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18th century

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2395 Collections and/or Records:

Collection

German proverbs in the handwriting of Martin Luther and relating documents

German proverbs in the handwriting of Martin Luther and relating documents, chiefly written in the first half of the 16th century by M. Luther.
Extents: 0.22 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: 16th-19th century
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Gilbert Heathcote: two collections of catches, canon, glees and songs, indexed (on fol. 1) and bound together

Gilbert Heathcote: two collections of catches, canon, glees and songs, indexed (fol. 1) and bound together.
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d.177
Extents: 95 Leaves
Dates: 1763-1787, n.d.
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'Ginevra of Sicily' ('Ariodante'), opera by George Frideric Handel

Vocal score of 'Ginevra of Sicily' as adapted from George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante [HWV 33] by Michael Rophino Lacy, with further music from other works of Handel and new material presumably composed by Lacy, [1830s-1840s].
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 285
Extents: 406 pages
Dates: [1830s-1840s]
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Giovanni Battista Bassani: Op. 8, Metri Sacri Resi Armonici

Score of Giovanni Battista Bassani's Op. 8, 'Metri Sacri Resi Armonici', early 18th cent.
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 207
Extents: 80 Leaves
Dates: early 18th cent.
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Giovanni Battista Casti, ‘Novelle in ottava rima… libro terzo’, fair copies of a (pp. 1-20) ‘L’Incantesimo’; b (pp. 21-61) ‘La Fata Urgella’; c (pp. 63-91) ‘L’Ortalano delle Monache’, and d (pp. 167-195) ‘Poesie giocese'

Giovanni Battista Casti, ‘Novelle in ottava rima… libro terzo’, fair copies of a (pp. 1-20) ‘L’Incantesimo’; b (pp. 21-61) ‘La Fata Urgella’; c (pp. 63-91) ‘L’Ortalano delle Monache’, and d (pp. 167-195) ‘Poesie giocese'
Shelfmark: MS. Ital. e.21
Extents: 232 pages
Dates: Late 18th century-Early 19th Century
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Cantata Orfeo é Euridice

'Cantata Orfeo é Euridice del Sigr. Pergolesi', [late 18th cent.]
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 298
Extents: 14 Leaves
Dates: [late 18th cent.]
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Nei giorni tuoi felici. 'Duetto a due soprani nell'opera Olimpiade. Parole del Metastasio, musica di Giov[an]ni Batt. Pergolesi. Roma 1735.'

Nei giorni tuoi felici. 'Duetto a due soprani nell'opera Olimpiade. Parole del Metastasio.' by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. For two sopranos, violin, viola and continuo, mid-19th cent.
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 604
Extents: 8 Leaves
Dates: mid-19th cent.
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Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari: collection of madrigals for 2-3 voices and continuo

Two volumes of madrigals for 2-3 voices and continuo by Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, 18th cent.
Extents: 0.30 Linear metres (2 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: mid-18th cent.
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Giovanni Paisiello: 'Il mio ben quando verrà', aria from the opera 'Nina, o sia La pazza per amore'

Vocal score of 'Il mio ben quando verrà', aria from the opera 'Nina, o sia La pazza per amore' by Giovanni Paisiello, early 19th cent.
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 300
Extents: 6 Leaves
Dates: early 19th-cent.
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Giovanni Paisiello: 'Sinfonia' from La Frascatana

Giovanni Paisiello: 'Sinfonia' from his opera La Frascatana, [1774].
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. c. 60, fols. 89-103
Extents: 15 Leaves
Dates: [1774]
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: 1st book of motets for 4 voices (Rome, 1563)

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.
Shelfmark: MS. Mus. d. 287
Extents: 346 pages
Dates: late 17th or early 18th-cent.
Collection

G.J. Dew's Collection of Oxfordshire Drawings and Engravings

G.J. Dew's Collection of Oxfordshire Drawings and Engravings
Extents: 0.60 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates: mid 18th century-mid 19th century
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Glossary of dialect and other words, entitled 'Horae subsecivae sive additamenta quaedam vocum plerumque topicarum ad Francisci Junii Etymologicum Anglicanum', possibly by Robert Wight

Glossary of dialect and other words, entitled 'Horae subsecivae sive additamenta quaedam vocum plerumque topicarum ad Francisci Junii Etymologicum Anglicanum', possibly by Robert Wight, 1777-1778
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lang. d. 66
Extents: 496 pages
Dates: 1777-1778
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Glossary of naval terms, entitled 'A naval expositor shewing all the words and terms of art .. .'

Glossary of naval terms, entitled 'A naval expositor shewing all the words and terms of art .. .', 1732-3
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lang. e. 12
Extents: 76 Leaves
Dates: 1732-1733
Collection

Gloucestershire collections by Ralph Bigland

Gloucestershire collections by Ralph Bigland
Extents: 0.10 Linear metres (1 box)
Dates: 1773-1775
Collection

Gloucestershire collections of T.D. Fosbroke

Three volumes of Gloucestershire collections of T.D. Fosbroke.
Extents: 3 boxes (Linear metres)
Dates: 19th cent.
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'A Golf Song' by Arthur Vincent Weston

'A Golf Song' by Arthur Vincent Weston
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. c. 11
Extents: 23 Leaves
Dates: Written in 1911 by A. V. Weston
Collection

Gough Collection

Richard Gough Collection
Extents: 96.03 Linear metres (873 boxes)
Dates: 12th-19th century
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'Gough's Remarkable Events of the Saxon Heptarchy'

Chronological accounts by the antiquary Richard Gough of the seven Saxon Kingdoms of England
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. c. 1028
Extents: 231 Leaves
Dates: Late 18th century
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Gower Manuscripts

Five manuscripts relating to the history of Cheshire.
Extents: 5 shelfmarks
Dates: 17th-18th cent.