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
Holograph notebook on paper, in an Italic hand, containing detailed reading notes in English and Latin on John Selden’s History of Tithes and Uxor Hebraica, as well as notes in Latin toward a revision of Marsham’s own Chronicus Canon.
Subject (Name):
Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631 --Library, Marsham, John, Sir, 1602-1685, Selden, John, 1584-1654. Historie of tithes, and Selden, John, 1584-1654. Uxor Ebraica
Subject (Topic):
Antiquarians, Chronology, Historical, and Learning and scholarship --Great Britain
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of several hundred short verse epitaphs on both famous political and historical figures and unnamed citizens. The epitaphs are often humorous or satirical, as in On A Hocus-Pocus; On A Tallow-Chandler; and On A Gentleman Falling Of His Horse & Broke Hs Neck. An epitaph titled On A Collier declares, "Here Lies the Collier John of Nashes, By whome Death nothing Gaind he swore, For living he was dust & Ashes, And being dead he is no more." More serious elegies include On Sr. Philip Sidney; On King Charles Martyr; and On One Willm. Messe Grocer & His Wife. and P. 9, 33, and 36 digitized at high resolution.
Description:
Imperfect: mutilated with some loss of text. and Two blank pages not digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Politics and government and Great Britain --Social life and customs --17th century
Subject (Name):
Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649 and Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586
Subject (Topic):
Courts and courtiers --England, Elegiac poetry, English --17th century, English poetry --17th century, English wit and humor, Epitaphs --England, and Verse satire, English
Autograph manuscript transcribed by William Partridge. Pages 67-137 contain "A compendium of logick, according to the modern philosophy, extracted from Le-grand & others their systems." This is followed by shorthand notes. Given by Partridge to Timothy Edwards, and later owned by Jonathan Edwards when a student at Yale in 1718. A note in F. B. Dexter’s hand says the book was also used by Warham Mather. On the verso of the first leaf: "Jonathan Edward’s Book 1751."
Subject (Name):
Harvard University --Students, Partridge, William, 1669-1693, Ramus, Petrus, 1515-1572, and Yale University --Students
Subject (Topic):
Logic --Study and teaching --Early works to 1800 and Shorthand--Early works to 1800
Dexter, Franklin Bowditch, 1842-1920 Yale University. Library, author
Published / Created:
[between 1867?-1907?]
Call Number:
Z881 .Y173 (LC)
Image Count:
613
Description:
[v. 1]. 1-1300 -- [v. 2]. 1301-2179., A manuscript catalog of the Yale College pamphlet collection. The collection consists of approximately 2,197 volumes containing approximately 24,000 titles., From 1867-1907, Franklin Bowditch Dexter was responsible for cataloging the Yale Library. See: Yale University, Library, Department of Manuscripts and Archives. Franklin Bowditch Dexter papers finding aid; see also: Defoe at Yale. The Yale University Library Gazette, 22:4 (April 1948), page 104., and Title from cover.
Subject (Name):
Yale College (1718-1887).--Library--Catalogs and Yale University.--Library--Catalogs
Dexter, Franklin Bowditch, 1842-1920 Yale University. Library, author
Published / Created:
[between 1867?-1907?]
Call Number:
Z881 .Y173 (LC)
Image Count:
434
Description:
[v. 1]. 1-1300 -- [v. 2]. 1301-2179., A manuscript catalog of the Yale College pamphlet collection. The collection consists of approximately 2,197 volumes containing approximately 24,000 titles., From 1867-1907, Franklin Bowditch Dexter was responsible for cataloging the Yale Library. See: Yale University, Library, Department of Manuscripts and Archives. Franklin Bowditch Dexter papers finding aid; see also: Defoe at Yale. The Yale University Library Gazette, 22:4 (April 1948), page 104., and Title from cover.
Subject (Name):
Yale College (1718-1887).--Library--Catalogs and Yale University.--Library--Catalogs
Dexter, Franklin Bowditch, 1842-1920 Yale University. Library, author
Published / Created:
[between 1867?-1907?]
Call Number:
Z881 .Y1735 (LC)
Image Count:
252
Description:
A manuscript catalog of various collections of pamphlets and tracts in Yale University library., From 1867-1907, Franklin Bowditch Dexter was responsible for cataloging the Yale Library. See: Yale University, Library, Department of Manuscripts and Archives. Franklin Bowditch Dexter papers finding aid., Slavery pamphlets -- U.S. Civil War pamphlets -- U.S. political pamphlets -- Library of Americana -- Scientific miscellany -- Silliman miscellaneous pamphlets -- Economic tracts -- India tracts -- Civil War tracts., and Title from cover.
Subject (Geographic):
India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947--Bibliography--Catalogs and United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pamphlets--Bibliography--Catalogs
Subject (Name):
Yale College (1718-1887).--Library--Catalogs and Yale University.--Library--Catalogs
Subject (Topic):
Pamphlets--Bibliography--Catalogs, Slavery--Bibliography--Catalogs, and Tracts--Bibliography--Catalogs