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1. Add MS 5141

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Title:
Portrait and Life of Geoffrey Chaucer
Scope & Content:
This manuscript comprises a single leaf, which seems to have once belonged to a larger volume. The recto features a full-length portrait of the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, holding a penner and a rosary, alongside his arms (Party per pale argent and Gules a bend counter-changed), an English da...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 5173

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Title:
A drawing of the West Tower in St. Clement’s Church-Yard at Cambridge and Mr. Cole’s epitaph
Scope & Content:
A drawing of the West Tower in St. Clement’s Church-Yard at Cambridge and Mr. Cole’s epitaph
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 5309

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Title:
John Ward: Imagines selectae ex Monumentis Kempianis delineatae
Scope & Content:
'Imagines selectae ex Monumentis Kempianis delineatae: quarum complures aeri incisae adhuc non fuerunt'. These delineations (in number 71) were made by the late Dr. John Ward, Professor of Gresham College.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (71 delineations)

4. Add MS 5408

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Title:
Queen Elizabeth I's funeral procession
Scope & Content:
Original pen and ink drawing of Elizabeth I's funeral procession, 1603. It is attributed to William Camden, Clarenceaux herald: although he may not have been the artist, the hand recording the names of the figures resembles his. It includes the chariot drawn by four horses on which stood Eliza...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st quarter 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 6331

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Title:
Volume of larger collection of sixty-six volumes [6277 to 6342] acquired from Lady Banks, this volume contains a collection of Engravings and Drawings of the Arms born by various Sees, Cities, Towns, Corporations, Companies, Banking Societies, etc. in Eng
Scope & Content:
A folio volume (104 folios), the first portion of which consists of a collection of Engravings and Drawings of the Arms born by various Sees, Cities, Towns, Corporations, Companies, Banking Societies, etc. in England, arranged alphabetically, with memoranda by Mrs. Sarah Sophia Banks. (folios 1-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1796
Extent:
1 volume (104 folios)

6. Add MS 9345

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Title:
Drawings in pencil, and pencil and wash, of two of Sydney Parkinson's sketchbooks kept during James Cook's first voyage of the Endeavour, (1768-1771), mainly comprised of coastal views and landscapes, and including depictions of birds, dolphins, and boats, and also folios of memo inscriptions.
Scope & Content:
Rebound material of Sydney Parkinson's sketchbooks kept during the first voyage of the South Seas, on the Endeavour, which accounts the voyage from Plymouth to Madeira, Rio de Janiero, Terra del Fuego, to the Society Islands, Australia and New Zealand. Includes sixty-nine folios of drawings most...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1768-1771
Extent:
69 folios of drawings, 6 folios of inscriptions

7. Add MS 15507

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Drawings in pencil, of headlands, bays, and islands, by Alexander Buchan, and Herman Diedrich Spöring, as well as unidentified draughtsman.
Scope & Content:
Includes 69 drawings, mostly in pencil, with some pencil and wash, and one in watercolour, and one in gouache, depicting coastal landforms, headlands, and bays of Cook's first voyage (1768-1770), at Brazil, Chile, French Polynesia, Australia and New Zealand. Thirty-two of the artworks were exec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1768-1778
Extent:
69 drawings and 2 manuscripts

8. Add MS 15743

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Title:
A collection of large drawings in Indian ink, made by William Hodges, during the second voyage of Captain Cook, in 1772-1774.
Scope & Content:
Created during or after Captain Cook's second voyage, 1772-1774.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1774-1775
Extent:

Ten drawings, three of which are in two parts. Thirteen sheets in total

9. Add MS 89057

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Title:
The Stanhope album
Scope & Content:
Contains photographs, watercolours, verse, and sketches, namely: ‘Gawsworth Church, Cheshire as restored’, photograph, 1861 ‘Falls of the Hoigne, near Spa, Ardennes’, watercolour by Paul R-. ‘Promenade des Artiste, Spa, Belgium’, watercolour Pencil sketch of a man ‘The poet [Samuel] Rogers’, ink...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1843-1860s
Extent:
1 album

10. Add MS 89123

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Title:
Arthur Wragg pen, Indian ink, and gouache illustration for The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Scope & Content:
Arthur Wragg pen, Indian ink, and gouache illustration for The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
bef 1949
Extent:
1 framed artwork

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