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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52367-52382
Title:: THE PETRE PAPERS Correspondence and papers of Maude Dominica Mary Petre (b. 1863, d. 1942) with, and largely relating to, George Tyrrell, S.J., the Modernist (whose literary executor she was), supplementing Add. MSS. 44927-44931, 45744, 45745; 1898-1954. Printed, in part, by Miss Petre in Autobiography and Life of Father George Tyrrell, 1912; George Tyrrell's Letters, 1920; My Way of Faith, 1937. Also used (and occasionally quoted) by J. J. Stam, George Tyrrell (1861-1909), Utrecht, 1938; ...
Scope & Content:: Miss Maude Dominica Mary Petre, author: Correspondence and papers: 1895-1942.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1898-1954
Extent:: 19 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52386-52408
Title:: GORDON PAPERS (The Bell Collection) Correspondence and papers of and relating to Major-General Charles George Gordon (b. 1833, d. 1885); 1802-1887. The collection was assembled by Gordon's eldest brother, Sir Henry William Gordon, K.C.B., Commissary General of Ordnance, and extensively used by him in his Events in the life of Charles George Gordon, 1896. The papers passed to his third but eldest surviving son, Col. Louis Augustus Gordon, during which time they were seen by Bernard M. Allen a...
Scope & Content:: Major-General Charles George Gordon, CB: Correspondence and papers of, and rel. to, Maj.-Gen. Charles George Gordon: 1854-1887.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1802-1887
Extent:: 28 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52411
Title:: LETTER OF EDWARD IV, as Earl of March, and Edmund, Earl of Rutland, sons of Richard, Duke of York, a claimant to the English throne, recommending their emissary, Antonio de la Torre, to Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan; 10 Dec. 1460. Latin. Signed 'E. March' and 'E. Rutland'. On the authenticity of the signatures, see J. Gairdner, Notes and Queries, 4th. ser., viii, 1871, pp. 48-9. For the negotiations of the Yorkists with Milan and Pope Pius II, and de la Torre's embassies, excluding the pre...
Scope & Content:: Francesco Maria Sforza; Duke of Milan: Letter to: 1460: Lat. Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of Rutland: Letter to Duke of Milan,: 1460: Lat: Signed. Edward IV of England: Letter, as Earl of March, to Duke of Milan,: 1460: Lat: Signed. includes: f. ix Robert Schumann, French statesman: Note by,: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 10 Dec 1460
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52417
Title:: ELEVEN SERMONS, ETC., OF THE REV. JOHN SKINNER, F.S.A., Rector of Camerton, co. Somerset; 5 Dec. 1805 (f. 55b)-20 Feb. 1820 (f. 76), n.d. Partly Latin. Mostly autograph. Partly fair copies, with autograph corrections. Imperfect after f. 77b. Includes:- (a) Meditation on prayer; 27 Jan. 1828. Copy. ff. 26-28b;- (b) Cicero, 'De Amicitia' and 'Paradoxa'. Latin. [Autograph?] extracts. ff. 80, 80b;- (c) Dialogue between 'Eumenes' and 'Melampus' on friendship, illustrating the Ciceronian quotation...
Scope & Content:: John Skinner, FSA; Rector of Camerton, county Somerset: Sermons: Sermons by Rev J. Skinner: 1805-1820, n.d.: Partly copies with autogr. corrections. includes: ff. 26-28b Prayer: Meditation on, by [Rev. J. Skinner?]: 1828: Copy, 19th cent. ff. 29-42 Hymns: Hymns: 18th-19th cent.: Copies, circa ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1805-1828
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52436-52453
Title:: THE MACKINTOSH PAPERS Journals and correspondence of Sir James Mackintosh, P.C., M.P., the philosopher and historian (b. 1765, d. 1832); 1780-1835. Supplement Add. MSS. 34487-34526, 51653-51657. Used by his son, Robert James Mackintosh, for Memoirs of the Life of Sir James Mackintosh, 2 vols., 1835, and marked by him. Presented by the Dowager Lady Farrer. Eighteen volumes.
Scope & Content:: Sir James Mackintosh, PC; MP: Journals and correspondence: 1804-1835.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1780-1835
Extent:: 24 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52465-52472
Title:: CROKER PAPERS (Second Series) Correspondence and papers of John Wilson Croker, P.C., M.P. (b. 1780, d. 1857); 1809-1884, n.d. Supplement Add. MSS. 41124-41129, 63624. For a list of the bulk of the Croker Papers, see Guide to the Manuscript Collection in the William L. Clements Library, ed. H. H. Peckham, Ann Arbor, 1942, pp. 66-71. Eight volumes. Quarto.
Scope & Content:: John Wilson Croker, PC; MP: Correspondence and papers: 19th cent.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1809-1884
Extent:: 8 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52474-52503
Title:: British Records Association Collection
Scope & Content:: Presented through the British Records Association.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:: [1500-1918]
Extent:: 36 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52539
Title:: LEAVES FROM A BOOK OF HOURS. In Latin, written and illuminated in Italy at Bologna in the school of Niccolo da Bologna (b. circa 1330, d. circa 1403); circa 1400. The use generally corresponds to that of Add. MS. 34247, another Hours written and illuminated in Bologna, but with some variation, especially in the Office of the Dead. A further fragment of twenty-five leaves, also probably originally part of the same manuscript as 52539, now forms Add. MS. 69865, having been purchased at Sotheby...
Scope & Content:: Liturgies LATIN: Bologna, Li quaranta del reggimento di: Niccolo da Bologna, illuminator: Art. Illuminations and Drawings ITALIAN: Fragment of a Bolognese Book of Hours made at Bologna, by school of N. da Bologna: circa 1400: Lat.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1400
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52585
Title:: Miscellany of verse and prose ('The Waferer Commonplace Book')
Scope & Content:: Miscellany volume of verse and prose. Owned by Richard Waferer of Buckinghamshire. Includes verse and prose works by: Joseph Hall; Sir Walter Raleigh; William Shakespeare; Sir Edward Dyer; Robert Southwell, S.J.; Nicholas Breton; and Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex. f. i r Remains of vell...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1597-1628
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52591-52600
Title:: MODERN LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS
Scope & Content:: Modern literary manuscripts acquired through the Arts Council of Great Britain; circa 1940-bef. 1965. See Jenny Stratford, The Arts Council Collection of Modern Literary Manuscripts 1963-1972, 1974. National Manuscript Collection of Contemporary Writers, MSS. 4, 5, 8, 9-11. See also Add. MSS. 52...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1940-before 1965
Extent:: 14 items

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