Archive Reference (shelfmark): Add MS 34874-34887 / Digitised Content: No / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34875
Title:
Scope & Content:: GIBBON PAPERS. Vol. II. "Journal de mon [Edward Gibbon's] voyage dans quelques endroits de la Suisse," at the age of eighteen; 1755. In French. Partly autograph, partly (ff. 18-22) a copy. The first five pages are both in the original and, appended at the end (f. 23), in the copy. The tour laste...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1755
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34876
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Scope & Content:: Journal. Vol. I. (f. 64), 17 Aug. 1762-Mar. 1763, entitled "Ephemerides or Journal of my actions, studies and opinions. Volume the second." The first part, which is in English, is a regular diary of the last few months of Gibbon's militia service, etc., ending 28 Jan. 1763, when he reached Paris...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Aug 1762-Mar 1763
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34877
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Scope & Content:: Journal. Vol. II. (f. 97), 17 Aug.-30 Nov. 1763 (part of his second visit to Lausanne), entitled "Ephemerides ou Journal de ma Vie de mes Etudes et de mes Sentimens, vol. iii." In French. The volume is particularly full of literary and historical notes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17 Aug 1763-30 Nov 1763
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34878
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Scope & Content:: Journal. Vol. III. (ff. 99), 1 Dec. 1763-15 June 1764, completing the period of his stay at Lausanne, and including the first part of his Italian tour. French. Italy: Tour in, by E. Gibbon: 1764.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1 Dec 1763-15 Jun 1764
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34879
Title:
Scope & Content:: Journal. Vol. IV. (ff 83), 15 June-Dec. 1764, containing a further portion of the tour in Italy. The diary, in French as before, continues, with some omissions, to the arrival at Rome, 2 Oct. The notes on Rome, written in December, are in English and arranged by subjects or places. Italy: Tour ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Jun 1764-Dec 1764
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34880
Title:
Scope & Content:: Miscellaneous Works. Vol. I. 1. Early commonplace book, begun at Lausanne, 19 Mar. 1755, and probably all Written before 1758. Chiefly French, but some of the earlier extracts are translated into very defective English. Excerpts are printed in the Misc. Works (ed. 1814), vol. v., pp. 487-522. f....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1755-1758
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34881
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Scope & Content:: Miscellancous Works. Vol. II. Contents:- 1. "Principes des Poids, des Monnayes et des Mesures des Anciens, avec des tables construites sur ces principes unfinished drafts of two treatises (the second including medieval Europe) written in 1759, printed in vol. v. p. 66. At the end are additiona...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1759-c 1770
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34882
Title:
Scope & Content:: Miscellaneous Works. Vol. III. Contents:- 1. "Remarques critiques sur un passage de Plaute," see above, 34,880, art. 2 c; another copy, not autograph. Fr. f. 1. 2. Letter to -, on the Government of Berne, probably circ. 1758 (printed, vol. ii. p. 1). Fr. f. 4. 3. "Doutes Historiques sur la...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34884
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Scope & Content:: Vol. II. (ff. 329), 1775-17 Sept. 1783 (when Gibbon left England for Lausanne).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1775-1783
Extent:: 1 item

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