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