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
Manuscript on paper of Michael Maier, Atalanta fugiens, translated into English from the 1618 German edition.
Description:
Binding: Recent binding of marbled paper boards, polished calf back, top edge cut and gilt, other edges plain and original., First two and last four leaves are of different, probably eighteenth-century, paper, probably binder's sheets used in an earlier binding of the volume., In English., Mellon MS 88, acquired with the Duveen collection. Gift of Paul and Mary Mellon, 1965., Script: Written by a single copyist in English secretary and italic hands., and Watermarks: 1) Strasbourg lily with initials "WR" and countermarked "IHS" with a cross ascending from the horizontal of the central letter, very similar to Churchill 401 (dated 1625), but without initials on the countermark. 2) A large, crowned fleur-de-lys and with a countermark "VI," not identified.
Subject (Name):
Maier, Michael,--1568?-1622
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy--Early works to 1800, Chemistry--Early works to 1800, and Natural history--Pre-Linnaen works
Seventy letters from William C. Ellis to his wife describe the trip to California by way of Panama and experiences in the gold fields. Accompanied by six other family letters, including five letters by or to Anne Ellis, wife of the Welsh poet, Robert Ellis.
Description:
The six additional family letters were a gift of Hannah C. Ellis in 1961.
Subject (Geographic):
California--Gold discoveries
Subject (Name):
Ellis, Anne, Ellis, Cornelia, Ellis, Robert, 1810-1875, and Ellis, William C.
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life--California, Gold mines and mining--California, and Voyages to the Pacific coast
Joseph Badger's holograph manuscript memoir gives a short history of his ancestors in America, his participation in the Revolutionary War, education at Yale, ministry at Blandford, Massachusetts, journey to the Western Reserve in 1800, and his work with Native American tribes and settlers in the Western Reserve. At the end of his account is a history of the settlements in the Western Reserve.
Alternative Title:
Memoir of Rev. Joseph Badger
Description:
Ex libris Frank T. Siebert. Purchased from Sotheby's on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 1999., Joseph Badger, one of the earliest Christian missionaries to Ohio., and The manuscript was later published, with many omissions and revisions, as A Memoir of Rev. Joseph Badger (Hudson, Ohio: Sawyer, Ingersoll, 1851).
Subject (Geographic):
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Personal narratives, Western Reserve (Ohio)--Biography, Western Reserve (Ohio)--History, and Western Reserve (Ohio)--Religion
Subject (Name):
Badger, Joseph, 1757-1846 and Siebert, Frank T. Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life--Ohio, Indians of North America--Ohio, Indians of North America--Religion, and Missions--Ohio--Western Reserve
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.