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721. Add MS 58853

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ITALIAN CANTATAS: 'Parole di Gio. Patritio Carey messe in musica da Diuersi Autori', settings for soprano solo accompanied by a figured bass; mid-17th cent. The signature of 'Guglmo Reymes' (i.e. William Reymes) is on ff. 1 and 83v (for comparison see Sloane 514). Folio i is the bookplate of 'Maurice Burrus', 1937. For a discussion on the identification of the author of the texts as the minor English poet, Patrick Cary see Pamela J. Willetts, 'Patrick Cary and his Italian poems', B.L.J. 2, n...
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Poetry ITALIAN: Music: Patrick Cary, English poet: 'Parole di Gio. Patritio Carey messe in musica da Diuersi Autori', settings for soprano solo accompanied by a figured bass: mid-17th cent.: Ital. includes: ff. 2-35b, 78-83b Carlo Rainaldi, Italian architect, composer and instrumentalist: Five...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 item

722. Add MS 59874

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JANE AUSTEN: ''Volume the Second'', comprising later autograph copies of early compositions dating from circa 1790-1793. Imperfect, lacking twelve leaves. Included are two brief epistolary novels ''Love and Friendship'' and ''Lesley Castle'', and a parodic ''History of England'', the latter illustrated with coloured vignettes by Jane Austen''s sister Cassandra. Other contents include ''A Collection of Letters'' dedicated to a childhood friend Miss Cooper and ''Scraps'' dedicated to a niece F...
Scope & Content:
Jane Austen, novelist: `Volume the Second'' of Jane Austen: circa 1790-1793.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1790-1793
Extent:
1 item

723. Add MS 62122

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Title:
St Jerome, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew; Commentary on the Book of Daniel
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This is one of the few manuscripts to survive from the Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary and Saint Rumon at Tavistock (Devon). This manuscript was produced in the 12th century, and contains biblical commentaries by the Church father St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), whose writings were central to the st...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

724. Add MS 62540

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Title:
Atlas of Sicily, England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland
Scope & Content:
Atlas book containing two maps by Laurence Nowell (1530-c. 1570), antiquary, covering Sicily, England, Wales, Ireland and part of Scotland. With itineraries partly in the hand of William Cecil, first Baron Burghley (1520-1598), royal minister. f. 2v: Map of Sicily by Laurence Nowell, possibly ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1564
Extent:

1 volume

725. Add MS 63077

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Title:
Glossed Book of Genesis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a glossed Book of Genesis. The glosses are that of the Glossa Salomonis (Salomo's Gloss), a commentary on the Book of Genesis, attributed to Salomo III Ranschwag (b. 890, d. 922), Bishop of Constance and abbot of St Gall. It survives in three English manuscripts (see Hut...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

726. Add MS 65194

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Title:
Abridgement of the Book of Assizes, bound by the 'Scales Binder'
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Contents: The abridgement of the Book of Assizes, an anonymous alphabetical abridgement of material from the year books of the Court of Assizes, compiled in the mid fifteenth century, and distinct from the fourteenth-century Liber Assisarum. This abridgement was first published in 1509 by Rich...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1456-1465
Extent:

Paper codex

727. Add MS 65381

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''VOLUME THE THIRD'': notebook containing two early novels, ''Evelyn'' and ''Catharine, or the Bower'', by Jane Austen; 6 May 1792-19 Aug. 1809, n.d.
Scope & Content:
Mostly autograph. This is the third of the surviving three volumes of Jane Austen's juvenilia; ''Volume the First'' is in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (MS Don.e.7) and ''Volume the Second'' is in the British Library (Add. 59874). All contain copies, with some later additions and revisions, of or...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 May 1792-19 Aug 1809
Extent:
1 item

728. Add MS 70513

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Title:
Collection of metrical saints' lives in Anglo-Norman French ('The Campsey Manuscript')
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the only surviving medieval collection of rhymed saints' lives in Anglo-Norman French. It is known as the 'Campsey Manuscript', after the female Augustinian priory of Campsey, in Suffolk, where it was housed during the 14th century. An added inscription in the manuscript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

729. Add MS 71544

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JOHN LENTON: ‘Instrumentall Musick for New Yeares Day’; 1699. 1st treble part only. In the hand of the same scribe throughout: the fact that the end of the music (f. 8) is signed ‘J: L:’ suggests that the manuscript may well be autograph. The title page reads: ‘Instrumentall Musick For New Yeares day 1699. By John Lenton, Composer to his Ma[jes]tie’. Dedication (f. 1v) ‘To The Most Illustrious Princess, Her Royall Highness Princess Ann of Denmark, The Author humbly Dedicates’. The music comp...
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Anne of England: 'Instrumentall Musick for New Yeares Day 1699' by John Lenton, dedicated 'To The Most Illustrious Princess, Her Royall Highness Princess Ann of Denmark': 1699. John Lenton, violinist and composer: 'Instrumentall Musick for New Yeares Day', 1st treble part: 1699: possibly autogr.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1699
Extent:
1 item

730. Add MS 74233 A

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Title:
Cutting from a Missal
Scope & Content:
This is a single cutting from a leaf originally part of a large missal (as yet untraced). On the recto, the cutting comprises a very large historiated initial 'D' in gold and colours, within a frame border on a blue background. The initial combines architectual and foliate forms. To the left, t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:

1 leaf

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