STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLII. Fragment of Act 1 of 'Faust, Part 2'; circa 1830. Fair copy. German. The fragment contains lines 5884-5935. See J. W. von Goethe, Gedenkausgabe der Werke, Briefe und Gespräche, ed. E. Beutler, vol. 5 (Zurich, 1950), pp. 328-330. Note of presentation to Franz G...
Carl Friedrich Zelter: [‘Vorstand und Recht’], beginning ‘So lang man nüchtern ist’, four-part song in F for male voices (words Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, from West-östliches Divan)
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1814, [1816?]. Autograph score. Written in brown ink on systems of two staves; the staves drawn freehand. On a single leaf. The upper two-thirds of the recto have the text of the poem written out by Goethe, and dated by him ‘26 Jul 1814’. Zelter’s setting, which itself bears no date, begins belo...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLIV. Ink and wash drawing of the observatory at Seeberg bei Eger; [1808]. See Corpus der Goethezeichnungen, vol. VI B (Leipzig, 1971), p. 119, no. B 86 C. Vb, 207. The inscription 'Goethes Handzeichnung Gustav Schueler Jena' has been added by a former owner. f. 1...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLVI. Heinrich Heine: poem 'Die armen Weber'; [1844]. Draft. German. Published as 'Die Schlesischen Weber'. See Heinrich Heine, Sämtliche Schriften, ed. K. Briegleb, vol. 4 (Munich, 1971), p. 455. f. 1. 269 x 209mm. Heinrich Heine, author: Poetry GERMAN: Poem 'Di...
Autographfair copy. Hofmannsthal’s hand shows characteristics of both roman script and Kurrentschrift. Thirty-eight lines of blank verse in iambic pentameters. It describes man and nature awaking at daybreak after a storm, a vision of Christ and his mother, and a guilty young man returning to ...
Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin: Poem 'Stuttgart' [1800-1801]
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Autograph fair copy in Kurrentschrift. Folio 1 annotated by other hands as described above. An elegy of six stanzas with the title spelled ‘Stutgard’. Each strophe is formed of nine distiches in groups of three. The poem reflects the celebration of autumn in a landscape through which the wande...
Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin: Two poems 'An die Deutschen' and 'Die scheinheiligen Dichter'
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Autograph drafts in Kurrentschrift. Signed at the foot of the recto (the corresponding signature on the verso is cut away). Two of the twelve epigrammatic odes that Hölderlin prepared for publication in 1798. Both of eight lines in two stanzas. 'An die Deutschen': a call to action for Germa...
Henrik Johan Ibsen: Fragment of article 'En Udflugt til Abydos'
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Autograph draft with corrections and additions. The article describes Ibsen’s visit to the ruins of Abydos in Egypt on his way to the ceremony for the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. The manuscript contains notes describing the journey by steamship from Quenneh in Nubia and the activities of...
John Keats: Fragment of poem 'I stood tip-toe upon a little hill'
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Autograph first draft. Fifty-seven lines (including deletions) from the 4th leaf of the poem. The whole work consists of 242 lines in rhyming couplets, drafted on ten leaves. Lines 87-106 of the final version are drafted on the recto, and lines 123-150 on the verso of this fragment. The gap be...