. Warren Home; some of them, beginning with no. 4, were 'corrected [in] 1756.' 1. 'Tobacco is but a vapor' (à 4). 'Ed. Nelham.' f. 5. 2. 'Hey ho, what shall I say' (à 9)...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1762?
Extent:
1 volume

10. Add MS 29396

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Add MS 29396
Title:
A collection, mostly of English songs
Scope & Content:
passim. Songs, with a bass (unless the contrary is stated), for harpsichord, in score. Those marked with an asterisk appear for the first time in Playford's , 1652. Almost the whole of the MS is in the hand of Edward Lowe, organist of the Chapel Royal (1661-1682), who added the bass to some of t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1678?-1682?
Extent:
1 volume