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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 32377
Title:: Collection of In nomines, etc., without words, followed (at f. 26) by sacred compositions in parts, and (at f. 78) by three Italian songs; by English composers of the 16th century.
Scope & Content:: ff. 2-25b passim, 75b, 76. Single parts (? for treble viol) of the following 5-part compositions.1. Piece ['Browning . . . The leaves be green'], wanting the beginning. 'Byrd.' f. 2. 2. Piece unnamed. Anonymous, ib. 3. 'Preludium.' 'Byrd.' ib. 4. 'Le Bergyre.' Anonymous. f. 5b. 5. 'Non vy dette....
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1584
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 32454
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r-v: Pen-trials and ownership inscriptions. ff. 2r-7v: Calendar, Use of Paris, in French. f. 8r-v: The first leaf of the Hours of the Cross, misplaced. ff. 9r-12r: Gospel Readings. ff. 12r-14v: 'Obsecro te'. ff. 14v-16v: 'O intemerata'. ff. 17r-58r: Hours of the Virgi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c. 1410-c. 1415
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34113
Title:: Compilation of treatises on natural philosophy and mechanics, and numerous mechanical designs.
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a compilation of treatises on natural philosophy and mechanics along with numerous mechanical designs, principally selections from the works De ingeneis (1433) and De machinis (1449) by the Sienese engineer Mariano Taccola (b. c. 1382, d. c. 1458), and the Codicetto (?14...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half 15th century-1st quarter 17th century
Extent:: A paper codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34191
Title:: A collection of parts of masses and motets, as well as portions of services
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-16b. Tenor part of Masses by English composers, consisting of the 'Gloria in Excelsis,’ ‘Credo,’ ‘Sanctus,’ and ‘Agnus Dei.’ The notes employed are either diamond-shaped or quasi-square, on a 5-line stave. 1. ‘Spes nostra.’ ‘Robard Joonys.’ Imperfect at the beginning, f. 1. 2. ‘Veni, Sanct...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: [1509-1547]
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34294
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome (the 'Sforza Hours')
Scope & Content:: The Book of Hours, known as the 'Sforza Hours' is now divided into four volumes (Add. MS 34294, 1-4), which are foliated continuously: volume 1, ff. 1-40; volume 2, ff. 41-166; volume 3, ff. 167-250; and volume 4, ff. 251-348; with three detached leaves stored separately (Add. MS 45722, Add. MS ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1490-1521
Extent:: 4 parchment volumes.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34294, ff 1r-40v
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome (the 'Sforza Hours'), volume 1
Scope & Content:: The first volume of the book of hours, known as the 'Sforza Hours' including: ff. 1r-12v: Excerpts from the Gospels. ff. 13r-27v: Hours of the Holy Cross. ff. 29r-40r: Hours of the Holy Spirit. Decoration: 6 miniatures at the beginning of the Gospel excerpts and the Hours, executed in two ca...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1490-1521
Extent:: 40 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34294, ff 41r-166r
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome (the 'Sforza Hours'), volume 2
Scope & Content:: The second volume of the book of hours, known as the 'Sforza Hours' including: ff. 41v-136r: Hours of the Virgin. ff. 137r-166r: Lessons of the Passion (Luke 22:50-23:53). Decoration: 18 miniatures at the beginning of each canonical hour in the Hours of the Virgin, and various lessons and pr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1490-1521
Extent:: 126 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34294, ff 167r-250r
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome (the 'Sforza Hours'), volume 3
Scope & Content:: The third volume of the book of hours known as the Sforza Hours including: ff. f. 167v-169v: Seven Prayers of St Gregory. ff. 170r-177r: Prayer to the Virgin 'Obsecro te'. ff. 177v-186r: Prayer to the Virgin 'O intemerata'. ff. 186r-212r: Suffrages. ff. 213r-235v: Seven Penitential Psalms. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1490-1521
Extent:: 84 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34294, ff 251r-348v
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome (the 'Sforza Hours'), volume 4
Scope & Content:: The fourth volume of the book of hours, known as the Sforza Hours including: ff. 251r-257r: Litany, continuation from volume 3. ff. 258r-342v: Office of the Dead. ff. 343r-348v: Prayer to the name of Jesus, 'Oratio de Nomine Iesu ex Paulinis Epistolis congesta': a probably Spanish addition of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1490-1521
Extent:: 98 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34888
Title:: Paston Letters and Papers
Scope & Content:: The first of two volumes in this series of letters and papers of the Paston family (Additional MSS 34888 and 34889), corresponding to Fenn, Paston Letters (1787-1823), vol. III. The label on the spine is 'Correspondence of the Family of Paston, Vol. I., 1425-1463'. (Numbers in brackets refer to...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: A collection of letters and papers bound together, 221 folios

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