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1. Harley MS 7578

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7578
Title:
Middle English verse, including ballads by Chaucer and Lydgate; 'The Flyting of Montgomerie and Polwart' by Alexander Montgomerie; 'Nebuchadnezzar's Fierie Furnace'; the 'Annals of Oskell'; grammatical exercises in Latin and Greek; Old songs of Durham
Scope & Content:
Miscellany compiling pages from a number of other manuscripts, which vary greatly in size and period. Major sections within the miscellany are f. 1 (verse and prose on the Ten Commandments and Seven Deadly Sins), ff. 2-20 (various ballads and other verse, some by Chaucer and Lydgate), f. 21 (a s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1400-1700
Extent:

1 volume

2. Royal Appendix MS 58

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal Appendix MS 58
Title:
Collection of English vocal compositions, predominantly by anonymous authors.
Scope & Content:
Vocal compositions: one part only (except in no. 27), chiefly tenor. Unless the contrary is stated, they are anonymous. 1. 'A[h], the syghes that come fro my hert.' By W. Cornish. f. 1. 2. 'Though that she cannot Redresse.' f. 3b. 3. 'Colle to me the Rysshes greene.' f. 4. 4. 'Down bery down': a...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (60 folios)

3. Royal Appendix MS 74

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal Appendix MS 74
Title:
Collection of partially scored, and complete compositions, of sacred music, largely of English origin, composed, for instruments, and voice; including: for Bass-violin, Lute, and Strings, and also including Madrigals, Anthems, Metrical Psalms or Hymns, and Services.
Scope & Content:
Vol. I. ff. 53. Apparently written about 1547-1548, before the first Booke of the Common Prayer, 1549. In many cases the versions of the Psalms followed closely resemble those in the Prymer of 1544.Collection of partially scored, and complete compositions, of sacred music, largley of English or...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1547-1548
Extent:
1 of three volumes (53 folios) (Part book)

4. Royal Appendix MS 75

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal Appendix MS 75
Title:
Collection of partially scored, and complete compositions, of sacred music, largely of English origin, composed, for instruments, and voice; including: for Bass-violin, Lute, and Strings, and also including Madrigals, Anthems, Metrical Psalms or Hymns, and Services.
Scope & Content:
Vol. II. ff. 36. Apparently written about 1547-1548, before the first Booke of the Common Prayer, 1549. In many cases the versions of the Psalms followed closely resemble those in the Prymer of 1544. Collection of partially scored, and complete compositions, of sacred music, largley of English...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1547-1548
Extent:
1 of three volumes (36 folios) (Part book)

5. Royal Appendix MS 76

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal Appendix MS 76
Title:
Collection of partially scored, and complete compositions, of sacred music, largely of English origin, composed, for instruments, and voice; including: for Bass-violin, Lute, and Strings, and also including Madrigals, Anthems, Metrical Psalms or Hymns, and Services.
Scope & Content:
Vol. III. ff. 52. Apparently written about 1547-1548, before the first Booke of the Common Prayer, 1549. In many cases the versions of the Psalms followed closely resemble those in the Prymer of 1544. Collection of partially scored, and complete compositions, of sacred music, largley of Englis...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1547-1548
Extent:
1 of three volumes (52 folios) (Part book)

6. Sloane MS 1021

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1021
Title:
Commonplace book of Johannes Stobaeus, containing musical compositions and instructions for the lute
Scope & Content:
Commonplace book of Johannes Stobaeus (or Stobäus), Kapellmeister to the Elector of Brandenburg, compiled at Königsberg in and shortly before 1640. The book contains vocal and instrumental music, writings on music and drawings of instruments. Many of the pieces are probably Stobaeus's compositio...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1640
Extent:
1 volume

7. Sloane MS 2923

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2923
Title:
Personal collection of traveller Engelbert Kæmpfer relating to late 17th-century Persia, including dance music, and Russian travel diaries
Scope & Content:
Includes: ff. 3b-36, 101b-115. Compositions for Lute. The initials J. A. K. (appended to nos. 1, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 19, 28, 47, 50, 62 and 63) are supposed to be those of J. A. Kämpfer, no doubt a relation of Engelbert Kämpfer, the traveller, in whose hand most of the rest of the MS is. Detai...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Latin, and Russian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume (115 folios)

8. Sloane MS 3888

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3888
Title:
Volume of miscellaneous material relating to law and mathematics, with a commonplace book and musical compositions for lute
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 2-4 Joannes Mercerius, Professor of Jurisprudence at Bourges: Conciliator: 17th cent. ff. 5-9 Mathematics: Quædam de figuris mathematicis: 17th cent. ff. 10-21 Commonplace Books: : 17th cent. ff. 22 b-27 b, 30 b-42, passim Music: De musica: 17th cent. [f. 22b A short piece for Lut...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Stowe MS 389

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 389
Title:
Statutes from the first year of the reign of King Henry IV to the twelfth year of the reign of King Henry VI, with later musical additions
Scope & Content:
Statutes from 1 Hen. IV. to 12 Hen. VI., in chronological order. Under 2 Hen VI. is inserted a writ from the king to the sheriffs on the subject of purveyance. The collection concludes with the statute on purveyance, weights and measures, etc., reenacting several previous statutes, which is omit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century - 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (125 folios)

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