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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4900
Title:: Banks collection. Vol. XLIV. Miscellaneous writings, ornamented with initials, portraits of saints, royal arms, etc., cut from a printed book.
Scope & Content:: The principal items are:- (1) Fragments of a transcript of a calendar (latest date 1537), for the months of May to October, giving the dates on which fairs are held in those months in various towns of England and Wales (Carmarthen). A few dates are also given in the lives of British sovereigns...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume (68 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4909
Title:
Scope & Content:: HAWKINS COLLECTION. Vol. I (ff. 106). Transcripts made for Dr. Johann Christoph Pepusch of the musical portions of Cotton MS. Tiberius B. ix; early 18th cent. Viz.:-Treatises:- (a) compiled by Robert de Handlo from Franco of Paris. ff. 1-11;- (b) by Egidius de Muris. ff. llb-17b;- (c) by Walter ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Early 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4910
Title:: Hawkins Collection. Vol. II. Miscellaneous works relating to music.
Scope & Content:: Includes extracts from (a) Dethlevus Cluverus. ff. 1-10;- (b) John Birchensha (collected, as well as artt. c-e, by Silas Domville al. Taylor, apparently for Viscount Brouncker). ff. 39-40;- (c) — Allison of Covent Garden. f. 42;- (d) Matthew Lock. ff. 43-44, 60;- (e) Christopher Simpson. f. 52;-...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 volume (87 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4911
Title:: 'The Art of Music collecit out of all Ancient Doctouris of Music' by a Scotsman; after 1517.
Scope & Content:: HAWKINS COLLECTION. Vol. III (ff. 129). Belonged to Sir Francis Kinaston in 1635.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: after 1517
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4912
Title:
Scope & Content:: HAWKINS COLLECTION. Vol. IV (ff. 160). Transcript made for Dr. Pepusch of the greater part of the musical treatises in the Waltham Abbey MS. (i.e. Lansdowne MS. 763), which was written by John Wylde circa 1460; early 18th cent. Latin and English. The names of the writers are given in the Index o...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Early 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4913
Title:
Scope & Content:: HAWKINS COLLECTION. Vol. V (ff. 70). 'Theorica Musicae Franchini Gafuri Laudensis'; early 16th cent. MS. copy, with annotations in a later hand, of the 2nd edition (1492) of the work by Franchino Gaforio. Franchino Gafori, writer on music: 'Theorica musice': 1492: Copy, 16th cent. (with notes).
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4914
Title:: Hawkins Collection. Vol. VI. 'Brevis Musicae Isagoge', by Johann Fries of Zurich
Scope & Content:: Settings of works by classical authors, for 4 equal voices, scored from 1555. From the printed edition, the dedication of which is dated 1554, it appears that only one of the parts (retained from the original edition of 1550) was by Frisius himself, the other three being added by his friend Hen...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume (15 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4915
Title:
Scope & Content:: HAWKINS COLLECTION. Vol. VII (ff. 59). Musical treatises by Guido d'Arezzo, Odo of Cluny and Berno, Abbot of Reichenau; 18th cent. copies. Latin. Guido d'Arezzo: Musical treatises by: 11th cent.: Copies, 18th cent. includes: ff. 33b-45 Saint Odo, d 943, Abbot of Cluny: 'Explanatio Artis Mus...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4916
Title:
Scope & Content:: HAWKINS COLLECTION. Vol. VIII (ff. 31). Quotations from the 'Deipnosophistae' of Athenaeus, concerning ancient musical instruments; 18th cent. Latin. Athenaeus, of Naucratis: Extracts rel. to musical instruments, from his 'Deipnosophistae': 18th cent.: Lat.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4917
Title:
Scope & Content:: HAWKINS COLLECTION. Vol. IX (ff. 63). 'Observations concerning Musick made ... 1705 or -06 ... by the Reverend Mr. [Arthur] Bedford, Chaplain to the Haberdasher's Hospital at Hoxton, near London'. Belonged, early 18th cent., to the Rev. Edward de Chair, minor canon of St. Paul's Cathedral. Arth...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1705-1706
Extent:: 1 item

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