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Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3779
Title:: SUPPLEMENTARY HEATH AND VERNEY PAPERS: miscellaneous papers of Sir Robert Heath, Chief Justice (d.1649) and his family, concerning Parliament; 1626-1679. Supplementary to Eg. 2978-3008, acquired in 1917. The items, which were forwarded to the British Museum by the Historical Manuscripts Commission in 1963, were later identified as papers that should have come to the Museum with the main purchase in 1917. Incorporated in 1966. Paper; ff. 30. British Library arrangement. Largest size 350 x 2...
Scope & Content:: Heath family: Papers of: 1626-1679. includes: ff. 1-2v Sir John Eliot, MP: Statement to the Attorney-General: 1626: Signed.ff. 1-8v George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham: Sir Robert Heath, Chief Justice of King's Bench: England; Parliament: Statements from members of Parliament to Sir R....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1626-1679
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3780
Title:: LA FONTAINE FABLE: 'Le loup et le renard. A Monseigneur le duc de bourgogne', by Jean de la Fontaine; 1690 or 1691. Autograph. Signed. One of two fables of this name, beg. 'D'ou vient que personne en la vie'. For a printed text see La Fontaine. Fables Contes et Nouvelles, ed. R. Groos & J. Schiffrin (1954), Bk. XII, Fable 9, pp. 294-295. Purchased from the Trustees of Viscount Astor's Book Settlement from the Bridgewater and Farnborough Funds, 14 Oct. 1967. Paper; ff. i+2. 246 x 185mm.
Scope & Content:: Poetry FRENCH: Jean de La Fontaine, poet: Fable, 'Le loup et le renard' by Jean de La Fontaine: 1690-1691: Autograph. Signed. includes: f. i Jean de La Fontaine, poet: Art. Portraits: Portrait of Jean de La Fontaine: 18th cent: Engr.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1690-1691
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3782
Title:: LETTERS TO LADY HAMILTON: letters from the Rev. Alexander John Scott, Chaplain of H.M.S. 'Victory', to Lady Hamilton, with one item addressed to her mother; 27 Oct. 1805-19 Feb. 1806. Scott escorted Viscount Nelson's body back to London and the first letter is written from aboard the 'Victory'. All the letters are printed in The Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents formed by Alfred Morrison (Second Series), The Hamilton and Nelson Papers (1893-1894), ii, pp. 270, 272-276....
Scope & Content:: Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson: Letters of the Rev. A. J. Scott chiefly to Lady Hamilton: 1805-1806. Emma Hamilton, wife of Sir W Hamilton: Alexander John Scott, DD; Chaplain on HMS 'Victory': Letters chiefly to Lady Hamilton: 1805-1806.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 27 Oct 1805-19 Feb 1806
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3783 A
Title:
Scope & Content:: GRAILY HEWITT. Vol. I. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Vellum; ff. i+18. 195 x 148mm. Art. Treatises: Calligraphy: Recipes: Omar Khayyám: William Graily Hewitt, scribe: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, calligraphically written, as an exercise in preparing recipes for gilding grounds, by Graily Hewitt: 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1935
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3783 A-B
Title:: GRAILY HEWITT: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám; 1935
Scope & Content:: Calligraphically written in gold and blue as an exercise to test different recipes of gilding ground. The blue script serves as a guide to the intended appearance (weight etc.) of the chrysography. Attached, by a blue silk cord, is a small companion note-book containing the recipes used on each ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1935
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3783 B
Title:
Scope & Content:: GRAILY HEWITT. Vol. II. Note-book with recipes. Paper; ff. 21. 90 x 55mm. Art. Treatises: Calligraphy: Recipes: Omar Khayyám: William Graily Hewitt, scribe: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, calligraphically written, as an exercise in preparing recipes for gilding grounds, by Graily Hewitt: 1935.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1935
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3784
Title:
Scope & Content:: WODHULL CATALOGUES. Vol. I. 'An Alphabetical Catalogue of the Thenford Library'; n.d., but apparently dating from sometime towards the end of Wodhull's life. Locations are given for each book; a key for the location marks is given on f. i. Paper; ff. . 320 x 200mm. Contemporary vellum binding.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1817
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3784-3785
Title:: WODHULL CATALOGUES: catalogues of the library of Michael Wodhull, book collector and translator (b.1740, d.1816); 1817, n.d. Partly Latin Ownership inscriptions of William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg of Hinton Blewitt, 29 Sept. 1958: Eg. 3784, f. ; Eg. 3785, f. . Purchased from Peter Murray Hill (Rare Books) Ltd., 9 March 1971.
Scope & Content:: Catalogues of Libraries, etc: Michael Wodhull, translator of Euripides: Thenford, Northamptonshire: Catalogues of library of Michael Wodhull at Thenford: 1817, n.d.: Lat. and Eng.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1817
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3785
Title:
Scope & Content:: WODHULL CATALOGUES. Vol. II. 'A Catalogue of the Library that late belonged to Michael Wodhull Esqre of Thenford in Northamptonshire written out with much haste, and many errors, by John and William Russell [John Russell, Master of Charterhouse School; William Russell, his brother, fellow and af...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1817
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3786
Title:: SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT: 'King Priam', opera in 3 acts; 1961. Full score. Autograph. Various inks, with some pencil annotations. Dedicated 'To Karl Hawker' (f. 1). For sketches see Add. 72026 ff. 29v, 32v-33, 34v, for libretti see Add. 72036-72039 and for the composer's arrangement of the third interlude from Act III see Add. 72030. Full score published Schott, 1963. Formerly Loan 59. Purchased from Karl Hawker, Esq, 11 Nov. 1971. ff. 123. 360 x 270mm. In a quarter leather binding with gold le...
Scope & Content:: Sir Michael Kemp Tippett, OM; CH; composer: Karl Hawker, painter and friend of Sir Michael Tippett: 'King Priam', opera in 3 acts words and music by Sir Michael Kemp Tippett, dedicated 'To Karl Hawker': 1961: autogr.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1961
Extent:: 1 item

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