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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40037
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Scope & Content:: Vol. XX (ff. i+238). 22 Apr. 1827-1 Sept. 1840, n.d. includes: ff. 6 b-12 b John Charles Spencer, Viscount Althorp; 3rd Earl Spencer: Correspondence with Adm. Sir C. Napier: 1827-1830.: Copies.ff. 14 b-203 passim (copies) Sir James Robert George Graham, 2nd Baronet; of Netherby; statesman:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, Italian, and Turkish
Date Range:: 22 Apr 1827-1 Sep 1840
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40037-40041
Title:: NAPIER PAPERS. Vols. XX-XXIV. Private letter-books of Adm. Sir C. Napier, containing copies of letters received and despatched by him (including letters to newspapers), 1827-1864. Five vols. Other vols. of this series, containing letters from July 1853 to Dec. 1856, are in the P.R.O. (Napier Papers, Vols. XII-XIV), and another vol., " St. Vincent," No. 1, which should follow Add. MS. 40039 (Vol. XXII), is apparently missing. A holograph letterbook (Add. MS. 40053), 1813-1829, n.d., which con...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, Italian, and Turkish
Date Range:: 1827-1864
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40076
Title:: Rule and Privileges of the Poor Clares
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6r: The Rule of the Poor Clares, a copy of the Bull of Clement VI, confirming that of Clement IV (made 31 December 1266), which in turn confirms and recites the Rule of the Poor Clares, as drawn up by Rinaldo, Bishop of Ostia and Velletri (afterwards Pope Alexander IV), and ap...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1446-1448
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40079
Title:: TRANSCRIPTS of papers in the Florentine archives relating to a proposed marriage between Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (d. 6 Nov. 1612), and a sister of Cosimo II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1611-1612. The chief correspondents are the Florentine representatives and emissaries in England and Rome and members of the Tuscan court. The arrangement is roughly chronological. A number of ecclesiastical pronouncements are in Latin, the rest of the papers in Italian. Different extracts from the same d...
Scope & Content:: Ottaviano Lotti, Florentine Resident in London and Emissary to Rome: Correspondence with the Tuscan court.: 1611-1612.: Ital.: Copies. Henry Frederick (d, Princes of Wales; 1612): Papers rel. to proposed marriage of, 1611-1612.: 19th cent.: Lat. and Ital.: Copies. Bookplates: Brooke (Sir Thoma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40080
Title:: "FIORETTI d[e]l [Girolamo] Frescobaldi," for harpsichord. Paper; ff. i + 40. Oblong octavo. First half of xvii cent. At the beginning is inserted a (later ?) "Orario delli seruizij Feriali della Cappella Pon[ti]fi[ci]a," of which Frescobaldi was organist 1608-1628. In richly tooled Italian black leather binding, with arms, gu., fretty-florey or.
Scope & Content:: Music: Harpsichord pieces (Italian), 17th: 18th centt. Girolamo Frescobaldi, composer: Harpsichord solos: 1st half of 17th cent. Bindings ITALIAN: Black leather, richly tooled, with arms: 1st half of 17th cent. includes: f. 1 Court of Rome: Time-table of the ordinary services in the Papal Ch...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1st half of 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40096-40098
Title:: CORRESPONDENCE and papers of Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, Baron Collingwood, Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean in succession to Nelson, 1805-1809. Belonged to the papers of Adm. Collingwood, sold al. Sotheby's, 12 July 1921.
Scope & Content:: Navy; England: Correspondence of Adm. Lord Collingwood commanding in the Mediterranean: 1805-1809. Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, Baron Collingwood: Correspondence, as Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean: 1805-1809.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Turkish
Date Range:: 1805-1809
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40097
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. II (ff. 220). Correspondence of Adm. Collingwood, consisting chiefly of letters and reports from naval and military officers in the two Sicilies and Spain, 20 Aug. 1805-26 July 1809. His chief correspondents are Adm. Sir William Sidney Smith and Gen. Sir John Stuart for the two Sicilies, an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:: 20 Aug 1805-26 Jul 1809
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40098
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. III (ff. 154). Letters and reports from Adm. Sir John Thomas Duckworth in the W. Indies to the Secretary of the Admiralty and Adm. Collingwood, Nov. 1805-Apr. 1806, ff. 1-55, followed by correspondence from Duckworth and others relating to action in Turkey, Dec. 1806-Feb. 1809, ff. 56-end. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, Italian, and Turkish
Date Range:: 1805-1809
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40108-40122
Title:: HONE PAPERS. Collections and correspondence of William Hone, bookseller (d. 1842), arranged as follows A. Collections for a History of Parody (40108-MI18). B. Notes for an article on Tallies (40119). C. General Correspondence (40120). D. Notes for Autobiography (40121). E. Miscellaneous papers, mostly of earlier date (40122). The material has been utilised by F. W. Hackwood (some of whose notes are included) for his book William Hone: His Life and. Times, 1912. Lists of contents and other no...
Scope & Content:: William Hone, bookseller; d: Collections and correspondence: 19th cent.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: [1568-1860]
Extent:: 15 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40122
Title:
Scope & Content:: HONE PAPERS. Vol. XV. Miscellaneous letters and papers, 1568-1860, including:- 1. Letter from Luca [Alemianni], Bishop of Volterra, to Filippo Rofia, Vicario di S. Miniato, at the instance of Cardinal Borromeo, requesting information about antiquities of the Borromeo family in S. Miniato, thei...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:: 1568-1860
Extent:: 1 item

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