Search

Container Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 38178-38181 Level [40] File

1. Add MS 38178

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 38178
Title:
Scope & Content:
Vol. I (ff. i + 203). 1. Urry's transcript of the greater part of the Canterbury Tales. f. 2; 2. Text of the Canterbury Tales, as revised for press; a few passages in Urry's hand, but mostly in that of Ainsworth. Imperf. at beg. and end. f. 63; 3. "Corrections of some faults and annotations upon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 38179

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 38179
Title:
Scope & Content:
Vol. II (ff. i + 61). Transcripts by Ainsworth, annotated here and there by Urry, of the following pieces "out of S. Pepys Esq. Mss of Chaucers fragments" [now Pepys MS. 2006, in Magdalene College, Cambridge, described by H. J. Todd, Illustrations of Gower and Chaucer, 1810, p. 116]: 1. "The Tem...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 38180

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 38180
Title:
Scope & Content:
Vol. III (ff. i + 286). 1. "A copy of Mr. [Thomas] Hearnes letter to Mr. [John] Bagford concerning the poet Chaucer, and the severall editions and copies of his poems"; Oxford, 28 May, 1709. Transcribed at Oxford by George Morgan of Balliol College, 12-15 July, 1720, "from another copy of the Lo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 38181

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 38181
Title:
Scope & Content:
Vol. IV (ff. i + 115). Miscellaneous notes, etc., including: 1. Letter from William Brome to [George Smalridge,] Bishop of Bristol and Dean of Christ Church, concerning the plan of Urry's edition; 1 Aug. 1719. f. 4; 2. Part of an autograph draft of Timothy Thomas's Preface (cf. Harley MS. 6895, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item