Manuscripts

Parchment leaves of music from a liturgical book

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Description: Two parchment leaves of music from a liturgical book, probably an antiphonal, pasted to stubs in a large bound volume (all other pages blank).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 15th century.
Call number: mssHM 84154
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In Library as of 2019.
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Collection of leaves from a missal, books of hours, and an antiphonal

Manuscripts

A collection of leaves from an unidentified missal, books of hours, and antiphonal; also modern ephemera. HM 82933 (1) leaves from a missal written for Chichester Cathedral, with decorated initials and possibly Flemish illuminated borders. The five leaves are bound into a volume with black Morocco binding and two ribbons laid in; with the bookplate of Edward J. Loftus pasted onto first page.

mssHM 82933 (1-7)

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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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Commonplace book. Music, with fragment

Manuscripts

Short part songs in English for three and four voices, some songs without words; also, two leaves from a similar music book. Front and back covers are heavily damaged and fragile, handle carefully.

mssHM 13717

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Book of original lines which are yet to be corrected. Written when sick and confined to bed

Manuscripts

A volume of poetry with loose pages, clippings and a dried flower laid into volume; there are clippings pasted down on the inside of the front and back covers. The volume also contains pages of financial accounts with lists of money paid and received (1806-1820).

mssHM 46034

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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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Musical score of incidental music used for a production of Macbeth: [proofs]

Manuscripts

These proof sheets of music are corrected and annotated, probably by Sir Arthur Sullivan. Also included is a letter from Walter Smythe to Messrs. Henderson, Dec. 5, 1888, regarding the engraving of the music. This incidental music was used by Sir Henry Irving in his 1888-1889 revival of Macbeth.

mssHM 63360

Parchment leaves of music from a liturgical book

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