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1. Add MS 4900

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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)

2. Add MS 5044

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Title:
A collection of sacred compositions by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Scope & Content:
1. ‘Laudate, pueri.’ A motet, with ‘Gloria Patri,’ for 5 voices, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings, and a figured bass for organ, in score, by G. B. Pergolesi; before 1760. It also has oboes and trumpets. f. 2. 2. ‘Confitebor.’ A motet, with ‘Gloria Patri,’ for 5 voices, with symph...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
before 1760
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 5321

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Title:
Songs and cantatas, in score, by George Frideric Handel
Scope & Content:
1. 'Acis and Galatea'; serenata for solo voices and 5-part chorus (the 3 middle parts assigned in the 1st chorus to alto and 2 tenors, in the others to 3 tenors), with symphonies and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, and strings, in score. The aria, 'Consider, fond shepherd' (at f. 67), is here ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 6146

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Add MS 6146
Title:
Volume I of a collection of French 'Airs', in parts
Scope & Content:
'Airs,' with a bass (occasionally figured) for harpsichord, in score, and separate parts for 2 violins and a quintus (tenor), by Jean Jacques Rousseau, dedicated to the Comtesse d'Egmont, about 1770-1771 (see Albert Jansen's , p. 415). Holograph. All published in , 1781. Prefixed is a dedication...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1770
Extent:

1 volume (35 folios)

5. Add MS 6147

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Title:
Volume II of a collection of French 'Airs', in parts
Scope & Content:
'Airs,' with a bass (occasionally figured) for harpsichord, in score, and separate parts for 2 violins and a quintus (tenor), by Jean Jacques Rousseau, dedicated to the Comtesse d'Egmont, about 1770-1771 (see Albert Jansen's , p. 415). Holograph. All published in , 1781. This volume contains th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1770
Extent:

1 volume (16 folios)

6. Add MS 6148

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Title:
Volume III of a collection of French 'Airs', in parts
Scope & Content:
'Airs,' with a bass (occasionally figured) for harpsichord, in score, and separate parts for 2 violins and a quintus (tenor), by Jean Jacques Rousseau, dedicated to the Comtesse d'Egmont, about 1770-1771 (see Albert Jansen's , p. 415). Holograph. All published in , 1781. This volume contains th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1770
Extent:

1 volume (16 folios)

7. Add MS 6149

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Add MS 6149
Title:
Volume IV of a collection of French 'Airs', in parts
Scope & Content:
'Airs,' with a bass (occasionally figured) for harpsichord, in score, and separate parts for 2 violins and a quintus (tenor), by Jean Jacques Rousseau, dedicated to the Comtesse d'Egmont, about 1770-1771 (see Albert Jansen's , p. 415). Holograph. All published in , 1781. This volume contains th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1770
Extent:

1 volume (16 folios)

8. Add MS 9077

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Title:
A collection of anthems, songs, and duets by Henry Purcell
Scope & Content:
passim. Transcripts made by Vincent Novello for his edition of Purcell’s Sacred Music, 1829-1832, with some additional notes for the Musical Antiquarian edition of 1846; about 1831-1832. They comprise, besides other works, the following Anthems, in score : — Sacred songs or hymns for solo, with ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1831-c 1832
Extent:
1 volume

9. Add MS 10445

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Title:
A collection of compositions for strings, as well as melodies, and instrumental arrangements of songs and ballets
Scope & Content:
ff. 1, 13b, 26. Twenty-five pieces, of which all except the first are taken from the 'Royall Consort' by 'William Lawes' (conf. Add MS 31433, etc.); 2nd half of the 17th century. They consist of Courantes, Sarabands, Airs, etc., written for 3 instruments. 1st and 2nd trebles and 'Breaking Base' ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Add MS 11581

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Title:
A collection of excerpts, exercises, canons, songs, and anthems, in the hand of Dr. Charles Burney.
Scope & Content:
Examples of Harmony in the hand of Dr. Charles Burney. 1. 'Exempla (Discant) quatuor vocum.' '[J.] Froschius,' 1535. f. 2b. 2. Fuga ad Minimam'; in 4 parts. 'Jodocus Pratensis.' From Glarean (p. 453), 1547. f. 4. Reversing the volume. 3. Extemporaneous Bass. 'Crotch' (æt. 4). f. 41b. 4-6. Three ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 volume