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CHRONICLE OF THE CID: Crónica Rimada. Reproduced in facsimile, from the Manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale, by Archer M. Huntington. Collotype reproduction (28 pages) of the 15th cent. copy of this chronicle of early Spanish history written on ff. 188-201 verso of MS. espagnol 12, formerly...
ASTROLOGY: Lapidario del Rey D. Alfonso X [of Castile and Leon (d. 1284)]. Códice Original. Photochromolithographic reproduction of the late 13th cent. MS. N. I. 15, 16 in the Library of the Escurial. The work, written 1276-1279, in Spanish, describes 360 stones, grouped in twelve series accordi...
Rome, Casanatense Library MS 4182. Commentary volume only by José M. López Piñero and Filipe Jerez Moliner, edited by Mónica Miró and Chritina Ortuña. M Moleiro Editor, Bracelona 199. Complete facsimile not acquired. Incorporated April 2001.
Francis Chagrin Collection: Music manuscripts and papers of the composer, conductor and administrator Francis Chagrin (1905-1972)
Scope & Content:
All music manuscripts are autograph full scores for orchestra, written in pencil, except where otherwise stated. Manuscripts are arranged chronologically within each section where a date can be established, then alphabetically for undated pieces. Dates of recording, where cited, are descibed as ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Flemish, French, French, Old, German, Latin, Romanian, and Spanish
MS Mus. 67. CHAGRIN COLLECTION. Vol. lxvi. Miscellaneous papers; 1934-5, 1952-71. ff. 162. Largest size 328 x 248mm. 1. ff. 1-46. Notes for talks and lectures by Chagrin; circa 1952-71. 2. ff. 47-162. Notes from Nadia Boulanger’s music history classes; 1934-5. Typewritten résumés and copies o...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Flemish, French, French, Old, German, Latin, and Spanish
MSS Mus. 326-673. Music manuscripts, correspondence and papers of the composer, pianist and teacher Alan Dudley Bush (b.1900, d.1995); 1924-91. Autograph unless stated otherwise. English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Xhosa and Zulu. Most scores are not dated,...
MSS Mus. 425, 426. Alan Bush Collection. Vols c, ci. Songs for voice and piano; [1929-81]. The score of ‘Cradle Song for an Unwanted Child’ (words, Randall Swingler), arranged for solo voice and piano, is Add. 52464 B, ff. 3-7. Two volumes.
MS Mus. 426. Alan Bush Collection. Vol. ci. Songs for voice and piano; [1958-61, 1974-77]. ff. 99. 367 x 274mm. 1. ff. 1-32. ‘Life’s Span’ (words, Nancy Bush and Cecil Day Lewis), four songs for mezzo-soprano and piano, op.77 [listed as op.79]; [1958, 1961, 1974]. The first two songs were orig...