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Fine Art Postcard Collection
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1048
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of photo albums (filed arbitrarly) and small drawer sets of postcards (filed geographically). They show European buildings, many ecclesiastical. The subjects are: Italian sculpture; paintings and drawings (possibly of French examples); church exteriors (England, Italy); church interiors (Italy, France, England); domestic exteriors (France); secular exteriors (Italy); secular interiors; doors and doorways (England); wells and fountains; bridges; gateways; steps and...
Dates:
1895-1960
George Baillie Collection of Music Manuscripts
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1061
Scope and Contents
This collection contains music manuscripts dating mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries, which belonged to George Baillie. It mostly consists of arias and cantatas by composers such as Giovanni Bononcini, Alessandro Scarlatti, Giovanni Pergolese, George Handel, and many more. Most of the manuscripts are in Italian.
A few later manuscripts from the 20th century have obviously been subsequently added to the collection, although there is no information on their provenance.
A few later manuscripts from the 20th century have obviously been subsequently added to the collection, although there is no information on their provenance.
Dates:
1700-1830; 20th century
Manuscript embroidery or needle-work pattern book, presented to Leonora Vigoleno
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1431
Scope and Contents
The volume is hand-coloured. The drawings are sketched in ink outline with colour wash. The designs show borders, mostly floral but also including abstract and classical repeat patterns, together with some corner patterns and individual motifs. Quarto. Title page within floral border and with finely drawn crane motif, stitched into 18th century past-paper boards. Vaghi lavori delle donne presenta/ti alla virtuosa e nobile / Leonora Vigoleno / la qual opera dissegnata da...
Dates:
1790-1800
Music mss: 'Fausta': aria
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1172
Scope and Contents
Music manuscript - the aria Tu che voli gi'd spirto beata from Fausta.
Dates:
1832
Papers of Giordano Bruno Cavagna
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-646
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of copies of typescript of the then unpublished workMetafisico classica e cristiana.
Dates:
1961-1966
Papers of the Ferretti Family of Ancona
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1014
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of some 121 unpublished manuscript documents - in Latin and Italian - relating to the Papal States and the House of Ferretti. The collection also contains many supporting photocopied items (articles etc), and some colour photographs of Palazzo Ferretti in Ancona. There is a large envelope containing city plans of Ancona.This material offers a detailed account of the private lives of the minor nobles in the Papal States after the Sack of Rome in 1527 and...
Dates:
1574-1746
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- Baillie, George, 1664-1738 (Scottish politician) 1
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