Collections : [Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library]

Manuscripts in the Albi Rosenthal Collection of Monteverdi and the Birth of Opera consist of letters, writings, and music relating to Monteverdi and others involved in the creation of opera in seventeenth-century Italy. Letters of Monteverdi collaborators Claudio Achillini, Jacopo Peri, Ottavio Rinuccini, and other musicians and writers, addressed to third parties or unidentified recipients, concern Monteverdi's music and other music subjects. Other materials include a volume of holograph music by Alessandro Capece and two manuscripts by unidentified writers giving contempory accounts of music performed in seventeenth-century Urbino. Also present are letters of twentieth-century composers Paul Hindemith, Vincent d'Indy, and Gian Francesco Malipiero, concerning Monteverdi's music. Some items are accompanied by notes of former owners, vendor descriptions, transcriptions, or translations, some possibly by French musicologist Henry Prunières

The following finding aid is a complete inventory of the contents of Osborn fb94. This list was reformatted from previously existing cataloging.

The Sir William Lee Family Papers document many aspects of the personal, family, and professional life of the prominent jurist and landowner Sir William Lee and his extended family. They include extensive personal and official correspondence; records of court cases; notes on legal and Parliamentary questions; personal, financial and legal memoranda; household accounts and financial papers; and other family and personal papers.

This finding aid encompasses accessions of materials pertaining to Robert Clayton and John Morris.

The following finding aid is a complete inventory of the contents of Osborn fb161. This list was reformatted from previously existing cataloging.

The following finding aid is a complete inventory of the contents of Osborn fb157. This list was reformatted from previously existing cataloging.

The following finding aid is a complete inventory of the contents of Osborn fb174. This list was reformatted from previously existing cataloging.

Collection of European topical prints and drawings by various artists and printers, some unidentified, created circa 1600 through 1904. The bulk of the collection consists of urban and rural scenes and cityscapes, primarily in Vienna, as well as other Austrian cities and towns and some cities in Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. Subjects of prints and drawings include churches, buildings, public works, palaces and castles, public squares, parks and gardens, and train stations in Vienna. Also included are general Vienna city views and depictions of towns, suburbs, and districts in and around Vienna and throughout Austria. The collection also includes printed documents with manuscript signatures, illustrated narrative scenes, a few portraits, and some unidentified images. Identified artists include Rudolf von Alt, W. H. Bartlett, Robert Batty, Tranquillo Mollo, and Jos. Trentsensky. Many prints include hand coloring.

The collection consists of 77 tankas, chiefly Tibetan, but also Nepalese, Bhutanese, Indian and Chinese, which bear religious images, circa 1600-circa 1950. Some tankas also bear inscriptions on their versos.

This finding aid encompasses single manuscripts and small groups of manuscripts acquired by the Beinecke Library from various sources and at various times, which the Library has chosen to describe here rather than as separate entries in Yale University Library's on-line Public Access Catalog (Orbis). These materials include literary and historical manuscripts, individual or small groups of letters, and single documents. Materials are grouped under headings for author or other personal or corporate name to which they most closely relate. Items of unidentified authorship are grouped under the heading "Unidentified" under the letter "U". Group numbers were assigned to headings in an initial alphabetical sequence and thereafter in order of processing; within each group, folders (F-[#]) and volumes (V-[#]) are numbered in order of processing.