Manuscripts, in Thomas Gray's hand and others', of musical transcriptions in score, primarily selections from operas heard in Italy and London. On the outside of each volume is written the names of the composers whose works it contains. Inside each front cover is an index of the volume's contents, in Gray's hand, including names of characters and performers. Some of the volumes contain music and words also copied in his hand; he also makes annotations throughout the volumes, noting the schools of the composers and the names of the operas and other compositions from which these selections have been made, Vol. 1 contains 25 arias by Johann Adolf Hasse, from the operas Allessandro nell'Indie; La clemenza di Tito; Demetrio; Issipile; Artaserse; and Siroe re di Persia. On the cover is written: "Arie del Sig: r / G: Adolfo Hasse / detto / Il Sasone. / Firenze. / 1740"., Vol. 2 contains 24 pieces for voice and strings by Hasse, including arias, duets, and a trio, excerpted from the operas Catone; Issipile; Siroe; Tito; and Artaserse. Written on spine: Hasse, Vol. 3 contains 35 pieces. These include 28 arias; 1 duet, and 3 minuets from operas by Leonardo Vinci, including Artaserse; Alessandro; Andromaca; Catone; Demofounte; and Semiramide. The volume also contains a Cantata per una voce by Vinci; Cantata per una voce by Giovanni Pergolesi; Toccata per il cembalo, Aria, and Minuet by Hasse; an aria, minuet, and arietta by Gaetano Latilla's Siroe; an aria by Giovanni Giai; a minuet by Giacomelli; and an arietta by David Perez. On the cover is written: "Arie del Sigr / Lionardo Vinci. / Napoletano / Firenze. / 1740." Written on spine: Vinci, Vol. 4 contains 30 pieces comprising Leonardo Vinci's cantata titled La Contessa de numi. Inside the front cover is an index of sinfonias and arias in Gray's hand, and a note, signed by H[enry] E[dward] K[rehbiel], which reads: "this is plainly the cantata "La Contessa de'Numi" / composed by V. 1729 to / words of Metastasio to / celebrate the birth of the dauphin". A further notation in Krehbiel's hand reads: "(autograph of Vincj)". On f.126v is an autograph in pencil: "R Bright August 27.th of the month 1819". Written on spine: Vinci, Vol. 5 contains 18 songs by Leonardo Leo, including motets; arias from the operas Achille; Artaserse; Ciro Riconosciuto; Olimpiade; and 2 duets from Olimpiade. Written on spine: "Leo.", Vol. 6 contains 24 pieces by Michele Fini, including arias and duets from Issipile; Siroe; Didone; Alessandro; Tito Manlio; Rodelinda; Farnace; and Temistocle. At the beginning of the manuscript is a treatise on musical accompaniment titled "Regole per l'accompagnamento" in Gray's hand, which includes musical examples. The collection also includes 8 anonymous keyboard pieces. Written on spine: Fini, Vol. 7 contains 11 vocal pieces. Ten are by Pergolesi, consisting of 5 arias, 3 duets from Catone and Olimpiade; and Stabat Mater. The remaining piece is by Leonardo Vinci. Written on spine: Pergolesi, Vol. 8 contains 25 arias by various composers. These include 3 arias from Giovanni Orlandini's Olimpiade; and a Trio from his Temistocle; 3 arias by Francesco Araia; an aria and duet by Giai; an aria from Domenico Sarro's Achille; 9 arias by Pergolesi; and 4 arias and 2 duets by Hasse. An autograph appears on the verso of front flyleaf: "E Bright May 22.nd / 1819"; another autograph appears inside the back cover, in pencil: "Rev.d John Bright / Grafton / Northamptonshire". Written on spine: "Hasse / Pergolesi / Sarro / Giaii / Orlandini Orlandini". Written on front cover: "Arie di G: pe Orlandini, Fiorentino. / Franco: co Araja. / Dom: Sarri. Napoletani / G: B: Pergolesi. / Ant: Giaii. Turinese. / & / Giov: Ad: fo Hasse, Sa ssone. / Firenze 1740". Written on spine: Hasse. Pergolesi. Sarro. Giaii. Araia. Orlandini, Vol. 9 contains 35 songs by Carlo Arrigoni, Andrea Bernasconi, Riccardo Broschi, Rinaldo di Capua, Michele Fini, Baldassare Galuppi, G. Baptista Lampagnani, Gaetano Latilla, Celestino Ligi, Antonio Mazzoni, Giovanni Orlandini, Gaetano Schiassi, Seletti, and Dionigi Zamperelli. Written on cover: "Arie di / G B: ta Lampognani / Andrea Bernascone / Rinaldo di Capua / Gaetano Latilla Napoletane / Michel Fini / Gaetano Schiassi Bolognese / & altri Autori". Written on spine: Bernasconi. Lampagnani. Fini. Rinaldo di Capua. Latilla. Schiassi, Vol. 10 contains 18 pieces of music by Handel, Pergolesi, Hasse, Giai, Domenico Sarro, Nicola Porpora, and others. These works are preceded by two pages explaining a system of musical notation using Arabic numbers, written in Italian in Gray's hand. The volume contains both Italian and English paper, and many of the works are incomplete. The arias from Ifigenia in Tauri conjectural attribution to composer Domenico Scarlatti, and Vol. 11 is a collection of 36 pages of musical scores. They include a liturgical text set to medieval notation, underneath which the music is notated in modern musical notation; and a score taken from the 4-part book of Claude le Jeune, 1641. Accompanying these papers is a note which declares, "These miscellaneous papers are all 19th century."
Description:
In Italian., Microfilm available, All volumes are bound in full parchment., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy
Subject (Name):
Araja, Francesco, 1709-, Arrigoni, Carlo, 1697-1744., Bernasconi, Andrea, 1706-1784., Broschi, Riccardo, approximately 1698-1756., Capece, Carlo Sigismondo, 1652-1728., Celestino, Eligio, 1739-1812., Fini, Michele, 1708-1752., Galuppi, Baldassare, 1706-1785., Giai, Giovanni Antonio, 1690-1764., Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771., Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759., Hasse, Johann Adolf, 1699-1783., Lampugnani, Giovanni Battista, 1706-approximately 1786., Latilla, Gaetano, 1711-1788., Leo, Leonardo, 1694-1744., Marcello, Benedetto, 1686-1739., Mazzoni, Antonio, 1717-1785., Milton, John, 1608-1674., Orlandini, Giuseppe Maria, 1676-1760., Ottoboni, Pietro, 1667-1740., Pasquini, Bernardo, 1637-1710., Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista, 1710-1736., Rinaldo, da Capua, approximately 1710-approximately 1780., Sarro, Domenico, 1679-1744., Scarlatti, Domenico, 1685-1757., Schiassi, Gaetano Maria, 1698-1754., Sellitto, Giuseppe, 1700-1777., Vinci, Leonardo, -1730., and Zamparelli, Dionisio.
Subject (Topic):
Keyboard instrument music, Musical accompaniment, Operas, Opera, and Vocal music
Manuscripts, in Thomas Gray's hand and others', of musical transcriptions in score, primarily selections from operas heard in Italy and London. On the outside of each volume is written the names of the composers whose works it contains. Inside each front cover is an index of the volume's contents, in Gray's hand, including names of characters and performers. Some of the volumes contain music and words also copied in his hand; he also makes annotations throughout the volumes, noting the schools of the composers and the names of the operas and other compositions from which these selections have been made, Vol. 1 contains 25 arias by Johann Adolf Hasse, from the operas Allessandro nell'Indie; La clemenza di Tito; Demetrio; Issipile; Artaserse; and Siroe re di Persia. On the cover is written: "Arie del Sig: r / G: Adolfo Hasse / detto / Il Sasone. / Firenze. / 1740"., Vol. 2 contains 24 pieces for voice and strings by Hasse, including arias, duets, and a trio, excerpted from the operas Catone; Issipile; Siroe; Tito; and Artaserse. Written on spine: Hasse, Vol. 3 contains 35 pieces. These include 28 arias; 1 duet, and 3 minuets from operas by Leonardo Vinci, including Artaserse; Alessandro; Andromaca; Catone; Demofounte; and Semiramide. The volume also contains a Cantata per una voce by Vinci; Cantata per una voce by Giovanni Pergolesi; Toccata per il cembalo, Aria, and Minuet by Hasse; an aria, minuet, and arietta by Gaetano Latilla's Siroe; an aria by Giovanni Giai; a minuet by Giacomelli; and an arietta by David Perez. On the cover is written: "Arie del Sigr / Lionardo Vinci. / Napoletano / Firenze. / 1740." Written on spine: Vinci, Vol. 4 contains 30 pieces comprising Leonardo Vinci's cantata titled La Contessa de numi. Inside the front cover is an index of sinfonias and arias in Gray's hand, and a note, signed by H[enry] E[dward] K[rehbiel], which reads: "this is plainly the cantata "La Contessa de'Numi" / composed by V. 1729 to / words of Metastasio to / celebrate the birth of the dauphin". A further notation in Krehbiel's hand reads: "(autograph of Vincj)". On f.126v is an autograph in pencil: "R Bright August 27.th of the month 1819". Written on spine: Vinci, Vol. 5 contains 18 songs by Leonardo Leo, including motets; arias from the operas Achille; Artaserse; Ciro Riconosciuto; Olimpiade; and 2 duets from Olimpiade. Written on spine: "Leo.", Vol. 6 contains 24 pieces by Michele Fini, including arias and duets from Issipile; Siroe; Didone; Alessandro; Tito Manlio; Rodelinda; Farnace; and Temistocle. At the beginning of the manuscript is a treatise on musical accompaniment titled "Regole per l'accompagnamento" in Gray's hand, which includes musical examples. The collection also includes 8 anonymous keyboard pieces. Written on spine: Fini, Vol. 7 contains 11 vocal pieces. Ten are by Pergolesi, consisting of 5 arias, 3 duets from Catone and Olimpiade; and Stabat Mater. The remaining piece is by Leonardo Vinci. Written on spine: Pergolesi, Vol. 8 contains 25 arias by various composers. These include 3 arias from Giovanni Orlandini's Olimpiade; and a Trio from his Temistocle; 3 arias by Francesco Araia; an aria and duet by Giai; an aria from Domenico Sarro's Achille; 9 arias by Pergolesi; and 4 arias and 2 duets by Hasse. An autograph appears on the verso of front flyleaf: "E Bright May 22.nd / 1819"; another autograph appears inside the back cover, in pencil: "Rev.d John Bright / Grafton / Northamptonshire". Written on spine: "Hasse / Pergolesi / Sarro / Giaii / Orlandini Orlandini". Written on front cover: "Arie di G: pe Orlandini, Fiorentino. / Franco: co Araja. / Dom: Sarri. Napoletani / G: B: Pergolesi. / Ant: Giaii. Turinese. / & / Giov: Ad: fo Hasse, Sa ssone. / Firenze 1740". Written on spine: Hasse. Pergolesi. Sarro. Giaii. Araia. Orlandini, Vol. 9 contains 35 songs by Carlo Arrigoni, Andrea Bernasconi, Riccardo Broschi, Rinaldo di Capua, Michele Fini, Baldassare Galuppi, G. Baptista Lampagnani, Gaetano Latilla, Celestino Ligi, Antonio Mazzoni, Giovanni Orlandini, Gaetano Schiassi, Seletti, and Dionigi Zamperelli. Written on cover: "Arie di / G B: ta Lampognani / Andrea Bernascone / Rinaldo di Capua / Gaetano Latilla Napoletane / Michel Fini / Gaetano Schiassi Bolognese / & altri Autori". Written on spine: Bernasconi. Lampagnani. Fini. Rinaldo di Capua. Latilla. Schiassi, Vol. 10 contains 18 pieces of music by Handel, Pergolesi, Hasse, Giai, Domenico Sarro, Nicola Porpora, and others. These works are preceded by two pages explaining a system of musical notation using Arabic numbers, written in Italian in Gray's hand. The volume contains both Italian and English paper, and many of the works are incomplete. The arias from Ifigenia in Tauri conjectural attribution to composer Domenico Scarlatti, and Vol. 11 is a collection of 36 pages of musical scores. They include a liturgical text set to medieval notation, underneath which the music is notated in modern musical notation; and a score taken from the 4-part book of Claude le Jeune, 1641. Accompanying these papers is a note which declares, "These miscellaneous papers are all 19th century."
Description:
In Italian., Microfilm available, All volumes are bound in full parchment., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy
Subject (Name):
Araja, Francesco, 1709-, Arrigoni, Carlo, 1697-1744., Bernasconi, Andrea, 1706-1784., Broschi, Riccardo, approximately 1698-1756., Capece, Carlo Sigismondo, 1652-1728., Celestino, Eligio, 1739-1812., Fini, Michele, 1708-1752., Galuppi, Baldassare, 1706-1785., Giai, Giovanni Antonio, 1690-1764., Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771., Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759., Hasse, Johann Adolf, 1699-1783., Lampugnani, Giovanni Battista, 1706-approximately 1786., Latilla, Gaetano, 1711-1788., Leo, Leonardo, 1694-1744., Marcello, Benedetto, 1686-1739., Mazzoni, Antonio, 1717-1785., Milton, John, 1608-1674., Orlandini, Giuseppe Maria, 1676-1760., Ottoboni, Pietro, 1667-1740., Pasquini, Bernardo, 1637-1710., Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista, 1710-1736., Rinaldo, da Capua, approximately 1710-approximately 1780., Sarro, Domenico, 1679-1744., Scarlatti, Domenico, 1685-1757., Schiassi, Gaetano Maria, 1698-1754., Sellitto, Giuseppe, 1700-1777., Vinci, Leonardo, -1730., and Zamparelli, Dionisio.
Subject (Topic):
Keyboard instrument music, Musical accompaniment, Operas, Opera, and Vocal music
Contemporary scribal copy in several hands of this travel account. Tommaso del Bene left Florence with his suite on 21 July 1695 and returned on 7 April 1696. On both the outward and return journies he travelled by way of the Brenner, Germany and the Low Countries. He landed in England on 20 October 1695 and remained there until 6 January 1696. Dal Pino's account of the stay in England covers 100 pages. It includes notes of the envoy's diplomatic and social activity, a long description of a Lord Mayor's show (p. 143-49), descriptions of visits to Windsor and Hampton Court, with comments on the works of art, and reports of proceedings in Parliament. The narrative is followed by a list of the stages of the journeys and an index of places
Description:
Another MS of this work is in the Archivio di Stato, Florence.
Subject (Geographic):
Europe and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Cosimo III, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1642-1723., Del Bene, Tommaso., and Lord Mayor's Show
Two scrapbooks containing a collection of mostly 18th century engravings and etchings, some of which are purported to have belonged to Horace Walpole, organized thematically. With four original drawings, including a watercolor and wash drawing of the Neapolitan painter Luca Jordano signed by J.B. Catenaro, an unsigned portrait in red crayon of Cornelius Jansen, a pencil portrait of an unknown woman, and another small pencil drawing of a landscape. The first volume contains etchings and engravings of English villages and rural scenes including the farm house and printing house at Strawberry Hill and two vignettes of Strawberry Hill; topographical scenes in Surrey and Twickenham; etchings of Roman scenes; portraits of eminent historical and contemporary political figures and The second volume begins with a series of 192 small French engravings of women, which document the hair styles and hat fashions in the 17th and 18th centuries, all engraved by Dupin or Desrais. A second series of the 48 engravings from Wenceslaus Hollar's Theatrum mulierum depict the costumes of 17th century women (mostly) in Europe. These prints are followed by 29 small engravings by C. Heath of prominent British politicians and writers of the 18th century. The final pages include several portraits of contemporary British and French figures as well as the plates drawn and engraved by Henry Moses for A series of twenty-nine designs of modern costume published in London by E. and C. M'Lean in 1823
Description:
In English and French. and Recovered in cloth with marble boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Europe, Great Britain, Europe., Great Britain., and England
Subject (Name):
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828., Giordano, Luca, 1634-1705, and Janssen van Ceulen, Cornelius, 1593-1661.
Subject (Topic):
Costume, History, Hairstyles, Authors, English, Politicians, Fashion, Clothing and dress, and Social life and customs
Two scrapbooks containing a collection of mostly 18th century engravings and etchings, some of which are purported to have belonged to Horace Walpole, organized thematically. With four original drawings, including a watercolor and wash drawing of the Neapolitan painter Luca Jordano signed by J.B. Catenaro, an unsigned portrait in red crayon of Cornelius Jansen, a pencil portrait of an unknown woman, and another small pencil drawing of a landscape. The first volume contains etchings and engravings of English villages and rural scenes including the farm house and printing house at Strawberry Hill and two vignettes of Strawberry Hill; topographical scenes in Surrey and Twickenham; etchings of Roman scenes; portraits of eminent historical and contemporary political figures and The second volume begins with a series of 192 small French engravings of women, which document the hair styles and hat fashions in the 17th and 18th centuries, all engraved by Dupin or Desrais. A second series of the 48 engravings from Wenceslaus Hollar's Theatrum mulierum depict the costumes of 17th century women (mostly) in Europe. These prints are followed by 29 small engravings by C. Heath of prominent British politicians and writers of the 18th century. The final pages include several portraits of contemporary British and French figures as well as the plates drawn and engraved by Henry Moses for A series of twenty-nine designs of modern costume published in London by E. and C. M'Lean in 1823
Description:
In English and French. and Recovered in cloth with marble boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Europe, Great Britain, Europe., Great Britain., and England
Subject (Name):
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828., Giordano, Luca, 1634-1705, and Janssen van Ceulen, Cornelius, 1593-1661.
Subject (Topic):
Costume, History, Hairstyles, Authors, English, Politicians, Fashion, Clothing and dress, and Social life and customs
Two volumes, in two different hands, with drawings in ink (some colored) on vellum of swan marks granted by the King of England to persons who have lands valued at least 500 marks and who wish to keep swans, otherwise designated a royal bird and the property of the crown. The catalog of marks assigned to each family, in rough alphabetic order is preceded by a summary of various laws related to the keeping of swans and their designation as royal game. From Horace Walpole's 1774 edition of Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole at Strawberry-Hill near Twickenham, Middlesex: Curious books in the glass closet in the library ... Two books of swan-marks, on vellum: extremely rare
Description:
In English and Latin., Title from preliminary leaf, larger volume, on paper bound in preceding marks on vellum leaves., Title on preliminary leaf in smaller volume: The swane booke., Both volumes with the armorial bookplate of Earl of Derby, 1775-1851 and press mark 25. B., and Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: Two books of Swanmark's, 8vo, bound in vellum, and extremely rare.
Two volumes, in two different hands, with drawings in ink (some colored) on vellum of swan marks granted by the King of England to persons who have lands valued at least 500 marks and who wish to keep swans, otherwise designated a royal bird and the property of the crown. The catalog of marks assigned to each family, in rough alphabetic order is preceded by a summary of various laws related to the keeping of swans and their designation as royal game. From Horace Walpole's 1774 edition of Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole at Strawberry-Hill near Twickenham, Middlesex: Curious books in the glass closet in the library ... Two books of swan-marks, on vellum: extremely rare
Description:
In English and Latin., Title from preliminary leaf, larger volume, on paper bound in preceding marks on vellum leaves., Title on preliminary leaf in smaller volume: The swane booke., Both volumes with the armorial bookplate of Earl of Derby, 1775-1851 and press mark 25. B., and Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: Two books of Swanmark's, 8vo, bound in vellum, and extremely rare.
Manuscript, in a single hand, in the style of The Spectator for year 1768. The volume's contents are primarily tongue-in-cheek, including a dedication to Nobody; a narrative autobiography of a flea; advice to readers; and a discussion on the art of punning. The volume also records, with primarily satirical intent, the letters sent to the editor, including one by a woman who believes herself the subject of an entry in the Spectator. Other topics include a meditation on the sufferings of Christ on the cross and a translation of an ancient Persian manuscript titled History of Abdullah. Numerous entries are dated from Kings College, Cambridge
Description:
In English., In faint ink on title page: Transcribed for the Author., Pasted on p. 1: elaborate printed border., Armorial bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, Lakelands, Cork., and Binding: full red morocco with gilt decoration. In gilt on spine over green morocco: Pumice Mundus. Paucis osendi gemit. The Speculator.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
English wit and humor, Periodicals, and Religious literature, English
Household accounts book for Hardwicke House on the banks of the river Thames in Oxfordshire includes itemized payments to kitchen staff as well as lists of ingredients and the quantities purchased. The household employed two cooks during this period; the accounts are signed by Mary Stent until Christmas quarter-day of 1748 when she received her last payment and then by her replacement by Ann Colet. Under Colet's management the list of ingredients becomes more detailed. The accounts also list payments for kitchen equipment (ladles, dishes, "wooden ware", needles, etc.) as well as other items needed by the staff including chamber pots and postage for letters. The accounts were reviewed by Philip Powys Esqr., who settled the accounts with the cooks
Description:
Hardwick House, a Tudor-style house on the banks of the River Thames in Oxfordshire. It was the home for over 130 years of the Powys descendants., In English., Caption title from p. [1]: The cook's book, 1748, Mary Stent., Bound in contemporary vellum., and For further information, consult library staff.