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1. Add MS 11615

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 11615
Title:
DAS BUCH das man mennet Die xxiv Alten. German dialect, possibly East Franconian, vicinity of Wurzburg. On vellum, written in the year 1428. Folio. [11,615.]
Scope & Content:
Alten; xxiv: Das buch das man nennet "die xxiv. Alten.": German dialect, possibly East Franconian, vicinity of Wurzburg.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Germanic languages
Date Range:
1428
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 88942

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942
Title:
The Papers of William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)
Scope & Content:
The British Library collection contains notebooks, letters, photographs, diaries, unbound Assyriological and mathematical folios, natural specimens in herbaria, offprints of Talbot’s articles, patents, artefacts and a small selection of books from Talbot’s library. Whilst the covering dates of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, Coptic, Cypriot, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, Gaelic, German, German, Middle High, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Indo-European languages, Irish, Italian, Latin, Pashto, Persian, Persian, Old, Sanskrit, Spanish, Swedish, Syriac, Turkish, Ottoman, and Welsh
Date Range:
1732-1952
Extent:

849 files

3. Add MS 88942/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1
Title:
William Henry Fox Talbot: Notebooks and loose notes
Scope & Content:
Talbot's notebooks testify to his wide-ranging intellectual and practical scientific interests, which extended far beyond pioneering photographic research and invention to encompass research in mathematics, optics, astronomy, botany, horticulture, Assyriology, philology, and many associated aven...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, Coptic, Cypriot, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, Gaelic, German, German, Middle High, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Indo-European languages, Irish, Italian, Latin, Pashto, Persian, Persian, Old, Sanskrit, Spanish, Swedish, Syriac, Turkish, Ottoman, and Welsh
Date Range:
1778-1877
Extent:
386 folders

4. Add MS 88942/1/8

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/8
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Q')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains rough notes. It might be part of an incomplete series and is certainly related to notebook 'M' (Add MS 88942/1/7), which it continues. It contains botanical notes(e.g. lists of Latin plant names) and miscellaneous notes (e.g. lists of names of scholars in various instituti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 notebook (21 folios, 20 pages of text)

5. Cotton MS

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS
Title:
Cotton Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
The Cotton Manuscripts contains a variety of material, much of it relating to the history, literature and culture of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the 17th century. It is particularly rich in: (a) manuscripts written in Old English; (b) monastic cartularies; (c) saints’ Liv...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, Arabic, Cipher, Coast Miwok, Cornish, Danish, Dutch, Dutch, Middle, English, English, Middle, English, Old, Flemish, French, French, Old, German, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Inuit, Irish, Irish, Middle, Italian, Javanese, Latin, Low German, Occitan, Old, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Saxon, Old, Scots, Scots, Spanish, Temne, and Welsh
Date Range:
5th century-19th century
Extent:
1,429 manuscripts

6. Cotton MS Vespasian E VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian E VI
Title:
Cotton Manuscript Vespasian E VI
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Germanic languages and Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
3 items

7. Cotton MS Vespasian E VI, ff 12–24

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian E VI, ff 12–24
Title:
Latin-Teutonic glossary (12r–18r, 23r–24r); Dîcuil, Liber de mensura orbis terrae (19v–22r: excerpts)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin and Teutonic (12r–18r, 23r–24r); Latin (19v–22r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Germanic languages and Latin
Date Range:
1606
Extent:
1 item

8. Harley MS 4660

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4660
Title:
Miscellaneous collection of transcriptions of Old English charters and the Narratio de Sanctis qui in Anglia quiescunt; fragments of a Latin work on the Old English language
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A catalogue of fifteen charters held at Worcester Cathedral, entitled: ‘Cartarum aliquod pervetustarum quae extant in Archivis Ecclesiae Cathedralis Wirogn; Apographa’; ending with the note: ‘Harum Cartarum nulla exhibetur in Monastico Anglicana’. f. 1v: A transcription of a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, Dutch, English, English, Old, and Germanic languages
Date Range:
c 1643-c 1700
Extent:
1 volume

9. RP 9753

Reference (shelfmark):
RP 9753
Title:
Scope & Content:
ILLUMINATIONS. Christianus (Druthmar) of Stavelot, commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, decorated manuscript in Latin and Greek with a single word in a Germanic vernacular (probably Old Frankish/Old Low Franconian), on vellum. [Germany, almost certainly Bamberg]. Sotheby's, L10413, 07 Dec 2010, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Germanic languages, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
20 Dec 2010
Extent:
2 colour prints