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Reference (shelfmark):: R.M.23.k.18
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Scope & Content:: ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. No. X. Autograph excepting ff. 40b-49b. ff. 70. 1. ff. 1-11. Lungi dall’Idol mio. 2. ff. 11b-21. Occhi perche piangete. 3. ff. 22-31. Troppo cruda. 4. ff. 32-49. M’hai da piangere. 5. ff. 50-58. Rio destin. 6. ff. 59-70. Gia tu parti. Agostino Steffani, composer: ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: R.M.23.k.19
Title:
Scope & Content:: ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. No. XII. ff. 59. 1. ff. 1-10. Io mi parto. 2. ff. 10b-22. Crudo amor. 3. ff. 23-30. Sol negl’occhi. 4. ff. 31-42. Io mi rido. 5. ff. 43-52. Tu m’aspettasti. 6. ff. 53-59. Porto l’alma. Agostino Steffani, composer: Vocal music: 17-18th cent: Ital: Copies.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: R.M.23.k.20
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Scope & Content:: ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. No. XIII. ff. 84. 1. ff. 1-14. Corri all’armi. 2. ff. 14b-29. Fuggi da questo seno. 3. ff. 29b-39. Sente filli spietata. 4. ff. 39b-56. D’un faggio al ombra assiso. 5. ff. 56b-70. S’intimi guerra. 6. ff. 70b-84. Stille degl’occhi amare. Agostino Steffani, composer...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: R.M.24.c.14
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Scope & Content:: ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. Bevan (Elway). Canons; early 17th century. Autograph collection of over 300 short canons, in score, mainly on plainsong canti fermi, for 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14 and 20 voices. Among many miscellaneous exercises are a numbered set of 51 canons for three voices, ff....
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: R.M.24.d.2
Title:: The Baldwin Collection of Motets, etc.: circa 1600, unless otherwise dated.
Scope & Content:: ROYAL MUSIC COLLECTION. A volume in the script throughout of John Baldwin of Windsor (excepting ff. 87b-89), containing 203 motets, instrumental pieces, canons and contrapuntal exercises by various 16th century composers, some in score, some in separate parts. There are prefatory and concluding ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1590-1606
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal Appendix MS 56
Title:: 16th century compositions for organ, by anonymous authors
Scope & Content:: Organ pieces, written on double staves of 6 or 7 lines each, apparently in England. Anonymous. 1. 'Felix namque.' f. 1b. 2. 'Non expecto.' f. 6b. 3. 'Beata viscera.' f. 7. 4-6. Three pieces without titles. ff. 12b, 13b, 14b. 7. 'Kirie,' 'Christe,' and 'Miserere'; probably from a Mass. ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Early 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume (32 folios)

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)

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 1 A XIV
Title:: Gospels (the 'Wessex Gospels')
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the four Gospels in English, in the Anglo-Saxon or Wessex version, with flyleaves from a Latin missal of the 13th century. The Gospels are arranged as follows: Mark (ff. 3r-32r); Matthew (ff. 33r-82r); Luke (ff. 83r-133v); John (ff. 135r-174v) and were probably copied se...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old
Date Range:: 1150-1200
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 1 A XVIII
Title:: The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r-11v: The Eusebian Canon tables. ff. 12r-66r: The Gospel of St Matthew, preceded by a preface (ff. 12r-13r). ff. 66r-99r: The Gospel of St Mark, preceded by a preface (ff. 66r-67r) and capitula (ff. 67r-68r). ff. 99v-159v: The Gospel of St Luke, preceded by capitula (ff. 99...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 10th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 1 B XI
Title:: The Four Gospels; Records of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-v: St Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum papam (Epistle to Pope Damasus), beginning imperfectly: 'addita sunt. Igitur hec presens prefaciuncula'. ff. 2v-5r: St Jerome, Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum (Preface to St Jerome's commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew), beginning: 'Plures ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:: 12th century-13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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