Among these are major collections of manuscripts of Elgar, Delius, Vaughan Williams, Holst, Tippett, Britten, and Maxwell Davies. In many cases there are other sources (either printed or online) giving more detailed information about individual music manuscripts, including an item-by-item inventory of the contents.Ģ0th-century British musical autographs form one of the largest elements of the collection. Those manuscripts are only listed in printed catalogues. The Library's music manuscripts are all described in Search our Catalogue, Archives and Manuscripts aside from manuscripts in the Additional Manuscripts category with numbers between Add. Both collections will be cross-searchable on the one intuitive and user-friendly interface. British Literary Manuscripts Online, c.1660-1900 will be followed by British Literary Manuscripts Online: Renaissance and Medieval in late 2009. We collect new manuscripts and archives relating to music through bequests, donations and purchases. Users can search across 400,000 pages by metadata which includes author, named person and title of the work. We also have archives of music publishers, including that of Novello, and the private papers of composers, performers and musicologists. The 'Royal Music Library' holds 97 volumes of autograph music by Handel, including his score of Messiah. The University of British Columbia Library’s Western Manuscripts and Early Printed Books is the access point to digitizations of both fragments and a few complete manuscripts (including a 13th-century theological miscellany a 13th-century Bible a 15th-century Book of Hours and a Spanish chant manuscript). Autograph manuscripts from the 17th century include volumes of music by Matthew Locke and Henry Purcell. Though the origins of the manuscripts are mysterious-we don't know the authors or the scribes-their staying power is a triumph that continues to enrich our understanding of history.Īnglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, World, War is on view at the British Library in London until February 19, 2019.įour of the only surviving Old English manuscripts are on display at the British Library.The collection includes medieval songs and settings of the liturgy, which are the earliest manuscript music in the collection English music of the 16th and 17th centuries Sixteenth-century manuscripts, including My Ladye Nevells Booke a beautifully-copied collection of keyboard pieces by William Byrd, dating from 1591. Indeed, anyone with any interest in Wagner. The earliest work included is Wagners original draft of the piano score of the orchestral Overture in E minor, composed when Wagner was only 18 years old. In an age where information is available at our fingertips, the meticulous work of each scribe is all the more impressive.Īs historical artifacts, art objects, and important pieces of literature, the four codices are a unique window into Anglo-Saxon life. To mark Wagner 200, the British Library have made available online its entire collection of Wagner manuscripts, mostly from early on in his career. Advanced Search options include author, document type, work title, and manuscript number or library shelf mark. All likely produced in the 10th century, they are an incredible reminder of how precious the written word can be. British Literary Manuscripts Online: Medieval & Renaissance offers students and researchers unprecedented online access to 565,000 page images and descriptions of rare manuscripts, c.1100 to 1660. The survivors are the Vercelli Book, which contains a wealth of Old English poetry the Beowulf Manuscript, the epic story of its titular hero the Junius Manuscript, comprised of four long-form religious poems and the Exeter Book, a 131-page manuscript filled with narrative poems, riddles, and elegies. All four are on display at the British Library as part of its Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, Warexhibition. These four books of poetry, handwritten in the beautiful script we associate with Old English, are artistic jewels unto themselves, each displaying a different aspect of Medieval Anglo-Saxon society.
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