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1. Add MS 4900

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Add MS 4900
Title:
Banks collection. Vol. XLIV. Miscellaneous writings, ornamented with initials, portraits of saints, royal arms, etc., cut from a printed book.
Scope & Content:
The principal items are:- (1) Fragments of a transcript of a calendar (latest date 1537), for the months of May to October, giving the dates on which fairs are held in those months in various towns of England and Wales (Carmarthen). A few dates are also given in the lives of British sovereigns...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume (68 folios)

2. Add MS 4910

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Add MS 4910
Title:
Hawkins Collection. Vol. II. Miscellaneous works relating to music.
Scope & Content:
Includes extracts from (a) Dethlevus Cluverus. ff. 1-10;- (b) John Birchensha (collected, as well as artt. c-e, by Silas Domville al. Taylor, apparently for Viscount Brouncker). ff. 39-40;- (c) — Allison of Covent Garden. f. 42;- (d) Matthew Lock. ff. 43-44, 60;- (e) Christopher Simpson. f. 52;-...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (87 folios)

3. Add MS 5036-5062

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Add MS 5036-5062
Title:
A collection of pieces, including motets, madrigals, masses, anthems, duets and other works
Scope & Content:
A collection of pieces, including motets, madrigals, masses, anthems, duets and other works. Prefixed to Add MS 5036 is a letter from Gabriel Mathias to the trustees of the British Museum, containing an extract from the will of James Mathias esq, from which it appears that these volumes are all...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1760
Extent:
27 volumes

4. Add MS 5054

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Add MS 5054
Title:
A collection of motets, madrigals, full anthems, portions of masses, psalms (or choruses), canons and duets, as well as examples of a litany, a grace, a service, a miserere, and a stabat Mater. In score.
Scope & Content:
1. Sanctus and Gloria in Excelsis, in B minor, parts of a service, for 3 solo voices and 4-part chorus, by Dr. {William} Croft. ff. 3-5b. 2. 'La Spagnola'. A madrigal. (à 3), begins 'Al rigor d'un bel Sembiante'; with the alternative words 'Al splendor di due pupille' written underneath. 'Agost...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1760
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 5319-5337

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Add MS 5319-5337
Title:
Manuscript music presented by Sir John Hawkins
Scope & Content:
A collection of manuscript music formerly owned by Sir John Hawkins, chiefly copied by Mr. John Stanley
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
19 volumes

6. Add MS 5336

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Add MS 5336
Title:
A collection of catches, canons, madrigals, vocal trios, vocal quartets, and some organ voluntaries
Scope & Content:
passim. Rounds and Catches. Nos. 1-9, 12, 13, 16, 18, 24, 31, 34, 36, and 38 are for 4 voices; the others for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated). Nos. 1-19, 21-31, are in score, and are taken from three works by Thomas Ravenscroft, viz.: — (1609), (1609), and (1611). 1, 2. 'Trole the bo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (46 folios)

7. Add MS 5337

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Add MS 5337
Title:
A collection of incidental music from operas, madrigals, sonatas, catches, glees, a duet from an oratorio and a canon
Scope & Content:
The contents of this MS. are in different hands. ff. 1-42. Incidental music, by Henry Purcell, in score; early 18th cent. The symphonies are written for flutes, oboes, strings, etc., and, in the case of no. 2, for trumpets also. 1. [The Masque in] 'Timon of Athens' [1694]. f. 1. 2. 'The Musick ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Add MS 9071-9077

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Add MS 9071-9077
Title:
A collection of pieces by Henry Purcell
Scope & Content:
Includes Anthems, Services, Chants, Hymns, Motets, Canons, Duets, and Songs. Also included are two chants attributed to Thomas Purcell. All transcribed by Vincent Novello.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1829-c 1832
Extent:
7 volumes

9. Add MS 9074

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Add MS 9074
Title:
A collection of anthems, motets, canons, and a hymn, by Henry Purcell
Scope & Content:
passim. Transcripts made by Vincent Novello for his edition of Purcell’s Sacred Music, 1829-1832, with some additional notes for the Musical Antiquarian edition of 1846; about 1831-1832. They comprise, besides other works, the following Anthems, in score : — Portions of Anthems : — 1. Introducto...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c1831-c 1832
Extent:
1 volume

10. Add MS 10336

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Add MS 10336
Title:
JOHANNIS TUCKE, "socii quondam perpetui Novi Collegii Beatæ Mariae Wyntoniæ in Oxonio," Tractatus de arte musica. Codex chartaceus, scriptus anno 1500. In Quarto minori. [10,336.]
Scope & Content:
Johaiines Tucke: Tractatus de arte Musica. Includes: Composition without words, written out at length on a stave of 4 lines. f. 18.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1500
Extent:
1 item