SOUTHGATE COLLECTION, Vols. I-V. Fancies, In nomines, and pavans, for 5 and 6 viols, in parts, by composers of the reign of James 1, a collection said to have been made by John Jenkins for the L'Estrange family, of Hunstanton, co. Norf. In five volumes (quintus, medius, contra-tenor, tenor, and bassus), wanting a 6th part (1st or 2nd bass). The MS. was carefully collated at the time of transcription with numerous contemporary part-books and scores, the names of whose owners are given among t...
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John Jenkins, composer: Said to have compiled: tempp. Jas. I-Chas. I. John Barnard, Minor Canon of St. Paul's: References to scores bel. to.
C. G. LELAND COLLECTION, Vols. VIII, IX. " Gypsy Stories," followed (39560, f. 173) by "Turkish Gypsy Tales": unpublished works by Charles G. Leland, with his own illustrations, prepared for the press. The author refers to this work in a letter of 12 Dec. 1887, published by E. R. Pennell in C. G. Leland, ii, p. 296. For a similar volume see Add. MS. 37171. Paper; ff. 262, 212. Quarto.
PARHAM MSS. XLIII-XLVI. For previous descriptions of these MSS. see Curzon Cat., pp. 31-33; Th. Uspenski, "o nekoto rikh slavyanskikh rukopisyakh khranyashchikhsya v Londone i Oksphorde" in "zhurnal minist. narod. prosveshcheniya", 1878, "chast" cxcix ; P. T. Gudev in "sbornik za narodni umotvoreniya", vols. vii and viii, Sofia, 1892; and P. A. Syrku in the "sbornik" of the Russian Academy, vol. 84, 1908 ; while 39627 has been elaborately treated, chiefly from a linguistic standpoint, by R. ...
MERRIMAN PEDIGREES. Vols. I, II (ff. i + 181, i + 91). General introduction, notices and pedigrees of various branches and members of the merriman family, including branches in Marlborough and Kensington, and a list of sources from whence the collection has been compiled.
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Merriman family: Pedigrees of, and collections rel. to: 20th cent.