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Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 5983 Collection Area Western Manuscripts

1. Add MS 59832

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Add MS 59832
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BRYAN STANLEY WILLIAM JOHNSON: notebook comprising drafts of poems printed in Poems Two, 1972, etc.; 1970-1973. Purchased from the estate of B. S. Johnson, 23 Sept. 1976. Paper; ff. 71. 220 x 164mm.
Scope & Content:
Poetry ENGLISH: Bryan Stanley William Johnson, poet: Poems printed in 'Poems Two' by Bryan Stanley William Johnson: 1970-1973: Drafts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1970-1973
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 59833

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Add MS 59833
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KEITH DOUGLAS PAPERS. Vol. XII (ff. 64). Correspondence of and relating to Douglas; 1925-1962. Partly typewritten, airgraph. This volume comprises correspondence (ff. 1-43) of Douglas with his family and friends; 1925-1944; together (ff. 44-64) with letters addressed to his mother, Mrs Marie J. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1925-1962
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 59833-59835

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Add MS 59833-59835
Title:
KEITH DOUGLAS PAPERS. VOLS. XII-XIV: material supplementing Add. 53773-53776 (Vols. I-IV), 56355-56360 (Vols. V-X) and 57977 (Vol. XI); 1925-1962. See also Add. 60585-60589 (Vols. XV-XIX). 59833-59834 purchased from Mrs Marie J. Douglas, 28 Oct. 1976, and 59835 from Mrs Betty Relli, 28 Oct. 1976. Paper. Three volumes.
Scope & Content:
Keith Castellain Douglas, poet and author; d.1944: Literary papers and correspondence of and rel. to Keith Castellain Douglas: 1925-1962: Partly typewritten.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1925-1962
Extent:
3 items

4. Add MS 59834

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KEITH DOUGLAS PAPERS. Vol. XIII (ff. 107). Six school exercise-books, etc.; 1933-1937, n.d. Included are (ff. 98-103) drafts of two school essays and (ff. 104-107) the remains of a notebook that was used for poems. For further prose and related items see Add. 56358, 56359 and 60586. Education: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933-1937
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 59835

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Add MS 59835
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KEITH DOUGLAS PAPERS. Vol. XIV (ff. 15). Seven letters of Douglas, with one of his mother, to Betty Jesse, afterwards Relli; 1943, 1944. For related correspondence, 1944, see Add. 56355, f.173, and 56356, ff. 65, 100 and 116. Mrs Betty Jesse: Letters from Keith Douglas to: 1943-1944. includes:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1943-1944
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 59836

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Add MS 59836
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JACQUES STELLA: twenty-six drawings of classical lamps, chiefly from the Bellori Museum in Rome; circa 1624. Owned by H. Hamal of Liége (f.1). Lot 329 in an English Sale-Catalogue (gm/-). Other prices c/-, 12/-. Transferred from the Science Reference Library (press-mark 4738), 11 Oct. 1976. Paper; ff. iii+27. 262 x 191mm. Watermark Heawood 387, Heawood 161-168.
Scope & Content:
Antiquities: Jacques Stella, of Lyons; artist: Bellori Museum; Rome: Art. Illuminations and Drawings: 26 drawings of classical lamps by Jacques Stella chiefly from the Bellori Museum, Rome: circa 1624: Autogr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1624
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 59837

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Add MS 59837
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ALCHEMY: a book containing 41 symbolical coloured drawings of alembics used in experiments for the discovery of the Philosopher's Stone; late 16th or early 17th cent. The spaces left for the text are blank. On the title page is an attribution to 'Hermes Trismegistus' in an 18th century hand. Previously belonged to James Plomer, M.D. Transferred from the Science Reference Library (press-mark '65'), 11 Oct. 1976. Paper; ff. iv+42. 211 x 140mm. Limp vellum covers.
Scope & Content:
Alchemy: Art. Illuminations and Drawings: 41 symbolical coloured drawings, with legends,: late 16th or early 17th cent: Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 59838

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Add MS 59838
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THOMAS WILLIAM ROBERTSON (b.1829, d.1871): 'Post Haste', a comedy in three acts; circa 1870. Written by an amanuensis with some autograph corrections. This play was apparently never performed or published. The leading part of Dick was intended for the actor Edward Askew Sothern, whose surname appears on the title page. Purchased from Motley Books Ltd., of Romsey, co. Southt., 25 Nov. 1976. Paper; ff. i+83. 234 x 360mm.
Scope & Content:
Drama ENGLISH: Thomas William Robertson, actor and dramatist: Comedy, 'Post Haste' by Thomas William Robertson: circa 1870: Partly autogr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 59839

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Add MS 59839
Title:
THEOLOGICAL MISCELLANY: works in Latin by St Bonaventure, St Isidore of Seville, St Anselm of Canterbury, Hugh of St Victor, Bartholomeus Florarius and St Augustine, etc., and two works in Anglo-Norman; late 13th or early 14th cent. Written in England by several scribes. According to an ownership note on f. 217 the MS. once belonged to a 'vicarius de Gauylton'. Purchased by Phillipps of Thorpe in 1836 (Thorpe's catalogue, item 1396). Phillipps MS 9328. Purchased at Sotheby's (Phillipps sale)...
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Theology LATIN: Theological miscellany: late 13th-early 14th cent: Lat. includes: ff. 1-2v, 219-221v Law CANON: Legal fragments: late 13th-early 14th cent: Lat.ff. 6-13v Saint Bonaventura,; Cardinal-bishop of Albano: Lignum vitae by St Bonaventura: late 13th-early 14th cent: Lat.ff. 14-51v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century-Early 14th century
Extent:
1 item