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1. MS Mus. 1

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1
Title:
Henry Purcell and Giovanni Battista Draghi: Keyboard music
Scope & Content:
The 'Purcell/Draghi keyboard manuscript' contains, on folios 1v-12, music by or arranged by Henry Purcell and in his autograph. Reversing the volume, folios 42-12v are by, and almost certainly in the hand of, Giovanni Battista Draghi. Folio 1r contains a musical setting of Draghi’s address in th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1690-1700
Extent:
1 volume (folios ii + 43)

2. MS Mus. 1591

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1591
Title:
My Ladye Nevells Booke
Scope & Content:
William Byrd (b. circa 1540, d.1623): ‘My Ladye Nevells Booke’, a collection of music for keyboard; 1591. In the hand of John Baldwin, with small, possibly autograph, corrections. Written in ink throughout, on six-line staves, in a calligraphic hand. The manuscript contains 42 numbered pieces fo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1591
Extent:
1 item

3. MS Mus. 1707

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1707
Title:
Claudio Monteverdi: letter to the Marchese Enzo Bentivoglio
Scope & Content:
Autograph. The letter, written from Venice, concerns aspects of the music for the festivities at the marriage of the Duke Odoardo Farnese to Margherita, second daughter of Cosimo II de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, in Parma the following year. Bentivoglio had commissioned Monteverdi to write t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
18 September 1627
Extent:

2 folios