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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37763
Title:: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: 'Six Quartetts dedicated to Haydn'
Scope & Content:: Autograph manuscript of six Mozart's string quartets. f. 1. String quartet in G major, K. 387 (31 December 1782). f. 14. String quartet in D minor, K. 421 (June 1783). f. 23. String quartet in B flat major, K. 458 (9 November 1784). f. 34. String quartet in E flat major, K. 428 [1783?]. f. ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1782-1785
Extent:: 1 volume (68 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37764
Title:: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String quartet in D major, K. 499.
Scope & Content:: Autograph manuscript of Mozart's string quartet in D major, K. 499 (the 'Hoffmeister' quartet).
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1786
Extent:: 14 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37765
Title:: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: 'Three Quartets dedicated to the King of Prussia'
Scope & Content:: Autograph manuscript of three of Mozart's string quartets. f. 1. String quartet in D major, K. 575 (June 1789). f. 15. String quartet in F major, K. 590 (June 1790). f. 29. String quartet in B flat major, K. 589 (May 1790).
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1789-1790
Extent:: 1 volume (40 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37767
Title:: Original draft of Ludwig van Beethoven's violin and pianoforte Sonata in G [op. 30, no. 3, composed in 1802].
Scope & Content:: ff. 20. Original draft of the violin and pianoforte sonata in G, in score, 'da Louis van Beethoven'; originally published by the Bureau d'Arts et d'Industrie at Vienna, in 1803, as Op. 30, no. 3, and dedicated to Alexander I, Emperor of Russia. It is here described (? by the publisher) as 'Sonat...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and German
Date Range:: 1802
Extent:: 1 volume (folio 20)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 37790
Title:: A Carthusian anthology of theological works in English (the 'Amherst Manuscript')
Scope & Content:: Contents: An anthology of texts about contemplation as follows: ff. 1r-18r: Richard Rolle of Hampole, 'De emendatione vitae', translated into Middle English by the Carmelite monk, Richard Misyn. The rubric begins, 'This boke is off mendynge of lyfe or ellys off the rewle of lyfynge'. The tra...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Middle of the 15th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 238 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38116
Title:: Psalter ('The Huth Psalter')
Scope & Content:: This Psalter is notable for the prefatory image cycle of 11 full-page illuminations, some of which exhibit unusual subject matter. Entries in the calendar and litany of northern English saints, including St Hugh of Lincoln (in blue), suggest a Lincolnshire or Yorkshire origin, and it was likely ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1280-1300
Extent:: A parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38117
Title:: Robert de Boron, Joseph d'Arimathie, Le Livre de Merlin, Suite de Merlin ('the Huth Manuscript')
Scope & Content:: Contents: Three prose texts associated with Robert de Boron's Arthurian romances: ff. 1r-18r: Joseph d'Arimathie, a prose version of Robert de Boron's poem, imperfect at the beginning and begins at l. 65 of the text (O'Gorman 1995, p. 49); ff. 18v-74r: Le Livre de Merlin, the story of Merlin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 226 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38118
Title:: Apocalypse (the 'Huth Apocalypse') in prose with gloss, with a prologue by Gilbert de la Porrée
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Prologue by Gilbert de la Porrée: 'Saint Pol lapostre dit que tous iceux qui vuelent debonairement vivre en Ihesu Christ'. Ending: 'et dist ainsi '. ff. 2r-43v: Apocalypse : 'Ie Iehan vostre frère et parconniers en tribulations'. Ending: 'La grace nostre seigneur soit ave...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 44 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38120
Title:: Guillaume de Diguleville, Les Trois Pèlerinages
Scope & Content:: Les Trois Pèlerinages, three poems composed in 1330-1358 by Guillaume de Diguleville (or Degulleville, Deguileville), a monk of Chaalis in Valois. ff. 1r-110r: Pèlerinage de Vie Humaine, prologue and four books containing the first recension of the text, an allegory of the pilgrimage of the so...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c 1400
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38121
Title:: 'Picture-Book' of the life of St John the Evangelist; St Jerome's Preface; Apocalypse
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2v: 'Picture-book' of the life of St John the Evangelist. f. 3r: Preface of Jerome followed by a table of contents. Rubric: 'Incipit prefatio Sancti Iheronimi presbitri (sic), in Apocalipsi Sancti Johannis'. Beginning: 'Johannes, apostolus et evangelista, a Domino Christo elec...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1400
Extent:: 1 volume

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