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781. 43567

Reference (shelfmark):
43567
Title:
Turdus viscivorus : Mistle Thrush - Turdidae
Scope & Content:
Original species name: Mistle Thrush, Turdus viscivorus Sound category: song Behavioral note: on perch in tree on right; other birds mainly distant, except for Raven on flight from nest on nearby crag. Background sounds: Sheep, Wren, Woodpecker, Raven, Tits, distant river Distance from subje...
Collection Area:
Sound Archive
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Apr 1995
Extent:
1 recording

782. Ashley MS A1385,B1432,A1436,A1440-4,1446,A1636,A1853,A1870,A1871,A1940,B3864,A3889-90,A4206,A5132,B5255

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A1385,B1432,A1436,A1440-4,1446,A1636,A1853,A1870,A1871,A1940,B3864,A3889-90,A4206,A5132,B5255
Title:
Letters (84) and one postcard from W. M. Rossetti to A. C. Swinburne; 2 Jan. 1866-20 Sept. 1906. Also included are a letter to Swinburne from Lucy Rossetti, [April?] 1876 (1446, ff. 104-105), and a letter from W. M. Rossetti, not to Swinburne, but possibly to J. C. Hotten, 11 Jan. 1867 (1446, f. 18). The letters in 1446, ff. 9-10b, 52, 52b, 102-103b, and 154, 154b, and in A1871 are imperfect. Vol. A IV, f. 33 is not part of the letter on ff. 31-32b, but is the missing portion of the second l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Norwegian
Date Range:
2 Jan 1866-20 Sep 1906
Extent:
20 items

783. Mss Eur A20-21; B50-51; C39-45; C68-69; D236-69; E113; F35-41; G27-31

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur A20-21; B50-51; C39-45; C68-69; D236-69; E113; F35-41; G27-31
Title:
Moorcroft Collection: journals, correspondence and notes of William Moorcroft (1765?-1825), veterinary surgeon in the Bengal Army and superintendent of the Company's stud in Bengal 1808-25, apparently employed as a secret agent, chiefly relating to his journey to Bukhara 1820-25 and describing the Himalayan regions through which he passed.
Scope & Content:
Moorcroft Collection: journals, correspondence and notes of William Moorcroft (1765?-1825), veterinary surgeon in the Bengal Army and superintendent of the Company's stud in Bengal 1808-25, apparently employed as a secret agent, chiefly relating to his journey to Bukhara 1820-25 and describing th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1812-1825
Extent:
51 volumes

784. a.26.h.

Reference (shelfmark):
a.26.h.
Title:
DANCE TUNES; 18th cent. Added to the printed collection Select Minuets Collected from the Operas, the Balls at Court, the Masquerades, and all Publick Entertainments. For the Harpsichord, Violin, or German Flute. Compos’d by Mr Handel, Dr Greene, Mr M. C. Festing [and] Mr Hudson (Printed for I. Walsh, [1739]). The minuets are printed on one side of the page only, and the additions, all for solo instrument, are made on the versos. Purchased, 12 Oct. 1910. ff. 111. 106 x 195mm. 1. f. 2v. [Ji...
Scope & Content:
Music: Dance tunes, added to a printed collection: 18th cent.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

785. a.30.a.

Reference (shelfmark):
a.30.a.
Title:
DANCES FOR THE VIOLIN OR FLUTE: with instructions for the flute; 1732-42. Bound after the printed volume The Compleat Tutor to the Violin, the Fifth book (Ino. Young, 1727). Ink, in various different hands. Inscribed ‘Robert Needham 1732’ (f. v). Purchased, 20 Nov. 1950. ff. xvi + 37. 110 x 215mm. Comtemporary mottled calf boards with simple blind-stamped design. 1. f. i. ‘Prince Eugene’s March’. Printed in John Playford, The Dancing Master, ... Volume the Second (Printed by W. Pearson, [1...
Scope & Content:
Music: Dances, with instructions for the flute: 1732-42. includes: f. 24 Maurice Greene, organist and composer: Henry Carey, composer: Tune of the song, 'The busy fly', sometimes attributed to: 1732: Copy.f. 26 George Frideric Handel, composer: 'A Minuet by Mr Handell': 1732: Copy.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1732-1742
Extent:
1 item

786. a.76.b.(3.)

Reference (shelfmark):
a.76.b.(3.)
Title:
‘SPIETATO OH! DIO’; late 18th – early 19th cent. The melody only of a song for soprano, with a blank stave ruled beneath, probably for a guitar accompaniment. Written onto two blank pages between pp. 37 and 38 of Frederic Schuman’s printed volume A Collection of the most celebrated Songs set by Several Authors adapted for the Guittar (Printed for Mlle Rauche, [1763]). A different, also anonymous setting of the same words is found in MS 1384 of the Santini-Bibliothek in Münster. The verso of ...
Scope & Content:
Music: Song, 'Spietato oh! Dio', and melody in C major: late 18th - early 19th cent.: Ital.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Late 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
1 item

787. A.233.

Reference (shelfmark):
A.233.
Title:
‘ADIEU NOUS VOUS VERRIONS UN JOUR’; 17th cent. The words only of a ‘chanson francois’ added to the final page (f. 36v) of the bass part of the printed madrigal collection De Floridi Virtuosi d’Italia (In Anversa: Appresso Pietro Phalesio, 1600). The title page of the bass part is inscribed ‘Giovanni Vuatchin’. Purchased, 22 May 1873. Two parts; ff. 36 + 36. 158 x 208mm.
Scope & Content:
includes: Bass part, f. 36v Poetry FRENCH: Chanson, 'Adieu nous vous verrions un jour': 17th cent.: Fr.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

788. A.339.b.

Reference (shelfmark):
A.339.b.
Title:
ORLANDE DE LASSUS, MICHELE VAROTTO AND OTHERS: (first) tenor parts of Magnificat settings; late 16th cent. Added in ink to the pages at the end of the printed tenor part of Orlande de Lassus, Magnificat Octo Tonorum, sex, quinque, et quatuor vocum (Noribergæ: In Officina Theodorici Gerlazeni, 1573). On f. iii, in a different hand of similar date, are written two quotations relating to music, the first apparently from a letter, headed ‘Ioannes Otto ad Ferdinandum regem Bohemiæ’ and beginning ...
Scope & Content:
Music: Tenor parts of Magnificats, Kyrie, Gloria, and sequence 'Grates nunc omnes': late 16th cent.: Lat. includes: f. iii Ioannes Otto, musician: Ferdinand I of Bohemia: Extract from a letter to Ferdinand, King of Bohemia from Ioannes Otto: late 16th cent.: Lat: Copy.ff. i, vi Bible LATIN...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 item

789. A.434.

Reference (shelfmark):
A.434.
Title:
SONG TEXTS; after 1783. Bound after the printed volume The Vocal Enchantress: Presenting an Elegant Selection of the Most Favourite ... Songs ... with the Music Prefixed to Each (J. Fielding, 1783), and written in a contemporary hand. With one exception (‘The sun sets in’, ff. 4v-5), only the words of the songs are written, without music. The texts are mainly of familiar traditional and national songs. Purchased, 23 July 1874. pp. [x]+351+[ii] + ff. 70. 159 x 103mm.
Scope & Content:
Poetry ENGLISH: Traditional and national song-texts: after 1783.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1783
Extent:
1 item

790. A.621.

Reference (shelfmark):
A.621.
Title:
HYMN TUNES; 18th-19th cent. Most arranged for four voices and in score, inserted between pages 90 and 91 of the printed book A Collection of Psalm Tunes in three Parts…by Is[aac] Smith (Sold by Mrs Davenhill and Mr Bucklnd, [1780?]). Purchased, 10 March 1887. Paper; pp. 90a-90p. 98 x 185mm. 1. p. 90(a). ‘Chelsea’. Treble, counter-tenor and part of bass (different from the setting on p. 55). 2. pp. 90(b), 90(f). ‘Cambridge, New’ [from S. Major’s edition of the above work – 1780?]. 3. pp. ...
Scope & Content:
Charles Burney, Mus.D: William Jackson, composer, organist, and writer, of Exeter: John Stanley, composer and organist: Peter von Winter, composer: Jonathan Lucas, composer: M. P. King, composer: John Wainwright, composer: Hymn tunes by John Stanley, Charles Burney, Jonathan Lucas, M. P. King, W...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
1 item

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