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Name Lawes, Henry, composer

11. Add MS 31462

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CATCHES and glees by H. Purcell, J. Blow, - Cranford, J. Eccles, T. Ford, [S.] Ives, Jeremiah Clark, - Creed, Dr. H. Aldrich, M. Wise, Dr. [William] Hayes, - Turner, [H.] Lawes, John Hilton, W. Byrd, W. Lawes, Edward Nelham, John Smith, - Stonerd, [Robert?] White, William Ellis, Dr. W. Child, Dr...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 item

12. Add MS 32343 A-G

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Add MS 32343 A-G
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Miscellaneous autographs 12-17th century
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Miscellaneous autographs etc. including: ff. 1, 2, 3 Constantin Huygens, Heer van Zuylichem, Dutch Statesman: Letters to, from J. van Bronchorst: 1637, 1638.: Dutch. ff. 1, 2, 3 Jan van Bronchorst, Painter: Letters to C. Huygens: 1637, 1638.: Dutch. f. 4 Napoleon I of France: Order signed by th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, German, and Latin
Date Range:
12th century-19th century
Extent:
7 items

13. Add MS 33965

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Original letters of musicians, arranged as in the preceding volume. Among them are letters of:- Dr. Thomas Augustus Arne, Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, Dr. William Boyce, Orlando Gibbons, Henry Lawes, Matthew Locke, André Ernest Modeste Grétry, Hector Berlioz, François Adrien Boieldieu, François Gounod, Étienne Henri Méhul, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, George Frederic Handel, Joseph Haydn, Franz Liszt, Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Robert Alexander Schumann, Louis Spoh...
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includes: f. 1 E- T- Allan, husband of Mad. Caradori-Allan: Letter to P. F. Laporte: 1834. ff. 1, 372 Pierre François Laporte, actor and impresario: Letters to him: 1832-1841.: Fr. f. 3 Thomas Augustine Arne, composer: Letter to G. Woodfall: n.d. f. 3 George Woodfall, Printer: Letter to, from D...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Polish, and Swedish
Date Range:
16th century-19th century
Extent:

1 volume (418 folios)

14. Add MS 34071

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A collection of madrigals, motets, elegies, and a catch
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passim. Chansons and Madrigals, in score. The earlier ones are almost all of them taken from the collections of Gardane and Tylman Susato (1541-1550). Except where the contrary is stated, they are for 5 voices.1. 'D'amour me plains.' 'Mai[tre] Rogier, 1543.' This and nos. 2-6 are for 4 voices. f...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (51 folios)

15. Add MS 36354

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COMMONPLACE-BOOK OF JOHN MILTON, chiefly autograph. The contents are extracts from books under headings classified as Index Ethicus, Index Oeconomicus or Index Politicus. The autograph entries include a reference to Selden's Uxor Ebraica, which was published in 1646, and the copious notes on marriage and divorce probably date from 1643-1646, but other portions are probably much earlier. The non-autograph parts are in the hands of several amanuenses of Milton, but there are also additions (e....
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John Milton: Commonplace-book.: Autogr. includes: f. 1 Henry Lawes, composer: Letter to John Milton: [1638?]. f. 28 b et passim Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston: Entries in Milton's Commonplace-book.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1630-1650
Extent:
1 item

16. Add MS 50898

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Add MS 50898
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CHURCH HOUSE MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. XI. Chants for psalms at morning and evening prayer on thirty successive days; collected aft. 1840(watermark f. 10). Imperfect, by the excision of most of the last leaf (f. 33), which bears the remnants of pencil sketches. Mostly for four voices in short score. Mos...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1840
Extent:
1 item

17. Add MS 53723

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HENRY LAWES MUSIC MANUSCRIPT: songs by Henry Lawes, Gentleman of the Chapel Royal (d.1662); circa 1626-1662. Autograph. The manuscript, which contains 325 songs, was originally compiled in chronological order, with a few items entered subsequently on blank lower leaves. Besides the music, the volume is important as a collection of English poetry. For a detailed discussion, see P. J. Willetts, The Henry Lawes Manuscript (1969), where the contents of the manuscript are listed with early music ...
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Poetry ENGLISH: Verses set to music by H. Lawes: circa 1626-1662. Music: Henry Lawes, composer: Songs by Henry Lawes: circa 1626-1662: Autogr. Bindings ENGLISH: Brown leather, blind-ruled: 17th cent. includes: f. ii Bookplates and Book-stamps: Reverend William Gostling, Canon of Canterbury: ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1626-1662
Extent:
1 item

18. Add MS 59846

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MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS. Paper and vellum; ff. 225. British Library arrangement. A. Examination of Philip Wake before Sir Salathiel Lovell, Recorder of London, relating to the setting fire to the house of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., in Bloomsbury Square; 27 April 1700. Purchased of Alan G. Thomas, Jan. 1977. f. 1. 300 x 185mm. B. Letter of Ethel Rowe afterwards Holloway (b.1866, d.1927) to her brother John Christopher Rowe, entitled 'Jottings from Kimberley Delivered'; 27 Feb. 1...
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includes: f. 1 Sir Salathiel Lovell, Recorder of London: Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet: Examination of Philip Wake signed by Sir Salathiel Lovell rel. to Sir Hans Sloane: 1700.f. 2 Ethel Rowe, afterwards Holloway; of Kimberley, South Africa: John Christopher Rowe: Letter to her brother from Ethe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1360-1977
Extent:
1 item

19. Add MS 63852

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Add MS 63852
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KEYBOARD AND LYRA VIOL MUSIC, ETC.: volume containing pieces for keyboard and, in tablature, for lyra viol, together with a number of songs, some added at a slightly later date; mid-late 17th century. Copies. Mostly anonymous but the following composers are named among the instrumental pieces: O. Gibbons, J. Mercure, J. Jenkins, G. Hudson, J. Lilly, W. Young, J. Hutchinson, R. Johnson, Dr. C. Coleman, J. Carwarden, J. Gaultier ('Gutteer'), J. Esto; and among the songs: Capt. S. Pack, J. B. L...
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Simon Ives, the elder; composer: Instrumental music by Simon Ives: mid 17th cent. William Lawes, composer: Instrumental music by William Lawes: mid 17th cent. Henry Lawes, composer: Songs by Henry Lawes: mid 17th cent. includes: f. 5 Orlando Gibbons, organist and composer: Keyboard music by ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1630-1699]
Extent:
1 item

20. Add MS 74763

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Add MS 74763
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COLLECTION OF PASTORAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL POEMS, 1628-circa 1714. Copies, circa but after 1739. Partly printed and engraved. Besides some longer works, listed below, the collection includes pieces by Dryden (ff. 87v-89), Roscommon (ff. 80v-83v), John Byrom (ff. 84-85v), Elizabeth Rowe (ff. 78-80, 85v-87), Behn (89-90v), Prior (ff. 90v-91) and Anne Finch (ff. 93v-94v). The texts, which are transcribed in a single uniformly neat hand, appear to be taken from printed sources. See Sotheby’s sale-...
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Poetry ENGLISH: Collection of pastoral and topographical poems, 1628-1714: circa 1731: Copies. includes: ff. 1v-56v John Gay, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Pastorals and other poems, circa 1713-1714, by John Gay: circa 1731: Copies.ff. 57-70v Poetry ENGLISH: Ambrose Philips, poet: Pastorals, circa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1739
Extent:
1 item