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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 70951
Title:: Charnwood Autographs
Scope & Content:: CHARNWOOD AUTOGRAPHS. Vol. IV. Artistic, dramatic and scientific autogaphs, etc.; circa 16th-20th cent. Included are Sir Christopher Wren, Sir Godfrey Kneller, William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Joseph Wright of Derby, William Blake, David Cox, Sir David Wilkie, John Sell Cotman, Samuel Prout...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 16th century-20th century
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 70957
Title:
Scope & Content:: MORGAN-GRENVILLE PAPERS. SERIES I. Vol. II (ff. ) : - 1. Correspondence of Colonel, later General, Richard Grenville as above; one letter from BRO Ref. D55/11; 1783-[1786?], n.d. 2. Miscellaneous notes in the hand of Richard Grenville, relating to George III; annotated by Richard and Thomas ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1780-1787
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71118 B
Title:: Leaf from a Book of Hours, St Margaret
Scope & Content:: Contents: A folio from a Book of Hours with a miniature of St Margaret on the recto. The verso is blank. Decoration: A full-page miniature in colours on a gold ground in a frame with foliate decoration (recto). The verso is blank with an added two line verse in Latin, beginning, 'Dum filiu' dil...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: A parchment folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71118 C
Title:: Leaf from a Book of Hours, with part of the Office of Matins
Scope & Content:: Contents: A folio from a Book of Hours with the the beginning of the Office of Matins in the Hours of the Virgin. Decoration: A historiated initial, 'D'(omine), of the Annunciation in colours on a gold ground, with a full decorated border (recto) and decorated initials in red and blue or gold ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: A parchment folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71118 D
Title:: Leaf from a Book of Hours with part of the Office of Lauds
Scope & Content:: Contents: A folio from a Book of Hours with the the beginning of the Office of Lauds. Decoration: A historiated initial, 'D'(eus), of Christ's Betrayal and Arrest, in colours on a gold ground, with a full decorated border (recto) and decorated initials in red and blue or gold and purple (recto...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: A parchment folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71118 E
Title:: Leaf from a Book of Hours with part of the Office of the Dead
Scope & Content:: Contents: A folio from a Book of Hours with the beginning of Vespers in the Office of the Dead. Decoration: A historiated initial, 'D'(ilexi), of a funeral with clerics singing, in colours on a gold ground with a full decorated border (recto) and decorated initials in red and blue or gold and p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: A parchment folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71118 F
Title:: Leaf from a Book of Hours with a prayer for the Dead and the beginning of Psalm 118
Scope & Content:: Contents: A folio from a Book of Hours with a prayer for the Dead (recto) and Psalm 118: 1-15 (recto and verso). Decoration: A historiated initial, 'B'(eati) of the soul of a woman lifted to heaven from the tomb by two angels, in colours on a gold ground with a full decorated border (recto) and...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: A parchment folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71245 C
Title:
Scope & Content:: C. Letter from Francis Aston (circa 1645-1715), Secretary of the Royal Society, to the astronomer Johann Hevelius (Jan Hevel) at Danzig; 15 Dec. 1682. Autograph. Latin. Concerning Halley's comet and the production of Hevel's globes and celestial atlas. Purchased from Quaritch's, 2 Feb. 1994. P...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15 Dec 1682
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71437
Title:
Scope & Content:: MAXWELL DAVIES MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. clxxxvi. Arrangements by Peter Maxwell Davies (ff. 1-101, 103), and works by pupils and associates (ff. 102, 103v-125), for orchestra except where stated; 1959-1961, n.d. The pupils’ works are autograph except where stated. ff. i+127. Various sizes. 1. ff. 1-19...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 1959-1962
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71494
Title:: Astrolabe and volvelle
Scope & Content:: Astrological diagrams, with moving parts, attributed to Thomas Hood. f. 1: Astrolabe, relating various fixed stars to planetary temperaments. f. 2: Volvelle showing the signs of the Zodiac.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1597
Extent:: 1 item (a diptych)

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