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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 61816
Title:: Benjamin Britten: 'Gloriana'. Act III
Scope & Content:: Music for Act III of Britten's opera Gloriana. Dated 13 March 1953, Aldeburgh and Harewood, co. York (f. 102).
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1953
Extent:: 1 volume (102 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 61821
Title:: Sir Philip Sidney, ‘The Old Arcadia’ and ‘The Lady of May’
Scope & Content:: Copy of the first version of the pastoral romance ‘The Arcadia’, composed by Sir Philip Sidney, author and courtier (1554-1586), between c. 1577 and c. 1580, and first published in 1590. With ‘The Lady of May’, an entertainment written for the visit of Queen Elizabeth I to Wanstead House in May ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 61822
Title:: William Briton's miscellany of Tudor prose and verse, including Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella
Scope & Content:: A largely autograph miscellany of Tudor prose and verse, which belonged to William Briton (1564–c. 1636) of Kelston, Somerset. The manuscript began life as a household account-book (ff. 116v–120r) of his father, John Briton or Bryton (d. circa 1586). It consists mainly of entries made by William...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1564-c 1654
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 61822/1
Title:: Papers relating to William Briton's miscellany of Tudor prose and verse (Add MS 61822)
Scope & Content:: A collection of notes by William Ringler Jr, R. B. McKerrow and Quaritch on William Briton's miscellany of Tudor prose and verse (Add MS 61822), kept in a separate folder as Add MS 61822/1. ff. 1r–7r: Typewritten, signed description of Add MS 61822 by William Ringler Jr, 12 August 1950: 'The Ho...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1927-1950
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 62100
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Scope & Content:: CHANDOS MUSIC MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. II. G. F. Handel, 'Chandos' Anthems 'Let God arise' (ff. 2-60v), 'Have mercy upon me O God' (ff. 61-101) and 'O be joyful' (ff. 104-159). Full score. Inventory nos. 10, 11, 12. ff. iii+159. Red leather binding, gilt-tooled, [18th cent.?]. 300 x 240mm. George Fr...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [18th century?]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 62135
Title:: WYATT PAPERS. Vol. I. A collection of documents by and relating to members of the Wyatt family, [1496?]-early 18th cent., compiled by Richard Wyatt (d. 1753); 1727. Partly copies. Partly Latin. Chiefly by and concerning Sir Henry Wyatt (d. 1537), Sir Thomas Wyatt the elder (1503-1543), Sir Thomas Wyatt the younger (1520-1554), George Wyatt (1554-1624) and Sir Francis Wyatt (d. 1644).
Scope & Content:: WYATT PAPERS. Vol. I. A collection of documents by and relating to members of the Wyatt family, [1496?]-early 18th cent., compiled by Richard Wyatt (d. 1753); 1727. Partly copies. Partly Latin. Chiefly by and concerning Sir Henry Wyatt (d. 1537), Sir Thomas Wyatt the elder (1503-1543), Sir Thoma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1495-1799
Extent:: 1 volume in two parts

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 62525
Title:: New Year's Gift Roll of Queen Mary I, 1557, with wedding, christening and other gifts made by the Queen, 8 Feb 1556-10 Feb 1557
Scope & Content:: New Year's Gift Roll, 1557. This records gifts exchanged between Queen Mary I and her Court on New Year's Day, 1 Jan 1557 (3 & 4 Philip and Mary). Signed by the Queen in four places at the head and foot of each side of the roll ('Marye the quene'), and once (on the recto) by Richard Wilbraha...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1557
Extent:: 1 roll

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 62935
Title:: William Lambarde's map of warning beacons in Kent
Scope & Content:: William Lambarde's map of beacons in Kent, endorsed, in a hand resembling Lambarde's, 'Carde of the Beacons in Kent'. In the 1580s and 1590s Lambarde was deputy lieutenant to Lord Cobham, who commissioned the map in order to have multiple copies made as a guide to the effective use of beacons. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: August 1585
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 64808
Title:: GIACOMO PUCCINI: opera 'Madame Butterfly'; [1903]. Preliminary sketches in short score for parts of Act II, towards the end of the opera. Autograph. Two leaves, the verso of the second blank; written in pencil. The passages represented are identified by reference to the cue numbers in the vocal score of the original two-act version, published Milan: G. Ricordi & C., 1904. See Dieter Schickling, Giacomo Puccini: Catalogue of the Works (Kassel, 2003), p. 261. Purchased from Richard Macnutt...
Scope & Content:: Giacomo Puccini, composer: Sketches for parts of Act II of 'Madame Butterfly' by Giacomo Puccini: [1903]: Autogr.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1903]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 64932
Title:: Joseph Haydn: Symphony no. 93
Scope & Content:: (ff. 40). Symphony no. 93. Copy. Bound together with Add MS 64931 and Add MS 64933.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1791-1795
Extent:: 1 item

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