Manuscripts

Zelmira: Dramma per Musica, Atto Secundo

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Description: An orchestral score with words; only leaves 44 to 184 are in the handwriting of Rossini.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1820.
Call number: mssHM 1055
Creator: Rossini, Gioacchino (1792-1868)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of November 1929.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Receuil d'airs avec accompagnement de guittare

Manuscripts

A bound music manuscript with score and words, bound in red morocco gilt; the manuscript was not composed by Rousseau but only copied out and illustrated by him. Laid into the volume are a page from the sale catalogue and a letter from J. Pearson and Company, Rare Books and Autographs, to Messers. B. F. Stevens and Brown (March 25, 1902); the letter provides provenance for the volume and states it was written by Rousseau for presentation to his patron, the Marquis de Girardin, whose arms are on the binding.

mssHM 700

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Armenian prayer book leaf

Manuscripts

This is one leaf from a prayer book written in Armenian that was probably created in the 15th century (exact date and location of creation are unknown). The original manuscript (which the Huntington does not have) was written on 184 vellum leaves. The text is in black with decorations in red; the opening of the prayer is decorated with an elaborate design in red. There is a note about the original manuscript with the leaf. It was LACMA RB 178 Ar5 1400?

mssHM 81271

Devotions, in Dutch : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-21v, 54v-95v, 218, 139-163v, 173-177v. [Meditations]. Dutch. A collection of meditations, sermons and prayers arranged according to the liturgical year, with many excerpts from such authors as Bonaventure, Bernard, Augustine, Anselm and Gregory. The text includes numerous added/inserted shorter texts; it is misbound and many leaves are missing. ff. 177v (rubric only), 182-217v, 164-172v. [Gerard Zerbolt van Zutphen] Van geestelijke opclimmingen. Dutch. This is the Dutch translation of De spiritualibus ascensionibus. ff. 218-231. [Pseudo Bernard] Prekel der mynnen. Dutch. This is the Dutch translation of Stimulus amoris; for the Latin text, see PL 184:953-966. Back flyleaf. [Breviary?] Latin. Containing part of the rite for visiting the sick, here with feminine forms in the original text, and the masculine forms supplied in superscript. Parchment 105 x 145 mm (measurement as given are from a cropped leaf). Germany, between 1150-1199.

mssHM 1048

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Armenian Lullaby: poem

Manuscripts

Versos of folios 1-3 music of Mr. Gillette in the handwriting of Frank G. Unger; rectos of folios 1-4, title and three leaves with Field's verses, decorated by a Japanese artist with watercolor illustrations. Also bound into volume: letter from Frank G. Unger to Eugene Field, September 7, 1894 (mssHM 19439).

mssHM 19439-19440

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Erinnerungsblätter

Manuscripts

These "Remembrance Leaves" are signed autograph poems, notes, and religious sayings, some with watercolor illustrations; there is also a pressed flower and a braid of hair. Thirty-three leaves are in German and one leaf is in English; there are also unused blank leaves. The leaves are housed in a green leather, gold embossed box made to look like an autograph album; the corners have some damage and the front cover is loose.

mssHM 82874

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Words

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"Words are not only letters, their order and their space are as important to make words possible. The book shows this idea by setting all of each of the different letters of the poem on a separate page in order to appreciate the space they occupy in the word and on the page. The poem refers with its own words to the importance of this concept"--Artist's statement.

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Zelmira: Dramma per Musica, Atto Secundo

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