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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
Luigi Boccherini: Thematic catalogue of 58 works ceded to the publisher Ignace Pleyel, with notarial certificate; Madrid, 14 November 1796
Scope & Content:
Autograph. Written in ink; on paper with legal stamps, showing the seal of Charles IV and the year, at the top of ff. 1r and 2v. As follows: f. 1r and v. Thematic catalogne, headed ‘Catalogo delle opere da me Luigi Boccherini cedute in tutta Proprietá al Sig[no]r Ignazio Pleyel’ (f. 1r), with,...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXCII. Lope de Vega: play 'La Corona de Ungria y la Injusta Venganza'; 1633 (see f. 54v). Fair copy, with revisions. Spanish. The licence to perform the play has been added at the end (f. 55). See Obras de Lope de Vega, Real Academia Española, vol. 2 (Madrid, 1916),...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CCI. Miguel de Cervantes: El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote De La Mancha (Madrid: Por Iuan de la Cuesta; vendese en casa de Francisco de Robles, 1605). Printed. Including the Privilege dated 26 Sept. and the Tassa dated 20 Dec. 1604, together with the Privilege for P...
