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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15512, f 22
Title:: 'Icelandick ornamentals', drawing by James Miller
Scope & Content:: Drawings of pitcher and two ornaments. Signed: 'James Miller Del.' (bottom right). Title and key inscribed below the frame. a. Ale pitcher b. Collar or ornament worn round the neck. c. [Medallion] worn on the breast.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15512, f 23r
Title:: Studies of men in Icelandic costume
Scope & Content:: Pencil sketches of men in Icelandic costume. Two sheets mounted on one folio. Originally numbered 23 and 24. Sketch labelled 'Poor man of Iceland. Sepr. 4 1772'. With annotations on the garments, and a study of a man's head.Sketch of a man wearing a cap. With another rough sketch of a man.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 2 drawings

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15512, f 23v
Title:: Studies of women in Icelandic costume
Scope & Content:: Pencil sketch of a woman seated on a bench. With annotations on the garments. With another sketch of a small woman or child seated on the ground.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15512, f 24r
Title:: Icelandick fishing boat
Scope & Content:: Ink drawings of a boat from above and from the side, and a pencil cross-section. On a pencil grid. Verso annotation: 'Icelandick fishing boat, Septr 5th'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15512, f 24v
Title:: Verso annotation on drawing
Scope & Content:: Annotation on back of drawing: 'Icelandick fishing boat, Septr 5th'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15512, f 25
Title:: Sketch of an axe
Scope & Content:: Pencil sketch of a long axe, with measurements. Danish text inscribed in ink below the drawing. Study for the drawing on the following folio, Add MS 15512, f. 27. Originally numbered as drawing number 26
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15512, f 26
Title:: 'Ancient weapon preserved in the cathedral of Scalholt', drawing by John Cleveley
Scope & Content:: Drawing of a long axe. With a linear scale. Signed: 'Jno. Cleveley Junr. Delint. 1772'. Title inscribed in pencil below the drawing.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1772
Extent:: 1 drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 20170, ff 1-414
Title:: Letters (primarily in English) of Sir Hudson Lowe (d. 1844), Governor of Santa Maura, volume two. Contains principally letters addressed to English officers, 22 May 1810 to 9 January 1812.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1810-1812
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 20790 ff. 1-245
Title:
Scope & Content:: Includes: VOL. I. 1. Notice of the life and lineage of Don Juan Pedro Marujan Ceron y Santi-Estevan, of Seville [descended from an English family of the name of Morgan], preceded by a note of his burial in the church of San Andres at Seville, 13 Oct. 1770, and followed by his poems. Span. f. 10...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1757-1779
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 20790 ff. 246-493
Title:
Scope & Content:: Includes: "Apuntaciones y Memorias que han de servir para 1a continuacion de la Historia de España en esto siglo," f. 246. Pasquinades, in verse, on General Count Alexander O'Reilly's ill-success before Algiers in 1774. Span. f. 247. Poems of Gutierre de Cetina. Span. f. 290. Poems of Jua...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1757-1779
Extent:: 1 volume

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