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381. Add MS 37517

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Title:
Psalter ('The Bosworth Psalter') with gloss in Latin
Scope & Content:
This manuscript, known as the 'Bosworth Psalter', contains the Roman version of Psalms, monastic canticles and hymns with some Latin glosses. The main body of the text was probably copied in the 3rd quarter of the 10th century. This Psalter was designed for use of a community following the Rule ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Late 10th century-early 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

382. Add MS 37518

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Title:
Lexicon Tironianum
Scope & Content:
This 9th-century French manuscript contains a lexicon of Tironian notes: a shorthand attributed to Tiro (b. 94, d. 4 BC), slave of Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC), that consisted of 4000 signs in its medieval variant. The manuscript was produced at the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, as i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

383. Add MS 37656

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Title:
Wardrobe account of Thomas of Brotherton and Edmund of Woodstock, sons of Edward I and Margaret of France
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the wardrobe account of Thomas of Brotherton (b. 1300, d. 1338), and Edmund of Woodstock (b. 1301, d. 1330), afterwards Earls of Norfolk and Kent. Princes Thomas and Edmund were the fifth and sixth sons of King Edward I (r. 1272-1307), and the oldest by his second marria...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1305
Extent:
1 volume

384. Add MS 37763

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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)

385. Add MS 37764

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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

386. Add MS 37765

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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)

387. Add MS 37767

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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)

388. Add MS 37790

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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

389. Add MS 38116

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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.

390. Add MS 38117

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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

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