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2471. Add MS 50205-50206

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Title:
LETTERS TO WALTER DE GRAY BIRCH (b. 1842, d. 1924), of the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum; 1871-1917, n.d.
Scope & Content:
Followed (50206, ff. 207-226b) by letters to Sir Edward Augustus Bond, K.C.B., as Keeper of Manuscripts, relating to the published facsimile of the Utrecht Psalter, 1873-1874. Incorporated from the Departmental Archives.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1871-1917
Extent:
2 items

2472. Add MS 50209-50210

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Title:
THE IDDESLEIGH PAPERS, Second Series (Vols. LIII, LIV)
Scope & Content:
Correspondence of Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (b. 1818, d. 1887), supplementing Add. MSS. 50013-50064; 1843-1902. Discovered at the family seat, Pynes, co. Devon, after the acquisition of the main archive. Presented by Henry Stafford Northcote, 3rd Earl of Iddesleigh.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1843-1902
Extent:
2 items

2473. Add MS 50261

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Add MS 50261
Title:
LETTERS AND PAPERS OF THE REV. GEORGE CECIL WHITE, Rector of Nursling, his relatives and ancestors; 1761-1910, n.d. Many of the letters are addressed to John Strange, Resident at Venice (d. 1799), to White's grandfather, Edward Nares, Vicar of Biddenden and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford (d. 1841), and Nares's first wife, Lady Charlotte Spencer (d. 1802). Printed, in part, by G. C. White, Glimpses of William IV and Queen Adelaide, 1902, and A Versatile Professor; Reminiscences ...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 1b Florence, Italy: Membership diploma of Botanical Society, with view of Teatro Botanico,: 1759: Engr.f. 1b Leonardo Frati, Florentine artist: Designed and engraved: 1759.f. 1b Andrea di Ginori: Membership diploma of Botanical Society of Florence signed by, as Sec.: 1761: Si...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1761-1910
Extent:
1 item

2474. Add MS 50483

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Add MS 50483
Title:
MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS; 9th-20th cent. Paper and (article K) vellum; ff. 147. Folio. A. Two letters of Charles Augustin de Sainte-Beuve to his cousin, Mme Aglaë Demont (b. 1812, d. 1890); 6 Mar. 1867, 16 Sept. 1868. French. Printed, with one omission and some changes of accents, in the Correspondance Générale, Paris, xvi, 1970, pp. 122-3, and xvii, 1976, p. 147, where their provenance is noted as the collection of Georges Grappe. Later owned by C. F. I. Ramsden. Found in C.11...
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-6 Madame Aglaë Demont: Letters to: 1867, 1868.ff. 1-6 Charles Augustin de Sainte Beuve, French critic: Letters to his cousin, Mme. A. Demont: 1867, 1868: Fr.f. 7 Edward Jenner, MD; FRS; pioneer of vaccination: Letter to T. Cobb: [1800?].ff. 9-10b Henry Havelock Ellis, so...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, Latin, Russian, and Spanish
Date Range:
800-1960
Extent:
1 item

2475. Add MS 50483K

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Add MS 50483K
Title:
Aldhelm of Sherborne, De virginitate (prose)
Scope & Content:
This leaf once belonged to one of the earliest known copies of the prose version of De virginitate (On Virginity), a treatise on virginity addressed to the nuns of the double monastery at Barking, written by Aldhelm (b. c. 639, d. 709), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey and Bishop of Sherborne. This fra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
1 leaf

2476. Add MS 50508-50743

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Add MS 50508-50743
Title:
BERNARD SHAW PAPERS
Scope & Content:
George Bernard Shaw, author: Correspondence and papers, etc.,: 1852-1950, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Gaelic, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish
Date Range:
[1795-1956]
Extent:
282 items

2477. Add MS 50754

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Add MS 50754
Title:
THE PONTEFRACT CHARTULARY Chartulary of the Cluniac Priory of Pontefract, W.R., co. York, founded circa 1090; mid 13th cent. (after 1251, see f. 89b), with additions to 15th cent. Latin and French. Contains copies of charters grouped partly by grantor, viz., founder's and founder's family, ecclesiastical, royal and private, and partly topographically, concluding with leases of the priory to its tenants, 11th-13th cent. Subsequent additions on leaves left blank between the groups for this pur...
Scope & Content:
Sir Thomas Widdrington, Speaker of House of Commons: Pawned to, by R. Dodsworth: bef. 1652. Pontefract Priory; W.R., Yorkshire: Chartulary: mid 13th-15th cent: Lat. and Fr. Chartularies: Pontefract Priory: mid 13th-15th cent: Lat. and Fr. includes: f. i Bookplates and Book-stamps: Godfrey ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1085-1554
Extent:
1 item

2478. Add MS 50755

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Add MS 50755
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THE MONK BRETTON CHARTULARY Chartulary of the Benedictine, formerly Cluniac, Priory of Monk Bretton, W.R., co. York, founded 1153-1155; 1529-1538, with additions, 1558. Latin and English. See G. R. C. Davis, Medieval Cartularies, 1958, no. 675, and B.M.Q., xxiv, 1961, pp. 67-70. Belonged in 1574 to Francis Wortley, of Wortley Hall (d. 1603). Still in the possession of his son, Sir Francis Wortley, 1st Bart., in 1630, when Roger Dodsworth made extracts from it, now Bodl. Lib., Dodsworth MS. 1...
Scope & Content:
Chartularies: Monk Bretton: 1529-1538: Mostly Lat. Monk Bretton Priory; W.R., Yorkshire: Chartulary: 1529-1538: Mostly Lat. includes: f. i Bookplates and Book-stamps: Godfrey Wentworth Wentworth, of Woolley Hall: Armorial bookplate of Godfrey Wentworth Wentworth: 1865.ff. 4b-6 Monk Bretto...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1529-1538
Extent:
1 item

2479. Add MS 50850

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Add MS 50850
Title:
MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS; 1594-1936, n.d. Paper and (article J) vellum; ff. 59. Folio. A. Letter of introduction from George Bubb Dodington, Baron Melcombe, to Edmond Waller at Montaubon, also commenting on English politics; 3 Feb. 1750. Presented by Miss Rosamond Mary Waller. ff. 1-3. B. Musical settings of the traditional song 'Lubin', sung to the donor by his mother, circa 1885 (f. 4), and copy of 'Ariel's Dance' for 'The Tempest' (ff. 12-11b reversed) 'written out for L...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 1 George Bubb, Baron Melcombe; afterwards Bubb-Dodington: Letter to E. Waller,: 1750. f. 1 Edmund Waller, at Montaubon: Letter to,: 1750. ff. 4-14b Music: Collections rel. to `Lubin', a traditional song,: early 19th cent. - 1956. ff. 12-11b (rev.) Joseph Todd Gordon Macleod, author...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Esperanto, French, Latin, and Russian
Date Range:
1594-1936
Extent:
1 item

2480. Add MS 50856

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Add MS 50856
Title:
THEOLOGICAL TREATISES, RELIGIOUS VERSE, MUSIC, INCUNABULA, ETC.; circa 1480-circa 1536. Mostly Latin. Partly imperfect. Partly printed. Possibly owned by John Portar al. Porter al. Smythe, monk of Durham Cathedral Priory, circa 1485-circa 1536 (see f. 23), and by the Lepton family of Kepwick, N. R., co. York, circa 1570-circa 1605. The name of James Lepton (b. circa 1570, d. 1639), second son of Roger and grandson of Christopher Lepton (d. 1587: see VCH, N.R. Yorks., vol. ii, p. 53) was fo...
Scope & Content:
Theology LATIN: Works in prose and verses: circa 1480-late 15th cent: Partly printed. includes: f. ii Ripon, West Riding of Yorkshire: Book-label of Cathedral Library: circa 1820: Printed. ff. 1-19 Saint Ephraem,; the Syrian: De compunctione cordis, etc.,: bef. 1491: Printed. Imperf. ff. 1*, 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1475-1541
Extent:
1 item

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