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Aristophanes, with hypotheses, marginal scholia and interlinear glosses
Scope & Content:
Aristophanes, Plutus (TLG 0019.029), ff 2r-76v, with interlinear glosses partly in Latin, followed by Nubes (TLG 0019.021), ff 77r-171r, and preceded by Vita Thomana 1 (TLG 4158.009), ff 1r-v.
Contents: f. 1r: Modern note on the removal of a leaf, pastedown. f. 3r: Erased ownership inscription. f. 3v: Ownership inscriptions and summary of the volume’s contents, 15th and 18th century, Latin and English. ff. 4r-9v: Calendar, Latin. ff. 10r-45v: Book of Hours. ff. 46r-163r: Wycliff...
Collection of papers removed from Yates Thompson MSS
Scope & Content:
A collection of modern papers removed from other Yates Thompson MSS. Contents: [ir-iir]: Table of contents. ff. 1r-3r: A 1453 bond by Jean, Bastard of Orleans, count of Dunois and of Longueville, to Bertrand de Beauvais, for 200 crowns, with a 1469 and notarial certificate of receipt (ff. 1r-...
Stefan Zweig Collection: Music, literary and historical manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Comprising items collected by Stefan Zweig and by his immediate heirs, with a number presented to Zweig by the writers. All manuscripts are autograph unless otherwise stated. A number of the music manuscripts from the collection were formerly placed on loan in the British Library, the Mozart man...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish
Joseph Haydn: Piano trio in E flat minor (Hob. XV:31)
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. In two movements, as follows: ff. 1v-5r. ‘Andante’; instrumental lines marked ‘Violino’, ‘Cembalo o p:f:’ and ‘Violoncello’ (f. 1v). Headed ‘In Nomine Domini’ and ‘di me giuseppe Haydn m[anu] p[ro]pria / 795 [line over]’ on f. 1v. ff...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Three- and four-part canons for voices, ‘Difficile lectu mihi Mars’ (K559) and ‘O du eselhafter Peierl’ (K559a)
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink on either side of a single leaf. Each comprising a single vocal line in the soprano clef. Annotations include, in the right margin of the recto, ‘Originalhandschrift von Mozart’, in an unidentified hand. K559 is entered in Mozart’s own Verzeichnüss (Zweig MS 63) with ...
Franz Schubert: Dance (‘Deutscher’) in A flat for piano (D 365, no. 2), with the beginning of Evangelium Johannis 6 (D 607)
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written on recto and verso of a single leaf, as follows: f. 1r. Evangelium Johannis 6, vers. 55-58 (text in German from St. John’s Gospel in Luther’s translation), for voice with figured bass accompaniment; [1818]. Bars 1-33 only. Written in ink, on systems of two staves. Headed ‘Evan...
Gaspare Spontini: Credo in G for two voices and obbligato solo organ
Scope & Content:
Autograph score. Written in ink on systems of four staves. Title on f. 1r: ‘Credo a / Due Voci con / L’organo solo obbligato / Di / Gaspare Spontini’, with, also in the composer’s hand at top right, ‘Originale’. Scored for organ (written on the single uppermost stave), Canto (in soprano clef), A...
