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Music manuscripts from the Royal Music Library. c 1590 – 1903. The Royal Music Library was deposited on loan in the British Museum in March 1911 by George V, and presented outright on 27 November 1957 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. As well as about 1000 manuscripts, the collection contains...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Miscellaneous ‘Singing Music’; 19th century. A collection of 18 Victorian Songs, by various composers, many anonymous. All in score, with pianoforte accompaniment or as stated below. Paper. ff. 52. 1. ff. 1-2. Anon: ‘Victoria’; song. 2. ff. 3-4. Bortnyansky (D.S.): Com...
ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. V., S.L. Seis Piezas de Ayres Nacionales; 19th century. A set of 6 short works based on Spanish dance rhythms, scored for wind and percussion instruments only. [Only the first piece is attributed to S.L.V. though by implication the others may be by the same composer]. Pa...
Complimentary verses to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, on his matriculation at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1605
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Complimentary verses to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, on his matriculation at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1605 by (ff 2r-6r) Douglas Castillion and (ff 7r-11r) his pupil Richard Worseley (1st Bart. 1611). Both sets of verses in Greek, Latin, Italian, French and Spanish. Greek verses inc. (f ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Collection of psalms, sonnets, melodies, etc, in Spanish, composed by Pedro de Coster Vander Ven.
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'Cinquenta Psalmos del Psalterio. En Rima y Canto segun se cantan en las Iglezias Reformadas de Francia y Germania, compuestos en lengua castellana por Pedro de Coster Vander Ven, Natural d'Emberes [?Antwerp]. Dedicados al . . . Rey Don Jacobo, Rey de Ingalatierra'; with a long introduction in S...
Ynformacion de los tormentos y martiryos que en el Reyno de Xapon … padecieron los muy reverendos padres Fr Alonso de Navarete … y Fr Hernandon de Sant Joseph. Phillipps MS 8223. Sotheby's sale catalogue, 27-28 June 1966, lot 517 Creation dates: 1623
Ynformacion … de los Tormentos y Matyrios que padecieron en el Ymperio de Xapon … muchos Religiosos. Phillipps MS 8465. Sotheby's sale catalogue, 27-28 June 1966, lot 518 Creation dates: 1630