Container Reference (shelfmark): Stowe MS 981-1015 / Level: [37] SubSeries - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Container Reference (shelfmark) Stowe MS 981-1015 Level [37] SubSeries

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 994-1009
Title:: SPECIMENS of the signatures and handwriting produced (according to the title-page) "by me William Henry Ireland during my fabrication of the manuscripts which I wrote and attributed to Shakespeare," with Ireland's explanatory notes. Paper; ff. 9. XVIIIth-XIXth cent. Quarto. Accompanying this volume are sixteen printed tracts, containing Ireland's forged signatures and marginal notes of Shakespeare, most of them having on the titlepage the inscription "S[amuel] Ireland from his dear Son." The...
Scope & Content:: William Shakespeare: Signatures and marginal notes forged by W. H. Ireland: 18th-19th centt.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century-19th century
Extent:: 16 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 1011-1012
Title:: COMMONPLACE-BOOKS of John Fortescue Aland, Justice of the King's Bench (1727) and of the Common Pleas (1729), cr. Lord Fortescue of Credan in 1746 (ob. 1746), partly legal, partly general, including such subjects as Non-jurors, the doctrine of Resistance, Escheators, Mahomet, Philosophy, etc., the entries for the most part being very brief. Two volumes; with an index of subjects at the end of each. Paper; ff. 116, 45. Belonged to Thomas Astle. Small Quarto.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 2 items

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