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[Gradual, proper of time].

[Gradual, proper of time]. Mediaeval manuscript choirbook on vellum. Binding of wooden boards covered with leather binding with brass bosses and clasps; 7 lines of text in a rounded Gothic hand and of...

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Regla de las Monjas de Santa Clara, comunmente llamadas Urbanistas :...

Regla de las Monjas de Santa Clara, comunmente llamadas Urbanistas : constituciones generales de las dichas, hechas en el Capitulo g[ene]ral celebrado en Roma à 1 de Juno de 1638 : i publicadas por el...

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Interview with composer, arranger and conductor Werner Baer

Interview with composer, arranger and conductor Werner Baer Rutland, Suzanne

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Interview with Charles Berg

Interview with Charles Berg Rutland, Suzanne Charles Berg interviewed by Suzanne Rutland.

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Antiphonarium

Antiphonarium Latin text written in Iberian gothic, black square music natation on red five-line staves. Six staves and six lines of text each page. Decorated initials in red and blue. Based on the...

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Antiphonal Augustinian

Antiphonal Augustinian This is an antiphonal for the day offices copied for Augustinian use. It is decorated with seventeen illuminations which were individually cut out from earlier manuscripts of...

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Processional Cistercian

Processional Cistercian This processional consists of three sections, in the first it has the characteristic of Cistercian processionals for brothers of an abbey, however the other two mention sisters...

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RB Add.Ms. 339

RB Add.Ms. 339 This leaf from the Office of the Dead begins with the last two lessons and the final responsory 'Libera me domine de viis inferni' for Matins followed by Lauds and Vespers. Collects...

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Florilegium

Florilegium Anthology of quotations from Cicero, Seneca, Apuleius, Macrobius and later Christian authors.Manuscript written on vellum in littera prae-gothica textualis. Sinclair 100. Ownership: Frater...

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RB Add.Ms. 40

RB Add.Ms. 40 Orthodox Eastern Church. Variant title:"Codex Angus". Provenance: Greek Church in Bulgaria; Professor Diessman, Berlin University, 1935; Professor Samuel Angus, St. Andrew's College,...

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Processional (without musical notation), with prayers and responsories for...

Processional (without musical notation), with prayers and responsories for the dead. Contents of the responsories focus on liturgical processions for the dead. The book is designed for personal use,...

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Processional and responsorial.

Processional and responsorial. This is a comprehensive Processional includes the processions for the Sundays throughout the liturgical year and for special feast days and Rogation days. Technical...

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[Officium tenebrae]

[Officium tenebrae] An entirely handwritten psalter which seems to be of Spanish origin. This book of plainsong was used to celebrate the Office of Darkness during Triduum Pascal (Feria V in Coena...

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[Officium de septem dolorium Hebdomade]

[Officium de septem dolorium Hebdomade] A manuscript on paper with 12 lines per page. To p. 168 it is by the same hand. The last gathering of 10 leaves is from an older manuscript, also on paper, with...

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[Spanish antiphonal]

[Spanish antiphonal] Written in red and black on 18 leaves of vellum with rubricated initials, with a mid 16th century full calf binding with gilt rules and decorations. Light worming on last 2 leaves....

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Antiphonarium ordinis [manuscript]

Antiphonarium ordinis [manuscript] "Soli Deo sanctisque eius sit perpetuo omnis laus atque gloria"--T.p. [Spain? ; 1781]. 18th century antiphonary, with 7 staves per page. The staves, and initials and...

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Garden Palace Journal : a compendium of carefully compiled descriptive...

Garden Palace Journal : a compendium of carefully compiled descriptive notices of exhibits at the Sydney International Exhibition of 1879-80. Sydney International Exhibition (1879 : Sydney, N.S.W.)...

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Neighbours : writings of Lady Mary

Neighbours : writings of Lady Mary Montagu, Mary Wortley (Lady) [Created between 1700 and 1799?] .

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Catalogue of books of N.D. Stenhouse

Catalogue of books of N.D. Stenhouse Stenhouse, Nicol Drysdale Catalogue list of the books of Nicol Drysdale Stenhouse (1806-1873). 42 leaves. 8 vo, Sydney: [nd]. Includes index.

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Notes on Hobson-Jobson

Notes on Hobson-Jobson Hodivala, Shahpurshah Hormasji Reprinted from the Indian Antiquary. 30 p. ; 28 cm.

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