Manuscripts

Im Frühling: a song with words and music

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Description: A musical piece dedicated to Adolf Böttger and written in Leipzig, Germany. The spine and front cover contain the English title "In the Spring;" the manuscript is bound in red morocco gilt and there is slight damage to the spine. Also included are various autograph notes and musical pieces originally laid into the volume.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1841 April 21.
Call number: mssHM 1020
Creator: Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of July 1929.
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Melodies for the Pianoforte: musical score

Manuscripts

This musical manuscript was published as "Songs without Words," numbered in the manuscript from 1 to 6; on the title page is also a note by Ignaz Moscheles, Mendelssohn's teacher. The manuscript was disbound and the blue morocco gilt binding was retained and kept with the manuscript.

mssHM 1019

The song of Los

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Binding: Full red morocco by Riviere (for Halsey?), top edge gilt. Gilt frames on covers and stamped in gilt on spine. Interleaved.

54043

The songs of experience

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Plates 34-36, 53 etched 1789; plates 29-33, 37-52 etched 1794. Plates disbound and separately mounted in preservation mats. Former binding preserved: Full maroon morocco, gilt frames on covers, and stamped in gilt on spine. The hand numbering by Blake (in ink in upper right corners), seem to indicate that the plates were separated from a numbered copy of "Songs of Innocence"

54038

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Musical memoranda, anecdotes, and lists

Manuscripts

A music-related volume of autograph text containing an index, titles of works performed, notes on musical events, and lists of singers and musical instruments; there are 99 pages of text with additional blank pages. Please note: the spine is heavily damaged and flaking and both covers are loose; also enclosed: 11 pages of autograph notes previously laid inside front cover and various pages.

mssHM 82869

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Poetical manuscript commonplace book

Manuscripts

A verse miscellany, entitled "Poetical Manuscript Commonplace book" on the spine and "English Verses, Time of James and Charles the First" within the volume; it is written in a single neat italic hand, probably written in Oxford, England, approximately 1635, and associated with Christ Church College, Oxford University. The volume contains 108 poems, almost all of which are presented anonymously; there are mentions of race and skin color and more than 60 of the poems concern women, love, or marriage. Some of the poems are attributed to, among others, Thomas Carew, Richard Corbet, Robert Herrick, Ben Jonson, Henry King, Thomas Randolph, and William Strode. The volume has 19th-century foliation and a list of contents in the front. The volume is bound in contemporary calf, sewn on four alum-tawed slips, covers with a single gilt rule border, head of spine has some damage, and the end leaves were replaced in approximately 1830; also, with a catalogue cutting pasted inside front cover and a morocco-backed slipcase.

mssHM 84418

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Daguerreotype portrait of family group, in case bound in old blue morocco, elaborately gilt tooled and inlaid in colors

Visual Materials

Daguerreotype of unidentified family group consisting of mother, father and small child. There is some hand-coloring, notably in the child's dress and accessories. Bound in a photograph case designed to resemble a book: blue morocco with gilt tooling and colored inlays in a floral pattern on front and back covers. The outer edges are gilt and the covers are secured by gilt clasps. The interior front cover is velvet and has the same embossed floral pattern as the cover. Spine title in gilt: Souvenir.

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Im Frühling: a song with words and music

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