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
Printed volume titled "The Landscape Album" (New York: Leavitt & Allen), with engraved illustrations, containing manuscript entries and signatures written by friends of Catherine MacDonald Bates.
Description:
Gift of Elizabeth D. Boggs, Library Associates, 1935.
Autograph album containing entries written in manuscript and signed by friends of Ellen P. Rice, including contributions by Lucretia G. Dickinson and Mary Dickinson, dated 1824, at Amherst, Massachusetts.
Description:
Gift of Roger S. White, 2nd, 1913. and Some leaves contain writing on verso.
Subject (Name):
Dickinson, Lucretia G., Dickinson, Mary, fl. 1824., Dickinson, Mary,--fl. 1824., and Rice, Ellen P.
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 1) Jacobus Palladinus de Teramo, Belial (also known as Consolatio peccatorum seu Processus Luciferi contra Iesum Christum). 2) Athanasian Creed, added in a different hand.
Description:
According to a note in library files, the manuscript was purchased from B. M. Rosenthal via L. C. Witten in 1958 by Thomas E. Marston., Binding: Nineteenth century. Dark brown, hard-grained goatskin, blind- and gold-tooled. Gilt edges. On spine: "Liber Bellial" and "Codex Ms. Saec. XV"., Divided initial, 15-line, in red in f. 1r. Plain initials, 10- to 4-line, initial strokes, and paragraph marks (in outer margin) in red throughout., and Script: Written in a cramped gothic cursive by a single scribe, above top line; art. 2 added in an awkwardly formed gothic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Palladinus, Jacobus
Subject (Topic):
Athanasian Creed, Christian literature, Latin, Consolation--Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Manuscript on parchment of Caesar, Bellum Gallicum, translated into Italian by Pier Candido Decembrio in 1438. With Dedication of the translation to Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan.
Description:
Binding: Date? Italy. Vellum case with title in ink on spine: "Cesare Comment". Gilt, gauffered edges and gold and cream silk endbands. Fragments of a printed service book with musical notation partially visible under pastedowns., Elegant illuminated title page (f. 2v) with the title, written in blue over an erasure, in a circular wreath, green with gold flowers, and framed by narrow gold bands with fillets and inkspray issuing from the top and bottom with blue and deep red flowers, green leaves and gold balls. Full border, f. 1r, white vine-stem ornament on blue, green, deep red and gold ground between thin gold frames. In lower border, medallion, blank, framed by wreath, green with yellow highlights and narrow deep red frame. Partial border, f. 3r, white vine-stem ornament on blue, green and deep red ground between narrow gold frames, enlarged to elongated dots at terminals; white vine-stem ornament extends into upper (trimmed) and lower margins, with single gold balls with hair-line strokes. 8 large initials, 11- to 3-line, gold on blue, green, gold and deep red ground with white vine-stem ornament shaded with pale pink. First few words of each book in gold; incipits, explicits and marginalia in red., and Script: Written below top line in a bold round humanistic hand by a single scribe who added extra rulings in outer margins for headings, annotations, etc., in red. Additional annotations in humanistic cursive, in a brighter shade of red.
Subject (Geographic):
Rome--History, Military--265-30 B.C
Subject (Name):
Caesar, Julius
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library