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Manuscript (1 leaf): parchment, 5 × 6 cm. Binding fragment notated in neumes from the commune sanctorum of a mass book.

Manuscript (1 leaf): parchment, 17 × 15 cm. Binding fragment notated in square notation for the feast of All Saints.

Manuscript (1 leaf): parchment, 33 × 39 cm. Leaf with square notation from the commune sanctorum of a mass book.

Manuscript (1 leaf): parchment, 10 × 13 cm. Leaf with hymn texts and square notation.

Manuscript (2 leaves): parchment, 14 × 20 cm. Fragment with sequence texts and square notation.

Manuscript (2 leaves): parchment, 26 × 36 cm. Leaves from a book for mass on Ash Wednesday with square notation.

Manuscript (1 leaf): parchment, 10 × 15 cm. Leaf of a breviary with square notation.

Manuscript (2 leaves): parchment, 33 × 48 cm. Leaves with square notation for masses in Advent and Eastertide.

Manuscript (1 leaf): parchment, 24 × 35 cm. Leaf with square notation for masses in Advent.

Manuscript (1 leaf): parchment, 21 × 32 cm. Binding fragment with square notation from the mass for the dead, bearing later owner name: P[eer?] de Manck.

Manuscript (1 leaf): parchment, 25 × 16 cm. Binding fragment notated in German plainsong notation for the feast of the Assumption of Mary.

Manuscript (1 leaf): parchment, 25 × 15 cm. Binding fragment notated in German plainsong notation for Holy Saturday.

Manuscript (1 leaf): parchment, 32 × 44 cm. Leaf with German plainsong notation for masses in Advent.

Manuscript (1 leaf): parchment, 25 × 16 cm. Binding fragment notated in German plainsong notation.

Manuscript (1 leaf): parchment, 22 × 31 cm. Binding fragment notated in German plainsong notation for the feast of the All Saints.

Manuscript (1 leaf): parchment, 21 × 30 cm. Binding fragment notated in German plainsong notation for the mass for the dead.

Manuscript (1 leaf): parchment, 22 × 9 cm. Binding fragment notated in German plainsong notation for the feast of the Nativity of Mary.

[94] of [288] pages (signatures N–T); 16 cm. This grammar of Hebrew, written in Latin with passages in Greek and Aramaic, is one of the earliest sources in print with music notation for Ashkenazi chant.

[58], 340 [i.e. 358], [16] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates: illustrations (woodcuts); 18 cm. This account of travels in Brazil in 1556 by the French minister Jean de Léry narrates his refuge with the Tupinambá people, describing lands, peoples, plants, and animals. This Latin second edition contains the earliest transcription in European music notation of indigenous melodies of the Americas.

Manuscript (2 leaves): paper, 22 × 15 cm. Italian. Three passages captioned: “cadenze a due voci nel soprano” and “cadenza [a due] nel basso” and “modo di fuggir cadenze nel soprano, e nel basso”.

Three works in one volume: [24], 210, [1], [5]; [12]; 92, [4] pages. Italian. Milano: Lodovico Monza. Il serafino d’Assisi (1677) seems unknown except for this copy. This poem in praise of Saint Francis concludes with a folded inbound leaf containing “arithmetic prophecies” for the publication year, followed by the engraving of a puzzle consisting of music notation, alphanumeric ciphers, solfège syllables, and dice.

8 unnumbered leaves: illustrations, music; 29 cm. RISM A/I, p. 96. Choreography of ballroom dance for one couple in Feuillet notation.

[8], vi, 291, [1] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates: music, illustration (engraved); 23 cm. Woodcut staves.

In Venezia: Presso Antonio Rosa, 1806. 67, [1] pages. Italian. Dramma per musica set in Gaul 69–79 CE.

1 vocal score. German. For solo voice and piano accompaniment. Series: Komische Lieder und Gesänge. Wien: Adolf Bösendorfer (plate number A.B. 540).

11th edition. London: J. Curwen & Sons, 1895. xi, 320 pages: illustrations, music; 19 cm. English. Former owners’ names to front endpapers.

This copy signed by 36 faculty members of Oberlin Conservatory in 1921, with dedication inscription to Lucien Calvin Warner (1841–1925), and the inscription “Oberlin Ohio, October 26th 1921” on three inbound leaves at front.

8 × 10 inches. Press photograph showing Chief Buffalo Bear, Princess Silver Toes, Chief Lady Ogema-Quay, and Mrs. Buffalo Bear, of the Oglala Sioux Nation, and contralto Cyrena van Gordon (1892–1964) in the auditorium of the Chicago Civic Opera during a meeting of the Indian Fellowship League.

Greeting card, 6 × 4 inches closed. Print on card stock in two-color process: black (halftone) and red (solid); paper engineering with die-cutouts, metal brads, and tab. Political satire, depicting an elephant mounted by a tumescent donkey.

Inscriptions on the front endpaper by Tíngxiū Dù (Theodore B. Tu) and spouse to John W. Nipps, former student secretary of the YMCA in Tiānjīn.

Bibliothéque musicale du Musée Guimet I/4.

Paris: Studio Lipnitzki. 9½ × 7 inches. “Pour Mlle Alice | Chalifoux | un ‘thank you’ | bien sincère | I. Stravinsky | 2 [juillet] [19]37”. Chalifoux was principal harpist for the Cleveland Orchestra (1931–1974) and teacher of harp at the Oberlin Conservatory (1971–1997).

1 vocal score (63 pages); 26 cm. Cover signed in ink: “I. Stravinsky”. Includes concert program, 13th Festival of Contemporary Music, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, March 19–21, 1963.

16 pages. Booklet with bilingual Armenian-Russian listing of pieces to be performed at a cultural Olympiad in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1952, the 35th anniversary of the October Revolution.

[Cleveland?] 10 × 8 inches. Inscribed: “To Nat | This was a great | Idea | Thanks | Mills Bros | Clif White | Donald | John Sr | Herbert”. From the collection of Nat Singerman, Character Arts Studio, Cleveland, Ohio.

[Cleveland?] 10 × 8 inches. Inscribed: “To ‘Nat’ | The Best of | Everything | Mills Bros | Herbert | Don | Clif White Guitarist | Harry | John Sr.” From the collection of Nat Singerman, Character Arts Studio, Cleveland, Ohio.

[Cleveland?] 8 × 10 inches. Inscribed: “Sincerely | Billy Eckstine”. From the collection of Nat Singerman, Character Arts Studio, Cleveland, Ohio.

[Cleveland?] 8 × 10 inches. Inscribed: “To ‘Nat’ | from | Jack Teagarden”. From the collection of Nat Singerman, Character Arts Studio, Cleveland, Ohio.

Former owner’s name inscribed on cover.

32 sheets of music with notation system (leaflet) laid in folio.

Vol. 2 of Mongġol arad-un mingġan daġuu ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠠᠷᠠᠳ ᠤᠨ ᠮᠢᠩᠭᠠᠨ ᠳᠠᠭᠤ [Thousand customs of the Mongol people]. Compiled by the Office for Oral Folklore Studies, Institute for Folklore Research, Academy of Social Sciences, People’s Republic of China. Editorial coordination by the Jirim Branch Editorial Office, Inner Mongolia People’s Publishing House.

Foreword in English and Chinese by William Banks, Lieutenant Colonel, Officer Commanding.

35 unnumbered pages: leaves inlaid; 22 cm. Zine with excerpts from Can’t stop won’t stop, which won the American Book Award in 2005.

Comic book about a real pop band of kids with disabilities. Collaboration of mostly Latinx authors and artists from Los Angeles.