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311. Add MS 37046

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Add MS 37046
Title:
Rough drafts of vocal and instrumental compositions, in the hand of John Liptrot Hatton, predominantly in score. Original compositions, as well as operatic Fantasias by René Favarger, and pianoforte accompaniments to Nicolò Paganini's Violin Capriccios.
Scope & Content:
Sketches of songs in the hand of John Liptrot Hatton, mostly with pianoforte accompaniment, in score, composed in 1869 and 1870. The names of the authors of the words are generally given, and in many cases those of the publishers to whom songs were afterwards sent. Some appear, however, to have ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1869-1870
Extent:
1 volume (134 folios)

312. Add MS 37074

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Add MS 37074
Title:
Collection of vocal and instrumental compositions, in score, probably by Reverend Robert Creyghton.
Scope & Content:
ff. 4-6b Series of seven short unnamed pieces for Lute, apparently in the hand of the Rev. Robert Creyghton, D.D., who has signed four with his initials, and added the date 1727 on the first and the last pages. ff. 7-8b. 'Hark! How ye pleasant thunder-tempest sounds'; with a bass for harpsicho...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:
1727
Extent:
1 volume (101 folios)

313. Arundel MS 44

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Arundel MS 44
Title:
Conrad of Hirsau (?), Speculum virginum
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Notated antiphon ‘Audite o lucis filie’ from the Epithalamium in the Speculum Virginum; musical notation: neumes on 4-line staves. ff. 1v-129v: Conrad of Hirsau (?), Speculum virginum; this work is in the form of a dialogue between the teacher, a Benedictine named Peregrinus, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

314. Arundel MS 248

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Arundel MS 248
Title:
Scope & Content:
Codex membranaceus, in 4to., ff. 201, sec. xiv., baud una manu exaratus, quondam liber Henrici Savil Junioris ex dono Thomæ Foxcroft de Christall, postea Thomæ Bromhead de Bremley in parochia de Ledes Generosi. 1. Albertani Causidici Brixiensis librorum de doctrina dicendi et tacendi, consolat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-15th century
Extent:
1 item

315. Arundel MS 356

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Arundel MS 356
Title:
Scope & Content:
Membranaceus, in 8vo., ff. 46, sec. fortasse xi. 1. Bedæ Ephemeris. fol. 1. Impress paulo auctius, inter opera ed. Colon. tom. i. p. 190. 2. Tabulæ de embolismo, de luna, de termino paschali, etc., cum axpositionibus. fol. 7. 3. "Collectaria figura embolismorum una cum expositione." fol. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
[11th century]
Extent:
1 item

316. Arundel MS 501

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 501
Title:
Miscellany, assembled from fragments of several different codices; includes the confession of faith of a town in Germany; a fragment of the Regimen acutorum, attributed to Hipppocrates; a fragment of Hidlebert of Lavardin, Sermo de communi consensu; and medical texts
Scope & Content:
Miscellany, assembled from fragments of several different codices. The manuscript was formerly bound together with Arundel MSS 499 and 500, and foliated consecutively with these volumes, as ff. 18-43 (the current foliation is as ff. 1-26). Folios 15 and 16 were originally part of Arundel MS 44, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
11th century - 16th century
Extent:
A parchment and paper codex, 26 folios

317. Cotton MS Titus A XXVI, ff 2-60

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Cotton MS Titus A XXVI, ff 2-60
Title:
Notebook of Zorzi Trombetta "da Modon", including a treatise on ship-building
Scope & Content:
Description of the music from Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music: ff. 3v-7v passim. Chansons for 2 or 3 voices, in parts, apparently written in the north of Italy. Anonymous. 1. 'Jour a iour' (à 3). f. 3v. 2. 'Qu'en puisie ' (à 2). f. 4. 3. 'Vne fois auant que mourir' (à 3)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Italian
Date Range:
1444-1449
Extent:
1 item

318. Cotton MS Vespasian A XVIII, ff 163–167

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Cotton MS Vespasian A XVIII, ff 163–167
Title:
Medieval endleaves of §I, including Walter Map, De uirtute clauium (163v–164r: Walther 11891), and two Old French trouvère songs (164v–165r)
Scope & Content:
Description of the music, from Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music: Two songs of an amorous character, in French, with music expressed by square and diamond-shaped notes on a stave of 4 red lines, with the C, and once the B, signature. Anonymous. 1. 'Amor ueint tout fors quer...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-14th century
Extent:
1 item

319. Cotton MS Vespasian A XXV, ff 127–179

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Cotton MS Vespasian A XXV, ff 127–179
Title:
Tudor songs and ballads (127r–163v, 178r–179v); sermon preached by John Stubs, Gloucester, 1558 (164r–170r); John Lydgate, Dance of Macabre (172r–177v: Boffey 2590)
Scope & Content:
Description from Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music: Christmas and other Carols, without music; Paper, 16th cent. A song which appears to begin with the words, 'God ys the cheffest vnizon'; ascribed in a note at the end to Sir Peter Harfurth (called Hartforth on f. 153), 'c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 item

320. Egerton MS 814

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 814
Title:
'Chansonnier ou Recüeil de Chansons Annecdotes, depuis I'année 1600, jusqu'à présent, 1744'. Volume 1.
Scope & Content:
A collection of political songs. Arranged in chronological order. In the margin are numerous notes relating to the historical persons alluded to in the text of the songs, all the names being indexed at the ends of the original volumes. Also included are numbers from French operas. The airs are u...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
after 1744
Extent:
1 volume

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