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1991. Add MS 89637

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89637
Title:
Letter from Eugène Delacroix to Monsiour Soulier
Scope & Content:
A handwritten, personal letter in French from the painter, Eugène Delacroix, to his friend, Monsieur Soulier of Saint-Mammès, France, dated Nov 1862. The letter conveys personal news and is accompanied by the original envelope.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1862
Extent:
1 folder

1992. Add MS 89644

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89644
Title:
Robert Browning Settlement Visitors Book
Scope & Content:
Leather-bound book, embossed with the title "Robert Browning Hall Visitors Book", used as the visitors book for the chapel of the Robert Browning Settlement of Walworth, London between 1895 and 1994. The book is signed throughout by a variety of individuals, beginning with Herbert Henry Asquit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, Finnish, French, Japanese, and Malayalam
Date Range:
21 Nov 1895-7 May 1994
Extent:
1 volume, 2 sheets

1993. Add MS 89722

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89722
Title:
Correspondence relating to the purchase of the Codex Sinaiticus
Scope & Content:
Correspondence donated to the British Library by dealer, Maggs Brothers Limited, concerning the purchase of the Codex Sinaiticus in 1933 from the Soviet Goverment. The letters and copies of letters within this folder are generally between Maggs Brothers and their clients, Sir Frederick Kenyon, fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1933-2016
Extent:
1 folder

1994. Add Roll 1387

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Roll 1387
Title:
DEPOSITIONS of the witnesses in the cause of Guillame de Harcourt, Comte de Tancarville, against the Seigneur de l'Isle Adam, touching the right to certain woods in the province of Poitou, granted by the King of England to the ancestors of the said Comte. Dated August, 1446. In French. A vellum roll, above 100 feet in length, but imperfect at the beginning and end. [Add. R. 1387.]
Scope & Content:
Province of Poitou, France: Depositions in the cause of G. de Harcourt against the Seigr. de Lisle Adam, touching certain woods there: 1446.: Fr. Seigneur Jacques de Villiers de L'Isle Adam: Deposition of witnesses, in the cause of G. de Harcourt against him, touching certain woods in Poitou: 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

1995. Add Roll 1812

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Roll 1812
Title:
RENTAL of the Hospital of St. Nicholas, in the town of Calais, 1417. In French. A vellum roll. Presented by Edward Scott, Esq. [Add. R. 1812.]
Scope & Content:
Calais, France: Rental of the Hospital of St. Nicholas: 1417.: Fr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

1996. Add Roll 7074

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Roll 7074
Title:
HOUSEHOLD account of the Comte d'Angoulême, A.D. 1452. French. Vellum. [Add. Roll 7,074.]
Scope & Content:
Angoulême, John, Comte d': Household account of: 1452.: Fr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

1997. Arundel MS 1-550

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 1-550
Title:
Arundel Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts collected by Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel (d 1646). 550 manuscripts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, French, Old, German, Greek, Ancient, Greek, Modern, Irish, Italian, Latin, Low Saxon, and Slavic languages
Date Range:
c 1100-c 1640
Extent:
552 items

1998. Ashley MS A17-5768

Reference (shelfmark):
Ashley MS A17-5768
Title:
Ashley Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts, chiefly literary, collected by Thomas James Wise (1859-1937). Includes poetry manuscripts and the literary correspondence of poets, novelists and critics, c. 1700-1936 (predominantly 1780-1936). The collection was named after the street in which Wise lived when he started acquirin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Norwegian
Date Range:
1700-1936
Extent:

c. 1,971 volumes

1999. B.362.

Reference (shelfmark):
B.362.
Title:
FRENCH SONGS; circa 1790. The words to eighteen songs, without music, added in manuscript to certain blank pages in a collection of 250 printed French songs (each issued separately), all published in the second half of the eighteenth century. Written in ink in the same hand throughout, with illustrations added at the foot of several pages. Purchased, 19 July 1859. 192 x 122mm.
Scope & Content:
Poetry FRENCH: 18 songs, added to a collection of printed songs: circa 1790: Fr: Copies.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1790
Extent:
1 item

2000. B.362.t.

Reference (shelfmark):
B.362.t.
Title:
CHORUSES AND DANCES: added in manuscript to a printed score of Les amours de Protée, ballet by Charles-Hubert Gervais (Paris: J.-B.-Christophe Ballard, 1720); after 1720. With the bookplate of Henry Prunières. Purchased from Richard Macnutt, 3 June 1993. pp. [viii]+288 + ff. 11. 190 x 255mm. Full calf binding with label to spine. 1. ff. 1-4 (between pp. 46 and 47). ‘Duo’, ‘Pour regner sur les Coeurs’, for two sopranos (‘L’amour Constant’ and ‘L’amour Volage’) and violins; – recitative, ‘Pl...
Scope & Content:
Bookplates and Book-stamps: Bookplate of Henry Prunières: circa 1920: Printed. Charles-Hubert Gervais, composer: Choruses and dances added to 'Les amours de Protée': after 1720: Fr: Copies.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
after 1720
Extent:
1 item

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