TALES and poems in Polish, viz.: "The Fiddler and the Beggarwoman; Ladislaus and Helena; and an Elegy on the Death of an Infant, by Leo Rymarkiewicz. Printed in 1852." Paper. Quarto. Presented by Lieut. Alexander Radwan Rypinski.
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Tales: Tales in Polish: 19th cent. Leo Rymarkiewicz: Poems and tales: 19th cent.: Polish. Literature of Poland: Poems and tales: 1852.
"JERUSALEM Wyzwolona" a translation of the "Gierusalemme Liberata " of Torquato Tasso, into Polish verse, by Dyonizy Corwin-Piotrowski. Paper; ff. 303. XIXth cent. Small Octavo. Presented by Mrs. J. Corwin-Piotrowska.
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Torquato Tasso, poet: Polish translation of his "Gierusalemme Liberata": 19th cent. Dyonizy Corwin - Piotrowski: Translation of the "Gierusalemme Liberata" of Tasso: 19th cent.: Polish: verse.
Original letters of musicians, arranged as in the preceding volume. Among them are letters of:- Dr. Thomas Augustus Arne, Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, Dr. William Boyce, Orlando Gibbons, Henry Lawes, Matthew Locke, André Ernest Modeste Grétry, Hector Berlioz, François Adrien Boieldieu, François Gounod, Étienne Henri Méhul, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, George Frederic Handel, Joseph Haydn, Franz Liszt, Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Robert Alexander Schumann, Louis Spoh...
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includes: f. 1 E- T- Allan, husband of Mad. Caradori-Allan: Letter to P. F. Laporte: 1834. ff. 1, 372 Pierre François Laporte, actor and impresario: Letters to him: 1832-1841.: Fr. f. 3 Thomas Augustine Arne, composer: Letter to G. Woodfall: n.d. f. 3 George Woodfall, Printer: Letter to, from D...
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Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Polish, and Swedish
The New Testament, translated into Lithuanian by Samuel Boguslav Chylinski.
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Contents: ff. 1-3, 218-225: Notes in Lithuanian, Polish, Latin, Hebrew and Frisian. ff. 4r-217v: The New Testament, an autograph copy of the Lithuanian translation, by Samuel Bogusla Chylinski. Part of the 'Chylinski Bible' or 'London Bible'. The title of the work in Latin on f. 2r: 'Version...
MIDDLETON PAPERS, consisting mainly of the official correspondence of Charles Middleton, 2nd Earl of Middleton, Secretary of State from 1684 till the flight of James II, with a few earlier papers of previous Secretaries of State, 1660-Nov. 1688 and n.d.
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Cf. Brit. Mus. Quart., iv, 1929-1930, pp. 80-82. A number of letters are addressed to his secretary, Dr Owen Wynne (see above), whose family inherited the papers and added the later, mostly 18th cent., collections, Add. MSS. 41843-41845. The final volume (Add. MS. 41846) consists of the papers o...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish
MIDDLETON PAPERS. Vol. XL (ff. 25I). Miscellaneous correspondence and papers, viz.:- (1) Letters to Hugh Hughes, secretary to Sir George Etherege at Ratisbon, chiefly relating to the war in Hungary, 1686-1688. The writers are:-(a) Jacob Richards at Vienna, 25 Apr. 1686. f. 1;-(b) Wil[liam] Les...
Contents include:-(1) Three deeds relating to Writtle and Roxwell, etc., co. Essex, 1539-1599. Formerly with Add. Ch. 7111O- 71205. ff. 1-3;-(2) Correspondence, etc., of the Dukes of Saxony, 5 Sept. 1668-7 Oct. 1823, including one letter of the Empress Maria Theresa, 8 Jan. 1756. German. Signed,...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Flemish, French, German, Latin, Polish, and Russian
Correspondence and papers concerning estates and private and official matters of the Perceval family, originally of Weston-in-Gordano, Somerset, but later of co. Cork, Earls of Egmont, Barons Arden, etc., also of the allied family of Southwell, of Kinsale, co. Cork, together with heraldic and ge...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Polish