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161. Add MS 54324

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Title:
Three bifolia of polyphonic music
Scope & Content:
POLYPHONIC MUSIC: three bifolia of polyphonic music, being fragments from a lost manuscript; mid-late 15th cent. Latin text. The fragments contain unique material, including works by Dunstable and Plummer. Five line staves. Numbers of stave to page as follows: 12 (ff. 1, 5); 11 (ff. 1v-2, 3v-4, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century-Late 15th century
Extent:

3 bifolia

162. Add MS 59899

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Title:
Household book of Henry VII for the years 1502-1505
Scope & Content:
A household book for the court of Henry VII (b. 1457, d. 1509), including lists of monthly loans, revenues, bonds, obligations, taxes, rents and memorandi for the years 1502-1505 written by John Heron (b. 1470, d. 1522), Treasurer of the Chamber, sometimes signed by the king himself. Contents:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1502-1505
Extent:

1 volume

163. Add MS 59900

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Title:
Household book of Henry VIII for the years 1543-1544
Scope & Content:
A household book for the court of Henry VIII (b. 1491, d. 1547), including monthly receipts and payments for the period of October 1543 until October 1544, and the rewards given at the beginning of the year 1544 to the royal household, donors, noblemen and clergy. Contents: ff. 1r-32r: Monthly...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1543-1544
Extent:

1 volume

164. Add MS 60609

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'War Requiem', op. 66 (short score)
Scope & Content:
Autograph music manuscript, in pencil, signed by Britten (f. 2) and dated by him: 'Aldeburgh Dec. 20th 1961' (f. 68). The volume comprises the complete composition, together with additional discarded draft material, as follows: half title (f. 1); epigraph, drawn from Wilfred Owen (f. 1v); title...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1961-1979
Extent:
1 volume (102 folios)

165. Add MS 60610

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'War Requiem', op. 66 (full score)
Scope & Content:
Partially autograph music manuscript, in pencil and in black ink, including the hands of two copyists (Imogen Holst and Rosamund Strode) - see Philip Reed, in Mervyn Cooke, Britten: 'War Requiem' (1996), p. 46. Dated (Holst's hand): 'Aldeburgh, December 20th 1961' (f. 137), and annotated (in th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1961
Extent:
1 volume (137 folios)

166. Add MS 60629

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Title:
Psalter
Scope & Content:
Illuminated Psalter with a Calendar, Canticles and Litanies for the use of nuns, as suggested by the petition (f. 169r) and a collect (f. 170r) for ‘nos famulas tuas’. The inclusion of a litany of St Clara, canonised in 1255, dates it to the second half of the 13th century. Originally, decorat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

167. Add MS 61822

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Title:
William Briton's miscellany of Tudor prose and verse, including Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella
Scope & Content:
A largely autograph miscellany of Tudor prose and verse, which belonged to William Briton (1564–c. 1636) of Kelston, Somerset. The manuscript began life as a household account-book (ff. 116v–120r) of his father, John Briton or Bryton (d. circa 1586). It consists mainly of entries made by William...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1564-c 1654
Extent:
1 volume

168. Add MS 62135

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Title:
WYATT PAPERS. Vol. I. A collection of documents by and relating to members of the Wyatt family, [1496?]-early 18th cent., compiled by Richard Wyatt (d. 1753); 1727. Partly copies. Partly Latin. Chiefly by and concerning Sir Henry Wyatt (d. 1537), Sir Thomas Wyatt the elder (1503-1543), Sir Thomas Wyatt the younger (1520-1554), George Wyatt (1554-1624) and Sir Francis Wyatt (d. 1644).
Scope & Content:
WYATT PAPERS. Vol. I. A collection of documents by and relating to members of the Wyatt family, [1496?]-early 18th cent., compiled by Richard Wyatt (d. 1753); 1727. Partly copies. Partly Latin. Chiefly by and concerning Sir Henry Wyatt (d. 1537), Sir Thomas Wyatt the elder (1503-1543), Sir Thoma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1495-1799
Extent:
1 volume in two parts

169. Add MS 70001

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Title:
Papers of Sir Robert Harley of Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire, 1604-1630
Scope & Content:
This volume is largely composed of the papers of Sir Robert Harley (bap. 1579, d. 1656) of Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire, 1604-1630. However, it opens with a letter to his father Thomas Harley (c. 1543-1631) and with copies of a letter of the divine Samuel Ward (1603). It seems probable that the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1582-1630
Extent:
1 volume

170. Add MS 70517

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Title:
Folding calendar
Scope & Content:
Recto: A sequence of seasons and months of year; a table of Latin numerals i-xxx. Verso: A perpetual calendar with saints' days; calculations of the number of years since biblical events, ending with 1412 years since the birth of Christ. Decoration: Miniatures in colours: the labours of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
? 1412
Extent:
1 folded calendar

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