Music Collections: Bodleian music manuscripts on microfilm

Music Manuscripts from the Great English Collections. Series 1: Bodleian Library, Oxford (Weston Library Gallery – MUS. FILMS 3):

Part 1: Unpublished Manuscripts of the 16th and 17th Centuries [The Oxford Music School Collection] [19 reels] (Details & PDF guide)

Part 2: Court Odes of William Boyce [20 reels] (Details & PDF guide)

Part 3: Manuscripts of Maurice Greene and William Boyce [17 reels] (Details & PDF guide)

Part 4: Unpublished English Manuscripts before c.1850. Section A [19 reels] (Details & PDF guide)

Part 5: Unpublished English Manuscripts before c.1850. Section B [23 reels] (Details & PDF guide)

Part 6: Unpublished Continental Mss.: 14th, 17th and 18th Centuries [15 reels] (Details & PDF guide)

Music Manuscripts from the Great English Collections. Series 2: St. Michael’s College, Tenbury [GB-Ob] (Weston Library Gallery – MUS. FILMS 4):

Part 1: Unpublished English and Continental Mss. before 1650 [14 reels] (Details & PDF guide)

Part 2: Unpublished Manuscripts, 1650-1800 [19 reels] (Details & PDF guide)

Part 3: Unpublished Continental Mss. 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries [22 reels] (Details & PDF guide)

Part 4: Unpublished Continental Mss. 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries [22 reels] (Details & PDF guide)

Part 5: Unpublished English Manuscripts of the 19th Century [10 reels] (Details & PDF guide)

Preservation films of selected manuscripts from the library's Deneke-Mendelssohn collection can be found in the Weston Gallery, in particular:

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: The ‘Green Books’ of Incoming Correspondence [27 reels] (Weston Library Gallery - MUS. FILMS 5)

MSS. M. Deneke Mendelssohn b.4, and d.28-53

Microfilms of the following manuscripts from the Deneke Mendelssohn collection are also available:

MS. M. Deneke Mendelssohn b.2
MS. M. Deneke Mendelssohn c.21
MS. M. Deneke Mendelssohn d.2
MS. M. Deneke Mendelssohn g.1-10

Manuscripts from the M. Deneke-Mendelssohn collection are catalogued online in Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts and in: Catalogue of the Mendelssohn papers in the Bodleian Library, compiled by Margaret Crum, vols. 1 & 2 . (Weston Mackerras RR – MUS. F. MEN. 5)

Twentieth Century Composers

Part 1: Music Manuscripts of Tippett, Bliss and Finzi (Weston Library Gallery - MUS. FILMS 9) (Details & PDF guide)