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2781. Add MS 35273

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Add MS 35273
Title:
Volume II of a collection of Scottish songs, with some arranged as duets, with symphonies and accompaniments by Franz Joseph Haydn
Scope & Content:
passim. A similar collection to Add MS 35272, by Haydn, in Radnitzky's hand. They are divided into four sets (nos. 1-29, 30-44, 45-61, and 62-85), probably as received from the composer. 1. Song without title, said to be unpublished. f. 2. 2. 'Good night, and joy be wi' ye a',' begins 'The sun i...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1803
Extent:
1 volume

2782. Add MS 35274

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Add MS 35274
Title:
A collection of mostly Welsh airs for one or two voices, with accompaniments by Franz Joseph Haydn
Scope & Content:
passim. 'Welsh Airs,' with one exception (no. 1, which is Scottish), with pianoforte accompaniments, in score, by Haydn, in the hand of J. Radnitzky. At the beginning is written in the composer's hand, 'Harmonized by Dr. Haydn, 1804.' Most of them were published by George Thomson, of Edinburgh. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Welsh
Date Range:
1804
Extent:
1 volume (44 folios)

2783. Add MS 35275

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Add MS 35275
Title:
A collection of mostly Welsh airs and sonatas on Scottish airs
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-26b passim. Violin and violoncello parts to the duets by Haydn in Add MS 35274; 1804. 1. ['What ails this heart.'] 2. 'The flowers of London.' 3. 'The whirling of the spinning wheel.' 4. 'The door-clapper.' 5. 'The [note of the] black cock.' 6. 'The crystal ground.' 7. 'Winifreda.' 8. 'The...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Welsh
Date Range:
Late 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
1 volume (96 folios)

2784. Add MS 35286

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-238v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, imperfect, wanting many leaves. The Tales are arranged in the following order: ff. 1r-7v: The General Prologue, imperfect, wanting two leaves before and after f. 1 (A, ll. 1-153, 234-396). ff. 7v-28r: The Knight's Tale, imperfe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2785. Add MS 35289

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Title:
Chanson d'Aspremont
Scope & Content:
Contents: Chanson d’Aspremont, verses 24-376 and 395-540. Aspremont is the second of three chansons de geste of the Charlemagne cycle from the late 12th century, narrating Charlemagne's early expedition across the Alps to Aspremont in Italy to retake land in Calabria from the Saracen king, Ag...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2786. Add MS 35290

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Add MS 35290
Title:
York Mystery Plays
Scope & Content:
The York Plays, a cycle of religious dramas on biblical subjects staged and performed by craft guilds in the city of York during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This copy contains most of the cycle, and was originally the property of the city council, likely being stored with other civic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century-16th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

2787. Add MS 35300

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Add MS 35300
Title:
BARROW BEQUEST. Vol. I. Drawings by William Alexander and Samuel Daniell
Scope & Content:
37 watercolour drawings, made for the most part in 1792-3 on Lord Macartney's embassy to China (see also Add MS 33931), the rest on a mission with Sir John Barrow in southern Africa in 1801-2. Many of them have been engraved, either for Sir John Barrow's Voyage to Cochinchina (1806, containing t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1792-1802
Extent:

1 volume (37 folios)

2788. Add MS 35301

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Add MS 35301
Title:
BARROW BEQUEST. Vol. II. Autograph manuscript of Sir John Barrow’s Voyages of Discovery and Research within the Arctic regions
Scope & Content:
The autograph manuscript of Sir John Barrow's Voyages of Discovery and Research within the Arctic regions (1846). Note by Barrow’s son, Col. John Barrow, 1851 (f. 5): ‘Written at the age of 82, and (which is worthy of remark) without the aid of spectacles’. Another note by Col. Barrow (f. 2) sta...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1845-1851
Extent:
1 volume (230 folios)

2789. Add MS 35302

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Title:
BARROW BEQUEST. Vol. III. 'An Autobiographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow, Bart. (late of the Admiralty)'
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscript of Sir John Barrow's autobiography, published in 1847. Folios 9 and 10 are proofs with autograph corrections. Inscribed (f. 2): 'An Autobiographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow, Bart. (late of the Admiralty) Including Reflections, Observations and Reminiscences of home and ab...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1839-1847
Extent:
1 volume (254 folios)

2790. Add MS 35303

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Title:
BARROW BEQUEST. Vol. IV. ‘A Supplementary Chapter to the Biographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow, Bart.’
Scope & Content:
Autograph manuscript of a supplementary chapter to Sir John Barrow’s autobiographical memoir, which was published in 1847. Inscribed (f 4r): ‘A Supplementary Chapter to the Biographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow, Bart.’ An account of the Royal Society and Royal Society Club, with biographical...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1848
Extent:
1 volume (171 folios)

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