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Archive Series:
BC MS NCC/11

1854-1891

Typescript of the autobiography of Giovanni Battista Gigliucci and a photograph of Giovanni Battista Gigliucci and his wife Clara Anastasia Gigliucci (née Novello).

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BC MS NCC/12/1

1838

Imitation inlaid stone panel, painted on wood possibly over gesso, painted for Clara Novello by Rev. Pigno of the Spanish Place Chapel, London.

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BC MS NCC/2/7/1

1845

A personalised invitation to a series of meetings and performances of the Beethoven Quartett Society and two leaflets detailing the first and third meetings Dated 21 April 1845 and 19 May 1845, with n...

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BC MS NCC/19/1/2

1858-1887

Share certificates and receipts belonging to Catherine Collins (née Hehl). Dated from 21 October 1858 to 27 September 1887.

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BC MS NCC/19/1/3

1881-1882

Accounts for payment for the attendance of the medical doctor Henry G. Trend, 1 dated Christmas 1881, 2 dated midsummer 1882. Addressed to Miss Novello, Mrs [Catherine] Collins and Mr Duffy.

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BC MS NCC/19/1/4

1843-1898

Various family accounts, mostly between (Joseph) Alfred Novello and his sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, associated with the family business. Some of the documents are written in Italian.

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BC MS NCC/7/10

1836

Certificate of admission for (Joseph) Alfred Novello to St Thomas's Lodge as a Freemason of the Third Degree.

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BC MS NCC/10/6

1873-1878

Five certificates with details of bank stock, annuities and shares held by Emma Aloysia Novello and her maternal aunt Catherine Collins (née Hehl), for whom she had caring responsibility. Her brother...

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BC MS NCC/13/10

1846-1897

The cover of a scrapbook gifted to (Mary) Sabilla Novello from her father Vincent Novello in 1846, an album of portraits, sketches, poems and acrostics dating from the early period of her life at Vill...

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BC MS NCC/11/2

1854

Photograph of Giovanni Battista Gigliucci and his wife Clara Anastasia Gigliucci née Novello, mounted on cardboard.

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BC MS NCC/12/7

1838-1840

Four printed portraits of Clara Anastasia Novello published between 1838 and 1840, around the time of her opera studies in Milan in 1838 and before her marriage to Giovanni Battista Gigliucci in 1843.

Archive File:
BC MS NCC/13/5

1857

A medal awarded to (Mary) Sabilla Novello as one of 2500 performers at the Handel Festival at the Crystal Palace in June 1857.