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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

Reference (shelfmark):: 7898.a.9.
Title:: Letter
Scope & Content:: Letter to Sir John Stainer from William Henry Gladstone 1877
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1877
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 8175.a.65
Title:: United States Sanitary Commission, Extracts from a Narrative of Privations and Sufferings of United States Officers & Soldiers, etc [With four photographs], London: Alfred William Bennett, 1865
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1865
Extent:: Printed book

Reference (shelfmark):: 11738.cc.40.(4.)
Title:: RONDE: ‘Pour un peuple aimable et sensible"; circa 1775. The melody only, inserted in MS. on p. 45 of a printed copy of [Barnabé Farmain] de Rosoi’s Henri IV (Paris: Vente, 1774). The music is by Johann Paul Ægidius Schwartzendorf, detto Martini. Paper. 192 x 117mm.
Scope & Content:: Johann Paul Aegidius Martini, il Tedesco; composer: Ronde, 'Pour un peuple aimable et sensible': circa 1775: Fr: Copy.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1775
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 14310a
Title:: Narthang Tanjur (1904)
Scope & Content:: Collection of Tibetan translation of canonical Indian Buddhist commentaries covering teachings of the Sutra and Tantra traditions. The blocks carved at the printing house of the sNar thang monastery in Central Tibet from 1741. The prints were probably produced during the 19th century but not late...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: 1741-1904
Extent:: 220 (out of 223) volumes, vols rgyud 13, rgyud 29, and rgyud 48 missing. Traditional Tibetan pothi format in early 20th century library binding.

Reference (shelfmark):: 15223.c.13
Title:: Qing shu Qian zi wen 清書千字文 [Ciyan dze wen] [ᠴᡞᡪᠠᠨ ᡯᡝ ᠸᡝᠨ]
Scope & Content:: Bai ti Qian wen (Li chao sheng xian zhuan shu bai ti Qian wen) 百體千文 (歷朝聖賢篆書百體千文). The text of the 'Thousand Character Classic' in 125 different styles of calligraphy. A list of 1000 Chinese characters is followed by a transcription of the sounds rendered in Manchu script, covering 11 folios (run...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: c 1685
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: 15297.d.1
Title:: Inenggidari giyangnaha Cūn Cio-i jurgan be suhe bithe ᡞᠨᡝᡢᡤᡞᡩᠠᠷᡞ ᡤᡞᠶᠠᡢᠨᠠᡥᠠ ᠴᡡᠨ ᠴᡞᠣ ᠢ ᠵᡠᠷᡤᠠᠨ ᠪᡝ ᠰᡠᡥᡝ ᠪᡞᡨ᠌ᡥᡝ [Ri jiang Chun Qiu jie yi] [日講春秋解義]
Scope & Content:: In Manchu. Separate leaves from juan 21, 22, 27 and 28 of the 'Daily Lectures on the Meaning of the Spring and Autumn Annals', used as backing paper for the 6 fasciculi of Wu Jing's (吳兢) Zhenguan zhengyao (貞觀政要). Walter Fuchs (1936) dates this work to 1738.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Manchu
Date Range:: 1738
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: 15344.d.10/6
Title:: 'Hua yi yi yu' 華夷譯語
Scope & Content:: Vocabulary arranged under 17 categories of the Lao / Northern Thai language, with meaning and pronunciation in Chinese. Fāk khām script for Lao / Northern Thai language. 1) Astronomy & astrology (fols. 1-8) 2) Geography (fols. 9-17) 3) Seasons & time (fols. 18-23) 4) World of plants ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese, Lao, and Tai languages
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 109 folios

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