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1. Add MS 18277

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Title:
Catalogue of the library of Professor Jernej Bartol Kopitar (1780-1844)
Scope & Content:
Catalogue of books in various languages. A note in a different hand at the top of f. 1 reads "Subsidia remotiora".
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, Latin, Polish, and Russian
Date Range:
1843
Extent:
38 folios

2. Add MS 21902

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Title:
TALES and poems in Polish, viz.: "The Fiddler and the Beggarwoman; Ladislaus and Helena; and an Elegy on the Death of an Infant, by Leo Rymarkiewicz. Printed in 1852." Paper. Quarto. Presented by Lieut. Alexander Radwan Rypinski.
Scope & Content:
Tales: Tales in Polish: 19th cent. Leo Rymarkiewicz: Poems and tales: 19th cent.: Polish. Literature of Poland: Poems and tales: 1852.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Polish
Date Range:
1852
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 31904

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Title:
"JERUSALEM Wyzwolona" a translation of the "Gierusalemme Liberata " of Torquato Tasso, into Polish verse, by Dyonizy Corwin-Piotrowski. Paper; ff. 303. XIXth cent. Small Octavo. Presented by Mrs. J. Corwin-Piotrowska.
Scope & Content:
Torquato Tasso, poet: Polish translation of his "Gierusalemme Liberata": 19th cent. Dyonizy Corwin - Piotrowski: Translation of the "Gierusalemme Liberata" of Tasso: 19th cent.: Polish: verse.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Polish
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 33965

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Title:
Original letters of musicians, arranged as in the preceding volume. Among them are letters of:- Dr. Thomas Augustus Arne, Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, Dr. William Boyce, Orlando Gibbons, Henry Lawes, Matthew Locke, André Ernest Modeste Grétry, Hector Berlioz, François Adrien Boieldieu, François Gounod, Étienne Henri Méhul, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, George Frederic Handel, Joseph Haydn, Franz Liszt, Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Robert Alexander Schumann, Louis Spoh...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 1 E- T- Allan, husband of Mad. Caradori-Allan: Letter to P. F. Laporte: 1834. ff. 1, 372 Pierre François Laporte, actor and impresario: Letters to him: 1832-1841.: Fr. f. 3 Thomas Augustine Arne, composer: Letter to G. Woodfall: n.d. f. 3 George Woodfall, Printer: Letter to, from D...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Polish, and Swedish
Date Range:
16th century-19th century
Extent:

1 volume (418 folios)

5. Add MS 41301

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Title:
The New Testament, translated into Lithuanian by Samuel Boguslav Chylinski.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-3, 218-225: Notes in Lithuanian, Polish, Latin, Hebrew and Frisian. ff. 4r-217v: The New Testament, an autograph copy of the Lithuanian translation, by Samuel Bogusla Chylinski. Part of the 'Chylinski Bible' or 'London Bible'. The title of the work in Latin on f. 2r: 'Version...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin, Lithuanian, and Polish
Date Range:
1658
Extent:

A paper codex, 225 folios

6. Add MS 41803-41846

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Title:
MIDDLETON PAPERS, consisting mainly of the official correspondence of Charles Middleton, 2nd Earl of Middleton, Secretary of State from 1684 till the flight of James II, with a few earlier papers of previous Secretaries of State, 1660-Nov. 1688 and n.d.
Scope & Content:
Cf. Brit. Mus. Quart., iv, 1929-1930, pp. 80-82. A number of letters are addressed to his secretary, Dr Owen Wynne (see above), whose family inherited the papers and added the later, mostly 18th cent., collections, Add. MSS. 41843-41845. The final volume (Add. MS. 41846) consists of the papers o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish
Date Range:
1660-Nov 1688
Extent:
48 items

7. Add MS 45130 A-C

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Add MS 45130 A-C
Title:
MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS, 1539-1894
Scope & Content:
The names of writers, etc., are given in the Index of the present Catalogue. See Brit. Mus. Quart., xii, 1937-1938, pp. 128-129. Three volumes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Flemish, French, German, Latin, Polish, and Russian
Date Range:
1539-1894
Extent:
3 items

8. Add MS 46920-47213

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Title:
EGMONT PAPERS
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers concerning estates and private and official matters of the Perceval family, originally of Weston-in-Gordano, Somerset, but later of co. Cork, Earls of Egmont, Barons Arden, etc., also of the allied family of Southwell, of Kinsale, co. Cork, together with heraldic and ge...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Polish
Date Range:
15th century-1846
Extent:
339 items

9. Add MS 48700-48716

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Add MS 48700-48716
Title:
WOIDE PAPERS. Correspondence and papers of Charles Godfrey Woide (b. 1725, d. 1790), orientalist and biblical scholar, Assistant Librarian in the British Museum from 1782 until his death. For information about Woide's life and career see the Dictionary of Nationa1 Biography, lxii, pp. 289-290; Brit. Mus. Quart., xx, 1955, pp. 32-33; and, in this collection, Add. 48710, ff. 1-40b. Other Woide papers are in Add. MS. 43497 and Eg. MS. 3769. The names of the writers of letters are given in the I...
Scope & Content:
Charles Godfrey Woide, biblical scholar: Correspondence, diaries and papers: 1714-1790.: Partly Lat., Fr., Germ., Dutch and Polish.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Latin, and Polish
Date Range:
[1714-1790]
Extent:
17 items

10. Add MS 59672-59676

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Add MS 59672-59676
Title:
VLADIMIR SERGEIVICH PECHERIN: letters and papers relating to V. S. Pecherin; 19th-20th cent. Purchased in 1976. Paper. Five volumes. British Library arrangement(?).
Scope & Content:
Vladimir Sergeivich Pecherin: Letters and papers rel. to Vladimir Sergeivich Pecherin: 19th-20th centt: Russ., Fr., Lat., Engl., and Gaelic: Partly typewritten and photogr. copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Gaelic, Latin, Polish, and Russian
Date Range:
19th century-20th century
Extent:
5 items