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361. Royal Appendix MS 55

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Royal Appendix MS 55
Title:
Collection of 16th century compositions, in French and Italian, by anonymous authors.
Scope & Content:
ff. 11. Songs, chiefly French, by anonymous composers. Nos. 1-9 appear to be for a treble voice; nos. 10 and 11, for a bass; and no. 12, for a tenor. Except where the contrary is stated, they are unaccompanied. 1. 'Fault jl qu'au mal que j'endure '; with accompaniment for lute, in tablature. f. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item (11 folios)

362. Royal MS 5 F VII

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Royal MS 5 F VII
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Scope & Content:
1. S. BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX, theological writings, viz.:- (a) 'Epistola ad Adam monachum'; imperfect, beg. ' [mo]destiam uel potius molestiam'(Migne, Patr. Lat. clxxxii. 99). f. 2. (b) ' Apologia Bernardi ad Willelmum', &c.; cf. 5 F. 1, art. 2 (1). f. 3 b. Epistolae, viz.:-(a) to Thomas [Pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century-13th century
Extent:
1 volume (i + 130 folios)

363. Royal MS 12 E I

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Royal MS 12 E I
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Scope & Content:
Lives of Saints and theological collections of the early 14th cent., in Latin; bound up with a Latin metrical arithmetic and other matter in hands of the 15th cent. Contents: 1. Algorismus Metricus: the common versified arithmetic [by Alexander de Villa Dei], cf. 8 C. IV, art. 11. Without title...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-15th century
Extent:
1 volume (197 folios)

364. Royal MS 14 A XXII

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Royal MS 14 A XXII
Title:
Collection of psalms, sonnets, melodies, etc, in Spanish, composed by Pedro de Coster Vander Ven.
Scope & Content:
'Cinquenta Psalmos del Psalterio. En Rima y Canto segun se cantan en las Iglezias Reformadas de Francia y Germania, compuestos en lengua castellana por Pedro de Coster Vander Ven, Natural d'Emberes [?Antwerp]. Dedicados al . . . Rey Don Jacobo, Rey de Ingalatierra'; with a long introduction in S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
[1603-1625]
Extent:
1 volume (61 folios)

365. Sloane MS 292

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 292
Title:
Volume containing chiefly writings of a medical nature, and including the melody and words of two anonymous songs
Scope & Content:
The principal contents of the MS are of a medical nature. includes: f. 1 b Marrick Abbey; Yorkshire: A metrical prophecy found in: 17th cent. f. 1 b Prophecies: Prophecy found in Marrick Abbey: 17th cent. ff. 1-47 b, 53-59 b John Dixon, of Sleaford: Notes and additions to an old collection of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
10th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (6 folios)

366. Sloane MS 1021

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1021
Title:
Commonplace book of Johannes Stobaeus, containing musical compositions and instructions for the lute
Scope & Content:
Commonplace book of Johannes Stobaeus (or Stobäus), Kapellmeister to the Elector of Brandenburg, compiled at Königsberg in and shortly before 1640. The book contains vocal and instrumental music, writings on music and drawings of instruments. Many of the pieces are probably Stobaeus's compositio...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1640
Extent:
1 volume

367. Sloane MS 1941

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Sloane MS 1941
Title:
Personal papers of Dr. Nehemiah Grew, including correspondence, inventories, poems, and musical compositions, observational writings and notes, relating to social, familial, professional, and artistic subjects
Scope & Content:
1. Verses 'upon a sorry Privy-house belonging to a faire and full inhabited building.' f. 1.Begin: — 'And 'tis a pretty thing! If I could kenn' 2. Eight verses on Dryden. f. 2. Begin: — 'Traytor to God and Rebell to thy pen.' 3. Verses on the monument. f. 4. Begin: — 'When Hodge first spyed th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (85 folios)

368. Stowe MS 1081

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 1081
Title:
Twelve ink drawings of persons and groups, elaborately executed by a French artist, generally without removing the pen from the surface. Opposite each drawing are one or more anonymous French songs for voice with a bass for harpsichord, in score. On the covers are two similar figures cut out of the upper vellum skin with a penknife.
Scope & Content:
The first six songs are described as 'Airs,' the others as 'Chansons à boire, à dancer,' etc. 'Philis, quel destin dois-ie suiure.' f. 4. 'Me veux tu voir mourir ' (cf. Add MS 17991, f. 47b, the date of which is about 1620-1621). f. 5b. 'Source des plus aymables charmes.' f. 8. 'Puisque ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 volume (32 folios)

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