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Contents: f. 1r: Modern note on the removal of a leaf, pastedown. f. 3r: Erased ownership inscription. f. 3v: Ownership inscriptions and summary of the volume’s contents, 15th and 18th century, Latin and English. ff. 4r-9v: Calendar, Latin. ff. 10r-45v: Book of Hours. ff. 46r-163r: Wycliff...
Collection of papers removed from Yates Thompson MSS
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A collection of modern papers removed from other Yates Thompson MSS. Contents: [ir-iir]: Table of contents. ff. 1r-3r: A 1453 bond by Jean, Bastard of Orleans, count of Dunois and of Longueville, to Bertrand de Beauvais, for 200 crowns, with a 1469 and notarial certificate of receipt (ff. 1r-...
Collection of papers removed from Yates Thompson MSS
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A collection of over 100 papers and letters to Henry Yates Thompson removed from other Yates Thompson MSS, mostly from museums and libraries in England and abroad offering provenance information, translations, and commentaries on his manuscript collection. Includes letters from M. R. James (15r...
Arnold Schoenberg: Five Orchestral Pieces, op. 16, 1909: copy, written out by the composer and Erwin Stein
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Autograph full score. Written in ink, on systems of up to 30 staves. Incomplete, comprising nos. I, III, IV and bars 1-16 only of no. V. No. I written jointly by Schoenberg and Stein, the remaining numbers entirely in the hand of the composer. As follows: ff. 1-6r. No. I; tempo marking (f. 1r)...
Act II of Richard Strauss's opera in three acts 'Die schweigsame Frau'
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Opening tempo direction ‘Tempo di Minuetto’ (f. 1r). Signed at upper right of f. 1r; dated Garmisch 18 June 1933 at end (f. 42r). With a draft of the last scene of Act III (ff. 42v, 43r). As follows: ff. 1r-3r. [Scene I.]. ff. 3r-5r. [Scene II.]. ff. 5r-12r. [Scene III.]. ff. 12r-15v. [Scene IV....
Igor Stravinsky: [Z har-ptitsa] - ‘L’Oiseau de feu’, ballet in two scenes (scenario M. Fokine after a Russian national fairy tale), 1910: album-leaf quotation from the ‘Berceuse’
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Autograph full score. Written in ink on 14 staves, on one side of a single leaf. Six bars, beginning at cue no. 184 in the published full score; a stave is marked for the second harp, which plays during this passage, but no notes are entered, and in the last two bars of the extract the second vi...
Igor Stravinsky: ‘Pulcinella’, ballet with song in one act (music after Pergolesi and others, scenario Serge Diaghilev, Leonide Massine and the composer), for small orchestra and soprano, tenor and bass soloists: notebook containing drafts and sketches
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Autograph. In short, condensed and full score. Written in black ink and pencil, with additions and annotations in red ink and blue crayon, on systems of two to twelve staves; staves are ruled individually as required on each page. Where pages contain more than one system the music is often writt...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLI. André Gide: lecture 'De l'importance du public'; 1903 (see f. 2). Draft. French. See Oeuvres Complètes d'André Gide, ed. L. Martin-Chauffier, vol. 4 [Paris, 1937], pp. 181-197. Author's presentation letter to Zweig, 1914 (f. 1). ff. 24. 218 x 167mm. André Pa...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLVIII. Adolf Hitler: outline in note form for a speech made in Berlin; [1928]. Draft. German. ff. 13. 330 x 210mm. Adolf Hitler, German Chancellor: Outline for a speech by Adolf Hitler: 1928: Germ: Autogr. draft.
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXXIV. Benito Mussolini: article 'Responsibilità'; [1921]. Fair copy. Italian. ff. 4. 233 x 214mm. (f. 1); 232 x 149mm. (f. 2); 213 x 138mm. (f. 3); 221 x 186mm. (f. 4). Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator: Article 'Responsibilità' by Benito Mussolini: 1921: Ital:...