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241. Add MS 29996

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Title:
Motets, madrigals, fancies, by Thomas Tomkins and others, interspersed with political verses and satires, recipes etc.
Scope & Content:
Motets, madrigals, fancies, etc., annotated throughout by Thomas Tomkins, with some of his own compositions. The composers named are - Kyrton, ff. 6, 7 b. John Redford, ff. 6 b, 11, 17, 22 b, 36, 37, 40 b, 42 b. Richard Wynslate, f. 20. - Avere [Avory], f. 25. Philip Apprys [Price], of St. Paul'...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:

1 volume

242. Add MS 30024

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Add MS 30024
Title:
Brunetto Latini, Li livres dou tresor
Scope & Content:
Contents: Brunetto Latini, Li livres dou tresor, composed in 1260: ff. 3r-8v: Table of chapters, with seven sections marked by rubrics; ff. 8v-91r : Book 1, La Naissance de Toutes Choses, a universal history of the world, in three sections (two leaves after f. 48, two leaves after f. 63 and t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1260-1299
Extent:

A parchment codex

243. Add MS 30387

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Title:
Dance and other music in lute notation, composed by Silvio Leopold Weis and Sigismund Weis, of Prague, in 1717-1724
Scope & Content:
Passim. Collection of solos for Lute. 1717-1724. The 'Weis' whose name is put to so many of them is probably Sylvius Leopold Weiss, but a few may be by his brother Sigismund, who was also a lutist, and by whom there is a composition on f. 33b. Probably other pieces besides those ascribed to them...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1717-1724
Extent:

1 volume (159 folios)

244. Add MS 30485

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Add MS 30485
Title:
Pavans, galliards and songs for the virginals by William Bird, Thomas Tallis, James Harding, Thomas Weelkes, Dr. John Bull and others; taken principally from Lady Nevill's virginal book.
Scope & Content:
'Extracts from Virginal Book— Lady Nevill's' (so described in an 18th-century hand, on the remains of what appears to be the original vellum cover), containing a few pieces from that collection, of which the original is in the possession of the Marquis of Abergavenny. Written on two staves of 6 ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:

1 volume (119 folios)

245. Add MS 30513

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Title:
The Mulliner Book: a collection of music for the virginals
Scope & Content:
A collection of music for virginals, with one short piece for four voices, and nine pieces for cittern, probably all in the hand of Thomas Mullliner, master of St Paul's choir. On ff. 2, 8, 51, 110, 116 are memoranda by John Stafford Smith, organist of the Chapel Royal, about 1800. f. 1b. 'The...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
[between 1545-1570]
Extent:

1 volume (129 folios)

246. Add MS 31031

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Add MS 31031
Title:
Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob (part 1, books 1-5)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-145v: Gregory I (b. c 540, d. 604), Moralia in Iob (Commentary on Job), part 1, books 1-5, beginning with the dedicatory epistle to Leander: 'Reverendissimo et sanctissimo fratri Leandro coepiscopo Gregorius servus servorum Dei. Dudum te frater beatissime in Constantinopolitana...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 8th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

247. Add MS 31922

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Add MS 31922
Title:
A collection of songs, ballads, and instrumental pieces, composed early in the reign of Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
passim. Compositions for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in parts, apparently written early in the reign of Henry VIII (see for 1882-1887, p. 7). {Severeal published by the Roxburghe Club in 1912} {See J. E. Stevens 'Rounds and Canons from an early Tudor Song Book', Music and Letters,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (129 folios)

248. Add MS 31992

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Add MS 31992
Title:
A collection of miserere, anthems, motets and madrigals, in Italian lute notation
Scope & Content:
A collection, similar to Add MSS 29246, 29247, in Italian tablature; Probably after 1611 (date of latest known published compositions). In the first part of the MS. (ff. 3-55) nos. 1 to 81, and a few others named below, are by William Byrd, those marked with an asterisk, from Psalms, Sonets, and...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume (99 folios)

249. Add MS 32058

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Add MS 32058
Title:
Cuttings and leaves from illuminated manuscripts, including the Teutonic Knights Bible
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of a series of cuttings from liturgical manuscripts and leaves from two Latin Bibles bound together, one known as the Teutonic Knights Bible. Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Seven cuttings with historiated initials from Italian manuscripts. ff. 5r-8v: Four leaves from a Bible in L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

250. Add MS 32246

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Add MS 32246
Title:
Fragment of Excerptiones de Prisciano with the 'Elegy of Herbert and Wulfgar', glossaries, and Ælfric's Colloquy
Scope & Content:
The main text of this manuscript is a fragment of Excerptiones de Prisciano, copied in the first decade of the eleventh century, probably at Abingdon; the rest of the manuscript is now in Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, MS 16.2 (formerly MS 47). Förster has reconstructed what the original colla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of 11th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

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