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2531. Add MS 57337

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Add MS 57337
Title:
The Anderson Pontifical
Scope & Content:
The Anderson Pontifical (also known as the Brodie Pontifical) contains an imperfect Pontifical and an imperfect Benedictional, probably written in a major southern English scriptorium at the end of the 10th century or the first quarter of the 11th century. A few Old English glosses and musical n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
c 988-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

2532. Add MS 57337/1

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Add MS 57337/1
Title:
Printed and handwritten fragments used to wrap the Anderson Pontifical
Scope & Content:
This volume contains early modern printed fragments which were originally pasted together to form wrappers for the Anderson Pontifical (Add. MS 57337), which have now been separated. The volume contains: f. 1r: piece of parchment folded in the shape of a book. Faded text on the spine reads 'p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1495-1696
Extent:
1 bound volume of fragments

2533. Add MS 57340

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Add MS 57340
Title:
MARMADUKE TUNSTALL (b.1743, d.1790): notebook of the naturalist Marmaduke Tunstall, al. Marmaduke Constable or Valentine Tunstall, whilst a student at the English College, Douai; 1760. Latin. Notes relating to the study of logic under William Gibson (later consecrated Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District of England, 1790), see f. 171v. Signed and dated by Tunstall (f. i). The alias 'Valentine Tunstall' was adopted, in accordance with common practice among English Catholics studying abroa...
Scope & Content:
Bindings: Contemporary binding to a lecture notebook used at Douai: 1760. William Gibson, Professor at Douai English College, Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District of England: Notebook rel. to lectures on Logic , delivered by William Gibson: 1760: Lat. Education: Roman Catholics: Logic: Val...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1760
Extent:
1 item

2534. Add MS 57487

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Add MS 57487
Title:
PHYSICA VEDASTINA: notes of a course of lectures on physics given at Arras in France; 18th cent. Latin. At the end of the manuscript are six printed diagrams supporting the subject matter of the lectures (mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, astronomy, optics, etc.), including (f. 213) diagrams of 17th-cent. telescopes. Acquired by the Patent Office Library, 25 May 1912. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books (Patent Office Library), Jan. 1972. Paper; ff. i+213. Former pagination...
Scope & Content:
Astronomy: Arras, France: Mechanics: Natural Philosophy: Notes of lectures on physics given at Arras: 18th cent: Lat: Partly printed.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

2535. Add MS 57528-57534

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Add MS 57528-57534
Title:
FRANCIS WORMALD MANUSCRIPTS
Scope & Content:
Medieval manuscripts from the collection of Francis Wormald, C.B.E., Professor of Palaeography at London University 1950-1960, Professor of History and Director of the Institute of Historical Research, London University, 1960-1967; 12th-15th cent. Presented by Mrs Honoria Mary Rosamund Wormald, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
12th century-15th century
Extent:
7 items

2536. Add MS 57555

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Add MS 57555
Title:
Notebook of Sir Walter Ralegh, c. 1606-1618
Scope & Content:
Largely autograph notebook of Sir Walter Ralegh (1554–1618), courtier, explorer and author. Comprising a glossary of geographical notes, thirteen annotated ink and watercolour maps, a list of around five hundred books in his possession, and a poem addressed to Queen Elizabeth I. Dating from Rale...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1606-1618
Extent:
1 volume.

2537. Add MS 57557-57558

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Add MS 57557-57558
Title:
SIR H. ELLIS AND H. J. ELLIS: collections relating to family genealogy and ecclesiastical history, etc.; 1836-1924
Scope & Content:
Partly Latin. Partly printed. For further Ellis papers see Add. 41312-41319, 42137, 42506, 57521, 57522 and 57850. Presented by Miss Winifred Myers, 22 July 1972. Two volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1836-1924
Extent:
2 items

2538. Add MS 57636-57722

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Add MS 57636-57722
Title:
R.U.S.I. MAPS
Scope & Content:
Maps of military engagements, camps, fortifications actual and projected, etc., in places throughout the world, from the map collections of the Royal United Services Institution; 1672-1919. Partly French, German, Dutch, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, and Modern Greek. 57699, f. 13...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Iroquoian languages, Italian, Latin, Malay, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Undetermined
Date Range:
1672-1919
Extent:
87 items

2539. Add MS 57732

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Add MS 57732
Title:
JOHN WILMOT, 2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER: correspondence and papers of Henry Spencer Ashbee (d.1900) relating to Rochester's play 'Sodom'; circa 1865-1879, n.d. Partly copies, imperfect. Partly Latin, French and German. This obscene blank-verse drama, traditionally attributed wholly or in part to Rochester, is extant in two versions composed circa 1672-1673 and circa 1676-1677 respectively. Two of the eight known early manuscript texts contain an earlier three-act form of the play and the rest the...
Scope & Content:
Henry Spencer Ashbee, bibliophile: Correspondence and papers of H. S. Ashbee rel. to Rochester's supposititious play `Sodom': mid-late 19th cent.: Partly Lat., Fr. and Germ. John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester: Drama ENGLISH: Transcriptions and papers rel. to the play Sodom by John Wilmot: circa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1865-1879
Extent:
1 item

2540. Add MS 57772

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Add MS 57772
Title:
MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS; 1566-1961, n.d. Paper and vellum; ff. 200. British Library arrangement. A. Letter from Thomas James Wise, in the hand of his wife Louise Wise, to William O. Raymond Esq., of Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Quebec, relating to the publication of John Carter and Graham Pollard, An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets (1934), which first identified Wise as a forger; 7 Jan. 1935. Together with a letter and envelope from Louise Wi...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 1 Frances Louise Wise, 2nd wife of T J Wise: William O. Raymond: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter to William O. Raymond from Thomas James Wise, in the hand of Frances Louise Wise: 1935: Copy.f. 3 Frances Louise Wise, 2nd wife of T J Wise: William O. Raymond: Letter to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1566-1961
Extent:
1 item

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