[LITURGY WITH MUSICAL NOTATION]. BREVIARY. Lower half of a leaf of a breviary, with neumes, with readings for the fourth Sunday in Lent, with double columns. From the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps. Probably recovered from use as an Oxford binding. Produced in England. Creation dates: [Mid-...
Manuscript Commonplace Book, known (since 1985) as Edmond Halley's Commonplace Book, an attribution with no real foundation, and probably based on a misunderstanding, written in a number of hands, on literary and scientific topics ranging from religion and science to carpentry, fishing and the E...
CROMWELL, Oliver. Early document signed in full ('Oliver Cromwell'), being a deed of obligation in which is rehearsed an earlier grant by George, Bishop of London, to Robert Cooke the right to collect tithes throughout London. The endorsement in Latin on the verso has been witnessed by John Irel...
EZECHIEL'S VISION of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, being a vellum leaf with two columns of text in Latin on one side and a full-page plan of the Second Temple on the other. France or England. Creation dates: 13th century
LANGTON, Stephen. The Interpretation of Hebrew Names, in Latin. Single manuscript leaf, on vellum. England. [1st quarter of 13th century]. ARISTOTLE. De generatione et corruptione, in Latin. Single manuscript leaf, on vellum, with marginalia in a contemporary hand. Italy. [Circa 1300]. Creation d...
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. Coleridge's copies of 2 printed books as follows: (1) His father John's 'A critical Latin grammar', 1772, inscribed 'S.T. Coleridge' and by other descendants. (2) Catallus 'Opera', 1774, inscribed by Coleridge with a quote from Catallus, and with other family inscriptio...
MORICE, Sir William, 1602-1676, Secretary of State. Manuscript letter from the pastors of the reformed churches of Debstedt, Holssel, Lehe and Bad Bederkesa in The Duchy of Bremen to Secretary of State Sir William Morice in London, requesting that he will continue to support their religious libe...
PETRARCA, Francesco (1304-1374). A Petrarch manuscript [Rime (Sonnetti-Canzoniere-Trionfi)], on paper, from the library of Felice Feliciano of Verona (1433-c1479). Italy. Creation dates: [Circa 1460?]