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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 ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1888
Extent:: 1 print

Reference (shelfmark):: 1781.b.6/33
Title:: 'Negersklaven mit dem Ṯúmburah-orchester'. Photographer: Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje
Scope & Content:: Genre/Subject Matter: This two-colour printed drawing shows a troupe of twelve seated and standing men, several holding musical instruments. They are described as ‘negro slaves’ and are part of the ‘tumburah orchestra’. The word ‘tumburah’ (also: Tanbūr, Tanbura, Tambura or Tanboor) refers to...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1888
Extent:: 1 print

Reference (shelfmark):: 1781.b.6/72
Title:: 'In Mekka gebräuchliche Gegenstände'. Printer: Pieter Willem Marinus Trap
Scope & Content:: Genre/Subject Matter: This lithographic print shows objects and utensils in common use in Mecca. The items are drawn from the collection of Christiaan Snouck Hugronje and the illustration was printed by Pieter Willem Marinus Trap, the lithographic printer of the journal Internationales Archiv f...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1888
Extent:: 1 lithographic print

Reference (shelfmark):: 1781.b.6/73
Title:: 'In Mekka gebräuchliche Gegenstände'. Printer: Pieter Willem Marinus Trap
Scope & Content:: Genre/Subject Matter: This lithographic print shows objects and utensils in common use in Mecca. The items are drawn from the collection of Christiaan Snouck Hugronje and the illustration was printed by Pieter Willem Marinus Trap, the lithographic printer of the journal Internationales Archiv f...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1888
Extent:: 1 lithographic print

Reference (shelfmark):: 1781.b.6/74
Title:: 'In Mekka gebräuchliche Gegenstände'. Printer: Pieter Willem Marinus Trap
Scope & Content:: Genre/Subject Matter: This lithographic print shows objects and utensils in common use in Mecca. The items are drawn from the collection of Christiaan Snouck Hugronje and the illustration was printed by Pieter Willem Marinus Trap, the lithographic printer of the journal Internationales Archiv f...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1888
Extent:: 1 lithographic print

Reference (shelfmark):: 1781.b.6/75
Title:: 'In Mekka gebräuchliche Gegenstände'. Printer: Pieter Willem Marinus Trap
Scope & Content:: Genre/Subject Matter: This lithographic print shows objects and utensils in common use in Mecca. The items are drawn from the collection of Christiaan Snouck Hugronje and the illustration was printed by Pieter Willem Marinus Trap, the lithographic printer of the journal Internationales Archiv f...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1888
Extent:: 1 lithographic print

Reference (shelfmark):: 3433.bb.10.
Title:: PSALM MELODIES; after 1734. Bound at the front of the printed collection The Psalms of David…by I. Watts, 9th ed. (printed for Richard Ford and Richard Hett, 1734). Melodies, most of them with a bass written in score, inserted in MS. in a contemporary hand between pp. 4 and 5 of Tunes in the tenor part fitted to the several metres [of the Psalms] engraved by Francis Hoffman. Purchased, 8th Oct. 1863. Paper; ff. 7 + pp. viii, 319, [21]. 150 x 90mm. 1. f. 3r. Ps. 75, ‘Common Metre’; – Ps. 13...
Scope & Content:: Music: Psalms: Psalm tunes: after 1734.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: after 1734
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 3437.g.19.
Title:: PSALM TUNES; after 1712. Added in MS. on inter-leaves to the printed volume The Whole Books of Psalms…by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others (Printed by William Pearson, 1712). Those marked a, below, are for 4 voices and, unless the contrary is stated, taken from an edition of Thomas Ravenscroft’s Whole Book of Psalmes; those marked b, from John Playford’s 3-part setting of the same collection (? chiefly the 1713 edition); and those marked a, b, from both these latter works. At the be...
Scope & Content:: Robert Parsons, composer: Thomas Tallis, composer and organist: John Ward, composer: Thomas Morley, composer and writer: Music: Psalms: Thomas Ravenscroft, composer and editor: John Playford, the elder; composer and music-publisher: Giles Farnaby, composer: John Farmer, composer: John Bennet, co...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: after 1712
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 3439.a.7.
Title:: ARTHUR HENRY MANN: notes on psalm tunes; circa 1920. Written on the paginated flyleaves of a printed edition of John Patrick’s The Psalms of David in Metre (Printed for D. Brown et al., 1724). The notes describe the provenance of each of the tunes printed at the start of the publication. Presented, Feb. 1949. pp. 23+[i]+22+328+[vi]. 160 x 94mm.
Scope & Content:: includes: pp. 1-23 Arthur Henry Mann, organist, editor and composer: Notes rel. to the Psalm Tunes in John Patrick's metrical psalter: circa 1920: Autogr.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1920
Extent:: 1 item

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