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Title:
Majālis an-nafāᵓis - مجالس النفائس
Scope & Content:
This volume contains notices of contemporary poets writing in both Persian and Chagatai compiled by Mir Alisher Navoiy. Mir Alisher Navoiy is considered to be one of the most prolific writers in Chagatai. His contemporary, Babur, who gave an account of him in the Baburname, remarks that, altho...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Chagatai
Date Range:
987
Extent:
1 text, 129 ff

2. Add MS 78753

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CHART OF THE ATLANTIC SEABOARD OF EUROPE. 'A Chart of France & Ireland also Holland & Denmark & Part of ye Mediterranean England, Scotland, Spain, Flanders, also Norway, Sweden Sea [sic]'; circa 1690-1710. Anonymous. Plane chart, formerly in an atlas (ink number 21 on verso), showing western Europe and highlighting sandbanks to east and west of Great Britain and in the Baltic, as though highlighting hazards in sailing from Irish, northern European, and Baltic ports. The style...
Scope & Content:
Maps and Plans: Atlantic Ocean: Mediterranean Sea: The North Sea: Chart of the Atlantic Seaboard of Western Europe, including the North Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the Baltic Sea, and part of the Atlantic Ocean: [1690-1710?].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1690-1710
Extent:
1 item

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Francis Grose. ‘A Provincial Glossary; with a collection of local proverbs and popular superstitions’; 1790. Interleaved and annotated by Sir Frederic Madden. Bound-in an interleaved copy of ‘A Supplement to the Provincial Glossary of Francis Grose’ by Samuel Pegge (b. 1733, d. 1800). With a letter of 16 October 1895 from Clara Strachan to Prof. [Joseph] Wright concerning her work on his slips relating to Grose’s and Pegge’s Provincial Glossary of 1895. Purchased at Sotheby’s, lot 77, 1...
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Samuel Pegge, d 1800 antiquary: 'A Supplement to the Provincial Glossary of Francis Grose': 1814. Joseph Wright, Professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford: Clara Strachan, of Reading, county Berkshire: Letter to Joseph Wright from Clara Strachan: 1895. Dictionaries: Sir Frederic Madden, KH;...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1790
Extent:
1 item

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Title:
ZAITSEV LETTERS
Scope & Content:
.Transcripts of 92 letters and postcards in Russian written by Vladimir Grigor’evich Zaitsev (1892-1964) between 13 September 1943 and 16 March 1948 from Soviet prison camp. Russian. Zaitsev and his family lived in the town of Konotop in the Ukrainian SSR. He was a book-keeper. He served as ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1943-1948
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 78756-78761

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Title:
TED HUGHES CORRESPONDENCE
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and literary manuscripts of Edward (Ted) James Hughes, poet (b. 1930, d.1998) and writer, and Keith Sagar (b. 1934), academic and critic, comprising letters sent to Sagar by Hughes, many enclosing poetic and other literary manuscripts. These manuscripts include poems not present i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1969-1998
Extent:
6 items