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Music 103
Music -- Manuscripts -- 17th century 84
18th century 53
16th century 31
Manuscripts 27
Music -- Manuscripts -- 18th century 26
Suites 25
Chamber music 24
19th century 22
Motets 19
x - 15th century 19
Manuscripts, Greek 17
Manuscripts, Latin 16
Anthems 13
x - 12th century 12
x - 13th century 12
x - 14th century 12
Music -- Manuscripts -- 19th century 11
20th century 9
x - 11th century 8
Communion service music 6
Evening service music 6
Incidental music 6
Morning service music 6
Sonatas 6
x - 10th century 6
Cantatas, Sacred 5
Madrigals, English 5
Trio sonatas 5
Letters 4
Music -- Manuscripts -- 20th century 4
Operas -- Excerpts 4
Religion 4
Universities and colleges 4
x - 9th century 4
Cantatas, Secular 3
Choruses, Sacred 3
Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with instrumental ensemble 3
Glees, catches, rounds, etc. 3
Humanities 3
In nomine (Music) 3
Keyboard instrument music 3
Library catalogs 3
Literature 3
Manuscripts -- Catalogs 3
Manuscripts, Medieval 3
Masses 3
Operas 3
Poetry 3
Psalms (Music) 3
Sonatas (String trio, continuo) 3
Sonatas (Violins (2), viola da gamba, continuo) 3
Songs with continuo 3
Songs, English 3
Theology 3
Viol music 3
Vocal duets with continuo 3
x - 8th century 3
Antiquarians 2
Bodleian Library 2
Bodleian Library -- Catalogs 2
Books -- Catalogs 2
Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) 2
Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with continuo 2
Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied 2
Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 3 parts) 2
Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 3 parts) with continuo 2
Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 4 parts), Unaccompanied 2
Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 5 parts) 2
Choruses, Secular 2
Church of England -- Clergy 2
Composers -- England -- Manuscripts 2
Essays 2
Greek literature 2
Illumination of books and manuscripts 2
Ireland 2
Law 2
Libraries 2
Madrigals, Italian 2
Manuscripts -- Indexes 2
Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman 2
Manuscripts, English (Middle) 2
Manuscripts, English (Old) 2
Manuscripts, Hebrew 2
Manuscripts, Icelandic 2
Music -- Early works to 1800 -- Catalogs 2
Music -- Manuscripts -- Catalogs 2
Music -- Manuscripts --17th century 2
Operas -- Scores 2
Organ music 2
Oxford (England) 2
Part songs, English 2
Public records -- Great Britain 2
Quartets (Violins (2), violetta, continuo) 2
Songs with instrumental ensemble 2
Songs, French 2
Songs, Italian 2
Stabat Mater dolorosa (Music) 2
String quartets (Violins (2), double bass, continuo) 2
Indexed names
Jenkins | John | 1592-1678 | composer 17
Lowe | Edward | 1610-1682 | composer, music copyist, organist and writer on music 16
Simpson | Christopher | c 1602/1606-1669 | composer 11
Lawes | William | 1602-1645 | musician and composer 9
Gibbons | Orlando | 1583-1625 | composer 7
Baltzar | Thomas | 1631-1663 | violinist and composer 6
Blow | John | 1648-1708 | composer 6
Purcell | Henry | c 1659-1695 | composer 6
Bassani | Giovanni Battist | c 1650-1716 | composer 5
Carissimi | Giacomo | 1605-1674 | composer 5
Byrd | William | c 1540-1623 | musical composer 4
Corelli | Arcangelo | 1653-1713 | composer and violinist 4
Gibbons | Christopher | bap 1615-1676 | composer and organist 4
Lully | Jean-Baptiste | 1632-1687 | composer 4
Palestrina | Giovanni Pierluigi da | 1525?-1594 | composer 4
Sherard | James | 1666-1738 | apothecary, botanist and amateur musician 4
Withy | Francis | c 1645-1727 | cathedral singer, string player, music copyist, teacher and composer 4
Alfonso Ferrabosco | c 1575-1628 | composer and viol player 3
Ferrabosco | Alfonso | c 1575-1628 | composer and viol player 3
Finger | Gottfried | c 1660-1730 | viol player and composer 3
Sances | Giovanni Felice | c 1600-1679 | composer and singer 3
Savile | Sir | Henry | 1549-1622 | knight | mathematician 3
Tallis | Thomas | c 1505-1585 | composer 3
Tomkins | Thomas | 1572-1656 | composer 3
University of Oxford 3
Ward | John | c 1589-1638 | composer 3
Cavalli | Pietro Francesco | 1602-1676 | composer 2
Child | William | 1606/1607-1697 | composer 2
Clarke | Jeremiah | c 1743-1809 | composer 2
Coprario | John | c 1570/1580-1626 | composer 2
Coprario | John | c 1570/80-1626 | composer, viol player and teacher 2
Ferrabosco | Alfonso | 1543-1588 | composer 2
Ford | Thomas | d 1648 | composer and viol player 2
Hacquart | Philip | 1645-1691 | composer 2
Heyther | William | c 1553-1627 | Cathedral singer 2
Ives | Simon | 1600-1662 | string player, singer and composer 2
Langbaine | Gerard | 1609-1658 | Provost of Queen's College Oxford, Royalist Pamphleteer, and Archivist 2
Laud | William | 1573-1645 | Archbishop of Canterbury 2
Lawes | Henry | bap 1596-1662 | singer and composer 2
Lilly | John | 1612-1678 | composer and musician 2
Lupo | Thomas | 1571-1627 | composer 2
Marchitelli | Pietro | ? 1643-1729 | violinist and composer 2
Marshall | Thomas | 1621-1685 | Dean of Gloucester 2
Melani | Alessandro | 1639-1703 | composer 2
Morley | Thomas | 1557/1558-1602 | composer and publisher 2
Rogers | Benjamin | 1613/14–1698 | organist and composer 2
Tye | Christopher | ? 1497-1572 | composer 2
d'Astorga | Emanuele | 1680-1757 | composer 2
Agostini | Pietro Simone | c 1635-1680 | composer 1
Albert | 1819-1861 | Prince Consort of Queen Victoria 1
Albrici | Bartolomeo | c 1635-1688 | keyboard player and composer 1
Aldrich | Henry | 1648-1710 | composer 1
Aldrovandini | Giuseppe Antonio | 1671-1707 | composer 1
Allegri | Gregorio | 1582-1652 | composer and singer 1
Alonne | Abel | Tassin d' | 1646-1723 | secretary to William III 1
Amodei | Cataldo | c 1650-c 1695 | composer 1
Andrewes | Lancelot |1555-1626 | Bishop of Winchester 1
Anselm | 1033-1109 | Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury 1
Aquinas | Thomas | 1225-1274 | Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic Priest 1
Ariosti | Attilio | 1666-1729 | composer 1
Arkwright | Godfrey Edward Pellew | 1864-1944 | bibliographer of 16th-18th century music 1
Augustine | d 604 | Saint, first Archbishop of Canterbury 1
Badham | Charles | 1780-1845 | Medical and Poetical Writer 1
Baj | Tommaso | c 1650-1714 | composer and singer 1
Baker | Thomas | 1656-1740 | nonjuring Church of England clergyman and antiquary 1
Baldassini | Antonio Luigi | 1649-1720 | violinist and composer 1
Bandinel | Bulkeley | 1781-1861 | Bodley's Librarian 1
Barlow | Thomas | 1607-1691 | Bishop of Lincoln 1
Bartleman | James | 1769-1821 | singer (bass) 1
Batten | Adrian | d 1637 | English composer 1
Bedford | Thomas | 1707-1773 | nonjuring Church of England clergyman and historian 1
Bertie | Montague Peregrine Albemarle | 1861-1938 | 12th Earl of Lindsey 1
Biego | Paolo | fl 1682-1714 | composer, organist and singer 1
Birchensha | John | c 1605–1681? | musical theorist and teacher 1
Bliss | Philip | 1787-1857 | Antiquary and Editor 1
Bockshorn | Samuel | 1628-1665 | composer and teacher 1
Bodleian Library 1
Bononcini | Giovanni | 1670-1747 | composer 1
Boothby | Sir | William | ? 1637-1707 | 1st Baronet | book collector 1
Bottomley | Gordon | 1874-1948 | Poet and playwright 1
Boult | Sir | Adrian Cedric | 1889-1983 | Knight | Conductor 1
Bourne | Thomas William | 1862-1948 | musical scholar 1
Brewer | Thomas | 1611-c 1660 | musician and composer 1
Britton | Thomas | 1644–1714 | concert promoter, book collector and coal merchant 1
Buchmayer | Richard | 1856-1934 | German pianist and musicologist 1
Buck | George | Sir | bap. 1560-1622 | Knight | master of the revels and historian also known George Buc 1
Burnet | Gilbert | 1643-1715 | Bishop of Salisbury and Historian 1
Butler | Henry | d 1652 | composer and viol player 1
Butler | James | 1390-1452 | 4th Earl of Ormond | called the White Earl 1
Caproli | Carlo | 1615–20-1692–5 | composer 1
Carew | George | 1555-1629 | Earl of Totnes | statesman 1
Carlell | Lodowick | ? 1601-1675 | courtier and playwright | also called Carlile 1
Carwarden | John | d after 1660 | composer 1
Casaubon | Isaac | 1559-1614 | Prebendary of Canterbury, Classical Scholar, and Diarist 1
Casini | Giovanni Maria | 1652-1719 | church musician and composer 1
Cecil | Robert | 1563-1612 | 1st Earl of Salisbury | politician and courtier 1
Cesti | Antonio | 1623-1669 | composer, singer and organist 1
Charles I | 1600-1649 | King of England, Scotland and Ireland 1
Charles II | 1630-1685 | King of England, Scotland and Ireland 1
Charlett | Arthur | 1655-1722 | Master of University College Oxford 1

Miscellaneous original papers

 Collection
Miscellaneous original papers
Extents: 0.22 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: Written in 1553-1807

'The Months', 12 fantasias by Christopher Simpson

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. c. 58
'The Months', 12 fantasias for treble viol, two bass viols and organ, by Christopher Simpson, Oct 1669.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: Oct 1669

Movements from consort suites by Christopher Gibbons

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. c. 53
Christopher Gibbons: movements from consort suites in D minor, for two trebles and bass with organ, [c 1660-1670].
Extents: 1 box
Dates: [c 1660-1670]

'Mr. Sylvanus Taylor's Ayres, for two Trebles & a Base'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. e. 429 (Former reference: Lowe's no. 19; Music School B. 4. 34)
'Mr. Sylvanus Taylor's Ayres, for two Trebles & a Base', between 1650 and 1682.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: between 1650 and 1682

Music bequeathed by T. W. Bourne

 Collection
Collection of mostly 18th-century manuscript music bequeathed by the pioneering Handel scholar, Thomas William Bourne (1862-1948), 1601-1902.
Extents: 2.20 Linear metres (20 boxes)
Dates: 1601-1902

Music-book with compositions for voice and lute at one end and keyboard music by Orlando Gibbons and music for lyra viol at the other

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. f. 575 (Former shelfmark: Music School B. 3. 1)
Music-book with compositions for voice and lute at one end and music by Orlando Gibbons and music for lyra viol at the other, mid-17th cent.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: mid-17th cent.

Music collected during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by the Blount family at Mapledurham

 Collection
Music collected during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by the Blount family at Mapledurham, late 17th-early 19th cent., n.d.
Extents: 17 boxes (0.85 linear metres)
Dates: late 17th-early 19th cent., n.d.

Music copied by Edward Lowe over a long period

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. e. 451 (Former reference: Music School A. 3. 29)
Music copied by Edward Lowe, c 1636-1682.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c 1636-1682

Music for two violins with other instruments

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. c. 70 (Former shelfmark: Music School A. 5. 7)
Music for two violins with other instruments, early 18th cent?
Extents: 1 box
Dates: early 18th cent?

Music of Benjamin Hely for two bass viols and continuo

 Collection
Music of Benjamin Hely for two bass viols and continuo, with some music by Marin Marais, late 17th-early 18th cent.
Extents: 0.33 Linear metres (3 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: late 17th-early 18th cent.

Musical collections of Harry Ellis Wooldridge

 Collection
A collection of music, including transcripts mainly of 17th and 18th-century Italian music, nearly all from sources in the British Museum.
Extents: 3.74 Linear metres (34 boxes)
Dates: 1870-1906, n.d.

'New Bookes for vocall'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MSS. Mus. Sch. c. 20-23
'New Bookes for vocall'. Eight 3-part motets copied by E. Lowe, [1680].
Extents: 1 box
Dates: [1680]

New College, Oxford. Chapel Choir Books

 Collection
New College, Oxford. Chapel Choir Books. Incomplete sets and isolated members of part-books which were in use from the early 17th cent. up to the middle of the 19th cent. and probably later.
Extents: 3.41 Linear metres (31 boxes)
Dates: mostly 17th and 18th centuries

Notes by Andrew Clark, 1911, on his collection of twenty-four manuscript and printed fragments removed from the bindings of volumes bound in Oxford temp. James I

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Lat. misc. d. 78
Notes by Andrew Clark, 1911, on his collection of twenty-four manuscript and printed fragments removed from the bindings of volumes bound in Oxford temp. James I.
Extents: 69 Leaves
Dates: 1911

Oxford University miscellanies

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. A. 368
Oxford University miscellanies, made up of three MSS. chiefly written in the second half of the 17th century.
Extents: 68 Leaves
Dates: made up of three MSS. chiefly written in the second half of the 17th century

Papers of G. E. P. Arkwright, mainly transcriptions of 16th and 17th-century music

 Collection
Papers of G. E. P. Arkwright, mainly transcriptions of 16th and 17th-century music, 1892-1940, n.d.
Extents: 14 boxes (1.54 linear metres)
Dates: 1892-1940, n.d.

Photograph of a holograph copy of Thomas Weelkes's madrigal 'Grace my lovely one', signed by the composer and entitled 'Sir Frances Steward, his Canzonett'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 60, fol. 3
Photograph of a holograph copy of Thomas Weelkes's madrigal 'Grace my lovely one' signed by the composer and entitled 'Sir Frances Steward, his Canzonett'. Quintus part only, n.d.
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates: Published 1889

Pier Francesco Cavalli: 'Il Giasone', opera in a prologue and 3 acts

 Collection
Full score of 'Il Giasone', opera in a prologue and 3 acts by Pier Francesco Cavalli to a libretto by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini, late 17th cent.
Extents: 0.45 Linear metres (3 volumes)
Dates: late 17th cent.

Pietro Francesco Cavalli: L'Égisto, opera in a prologue and 3 acts

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 587
'L'Égisto', opera by Pier Francesco Cavalli, transcribed by Egon Wellesz and Paul Pisk in 1908.
Extents: 180 pages
Dates: 1908

Pocket part-books of music composed by Valentine Oldis

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. g. 612a-d (Former reference: Music School B. 3. 12)
44 short pieces for viols in three or four parts by Valentine Oldis, 1659, 1674, n.d.
Extents: 1 box (4 volumes)
Dates: 1659, 1674, n.d.