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451. Add MS 57490

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DOCUMENTS CONDEMNING AS FORGERIES THE LEAD BOOKS OF GRANADA: collection of the earliest condemnations of these forgeries, which purported to relate to the early history of Christianity in Spain, with notes in their defence by Adam Centurian, Marques of Estepa; 17th cent. Spanish. For the history of the forgeries, see T. D. Kendrick, St James in Spain (1960). Owned by Sir Thomas D. Kendrick, K.C.B., F.B.A., F.S.A., (bookplate f. i, signature f. iv) and used by him in his studies (see his type...
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Church History: Spain, General: Adam Centurian, Marques of Estepa: Lead Books of Granada: Christianity: Documents condemning as forgeries the Lead Books of Granada with comments by Adam Centurian: 17th cent.: Span. includes: f. i Bookplates and Book-stamps: Bookplate of Sir T. D. Kendrick: 2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

452. Add MS 57539-57554

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SUPPLEMENTARY MOORE PAPERS. Correspondence and letter books, etc., of Lt.-Gen. Sir John Moore, K.B. (b. 1761, d. 1809); 1796-1902. The correspondence chiefly relates to his commands of the expedition to Sweden in 1808 and of the British Army in Spain in 1808-1809. Parts of the diaries and correspondence have been printed in Maj.-Gen. Sir John Frederick Maurice (ed.), The Diary of Sir John Moore (1904). Supplementing Add. 57320-57332. Purchased from Ernest A. E. Ovenden, Esq., 17 June 1972. ...
Scope & Content:
Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore, KB: Correspondence and papers of Lt.-Gen. Sir John Moore: 1796-1902: Partly Span. and Fr: Partly copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Spanish
Date Range:
1796-1902
Extent:
16 items

453. Add MS 57636-57722

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R.U.S.I. MAPS
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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

454. Add MS 57804-57837

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SUPPLEMENTARY GRENVILLE PAPERS. Correspondence and papers of George Grenville (b.1712, d.1770), Treasurer of the Navy 1754-1756 and 1757-1762, First Lord of the Admiralty 1762-1763, and First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer 1763-1765, and of his brother Richard Temple-Grenville (b. 1711, d. 1779), Earl Temple 1752, First Lord of the Admiralty 1756-1757 and Lord Privy Seal 1757-1761; 1716-circa 1801, n.d. Supplementing Add. 42083-42088. Purchased from Sotheby's 7 Nov. 197...
Scope & Content:
George Grenville, Prime Minister: Correspondence and papers of George Grenville: 1716-circa 1801, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1716-c 1801
Extent:
35 items

455. Add MS 57916

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Title:
ANTONIO FRANCISCO SUAZO: 'Poesias Sagradas y Espirituales Devo-ciones'; 18th cent. Spanish. Suazo was a native of Cadiz and describes himself (f. 1), among other offices, as Inspector-General of Public Libraries for the Inquisition and Visitor-General of the Archbishopric of Manila. His poems include saetas which are songs sung during Holy Week in Andalusia to the images that pass by in procession. Fair copy, apparently unpublished. Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps, (MS. 18109 on spine and o...
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Hymns: Poetry SPANISH: Christianity: Antonio Francisco Suazo, of Cadiz; Inspector-General of Public Libraries for the Inquisition: `Poesias Sagradas y Espirituales Devociones' by Antonio Francisco Suazo: 18th cent.: Span.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Spanish
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

456. Add MS 58149-58202

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SUPPLEMENTARY LAYARD PAPERS. Correspondence and papers of Sir Austen Henry Layard (b.1817, d.1894), archaeologist, traveller and diplomatist and his family; 1815-1947, n.d. Included are letters and papers of his wife Lady Mary Enid Evelyn Layard (d.1912), of his aunt and uncle, Sara and Benjamin Austen, and of the Guest family, together with a few other letters. Supplementing Add. 38931-39164; 40637; 46153-46170; 50149; 50182. Presented by Gordon Waterfield, Esq., of Tenterden, co. Kent, 23 ...
Scope & Content:
Sir Austen Henry Layard, GCB; diplomatist and archaeologist: Correspondence and papers from Sir Austen Henry Layard: 1815-1947, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, Persian, Spanish, and Turkish
Date Range:
1815-1947
Extent:
54 items

457. Add MS 58447-58770

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Title:
STOPES PAPERS. Correspondence and papers of Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, Ph.D., D.Sc., (b.1880, d.1958), co-founder with her husband, Humphrey Verdon Roe, of the Mother's Clinic for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress; 1880-1959, n.d. See also Add. Ch. 75842, 75843. Further papers supplementing the collection are kept in the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London. A few items printed in R. Hall, Marie Stopes, a biog...
Scope & Content:
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, pioneer of birth control: Correspondence and papers of Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes: 1880-1959, n.d: Partly signed, copies, drafts and printed.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Afrikaans, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, and Swedish
Date Range:
1880-1959
Extent:
325 items

458. Add MS 58849

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SERMONS, ETC., BY DON AMARO (EL LOCO): sermons delivered in Seville during the second half of the 17th cent. by Don José Amaro Sánchez ('El Loco'), an insane popular preacher, calligraphically copied by Francisco Xavier de Santiago Palomares, author of Arte Nueva de Escribio (1776), and member of the Royal Basque Society; 1747 (colophon, f. 124). Contains a pen and ink portrait of Don Amaro by Palomares (f. 2) and copies of other miscellaneous Spanish sermons, ecclesiastical certificates and...
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Calligraphy: Sermons: Francisco Xavier de Santiago Palomares, calligrapher: Don José Amaro Sánchez, insane popular preacher, of Seville: Sermons by Don José Amaro Sánchez, calligraphically copied by Francisco Xavier de Santiago Palomares: 1747: Span. includes: f. 2 Art. Portraits: Francisco ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Spanish
Date Range:
1747
Extent:
1 item

459. Add MS 59655

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MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS, many addressed to General Sir Frederick Stovin, K.C.M.G., and his wife; late 18th cent. - early 19th cent. The autographs include those of Longfellow, Wellington, Admiral Sir Charles Napier, Lord Cardigan, Sir Herbert Taylor, Lord Gambier, Lord Gough, Lajos Kossuth, Bolivar, Capo d'Istrias, Barthelemy, Thomas Arnold, Archbishop A. C. Tait, Archbishop R. Whately and other church dignitaries. The addressees also include Sir Thomas Wilson, Bunsen, Fonblanque and Mrs Heman...
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includes: f. 2 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet: Letter to C. F. S. from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: 1830.f. 5 General Sir Edward Paget, GCB; 4th son of Henry, 1st Earl of Uxbridge: Letter to — from Gen. Sir Edward Paget: 1810.f. 7 Frances Nelson, Viscountess Nelson: Letter from Commander de Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, Greek, Modern, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
Late 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
1 item

460. Add MS 59846

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MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS. Paper and vellum; ff. 225. British Library arrangement. A. Examination of Philip Wake before Sir Salathiel Lovell, Recorder of London, relating to the setting fire to the house of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., in Bloomsbury Square; 27 April 1700. Purchased of Alan G. Thomas, Jan. 1977. f. 1. 300 x 185mm. B. Letter of Ethel Rowe afterwards Holloway (b.1866, d.1927) to her brother John Christopher Rowe, entitled 'Jottings from Kimberley Delivered'; 27 Feb. 1...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 1 Sir Salathiel Lovell, Recorder of London: Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet: Examination of Philip Wake signed by Sir Salathiel Lovell rel. to Sir Hans Sloane: 1700.f. 2 Ethel Rowe, afterwards Holloway; of Kimberley, South Africa: John Christopher Rowe: Letter to her brother from Ethe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1360-1977
Extent:
1 item

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