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2. 785.a.9.
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 785.a.9.
- Title:
- MUSICAL EXAMPLES, ETC.; 1730. Bound at the end of the printed volume (by J. C. Pepusch) A Short Treatise on Harmony (J. Watts, 1730) and comprising ‘Examples in Notes referring the [MS.] Figures in the Margin & serving to explain every Example (either in Figures, or in Letters, or in Words,) that is mentioned in this Treatise on Harmony. 1730.’ Sir John Hawkins (who bequeathed the volume to the British Museum in 1789) states that these examples are in the hand of [Joshua] Steele, being ‘taken fr...
- Scope & Content:
- Johann Christoph Pepusch, composer: James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn: Musical examples , probably in the hand of James Hamilton, to accompany and explain A Short Treatise on Harmony by Johann Christoph Pepusch: 1730.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1730
- Extent:
- 1 item
3. 785.k.7.(9.)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 785.k.7.(9.)
- Title:
- DANCE TUNES; about 1710. With figures or diagrams showing how they were to be danced; explanatory of A Small Treatise of Time and Cadence in Dancing…By John Weaver…(1706), bound at the beginning of the volume. Bequeathed by Sarah Sophia Banks and presented by Lady Banks, 1818. Paper; ff. 8. 230 x 165mm. Including:— 1. f. 1b. ‘La Nouvelle Gaillarde Par Mr [Louis] Pécour’. 2. ff. 5b-6. ‘The Friendship by Mr Isaac’.
- Scope & Content:
- includes: f. 1v Louis Guillaume Pécour, dancing-master and choreographer: 'Nouvelle Gaillarde': circa 1710: Copy.f. 5v Isaac, musician: Dance tune, 'The Friendship': circa 1710: Copy.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- c 1710
- Extent:
- 1 item
4. 785.k.7.(10.)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 785.k.7.(10.)
- Title:
- DANCE TUNES; about 1710. With figures or diagrams showing how they were to be danced; explanatory of A Small Treatise of Time and Cadence in Dancing…By John Weaver…(1706), bound at the beginning of the volume. Bequeathed by Sarah Sophia Banks and presented by Lady Banks, 1818. Paper; ff. 4. 230 x 165mm. Including:— 1. f. 1. ‘The Morris by Mr Isaac’. 2. f. 4b. ‘Rigadoun’. Without music.
- Scope & Content:
- includes: f. 1 Isaac, musician: Dance tune, 'The Morris': circa 1710: Copy.f. 4v Music: Rigaudon, dance tune: circa 1710.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- c 1710
- Extent:
- 1 item
5. 1562/293.
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 1562/293.
- Title:
- CARL CZERNY: catalogue of works, op.401 – op.753; circa 1850. Appended to a printed catalogue, Carl Czerny’s sämmtliche Original-Compositionen von opus 1 bis 300 [Vienna: Diabelli, 1834?]. The list includes opus number, title, price and publisher, and is incomplete from op.600 onwards. Purchased, 30 Oct. 1979. ff. 10. Largest size 395 x 267mm.
- Scope & Content:
- Carl Czerny, composer: Catalogue of works: circa 1850: Copy.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- c 1850
- Extent:
- 1 item
6. 1781.b.6/1
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 1781.b.6/1
- Title:
- 'Die Moschee und der nordwestliche Theil der Stadt'.
- Scope & Content:
- Genre/Subject Matter This panoramic view over Mecca showing most of the Masjid al-Haram and the northwest portion of the city is likely a print of a drawing after a photograph or series of photographs of the same view by the Mekkan photographer, and doctor, al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār. Numbers printed...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- 1888
- Extent:
-
1 print (possibly lithographic) of a drawing after a photograph
7. 1781.b.6/2
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 1781.b.6/2
- Title:
- 'Die Moschee'.
- Scope & Content:
- Genre/Subject Matter: This south-southwest view inside the Masjid al-Haram of the Caaba and surrounding structures is a print of a drawing after a photograph of the same view by the Meccan photographer, and doctor, al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār. This photograph, in the collection of the Universiteit Lei...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- 1888
- Extent:
-
1 print (possibly lithographic) of a drawing after a photograph
8. 1781.b.6/5
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 1781.b.6/5
- Title:
- 'Othman Pascha mit dem egyptischen Maẖmal'.
- Scope & Content:
- Genre/Subject Matter: This street view depicts the arrival at Mecca of the Egyptian ‘mahmal’ – an embroidered silk-covered structure mounted on a camel – followed by a caravan of pilgrims. Originally designed to contain the Egyptian-made kiswa, the cloth that covers the Caaba, this mahmal would like...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- 1888
- Extent:
-
1 print of a drawing
9. 1781.b.6/6
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 1781.b.6/6
- Title:
- 'Die von Othman Pascha erbaute Hauptwache'. Photographer: al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār
- Scope & Content:
- Genre/Subject Matter: This street view depicts the main guardhouse or police station in Mecca, described as being newly built by Othman Pascha. The two-storey building features the Ottoman star and crescent symbols on the cornice and what appears to be a royal toughra at the centre of the pediment. ...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- 1888
- Extent:
-
1 print of a drawing
10. 1781.b.6/32
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 1781.b.6/32
- Title:
- 'Ein Stück der Kiswah (der brokanten Bekleidung der Ka’bah)'. Photographer: Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje
- Scope & Content:
- Genre/Subject Matter: This dark-coloured print reproduces a section of the patterns inscribed on the kiswa, the black brocade cloth that covers the Caaba. Lighter lined areas delineated the decorative script and surrounding zigzag patterns. Within the zigzagged middle section of the piece the words ...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- 1888
- Extent:
-
1 print