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591. Add MS 31922

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Add MS 31922
Title:
A collection of songs, ballads, and instrumental pieces, composed early in the reign of Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
passim. Compositions for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in parts, apparently written early in the reign of Henry VIII (see for 1882-1887, p. 7). {Severeal published by the Roxburghe Club in 1912} {See J. E. Stevens 'Rounds and Canons from an early Tudor Song Book', Music and Letters,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (129 folios)

592. Add MS 31992

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Add MS 31992
Title:
A collection of miserere, anthems, motets and madrigals, in Italian lute notation
Scope & Content:
A collection, similar to Add MSS 29246, 29247, in Italian tablature; Probably after 1611 (date of latest known published compositions). In the first part of the MS. (ff. 3-55) nos. 1 to 81, and a few others named below, are by William Byrd, those marked with an asterisk, from Psalms, Sonets, and...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume (99 folios)

593. Add MS 32058

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Add MS 32058
Title:
Cuttings and leaves from illuminated manuscripts, including the Teutonic Knights Bible
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of a series of cuttings from liturgical manuscripts and leaves from two Latin Bibles bound together, one known as the Teutonic Knights Bible. Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Seven cuttings with historiated initials from Italian manuscripts. ff. 5r-8v: Four leaves from a Bible in L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

594. Add MS 32058, ff 1-4

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Add MS 32058, ff 1-4
Title:
Seven cuttings with historiated initials from Italian manuscripts
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-4: Seven historiated initials from Italian manuscripts of the 14th century: f. 1r (above): Initial 'I' of God creating the earth above, and God creating Adam below; on the reverse are three 4-line staves with musical notation and three lines of fragmentary text. f. 1r (below): Initial '...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

Part of Add MS 32058

595. Add MS 32058, ff 5-8

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Add MS 32058, ff 5-8
Title:
Four leaves from a Bible in Latin with historiated initials
Scope & Content:
Four leaves from a Bible in Latin: f. 5r-v: A leaf from St Jerome's preface to the book of Kings, begins 'Viginti duas esse litteras ap[u]d hebreos', with a historiated initial, 'V' of a scholar with a halo teaching two figures from a book; the partial border contains a cleric holding a book re...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
Part of Add MS 32058

596. Add MS 32058, ff 9-22

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Add MS 32058, ff 9-22
Title:
Fourteen leaves (one fragmentary) from a Bible in Latin, the 'Teutonic Knights Bible'
Scope & Content:
Fourteen leaves (one fragmentary) from volume 2 of a Latin Bible in three volumes ('The Teutonic Knights Bible'). Other leaves are now London, Victoria and Albert Museum, nos 9036A to 9036Z, 9036Z/A, 9036F/1, D.544 to D.599. No part of volume I (Genesis to II Chronicles) is known to survive and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:

Part of Add MS 32058

597. Add MS 32246

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 32246
Title:
Fragment of Excerptiones de Prisciano with the 'Elegy of Herbert and Wulfgar', glossaries, and Ælfric's Colloquy
Scope & Content:
The main text of this manuscript is a fragment of Excerptiones de Prisciano, copied in the first decade of the eleventh century, probably at Abingdon; the rest of the manuscript is now in Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, MS 16.2 (formerly MS 47). Förster has reconstructed what the original colla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of 11th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

598. Add MS 33241

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Add MS 33241
Title:
Encomium Emmae reginae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an account praising Emma (d. 1052), the second consort of both Æthelred II (d. 1016), king of England, and Cnut (d. 1035), king of England, Denmark and Norway. The work was composed by a Flemish monk at Emma's behest. This manuscript also contains an image of the author ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

599. Add MS 33933

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 33933
Title:
The Wode Psalter or St Andrews Psalter: contra-tenor part-book containing musical settings of metrical psalms from the 1564 Scottish Psalm Book and other music
Scope & Content:
Most of the music was collected and copied by Thomas Wode (or Wood). Wode was a former monk who worked at St Andrews after the Reformation in Scotland, eventually becoming vicar there. At the core of the collection are harmonisations of the psalms by Scottish composer David Peebles. Over a perio...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
c 1564-c 1625
Extent:
1 volume (94 folios)

600. Add MS 34034

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 34034
Title:
Manuscript of Middlemarch: a study of provincial life, by George Eliot. Volume 1.
Scope & Content:
Vol. I, ff. 291.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
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