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2561. Add MS 58372

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MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS; 13th cent.-1954. Paper and vellum; ff. 112. British Library arrangement. A. Letter from Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, afterwards Dean of Westminster, to Sir William Edward Parry, arctic explorer, concerning the religious condition of Oxford colleges at a time of religious conflict, and in the light of Parry's plans for his son (Edward Parry, afterwards Bishop suffragan of Dover); 2 Jan. 1846. Presented by Miss Ann Parry, of London S.W.1, 21 Dec. 1974. ff. 1-4. ...
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includes: f. 1 University of Oxford: Admiral Sir William Edward Parry, Arctic explorer: Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster: Letter to Adm. Sir William Edward Parry from Arthur Penrhyn Stanley rel. to Oxford University: 1846.f. 5 Admiral Sir William Edward Parry, Arctic explorer: An...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1200-1954
Extent:
1 item

2562. Add MS 58445

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'MARCHA': by Marco Battagli of Rimini; 15th cent. With an imperial chronicle (1376 to 1451), partly in Italian, by Pietro dei Guarienti of Verona and notes concerning the history of the reign of Wenceslaus (b.1361, d.1419), Robert (b.1275, d.1343) and Sigismund (b.1368, d.1437), kings of the Romans. For another version of Battagli's Marcha see Add. 8361 Chronicon Universale which is identified by Massèra as one of the three remaining apographs of the lost original. For further information se...
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History: 'Marcha' and imperial chronicle: 15th cent.: Ital. and Lat: Copy. includes: ff. 1-183v Marco Battagli, of Rimini: 'Marcha' by Marco Battagli: 15th cent.: Lat.ff. 193-195v Chronicles: Imperial chronicle rel. to Kings of the Romans by P. dei Guarienti: 15th cent: Ital. and Lat.ff. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

2563. Add MS 58771

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PSALTER-HOURS: use of Le Puy (or use of Clermont, adapted for Le Puy); France, second quarter of 15th cent. Latin. The calendar (ff. 1-6v) and the litany (ff. 180v-185v) include feasts and gradings appropriate to Le Puy, specifically dedication of the church and the feast of relics (11 July and 8 Nov.), and Sts George, Evodius, Scutarius, Armentarius, Suacrus and Paulien, bishops of Le Puy, also Abbots Maieul, Odilo, Theofredus and Robertus who were particularly venerated at Le Puy. Sts Boni...
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Bindings FRENCH: Blind-stamped brown calf on wooden boards: 2nd half 15th cent. Liturgies LATIN: Puy-en-Velay, France: Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne: Art. Illuminations and Drawings FRENCH: Psalter-Hours, Use of Le Puy: 2nd quarter 15th cent: Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2564. Add MS 58774-58801

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ESCOTT PAPERS. Correspondence and papers of Thomas Hay Sweet Escott (b. 1844, d. 1924), classical scholar and journalist; 1853-1895, n.d. The collection, consisting of material relating chiefly to Escott's editorship of the Fortnightly Review, 1882-1886, was fully listed by the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (1973), Typescript HMC/21. Purchased from Mrs W. E. Denton, 1 April 1974. Paper. Twenty-eight volumes. British Library arrangement.
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Thomas Hay Sweet Escott, journalist: Correspondence and papers of Thomas Hay Sweet Escott: 1853-1896, n.d: Partly copies, partly printed.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
1853-1895
Extent:
28 items

2565. Add MS 58855-59494

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DROPMORE PAPERS. Correspondence and papers of William Wyndham Grenville (b.1759, d.1834), Baron Grenville 1790, Foreign Secretary 1791-1801 and Prime Minister 1806-1807, together with papers of the Pitt family of Boconnoc and some miscellaneous material and family correspondence of a later date; 1625-1864, n.d. For other papers of the Pitt family see Add. 22842-22856. See also Add. 69036, 69411, 71587-71596, 73524 A, Add. Ch. 75794-75808. Some material has been published by the Historical Ma...
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William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville; Prime Minister: Correspondence and papers of Lord Grenville etc.,: 1625-1864, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1625-1864
Extent:
648 items

2566. Add MS 59495-59498

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JOHN GOWER: The Trentham Manuscript, with related material; circa 1399-1818. English, Latin and French. Partly printed. The only known manuscript of Gower's 'Cinkante balades', with other poems, derives from the library of the Sutherland-Leveson-Gower family at Trentham Hall, co. Staff. It is accompanied here by some material relating to the later transmission of the texts. Purchased from Pickering and Chatto, 21 Oct. 1975. Four volumes.
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Poetry ENGLISH: The Trentham MS of J. Gower's `Cinkante Balades', etc., with related material: circa 1399-1400: Copy. John Gower, poet: The Trentham Manuscript of his `Cinkante Balades', etc., with related material: circa 1399-1818: Partly Latin and French: Copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1399-1818
Extent:
4 items

2567. Add MS 59499

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VOCABULARIUS EX QUO: Latin-Middle High German dictionary, written by Henricus Zacharias, probably in Austria; 1448 (see colophon, f. 202v). Latin and German. An edition of the text is published in Vocabularius Ex quo, ed. B. Schnell, H.-J. Stahl, E. Auer and R. Pawis in conjunction with Klaus Grubmüller, vols. I-V (Tübingen, 1988), this manuscript appearing as L3 in the list of sources consulted. Other versions of the same dictionary are in Add. 15110 and Add. 28216. Kept formerly in the Dep...
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Bindings AUSTRIAN: Blind-stamped red leather: circa 1448. Dictionaries: Henricus Zacharias, scribe: `Vocabularius Ex Quo' written by Henricus Zacharias: 1448: Lat. and Germ.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1448
Extent:
1 item

2568. Add MS 59506-59534

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Title:
IDRIS BELL PAPERS: papyrological correspondence and papers of Sir Harold Idris Bell, F.B.A. (b.1879, d.1967); 1885-1967. Bell was Keeper of manuscripts in the British Museum 1929-1944, President of the British Academy 1946-1950. Further correspondence is in Add. 71110. See Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, liii (1967), pp. 131-140. Presented by the recipient in 1944 and incorporated on Dec. 1975. Supplementary correspondence added in 1967 by A. Hudson Williams, executor of Sir H. I. Bell, and...
Scope & Content:
Sir Harold Idris Bell, Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum: Correspondence of Sir Harold Idris Bell: 1885-1967.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1885-1967
Extent:
29 items

2569. Add MS 59616

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Title:
CUSTOMARY OF THE SHRINE OF ST THOMAS BECKET: by John Vyel and Edmund Kingston, followed by two Lives of Thomas Becket in French verses by Beneit de Saint Alban and Garnier de Pont-Saint-Maxence; England, Canterbury and Oxford, late 13th cent. and 1428. Latin and French. An erased inscription occurs on f. 12. The presence (f. 141v) of an inventory of ecclesiastical furnishings and vestments, followed by a list of masses celebrated at the shrine of Becket, both dated 1380, suggests that the th...
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Saint Thomas Becket,; Archbishop of Canterbury: Church History: Canterbury. Christ Church Cathedral: Saints: Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Customary of the Shrine of St Thomas Becket: late 13th cent.-1428: Lat. and Fr. includes: ff. 1-11 Saint Thomas Becket,; Archbishop of Canterbur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1260-1428
Extent:
1 item

2570. Add MS 59653

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WILLIAM JOHNSON (b. circa 1610, d.1665), operator to the Royal College of Physicians: 'Thesaurus Chymicus Patefactus Sive Polluctum Remediorum Chymicorum Selectissimorum Praeparatum Et Vires eorum ex singulis Auctoribus collectae'; 1658. Latin. Dedicated to Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, whose coat of arms appears on f. 1v. Formerly in the Patent Office Library. Old numbers C.1019 (front cover) and 45300 (f. 1). Transferred from the Science Reference Library, 19 Jan. 1976. P...
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Chemistry: Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester; 2nd Earl of Kingston: William Johnson, operator to the Royal College of Physicians: Chemical handbook by William Johnson, dedicated to Lord Dorchester: 1658: Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1658
Extent:
1 item

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