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Music -- Manuscripts -- 17th century 21
Music -- Manuscripts -- 18th century 21
Anthems 6
Motets 5
19th century 3
Cantatas, Sacred 3
Chamber music 3
Communion service music 3
Evening service music 3
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Indexed names
Bassani | Giovanni Battist | c 1650-1716 | composer 3
Blow | John | 1648-1708 | composer 3
Corelli | Arcangelo | 1653-1713 | composer and violinist 3
Jenkins | John | 1592-1678 | composer 3
Purcell | Henry | c 1659-1695 | composer 3
Baltzar | Thomas | 1631-1663 | violinist and composer 2
Hacquart | Philip | 1645-1691 | composer 2
Aldrich | Henry | 1648-1710 | composer 1
Ariosti | Attilio | 1666-1729 | composer 1
Badham | Charles | 1780-1845 | Medical and Poetical Writer 1
Batten | Adrian | d 1637 | English composer 1
Bononcini | Giovanni | 1670-1747 | composer 1
Bourne | Thomas William | 1862-1948 | musical scholar 1
Britton | Thomas | 1644–1714 | concert promoter, book collector and coal merchant 1
Buchmayer | Richard | 1856-1934 | German pianist and musicologist 1
Byrd | William | c 1540-1623 | musical composer 1
Carissimi | Giacomo | 1605-1674 | composer 1
Casini | Giovanni Maria | 1652-1719 | church musician and composer 1
Child | William | 1606/1607-1697 | composer 1
Clarke | Jeremiah | c 1743-1809 | composer 1
Coleman | Charles | d 1664 | composer, singer, lutenist and viol player 1
Courteville | Raphael | fl c 1673–c 1735 | organist and composer 1
Croft | William | 1677-1727 | organist and composer 1
Eccles | John | c 1668-1735 | composer 1
Farrant | Richard | c 1528-1580 | Cathedral musician and composer 1
Finger | Gottfried | c 1655-1730 | composer 1
Finger | Gottfried | c 1660-1730 | viol player and composer 1
Francis | Withy | c 1645-1727 | singer, string player, music copyist, teacher and composer 1
Gibbons | Orlando | 1583-1625 | composer 1
Handel | George Frederick | 1685-1759 | musical composer 1
Hely | Benjamin | fl 1680–1690 | composer. 1
Hotman | Nicolas | before 1614-1663 | composer and viol player 1
Humfrey | Pelham | 1647/8-1674 | composer 1
Lenton | John | 1657-1719 | violinist and composer 1
L’Estrange | Roger | 1616-1704 | viol player 1
Marais | Marin | 1656-1728 | composer and viol player. 1
Melani | Alessandro | 1639-1703 | composer 1
Morgan | Thomas | fl 1691–1699 | organist and composer 1
Oxford University | New College 1
Palestrina | Giovanni Pierluigi da | 1525?-1594 | composer 1
Sances | Giovanni Felice | c 1600-1679 | composer and singer 1
Scarlatti | Alessandro | 1660-1725 | composer 1
Schickhardt | Johann Christian | c 1681-1762 | composer and instrumentalist 1
Sherard | James | 1666-1738 | apothecary, botanist and amateur musician 1
Simpson | Christopher | c 1602/1606-1669 | composer 1
Steffkin | Theodore | d 1673? | viol player and composer 1
Tallis | Thomas | c 1505-1585 | composer 1
Tollet | Thomas | d ? 1696 | musician and composer 1
Torelli | Giuseppe | 1658-1709 | composer 1
Williams | William | 1675-1701 | instrumentalist and composer 1
Wooldridge | Harry Ellis | 1845-1917 | Professor of Fine Art and Historian of Music 1

37 short pieces for bass viol (companion volume to MS. Mus. Sch. f. 573)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. f. 574 (Former reference: Music School A. 3. 28)
Companion volume to f. 573, mainly copied by the third hand, and containing two of the same pieces by P. Hacquart, [date].
Extents: 1 box
Dates: Date not recorded at time of cataloguing

Airs for stringed instruments by Dutch and English composers

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. f. 573 (Former reference: Music School A. 3. 27)
Notebook, probably of Dutch origin, in which three hands collected airs by Dutch and English composers for stringed instruments; in some cases a second part is lacking, [c 1700].
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c 1700

'Alessandro Scarlatti's 'Il Flavio Cuniberto'

 Collection
Vocal and full score, with additional parts, of Alessandro Scarlatti's 'Il Flavio Cuniberto, Opera rappresentura nel Teatro di Capranica [Rome], L'Anno 1696', early 18th cent.
Extents: 2 physical shelfmarks (0.22 linear metres)
Dates: Early 18th cent.

Arcangelo Corelli's Sonatas op. 1 and op. 2

 Collection
Arcangelo Corelli's Sonatas op. 1 and 2 for 2 violins, bass and basso continuo, early 18th cent.
Extents: 2 physical shelfmarks (0.22 linear metres)
Dates: early 18th cent.

Arrangements by Richard Buchmayer of 17th- and 18th-cent. music, and papers belonging to him

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 401
Arrangements by Richard Buchmayer (1856-1934) of 17th- and 18th-cent. music, and papers belonging to him, n.d.
Extents: 251 Leaves
Dates: Date not recorded at time of cataloguing

'A Booke of Psalme Tunes...'

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. f. 38
'A Booke of Psalme Tunes with directions by the Rull how to sing them...', [c 1700].
Extents: 33 Leaves
Dates: [c 1700]

Church music in score collected by Charles Badham

 Collection
Church music in score collected by Charles Badham, Minor Canon of St Paul's Cathedral, London, 1674-1675, 1713, n.d.
Extents: 0.44 Linear metres (4 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1674-1675, 1713, n.d.

A composite volume of instrumental parts

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. d. 261 (Former reference: Quarto B. 1-6)
A composite volume, containing various instrumental parts, some incomplete, late 17th/early 18th cent.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: Late 17th/early 18th cent.

Divisions and dance tunes with a copy of Christopher Simpson's The Division-Violist (London, 1659)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: [Vet.] Mus. 184 c.8
Divisions and dance tunes with a copy of Christopher Simpson's The Division-Violist (London, 1659), mid-17th - mid-18th cent.
Extents: 48 Leaves
Dates: mid-17th - mid-18th cent.

G. B. Bassani: Organ part only (figured bass) of 12 sonatas, published as Op. 5, Sinfonie a due, e trè instromenti, con il basso continuo per l'organo ... (Bologna, 1683)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c.372
Figured bass part for organ of 12 sonatas, published as Op. 5, Sinfonie a due, e trè instromenti, con il basso continuo per l'organo ... (Bologna, 1683), copied in late 17th or early 18th cent.
Extents: 16 Leaves
Dates: late 17th-early 18th cent.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: 1st book of motets for 4 voices (Rome, 1563)

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 287
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525/5-1594): 1st book of motets for 4 voices (Rome, 1563), scored up by Giovanni Maria Casini and copied by Cosimo Scuffi, late 17th or early 18th cent.
Extents: 346 pages
Dates: late 17th or early 18th-cent.

Incidental music arranged for two violins and bass

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. c. 73
Part-books for incidental music arranged for two violins and bass, c 1700.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c 1700

Incidental music by Finger, Lenton, Purcell, Tollet and Eccles

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. c. 72 (Former shelfmark: Music School A. 5. 9-11)
Three part-books containing incidental music by Finger, Lenton, Purcell, Tollet and Eccles, arranged for two violins and bass; flute music by Raphael Courteville and William Williams; and 'Nicola's Trumpet tune', c 1700.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: c 1700

Incomplete part-book of church music, belonging to a set probably used in the province of York

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. Liturg. c. 4
Incomplete part-book of church music, belonging to a set probably used in the province of York, late 17th-early 18th cent.
Extents: 180 pages
Dates: late 17th-early 18th cent.

Miscellaneous notes, scores, bass parts, etc., collected by F. Withy

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. d. 217
Miscellaneous notes, scores, bass parts, etc., collected by F. Withy, 1682-1703.
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: 1681-1703

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 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 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

'Sinfonie' for strings, lute and organ

 Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. Sch. d. 260 (Former reference: Music School B. 4. 20)
'Sinfonie' for strings, lute and organ, early 18th cent.
Extents: 1 box
Dates: early 18th cent.