Archive Reference (shelfmark): MS Mus. 1715 / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/60/2
Title:: 'Ernani'. Prompter's vocal score
Scope & Content:: Printed by Ricordi, Milan, plate number 16235, etc. 'Parte per suggerire'. The name 'Fontana' is written on the front cover label.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: [1844]
Extent:: 250 x 340mm. Pale blue card covers.

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/60/3
Title:: 'Ernani'. Vocal score fragments
Scope & Content:: 1. Parts of Act 1 and Act 2. Printed, published by Ricordi, plate number 16237, etc. With a stamp of Her Majesty's Theatre. Some pinning.2. 'Gran Dio! costor sepolcrali', from Act 3, scene 2. Printed, published by Boosey & Co. 3. 'L'offeso onor', from Act 1, scene 10. Printed, pp. 79-88. Text...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: [1844]
Extent:: Largest size 270 x 340mm.

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/60/4
Title:: 'Ernani'. Chorus parts
Scope & Content:: 1. Soprano 1. With stamp of James H. Mapleson. Name added, 'Miss Stuart'.2. Soprano 2. Names added, 'Miss Clinton', 'Miss Elizabeth Walker', 3. Soprano 2. Printed by Ricordi, plate number 15159.4. Tenor.5. Tenor and bass. Printed by Ricordi, plate number 15160. 2 copies, one signed 'J. H. Mapleso...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: [1844-1845]
Extent:: 260 x 310mm.

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/60/5
Title:: 'Ernani'. Violin 1 and viola parts
Scope & Content:: 1. 'Violino Principale'. Prelude and part 1. One cut is dated 1860.2. Violin 1 parts. Printed, Ricordi plate number 15161. 3 copies, one with manuscript addition on green paper. One copy has the date '1847' added near the end of Act 1, the other is dated 'Septr 6th 1851' near the end of the opera...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: [1843-1845]
Extent:: 260 x 310mm

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/60/6
Title:: 'Ernani'. Cello/bass parts.
Scope & Content:: All but one printed, Ricordi plate number 15164. Red chalk markings, paste-overs, pinning and drawings. Some with manuscript insertion on green paper. Variously dated cuts, key changes etc. throughout; 1849, 1850, 1852, 1860, 1866. Players' names added, 'Rickaert', 'S Chapman', 'D Hardman', 'Wint...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1845]
Extent:: Mostly 270 x 330mm, one copy 300 x 259mm.

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/60/7
Title:: 'Ernani'. Orchestral and voice parts.
Scope & Content:: 1. Voice part for the role of Silva. Part of Act 1 only. On green paper. 2. Chorus parts for '1er Finale New Cabaletta. Silvia' [sic]. Tenor parts and bass parts, some on green paper with title of opera given as 'Il Proscritto'. (This title was used in 1846 in Paris when Victor Hugo protested aga...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1846]
Extent:: Fragments. 250 x 300mm and 360 x 280mm.

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/61
Title:: Giuseppe Verdi: 'Giovanna D'Arco'
Scope & Content:: 'Giovanna D'Arco', opera, prologue and 3 acts, libretto by Temistocle Solera after Schiller. First performed at La Scala, Milan, on 15 February 1845. 1. Voice part for the role of Carlo, prologue, scene 2. Printed, published by Ricordi, plate number 17173.2. Chorus parts, tenors and basses, Act 1...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: [1845]
Extent:: 240 x 320mm.

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/62
Title:: Giuseppe Verdi: 'Jerusalem'
Scope & Content:: 'Jerusalem', opera in 4 acts. The opera was first performed as 'I Lombardi alla prima Crociata' in Milan, in Italian, on 11 February 1843. 'Jerusalem', a new version in French, with the libretto translated by Alphonse Royer and Gustav Vaëz, was first performed in Paris on 26 November 1847. The op...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: [1847-1848]
Extent:: 330 x 235mm and 230 x 330mm. The full score in a blue card cover with marbled paper spine.

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/63/1
Title:: 'Luisa Miller'. Full score of Act 1.
Scope & Content:: With a printed cover of the publisher Ricordi. With red chalk markings and cuts made by paste-overs and sewing. Additional material inserted, on smaller green paper with blind stamp of Dantier Fils, Paris. The inserted section begins 'Nozze con altra donna inaspettata' (Duchessa). Postage label o...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: [1849]
Extent:: 340 x 270mm

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/63/2
Title:: 'Luisa Miller'. Full score of Act 2.
Scope & Content:: With printed covers of the publisher Ricordi. Red chalk markings and cuts made with paste-overs and sewing. Additional material inserted on larger sheets is from the opera 'I Masnadieri', and consists of pages removed from the 'I Masnadieri' full score MS Mus. 1715/64/1. First words 'Nell' argill...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: [c 1849]
Extent:: Largest size 370 x 280mm.

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