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Handwritten: ten centuries of manuscript treasures
from Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Exhibition checklist December 2011
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Books
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70–19 BC), Roman poet
Aeneid (Cum Scholiis), with commentaries
Regensburg, Bavaria: 835–865
12 folios; 20.5–31.0 cm x 13.5-18.0 cm
Ms. lat. fol. 421, ff. 6v–7r and 7v–8r
Guillaume de Lorris (c.1212–1237), French poet
Jean de Meung (c.1250–1305), French scholar and cleric
Roman de la Rose (Romance of the Rose)
Northern France: 1300–1335
254 folios; 21.5 x 15.5 cm
Ms. Ham. 577, ff. 6v–7r and 83v–84r
Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), Italian poet
La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy)
Pisa: 1347
101 folios; 35.5 x 25.5 cm
Ms. Ham. 203, ff. 1r and 32v–33r
Paris Bible
France (probably Paris): 1250–1275
530 folios; 18.5 x 14.0 cm
Ms. theol. lat. qu. 33, ff. 3v–4r and 389v–390r
Psalterium non Feriatum
Upper Rhine (probably Alsace): 1200–1250
129 folios; 18.5 x 13.0 cm
Ms. theol. lat. qu. 102, ff. 1v–2r and 2v–3r
Missale Plenum (Full missal)
probably Central or Western Germany: 1250-1275
306 folios; 41.0 x 29.5 cm
Ms. theol. lat. fol. 487, ff. 17v–18r and 24v–25r
Latin Book of Hours
Northern France and Flanders: 1450–1500
148 folios; 9.0 x 6.5 cm
Hdschr. 25, ff. 49v–50r and 58v–59r
Latin Book of Hours belonging to Nicolas von Firmian (d.1510), Tyrolean nobleman
Bruges or Ghent: c.1500
240 folios; 19.5 x 14.0 cm
Hdschr. 241, ff. 35v–36r and 232v–233r
Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153), Cistercian monk
Sermones Super Cantica Canticorum (Commentaries on the Song of Songs)
Germany (probably Liesborn): c.1215
190 folios; 35.0 x 23.5 cm
Ms. theol. lat. fol. 347, ff. 1v–2r and 2v–3r
Codex Iustinianus cum Glossa Ordinaria Accursii, Liber I–IX
(Justinian’s Code with the Glossa Ordinaria of Accursius, Book 1–9)
France (probably Avignon): 1250–1300
324 folios; 28.0 x 19.0 cm
Ms. lat. fol. 20, ff. 4v–5r and 76v–77r
The Venerable Bede (c.673–735), Anglo-Saxon monk, teacher and scholar
De Temporum Ratione (On the Reckoning of Time)
in De Civitate Dei (The City of God) by St Augustine of Hippo (Augustinus)
(354–430), theologian and bishop
Liesborn: 1150–1175
189 sheets; 46.5 x 33.0 cm
Ms. theol. lat. fol. 377, ff. 123v–124r and 124v–125r
Heinrich von Laufenberg (1390–1460), German priest and monk
Regimen
Alsace (probably Strasbourg): c.1450–1460
144 folios; 29.5 x 21.5 cm
Ms. germ. fol. 1191, ff. 23v–24r and 39v–40r
Johann Hartlieb (c.1410-1468), German physician and poet
Herbal
Bavaria (probably Regensburg): 1450–1475
183 folios; 28.5 x 21.5 cm
Ms. germ. qu. 2021, ff. 9v–10r and 13v–14r
From the Renaissance to Today
Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), Italian philosopher and writer
Letter to Lorenzo de’ Medici (1449–1492), ruler of the Florentine Republic
Florence, c.January 1476
27.5 x 21.5 cm
Slg. Darmst. 2a *1491: Ficinus, Marsilius, f. 2r
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), Italian philosopher and politician
Letter to Francesco Vettori (1474–1539), Florentine envoy to the Holy See
Florence, 25 August 1513
28.5 x 21.0 cm
Slg. Darmst. 2l 1520: Machiavelli, Niccolò, f. 1r
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564), Italian painter, sculptor and architect
Receipt addressed to Lionardo de Bartolini
Rome, 5 June 1519
21.1 x 28.3 cm
Slg. Darmst., 2o 1510: Buonarotti, Michel Angelo, f. 1r
Erasmus of Rotterdam (1467–1536), Dutch humanist
Letter to Anton Fugger (1493–1560), German merchant and banker
Freiburg, 22 August 1531
30.6 x 20.2 cm
Slg. Darmst. 2d 1508: Erasmus, Desiderius, f. 1r
Martin Luther (1483–1546), German theologian and reformer
Letter to Gerard Wilskamp (d.1539), rector of the Brethren of the Common Life at
Herford
probably Wittenberg, 19 October 1532
21.0 x 27.0 cm
Slg. Darmst. 1 1517: Luther, Martin, f. 1r
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543), Polish astronomer and mathematician
Letter to Johannes Dantiscus (1485–1548), Bishop of Kulm and Ermland
Frauenburg, 26 June 1541
30.0 x 20.0 cm
Slg. Darmst. J 1530: Copernicus, Nicholas, f. 1r
Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583–1634), German military commander
Letter to Charles Bonaventure de Longueval (1571–1621), Count of Bucquoy and
French-Belgian military commander
Prague, 28 May 1621
28.9 x 19.0 cm
Slg. Darmst. 1 1618: Wallenstein, Albrecht, Duke of, f. 1r
Peter Hagendorf (active 1624–1649), German mercenary
Diary from the Thirty Years War (1618–1648)
1624–1649
176 fols; 11.0 x 21.0 cm
Ms. germ. oct. 52, ff. 21v–22r and 24v–25r
Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), German astronomer and mathematician
Letter to Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583–1634), German military commander
Sagan, 10 February 1629
32.6 x 20.5 cm
Slg. Darmst. F 2c 1630: Kepler, Johannes, f. 4r
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), Italian mathematician, physicist and astronomer
Letter to Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580–1637), French astronomer and
scholar, and multiplication table
letter: 28.0 x 19.9 cm, multiplication table: 8.5 x 6.8 cm
Slg. Darmst. F 2a 1586: Galilei, Galileo, ff. 1r and 3r
Otto von Guericke (1602–1686), German physicist, engineer and diplomat
Letter to the Council of the City of Magdeburg
Magdeburg, 21 March 1646
32.5 x 17.4 cm
Slg. Darmst. F 2a 1661: Guericke, Otto von, f. 1r
René Descartes (1596–1650), French philosopher and mathematician
Letter to Marin Mersenne (1588–1648), French theologian and mathematician
Paris, c. September 1647
23.8 x 35.0 cm
Slg. Darmst. 2a 1637: Descartes, René, ff. 4v–5r
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723), Dutch fabric merchant and natural scientist
Letter to Constantijn Huygens (1596–1687), Lord of Zuylichem and Dutch diplomat
Delft, 26 December 1674
32.0 x 21.1 cm
Slg. Darmst. 3k 1710: Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van, sheet. 1r
Isaac Newton (1642–1727), English mathematician, physicist, alchemist and
philosopher
Letter to Carron di San Tommaso, Comte de Briançon (d.1709), envoy from the
Duke of Savoy to England and Italian nobleman
London, 6 June 1706
23.3 x 18.0 cm
Slg. Darmst. I 1665: Newton, Isaac, f. 1r
François Marie Arouet Voltaire (1694–1778), French writer
Letter to Frederick II (1712–1786), King of Prussia
Colmar, 3 May 1754
22.5 x 34.8 cm
Slg. Darmst. 1 1755 (2): Voltaire, François Marie Arouet, ff. 7v–8r
Johann Reinhold Forster (1729–1798), German natural historian and author
Journal of a Voyage on Board His Majesties Ship Resolution, Captain Cook
Commander
1772–1775
20.5 x 30.0 cm
Ms. germ. qu. 227, ff. 52v–53r
James Cook (1728–1779), English navigator and explorer
Report to the Commissioners of the Navy
London, 2 January 1776
23.1 x 18.8 cm
Slg. Darmst. Weltreisen 1772: Cook, James, f. 2r
James Watt (1736–1819), Scotish mechanical engineer and inventor
Letter accompanying a patent application to ‘the Kings Most Excellent Majesty’
Birmingham, 1785
33.0 x 20.8 cm
Slg. Darmst. F 2a 1769: Watt, James, f. 3r
Luigi Galvani (1737-1797), Italian doctor, anatomist and physicist
Sheet from the drawings of the ‘frog’s leg experiment’
c.1790
24.4 x 18.2 cm,
Slg. Darmst. F 1e 1790: Galvani, Luigi, f. 1r
Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (1745–1827), Italian physicist
Letter to Friedrich Albrecht Carl Gren (1760–1798), German physicist
Como, 6 September 1794
26.1 x 38.2 cm
Slg. Darmst. F 1e 1800: Volta, Alessandro, ff. 3v–4r
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), German philosopher
Letter to Dietrich Ludwig Gustav Karsten (1768–1810), German mineralogist
Königsberg, 16 March 1795
23.0 x 37.2 cm
Slg. Darmst. 2a 1781: Kant, Immanuel, f. 4v
Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), German naturalist, explorer and author
Drawing of a small Cacajao monkey, Simia melanocephala (Cacajao
melanocephalus), with accompanying text
Carichana, South America, May 1800
drawing: 21.1 x 16.5 cm, text: 20.9 x 17.0 cm
Nachlass Alexander von Humboldt, gr. Box 6, No. 25, ff. 1r and 2r
Karl Hartwig Gregor von Meusebach (1781–1847), German lawyer, literary scholar
and collector
Letter to Ernestine von Witzleben (1784–1863)
24 April 1804
17.2 x 24.0 cm
Nachlass Karl Hartwig Gregor von Meusebach, Box 2, f. 1v
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821), Emperor of the French
Letter to Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), French politician
Auma, 12 October 1806
22.8 x 19.0 cm
Slg. Darmst. 1 1804: Napoleon Bonaparte, f. 1v
Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau (1769-1857), German physician, naturalist and
graphic artist
Seaweed discovered and described by Tilesius on Krusenstern’s circumnavigation
of the earth
1803–1806
35.0 x 44.0 cm
Slg. Darmst. World Travel 1806: Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlieb, ff. 9v–10r
and 10v–11r
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), German philosopher
Letter to Friedrich von Raumer (1781–1873), the manuscript ‘On the teaching of
philosophy at universities’
Nuremberg, 2 August 1816
23.5 x 39.6 cm
Slg. Darmst. 1a 1802: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, ff. 10v–11r
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787–1851), French inventor and entrepreneur
Letter to Isidore Niépce (1805–1868), with a 1000-franc share certificate for
Daguerre’s diorama
Paris, 9 September 1839 and 3 August 1822
letter: 22.8 x 18.0 cm, certificate: 11.0 x 18.8 cm
Slg. Darmst. F 2c 1829: Daguerre, Louis Jacques M., ff. 5r and 7r
Adelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838), German naturalist and poet
Letter to an unknown publisher, with accompanying illustration
probably Berlin, 22 April 1823
letter: 20.0 x 16.0 cm, illustration: 20.0 x 21.3 cm
Slg. Darmst. World Travel 1815: Chamisso, Adelbert von, ff. 20r and 23r
Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841), German architect and painter
Letter to August Otto Johann Georg von Harlem (1778–1857), German ministry
official
Berlin, 25 September 1825
35.0 x 21.3 cm
Slg. Darmst. D 1816: Schinkel, Carl Friedrich, f. 8r
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), German writer and philosopher
Poem for the painter Samuel Roesel (1768–1843)
28 August 1827
20.0 x 13.0 cm
Lessing Collection No. 1652
Simón Bolívar (1783–1830)
Letter to a friend
Bucaramanga, South America, 3 April 1828
25.9 x 40.1 cm
Slg. Darmst. 1 1812: Bolívar, Simón, ff. 1v–2r
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), German philosopher
Über den Willen in der Natur (On the will in nature)
Frankfurt am Main: Siegmund Schmerber, 1836
19.6 x 23.8 cm
Hdschr. 82, pp. 54–54a and 56b–57
Jacob Grimm (1785–1863), German philologist
Letter to Xavier Marmier (1809–1892), French journalist and author
Göttingen, 18 January 1837
27.4 x 23.1 cm
Slg. Darmst. 2b 1808: Grimm, Jacob, f. 9r
Charles Darwin (1809–1882), English scientist
Letter to Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), German naturalist
London, 1 November 1839
32.9 x 40.4 cm
Nachlass Alexander von Humboldt, gr. Box 4, No. 22, ff. 1v–2r
Louis Braille (1809–1852), French teacher and inventor
Letter to Jacques-Étienne-Victor Arago, (1790–1855), French artist, adventurer and
author
Paris, 3 May 1840
26.5 x 20.5 cm
Slg. Darmst. 2c 1830: Braille, Louis, f. 1r
Emil Du Bois-Reymond (1818–1896), German physiologist and mathematician
Drawing of the experimental procedure to measure frog electricity and the
behaviour of the nerve principle when subjected to electricity
Berlin, 1841
20.0 x 30.0 cm
Slg. Darmst. 3k 1841: Du Bois-Reymond, Emil, ff. 31r and 32r
David Livingstone (1813–1873), Scottish missionary and explorer
Letter to Reverend Richard Cecil (1799–1863), English congregational pastor
Kuruman, 11 July 1842
28.7 x 19.6 cm
Slg. Darmst. Africa 1867: Livingstone, David, f. 1r
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), English nurse and reformer
Letter to Sidney Herbert (1810–1861), English politician
Highgate, 2 June 1859
17.8 x 11.2 cm
Slg. Darmst. 2k 1859: Nightingale, Florence, f. 2v
Charles Dickens (1812–1870), English author, editor and publisher
Letter to Clarissa Cattermole, née Elderton (1812–1892), widow of illustrator George
Cattermole
London, 2 March 1869
20.2 x 12.7 cm
Slg. Darmst. 2m 1850: f. 1r
Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), German statesman
Letter to his cousin Gustav von Puttkammer (1817–1879)
Berlin, 11 November 1871
21.4 x 27.4 cm
Slg. Darmst. 1 1871: ff. 40v
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher and classical philologist
Letter to Dr Carl Dorius Johann Fuchs (1838–1922), German pianist and critic
Basel, 28 April 1874
27.0 x 20.5 cm
Slg. Darmst. 2a 1872: f. 2v
Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), Russian author
Letter to Victor Theophilovich Puzikóvich (1843–1920), Russian journalist
Staraja, Russia, 11 August 1874
21.2 x 13.5 cm
Slg. Darmst. 2m 1876: Dostoewski, Fyodor M., f. 4r
Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890), German archaeologist
Letter to an editor, including the manuscript ‘Hr Komnos und Troja’
Athens, 14 December 1874
27.7 x 21.6 cm
Slg. Darmst. 1 1870: Schliemann, Heinrich, f. 2v
Karl Marx (1818–1883), German social theorist
Letter to Ferdinand Fleckles (1836–1896), doctor
Liège, Belgium, 21 September 1876
17.5 x 22.8 cm
Slg. Darmst. 2l 1859: ff. 1v–2r
Alfred Nobel (1833–1896), Swedish chemist and inventor
Letter to Bernhard Turley, German mine director
Berlin, 30 June 1880
21.1 x 26.9 cm
Slg. Darmst. E 1867: Nobel, Alfred, ff. 1v–2r
Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), French chemist and microbiologist
Letter to a colleague
Paris, 10 November 1883
20.6 x 13.6 cm
Slg. Darmst. 3b 1864: Pasteur, Louis, f. 3r
Otto Lilienthal (1848–1896), German aviator pioneer
Letter to a lieutenant
8 December 1889
22.0 x 28.0 cm
Slg. Darmst. K 1890: Lilienthal, Otto, ff. 5v–6r
Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930), Norwegian biologist and polar explorer
Letter to the governing board of the Berlin Geographical Society
Kristiania, Norway, 18 February 1890
25.1 x 20.0 cm
Slg. Darmst. North and South Pole 1888: Nansen, Fridtjof, f. 9r
Rudolf Diesel (1858–1913), German engineer and inventor
Letter to Karl Hermann Peter von Thielen (1832–1906), Minister of Public Works
and director of the German State Railways
Berlin, 23 March 1893
28.6 x 22.2 cm
Slg. Darmst. F 2a 1893: Diesel, Rudolf, ff. 5v–6r
Max Planck (1858-1947), German physicist
‘Report on the activities of the Institute of Physics’ to Dr Robert Bosse (1832–1901),
Royal State Minister and Minister of Religious Matters in Teaching and Medicine
Berlin, 14 March 1895
33.2 x 42.4 cm
Slg. Darmst. F 2a 1893: Diesel, Rudolf, ff. 28r and 29v
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (1845–1923), German physicist
Letter to a doctor
Würzburg, 15 November 1895
20.0 x 12.5 cm
Slg. Darmst. F 1e 1896: Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad, f. 1r
Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915),German chemist, physicist and immunologist
‘Report on the work of the Royal Prussian Institute for Experimental Therapy’ to
Ludwig Darmstaedter (1846–1927) and Franziska Speyer (1844–1909)
Frankfurt, 4 January 1905
24.7 x 20.2 cm
Slg. Darmst. 3a 1875: Ehrlich, Paul, ff. 8r and 15r
Marie Curie (1867–1934), Polish physicist and chemist
Letter to Albin Haller (1849–1925), French chemist
Paris, 1 August 1907
27.3 x 21.2 cm
Slg. Darmst. G 1 1898: Curie, Marie, f. 1r
Robert Koch (1843–1910), German bacteriologist
Letter to Wilhelm Kolle, German bacteriologist and a notebook from a journey to
East Africa
Sese near Entebbe, Uganda, 3 August 1907
28 June 1907–4 November 1907
letter: 20.2 x 25.0 cm, notebook: 14.5 x 17.5 cm
Slg. Darmst. 3b 1882: Koch, Robert. Letter ff. 24v–25r, Notebook Nr. 92, ff. 1v–2r
Thomas Mann (1875–1955), German author
Letter to Adolph Donath (1876–1937), German journalist and author
Munich, 5 April 1908
26.2 x 17.2 cm
Slg. Darmst. 2m 1898: Mann, Thomas, f. 1r
Franz Kafka (1883–1924), author from Prague
Letter to Franz Blei (1871–1942), Austrian writer and literary critic
Prague, 7 February 1909
17.0 x 11.0 cm
Nachlass Franz Blei, Franz Kafka, f. 1r
Wilhelm II (1859–1941), German Emperor and King of Prussia
Motto
Berlin, 12 January 1914
29.1 x 22.5 cm
Slg. Darmst. Collection 1 1890: Wilhelm II, German Emperor, f. 4r
Carl Benz (1844–1929), German automotive pioneer and engineer
The Development of Electric Ignition for Automobile Engines
Ladenburg, Germany, 7 January 1915
28.5 x 44.5 cm
Slg. Darmst. K 1884: Benz, Carl, ff. 3v–4r
Albert Einstein (1879–1955), German physicist Meine Meinung über den Krieg (My Opinion on the War)
1915
33.1 x 44.2 cm
Slg. Darmst. F 1e 1908: Einstein, Albert, ff. 9v–10r
Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919), German politician and author
Letter to Kurt Rosenfeld (1887–1943), German lawyer and politician
1 February 1915
22.0 x 14.0 cm
Slg. Darmst. 2l 1918: Luxemburg, Rosa, f. 1r
Karl Liebknecht (1871–1919), German politician
Letter to Sophie Liebknecht (1884–1964), German art historian
Luckau, Germany, 11 December 1916
22.2 x 28.0 cm
Slg. Darmst. 2l 1919: Liebknecht, Karl, f. 1v
Robert Bosch (1861–1942), German industrialist and inventor
Letter to Ludwig Darmstaedter (1846–1927)
Stuttgart, Germany, 15 October 1918
32.9 x 41.5 cm
Slg. Darmst. F 2e 1897: Bosch, Robert, ff. 2v–3r
Alice Salomon (1872–1948), German politician and author
Letter to Ludwig Darmstaedter (1846–1927), with a fragment of Jung-Deutschland
(Young Germany)
Berlin, 1920
letter: 26.0 x 20.2 cm, manuscript: 20.5 x 13.5 cm
Slg. Darmst. 2k 1900: Salomon, Alice, ff. 1r and 17r
Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), German novelist and poet
Pictor’s Metamorphoses
Montagnola, Switzerland, 1925
21.7 x 36.0 cm
Nachlass Reinhold Geheeb, IV, ff. 2v–3r and 14v–15r
Walter Kaufmann (b. 1924), German writer
‘Miss Arthur’ in a collection of short stories
Australia, beginning in 1943
22.5 x 36.0 cm
Nachlass 433 (Walter Kaufmann), Mp. 1
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), German theologian and resistance fighter
Wer Bin Ich? (Who Am I?)
Berlin, 1944
16.5 x 14.5 cm
Autogr. I/2499
Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901–1976), German physicist
Zur Quantisierung Nichtlinearer Gleichungen (On the Quantification of Nonlinear
Equations)
1954
29.5 x 41.5 cm
Autogr. I/304, pp. 12–13 and 16–17
Heinrich Böll (1917–1985), German author
Letter to Eveline Bartlitz (b. 1926), German librarian and scholar
Cologne, West Germany, 28 July 1961
21.0 x 14.5 cm
Autogr. I/3042-1, f. 1r
Lise Meitner (1878–1968), Austrian-born Swedish atomic physicist
Letter to Max Born (1882–1970), German mathematician and Nobel Prize winner
Cambridge, 15 June 1963
22.5 x 17.5 cm
Nachlass Max Born 498, f. 6r
Joseph Beuys (1921–1986), German artist and theorist
Kunst ist das Konkrete Kapital (Art is the concrete capital)
Düsseldorf, 25 April 1978
29.5 x 21 cm
Nachlass 216 (Hans Ludwig), Kasten 3, f. 1r
Joseph Beuys (1921–1986), German artist and theorist
‘Richtkräfte’ (‘Deflecting forces’)
Düsseldorf, 1974
15.0 x 8.0 cm
Nachlass 216 (Hans Ludwig), Kasten 3, f. 2r
Wolfgang Joho (1908–1991), German writer
Evaluation of Niederungen (Nadirs) by Herta Müller (b. 1953)
29 March 1985
29.4 x 20.9 cm
Depositum 38, Nr-2890, pp.1 and 3
Permanent loan from Aufbau Verlag archive (courtesy of Bernd Lunkewitz)
Handwritten Music
Georg Friedrich Handel (1685–1759), German-born English composer
Salve Regina (Hail, Queen) in G Minor, HWV 241 1707
8 folios; 21.5 x 56.0 cm
Mus.ms.autogr. G.F. Handel, 2, ff. 1v–2r and 3v–4r
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), German composer
St John Passion BWV 245 1724
46 folios; 34.5 x 20.5 cm
Mus.ms. Bach P 28, pp. 1 and 8
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, (1756–1791), Austrian composer
The Countess’ cavatina ‘Porgi amor qualche ristoro’ (‘Oh love give me some
remedy’) (Act II) and recitative ‘Vieni, cara Susanna’ (‘Come, dear Susanna’) (Act II)
in Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), Opera Buffa in Quattro Atti (Comic
Opera in Four Acts), KV 492, autograph score of the first and second acts
c. 1785–1786
330 pages; 22.5 x 31.5 cm
Mus.ms.autogr. W. A. Mozart, 492, pp. 159 and 167
Joseph Haydn (1732–1809), Austrian composer
Missa Sancti Bernardi de Offida (Holy Mass), Hob XXII: 10 1796
50 folios; 23.0 x 62.0 cm
Mus.ms. autogr. J. Haydn, 49, pp. 2–3 and 14–15
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), German composer
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Opus 67 1808
153 folios; 24.0 x 64.0 cm
Mus.ms.autogr. L. v. Beethoven, Mendelssohn-Stiftung 8, pp. 1 and 6–7
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), German composer
Conversation book 11 April 1820
85 folios; 20.0 x 26.0 cm
Mus.ms.autogr. L. v. Beethoven, 51, 10, ff. 60r and 69r
Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826), German composer, music journalist and
conductor
Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F Minor, Opus 73, WeV N.11 1811
43 folios; 24.0 x 34.0 cm
Mus.ms.autogr. C.M.v. Weber, WFN 11, pp. 2–3 and 26–27
Carl Friedrich Zelter (1758–1832), German composer and teacher
Das Gastmahl (The Banquet), set to a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749–1832) 1813–1814
1 folio; 35.0 x 21.5 cm
Mus.ms.autogr. Zelter, K. F. 15
Franz Schubert (1797–1828), Austrian composer
Der König in Thule (The King in Thule) and Heidenröslein (Little Rose on the Heath)
in Sixteen Goethe lieder 1815–1816
31 pages; 22.5 x 31.0 cm
Mus.ms.autogr. F. Schubert 1, pp. 2–3 and 10–11
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847), German composer, conductor, pianist and
organist
String Quartet in D Major, Opus 44, No. 1 MWV R 30 (rejected version of the first
movement) 1838
7 folios; 30.0 x 24.0 cm
N.Mus.ms. 108, ff. 2r and 2v–3r
Fanny Hensel, née Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1805–1847), German composer
Traum (Dream), with a poem by Joseph von Eichendorff (1788–1857) 1844
4 pages; 28.5 x 21.0 cm
MA Ms. 89, S. 1 pp. 1 and 2–3
Richard Wagner (1813–1883), German composer
Trauermusik (Mourning Music), based on Carl Maria von Weber’s opera Euryanthe,
WWV 73 1844
8 pages; 31.5 x 23.5 cm
Mus.ms.autogr. R. Wagner, 3, pp. 1 and 2–3
Robert Schumann (1810–1856), German composer and music critic
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 97 (the ‘Rhenish’) 1850
216 pages; 29.0 x 21.5 cm
Mus.ms.autogr. R. Schumann, 12, pp. 3 and 145
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897), German composer
Academic Festival Overture in C Minor for Large Orchestra, Opus 80 1880
52 pages; 25.0 x 32.0 cm
Mus.ms.autogr. J. Brahms, 16, pp. 20–21 and 46–47
Gustav Mahler (1860–1911), Austrian composer and conductor
Verlorene Mühe (Labour Lost) and Der Schildwache Nachtlied (The Sentinel’s Night
Song)
in Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth’s Magic Horn) 1892
17 folios; 31.5 x 25.0 cm
Mus.ms.autogr. G. Mahler, 1, ff. 1v–2r and 4v–5r
Paul Hindemith (1895–1963), German composer
Konzertmusik für Blasorchester (Concert Music for Wind Orchestra), Opus 41 1926
64 folios; 34.0–40.0 x 27.0 cm
Mus.ms.autogr. P. Hindemih, 1, pp. 1–2 and 3–4