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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 29246
Title:: Lute accompaniments to, or arrangements of, madrigals, masses, motets, and pieces originally written for string ensembles
Scope & Content:: Lute accompaniments to, or arrangements of, the following madrigals, masses, motets, etc., in Italian tablature. They appear to be arranged, roughly speaking, according to the number of voices, for which they were originally written, namely; 1-4, for two voices; 5-78, for 3 voices; 79 to end, fo...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: after 1611
Extent:: 1 volume (57 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 29247
Title:: Lute accompaniments to, or arrangements of, anthems, madrigals, and motets
Scope & Content:: Lute accompaniments to, or arrangements of, the following anthems, madrigals, and motets, in Italian tablature. They appear to be arranged, roughly speaking, according to the number of voices, for which they were originally written, namely; 1-72, for 5 voices; 73 to end, for 6 voices. 1. 'Prostr...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: after 1611
Extent:: 1 volume (77 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 29276
Title:: Lectionary
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century lectionary was owned by and almost certainly produced at the Benedictine abbey of Tholey in Saarland (Germany). The manuscript contains an anathema (f. 162v) that curses thieves and plunderers of the monastery with all the maledictions of the Law of Moses and the punishment of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century -3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 29485
Title:: Almands, galliards, pavans, sarabands, etc., arranged for the virginals, on six-lined staves, with headings in Dutch.
Scope & Content:: Collection of pieces arranged for the Virginals, written on two staves of 6 lines each. Apparently made for Susanne van Soldt, 1599 (see f. 1); but the writing on f. 2 (in a different, but nearly contemporary hand — see also ff. 24-27) seems to connect the MS. with England. The names of the comp...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Dutch and English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume (27 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 29972
Title:: St Augustine, Homilies
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a fragmentary collection of sermons by St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430). It was produced in the 1st quarter of the 8th century, and written in a type of Merovingian minuscule cursive that is associated with the Benedictine abbey of Luxeuil, one of the oldest monast...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 8th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 29986
Title:: Le Miroir des Dames (an anonymous French translation of Durand de Champagne's Speculum dominarum)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of Le Miroir des Dames, an anonymous French translation of the Speculum dominarum, a treatise on queenship written for Jeanne de Navarre (b. 1273, d. 1305), Queen of France and wife of Philip IV (r. 1285-1314), by her confessor, Durand de Champagne. The manuscri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1407-1410
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 29987
Title:: Madrigals, ballads, and motets by Italian composers (mainly anonymous), including: Jacobus de Bolonia. Johannes de Florentia. Franciscus de Florentia. Frater Bartolinus de Padova. Giovanni de Chascina. Ser Lorenzo, prete di Firenze Ser Gheradello. Bonavitus Corsini, pitor. Frate Andrea de ser Vi. Donato da Chascina. Frate Vincenzo. Nicholo del Proposto. Frate Guigliemo di S. Spirito. Francescho degli Organni. Don Paghollo. Rosso de Chollegrana.
Scope & Content:: ff. 2b-69b passim. 'Madriali,' 'Ballate,' 'Cacce,' etc., by little-known Italian composers of the 14th century. There are similar collections in the Biblioteca Laurenziana at Florence (87) and in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris. Unless the contrary is stated, the compositions are for 2 voice...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century-16th century
Extent:: 1 volume (88 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 29996
Title:: Motets, madrigals, fancies, by Thomas Tomkins and others, interspersed with political verses and satires, recipes etc.
Scope & Content:: Motets, madrigals, fancies, etc., annotated throughout by Thomas Tomkins, with some of his own compositions. The composers named are - Kyrton, ff. 6, 7 b. John Redford, ff. 6 b, 11, 17, 22 b, 36, 37, 40 b, 42 b. Richard Wynslate, f. 20. - Avere [Avory], f. 25. Philip Apprys [Price], of St. Paul'...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 30024
Title:: Brunetto Latini, Li livres dou tresor
Scope & Content:: Contents: Brunetto Latini, Li livres dou tresor, composed in 1260: ff. 3r-8v: Table of chapters, with seven sections marked by rubrics; ff. 8v-91r : Book 1, La Naissance de Toutes Choses, a universal history of the world, in three sections (two leaves after f. 48, two leaves after f. 63 and t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1260-1299
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 30387
Title:: Dance and other music in lute notation, composed by Silvio Leopold Weis and Sigismund Weis, of Prague, in 1717-1724
Scope & Content:: Passim. Collection of solos for Lute. 1717-1724. The 'Weis' whose name is put to so many of them is probably Sylvius Leopold Weiss, but a few may be by his brother Sigismund, who was also a lutist, and by whom there is a composition on f. 33b. Probably other pieces besides those ascribed to them...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1717-1724
Extent:: 1 volume (159 folios)

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