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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 46700
Title:: ALICE''S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND: ''A Christmas Gift to a Dear Child in Memory of a Summer Day''. The autograph manuscript, written and illustrated by ''Lewis Carroll'' ( the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson; b. 1832, d. 1898 ) of the story afterwards rewritten and published in 1865 as ''Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland''.
Scope & Content:: Public Domain. According to a note in Dodgson''s diary ( Add. MS. 54343, f. 15b ) the story first took its shape during a river trip up the Thames to Godstow on 4 July 1862 ( for doubts about the validity of this date see Derek Hudson, Lewis Carroll, 1954, pp. 129-130 ) in company with the Rev...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1862-1864
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 47462
Title:: EDWARD LEAR, 'History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipplepopple', a nonsense story, 'Written & illustrated for Lady Charlotte [Mary] & the Hon bles [William] Hugh [Spencer] & [William] Reginald Wentworth- Fitzwilliam' [children of William, 6th Earl Fitzwilliam]; Nice, Feb. 1865. Autograph. Apparently the original draft, first published (with some verbal differences) in Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets, 1871, pp. 54-73. Of the pen-and-ink illustrations in the MS...
Scope & Content:: Joseph Zaehnsdorf, bookbinder: Bound, 19th-20th cent. Bindings ENGLISH: Red morocco, gold-tooled, by J. Zaehnsdorf: 19th-20th cent. Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: E. Lear; pen-and-ink illustrations for nonsense story, etc.: 1865, n.d. includes: ff. 1-7b, 36-42 Edward Lear, artist a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Feb 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 47682
Title:: Bible (the 'Holkham Bible Picture Book')
Scope & Content:: A biblical picture book with explanatory text of varying length, sometimes in rhyming couplets, in Anglo-Norman French, with some English. The material covers Genesis from Creation to Noah (ff. 1-9), the Life of Christ from the Annunciation (preceded by genealogies of Mary and Jesus) to the Asce...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and English
Date Range:: c 1327-1335
Extent:: A parchment codex, 42 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 47849
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Scope & Content:: MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. VII (ff. 16+v). Symphony no. 40, in F major, for oboes, horns and strings, in score, by Franz Joseph Haydn; 1763. Autograph. With the composer's annotations (f. 1), 'Synfonia', 'ln Nomine Domini', 'Giuseppe Haydn 763' and (f. 15) at the end of the Finale, 'Laus Deo'. 'No...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1763
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 47851
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Scope & Content:: MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. IX (ff. ii+120). Concerto, op. 61, for violin or piano by Ludwig van Beethoven, in score; bef. Aug. 1808. Copy, with autograph annotations by the composer relating to expression marks, accidentals, etc., in pencil and red crayon. No title-page. One leaf, at least, contai...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: before Aug 1808
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 47852
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Scope & Content:: MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. X (ff. 17). Autograph music by Ludwig van Beethoven:- (1) Fragment (ff. 2-2b), 50 mm. × 295 mm., cut from the top of one leaf, containing miscellaneous sketches. On the recto are three bars in G marked 'Andante molto mote' and four bars in E flat (?) marked 'overtur vi...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1809
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 47864
Title:: MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. XXV (ff. iii+ 117). William Wordsworth''s Poems, in Two Volumes, 1807: the printer''s manuscript, conveyed in packets from Coleorton to the publishers Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme between 14 Nov. 1806 (postmark on f. 2b) and circ. early Apr. 1807. Partly autograph, with revisions and annotations throughout by the poet.
Scope & Content:: © Dove Cottage - Wordsworth Trust. Most of the texts are revised from an earlier collection of shorter poems transcribed circ. Jan.- Mar. 1806 by Dorothy Wordsworth and Sara Hutchinson, of which sixtyeight octavo leaves or fragments of leaves survive here. Poems from the same and other sources w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1807
Extent:: 1 volume (ff. iii + 117)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 47903
Title:: Edward Elgar: Manuscript sketches and drafts, Vol. 7
Scope & Content:: Sketches for op. 39-47. As follows:- ff. 1-46. Pomp and Circumstance Marches, op. 39, nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5:- (a) No. 1 in D. Completed in 1901. Published by Boosey, 1902. Sketch of the whole march dated 'Jan 3/01' (ff. 2-3v), and further drafts of the Trio (ff. 4, 5). ;- (b) No. 2 in A minor. Co...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1901-1905
Extent:: 1 volume (137 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 47908
Title:: Edward Elgar: Manuscript sketches and drafts, Vol. 15
Scope & Content:: Op. 69-op. 80 passim and works without opus number. As follows:- ff. 1-104. 'The Music Makers', op. 69, setting of an ode by A. O'Shaughnessy for contralto solo, chorus and orchestra. Composed 1902-21 August 1912. Published by Novello, 1912. As follows:- (a) Sketches, mostly marked 'K' indicat...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1899-1932
Extent:: 1 volume (232 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 48018
Title:: Formulary for a Clerk of the Privy Council, compiled by Robert Beale
Scope & Content:: Robert Beale (1541-1601), administrator and diplomat, was a Clerk of the Privy Council from 1572 until his death in 1601. This was the second of two formularies for his office that he compiled: the first (dated 1572) is now Add MS 48150. A note by Beale on f. i recto states that 'This Booke of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1575-c 1586
Extent:: 1 volume

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