Burney, Edward Francis, 1760-1848 Hoare, Richard Colt, Sir, 1758-1838 Lear, Edward, 1812-1888
Call Number:
Osborn fd59
Collection Title:
Burney-Lear drawings collection
Container / Volume:
Album 2
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
The watercolors in Album 2 may be by the same hand, and it has been suggested that their style recalls that of Samuel Prout or of George Barret the younger.
Remarks on Sr. J. Hawkins's 'General history of music', 1776.
Image Count:
36
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript, in a single hand, with numerous corrections, of notes on "A General History of the Science and Practice of Music" by Sir John Hawkins. Citations from Hawkins' work are followed by often disparaging commentary upon them; Burney remarks that "Ch. V. Bk. IV is chiefly made up of dry dictionary articles of Biography, loosely littering his Book as if he had been in want of a needle & thread to tack them together," and "Vol. III p. 262 He calls Jno. Okenheim the disciple of Jusquin whereas it is well known he was the master." He includes a list of "Omissions of Composers & Performers who died long before Sr. Jno. published his History & therefore had fair Claims to a Niche in it." The work is interspersed with commentaries on various pieces and composers, accompanied by fragments of musical notation, and followed by a piece on "Dancing," a history of opera and theater titled "Progress of the Musical Drama or opera, at Venice," and another titled "Progress of the Musical Drama at Rome."
Description:
Binding: contemporary parchment., Index on flyleaf., Page numbers written in ink have been crossed out and replaced by different page numbers written in pencil., and Section ends with a note written in pencil: "Here insert an engraving of the transcript" although the engraving is not included.
Subject (Name):
Burney, Charles, 1726-1814 and Hawkins, John, Sir, 1719-1789
Subject (Topic):
Music--18th century--History and criticism, Musical analysis, Music--Europe--History and criticism, Music--History and criticism, Opera, and Opera--Italy
Album containing 296 printed reply forms, completed in manuscript by individuals subscribing various sums of money for the expenses of a forthcoming meeting in Dublin of the Protestant Friends of Civil and Religious Freedom, known as the Great Protestant Meeting for Catholic Emancipation. and There were 25 signatories from the nobility, including Viscount Bangor and Viscount Clifden; the Earls of Gosford, Llandaff, Rossmere, and Wicklow; and barons Clanmorris and Dunalley. Other contributors include Sir Henry Parnell; the Hon. George Cholmondeley; Thomas Fitzgerald of Athy; Sir Aubrey de Vere; Sir John Newport; and Sir Thomas Wyse.
Description:
Binding: 19th-century green morocco gilt; marbled endpapers., Front cover title: "Autographs for Civil and Religious Liberty.", Tipped in at front of volume: Manuscript alphabetical index of signatories., and Tipped in at front of volume: printed description by William B. Kelly, Bookseller, ca. 1873.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Politics and government--1820-1830, Ireland--History--1800-1837, and Ireland--Politics and government--1800-1837
Subject (Name):
De Vere, Aburey,--Sir,--1788-1846--Autographs, Parnell, Henry,--Sir,--1776-1842--Autographs, Protestant Friends of Civil and Religious Freedom, and Wyse, Thomas,--Sir,--1791-1862--Autographs
Album containing 296 printed reply forms, completed in manuscript by individuals subscribing various sums of money for the expenses of a forthcoming meeting in Dublin of the Protestant Friends of Civil and Religious Freedom, known as the Great Protestant Meeting for Catholic Emancipation. and There were 25 signatories from the nobility, including Viscount Bangor and Viscount Clifden; the Earls of Gosford, Llandaff, Rossmere, and Wicklow; and barons Clanmorris and Dunalley. Other contributors include Sir Henry Parnell; the Hon. George Cholmondeley; Thomas Fitzgerald of Athy; Sir Aubrey de Vere; Sir John Newport; and Sir Thomas Wyse.
Alternative Title:
Autographs of subscribers who contributed towards the expenses of procuring signatures to the Protestant Declaration and to the public meeting of the Friends of Civil and Religious Liberty, held in Dublin on the 20th Jan.y 1829 and Manuscript alphabetical ind
Description:
Binding: 19th-century green morocco gilt; marbled endpapers., Front cover title: "Autographs for Civil and Religious Liberty.", Tipped in at front of volume: Manuscript alphabetical index of signatories., and Tipped in at front of volume: printed description by William B. Kelly, Bookseller, ca. 1873.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Politics and government--1820-1830, Ireland--History--1800-1837, and Ireland--Politics and government--1800-1837
Subject (Name):
De Vere, Aburey,--Sir,--1788-1846--Autographs, Parnell, Henry,--Sir,--1776-1842--Autographs, Protestant Friends of Civil and Religious Freedom, and Wyse, Thomas,--Sir,--1791-1862--Autographs
Collection of autograph letters of various English literary figures.
Description:
Binding: blue Middle Hill boards, with title as above., Finding aid available., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and Phillipps MS 21659.
Manuscript, on parchment, of the Bible, including prologues. The Old Testament omits 1 and 2 Chronicles and Psalms; Esther and Judith follow Nehemiah. New Testament is incomplete: Acts folllows the Pauline and Catholic epistles but ends in chapter 13; Revelations not present. Chapter divisions throughout often deviate from Langton arrangement. Numerous brief marginal annoations in several hands
Description:
In Latin., Numerous brief marginal annotations, in Latin, in several thirteenth and fourteenth century hands, apparently English. Ecclesiastes annotated in at least four different hands., Layout: double columns of 55 lines., Script: gothica textualis., Decoration: each prologue and book opens with a large initial in red and blue with red and blue penwork, often with bar extensions in red and blue., and Binding: seventeenth-century full dark blue English polished calf. with extensive gold tooling in cottage style. Six-compartmented spine; all compartments gold-tooled except for the second, which contains a handwritten paper label: "Latin Bible. Manuscript." Marbled endpapers.
Manuscript retained copy of a bill of sale containing a household inventory of the contents of Seaton Delaval Hall, sold by Sir Francis Blake Delaval to his younger brother in return for an annuity. The household inventory is particularly complete and includes listings of furniture, decorative items, household equipment, and plate for approximately forty rooms of the hall. "Pictures" are counted but not described.
Description:
Accompanied by: "Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland," magazine clipping from Country Life, November 6, 2003., Binding: modern case., and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
Subject (Geographic):
Northumberland (England)--Historic buildings and Seaton Delaval (England)