Manuscripts

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Historic American Sheet Music - The Historic American Sheet Music Project provides access to digital images of 3042 pieces of sheet music published in America between 1850 and 1920.
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 - From the U.S. Library of Congress. Tens of thousands of songs and instrumental pieces registered for copyright in the post-Civil War era. Digitized images and some audio clips.
The Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection - Covers 1780-1960. Scanned images of public-domain music.
The ap Huw manuscript - The `Robert ap Huw Manuscript' is currently in the British Museum. Part of it appears to have been written by Lewis Morris (d. 1742), part by Robert ap Huw, and part was allegedly copied out of the book of Wiliam Penllyn, a sixteenth century Welsh harper. The object of this web site is to present a facsimile of the original manuscript
UNC-Chapel Hill Music Library 19-th Century American Sheet Music - No longer hosting scanned scores. A good source for links to other sites that do host scanned music.
Vatican renaissance music exhibit - Renaissance manuscripts and pictures.

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