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1. Zweig MS 119-120

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 119-120
Title:
Richard Wagner: ‘Das Liebesverbot’ (WWV 38), comic opera in two acts (libretto, the composer after Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure), 1834-40: draft libretto, and French translation, with draft of a letter to Giacomo Meyerbeer
Scope & Content:
[1834, 1839-1840]. Autograph.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and German
Date Range:
1834-1840
Extent:
2 volumes

2. Zweig MS 119

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 119
Title:
Richard Wagner: ‘Das Liebesverbot’. Draft libretto
Scope & Content:
Written in brown ink, with corrections and additions (ff. 1r, 2v, 3r, 6v, 8v, 9r) in red ink. Incomplete, lacking Act I, scene i, and the end of the last scene of Act II. Portions of a number of leaves are torn or cut away. Of these, the following affect the text: lower fore-edge ff. 1, 2, and l...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1834]
Extent:
1 volume (10 folios)

3. Zweig MS 120

Reference (shelfmark):
Zweig MS 120
Title:
Richard Wagner: ‘Das Liebesverbot’. French translation, with draft of a letter to Giacomo Meyerbeer
Scope & Content:
Translation of libretto as ‘La défense d’amour / ou / La novice de Palerme’. With draft of letter to Giacomo Meyerbeer; [1839, 1840]. Autograph. As follows: ff. 1-30r. Libretto; [1839]. French. Title and list of dramatis personae on f. 1; text (ff. 1v-30r) has marginal diagrams relating to met...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French and German
Date Range:
1839-1840
Extent:
1 volume (30 folios)