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101. Add MS 34182

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Title:
An oratorio, a chorus, and a composition for pianoforte, by Franz Liszt
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-105. 'Christus': Oratorio in three parts, for solo voices (Christus, Mary Magdalene, etc.), and choruses of from 4 to 10 voices (Disciples, Women of Jerusalem, etc.), with symphonies and accompaniments for flutes (piccolo, etc.), oboes, clarinets, horns (English, etc.), trumpets, trombones...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1863-1877
Extent:
1 volume

102. Add MS 34275

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Title:
Catalogue of the library of King James VI of Scotland, 1573-1583
Scope & Content:
Lists of books belonging to the library of King James VI of Scotland, c. 1573-1583. In the hand of Peter Young, (1544–1628), royal tutor and diplomat. With autograph notes and exercises by King James VI on the flyleaves. ff. 1v-2v: Notes by Peter Young, including classical extracts and commonpl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1573-c 1583
Extent:
1 volume

103. Add MS 35214

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:
A Book of Hours, probably made for a member of the court circle of France. The illumination is attributed to the ‘Master of Claude of France’, who was active in Tours around 1510–1525 and who is named after two manuscripts he produced for Queen Claude (b. 1499, d. 1524). Contents: ff. 1r-12v:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1510-1520
Extent:

A parchment codex

104. Add MS 35254 C

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Title:
Cutting from a Gradual (Sanctorale)
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a single cutting from a leaf originally part of a large choirbook, now Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Codice Corale 2. On the recto, the cutting comprises a very large historiated initial 'R' in gold and colours, within a border and on a gold background. Human heads...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1375
Extent:

Cutting from a parchment leaf

105. Add MS 35254 V

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Title:
Detached miniature from a Book of Hours ('The Hours of Louis XII')
Scope & Content:
This single leaf originally belonged to a Book of Hours, known as 'The Hours of Louis XII', after Louis XII (r. 1498-1515), King of France, for whom it was made. The recto contains a framed miniature of the Virgin of the Annunciation, praying with an open book on her knees. The verso contains th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1498
Extent:

1 leaf

106. Add MS 35286

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-238v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, imperfect, wanting many leaves. The Tales are arranged in the following order: ff. 1r-7v: The General Prologue, imperfect, wanting two leaves before and after f. 1 (A, ll. 1-153, 234-396). ff. 7v-28r: The Knight's Tale, imperfe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

107. Add MS 35318

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:
This Book of Hours, which features the Use of Rome, comes from a Parisian workshop called the 'Bellemare group', which was active c 1530 and responsible for the illuminations of at least ten other Books of Hours (see Orth, Renaissance Manuscripts (2015), II, no. 52). These manuscripts are closel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1530
Extent:

Parchment codex

108. Add MS 35324

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Title:
Drawings of funeral processions, 1557–1603
Scope & Content:
Drawings of funeral processions, mostly in Indian ink (opaque black); those of Lady Lumley and Elizabeth I are in colour. Originally in rolls, the drawings are now inlaid in cardboard. Volume XV of Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild's bequest to the British Museum. ff. 1r–6v: 'Funeral processions o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

109. Add MS 35830

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Title:
State letters and papers (Hardwick Papers vol. 482)
Scope & Content:
State letters and papers, principally the correspondence of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton (1515/16-1571), diplomat and member of parliament. He was appointed ambassador to France in May 1559, two months before the death of King Henry II, and his letters give detailed accounts of his interviews wit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1557-1561
Extent:
1 volume

110. Add MS 35831

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Title:
State letters and papers (Hardwicke Papers vol. 483)
Scope & Content:
State letters and papers including the correspondence of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, diplomat and Member of Parliament (1515/16-1571) during his time as Ambassador in France, 1561-1564. f. 1 Letter from Mary, Queen of Scots, to Queen Elizabeth I: as Queen Elizabeth I is not satisfied with her pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1562-1599
Extent:
1 volume

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