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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 31390
Title:: 'A booke of In nomines and other solfainge songs of v: vj vij: and viij: parts for voyces or Instrumentes', written in direct, transverse, and reversed staves, so that all can sing, or play, at once.
Scope & Content:: Compare with the layout of John Dowland's First Book. of Aires, printed in 1597. The contents are chiefly motets, and include also Italian, English, and French songs. Among them are the following:- 1. Mr Parson his Songe." f. 10 b. 2. Si grand e la pieta." f. 13 b. 3. "Vraie deu damour" f....
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Late 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume (128 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 31840
Title:: Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Roman de la Rose (ff. 3-142), followed by a collection of moral verses (ff. 142r-v). It includes: ff. 3r-28r: The first section of the Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Loris. Rubric: 'Cest livre est apele la rose/ Du lart damours est toute enclose'. Beginning 'Maint...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 142 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 32058, ff 1-4
Title:: Seven cuttings with historiated initials from Italian manuscripts
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-4: Seven historiated initials from Italian manuscripts of the 14th century: f. 1r (above): Initial 'I' of God creating the earth above, and God creating Adam below; on the reverse are three 4-line staves with musical notation and three lines of fragmentary text. f. 1r (below): Initial '...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: Part of Add MS 32058

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 32058, ff 5-8
Title:: Four leaves from a Bible in Latin with historiated initials
Scope & Content:: Four leaves from a Bible in Latin: f. 5r-v: A leaf from St Jerome's preface to the book of Kings, begins 'Viginti duas esse litteras ap[u]d hebreos', with a historiated initial, 'V' of a scholar with a halo teaching two figures from a book; the partial border contains a cleric holding a book re...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: Part of Add MS 32058

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 32058, ff 9-22
Title:: Fourteen leaves (one fragmentary) from a Bible in Latin, the 'Teutonic Knights Bible'
Scope & Content:: Fourteen leaves (one fragmentary) from volume 2 of a Latin Bible in three volumes ('The Teutonic Knights Bible'). Other leaves are now London, Victoria and Albert Museum, nos 9036A to 9036Z, 9036Z/A, 9036F/1, D.544 to D.599. No part of volume I (Genesis to II Chronicles) is known to survive and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1300
Extent:: Part of Add MS 32058

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 33241
Title:: Encomium Emmae reginae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an account praising Emma (d. 1052), the second consort of both Æthelred II (d. 1016), king of England, and Cnut (d. 1035), king of England, Denmark and Norway. The work was composed by a Flemish monk at Emma's behest. This manuscript also contains an image of the author ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34034
Title:: Manuscript of Middlemarch: a study of provincial life, by George Eliot. Volume 1.
Scope & Content:: Vol. I, ff. 291.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34035
Title:: Manuscript of Middlemarch: a study of provincial life, by George Eliot. Volume 2.
Scope & Content:: Vol. II, ff. 302.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34036
Title:: Manuscript of Middlemarch: a study of provincial life, by George Eliot. Volume 3.
Scope & Content:: Vol. III, ff. 313.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34037
Title:: Manuscript of Middlemarch: a study of provincial life, by George Eliot. Volume 4.
Scope & Content:: Vol. IV, ff. 311.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

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