POCKET DIARY OF THOMAS EDWARD LAWRENCE, afterwards Shaw, known as 'Lawrence of Arabia', printed, with autograph entries in pencil, briefly recording his movements in Arabia and Egypt; 1 Jan.-8 Oct. 1918
The Psalms of David, translated into English verse by Sir Philip Sidney and Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
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Collection of Psalms, translated into English verse by Sir Philip Sidney, author and courtier (1554-1586), and his sister Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, writer and literary patron (1561-1621). Volume VII of the Harington Papers (Add MS 46366-46384). Previously owned by Sir John Har...
This Bible in Latin ('Bible of Antipope Clement VII') is large and lavishly illuminated and was likely produced in Naples c. 1330. The manuscript apparently later belonged to the Antipope Clement VII (Robert of Geneva), elected 1378, d. 1394; his coat of arms appears 28 times within the manuscri...
Psalter and Canticles (Rahlfs 1062), with parallel Latin text
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Psalms and Canticles (Rahlfs 1062), followed by the Athanasian Creed, with parallel Latin text throughout. The manuscript includes several additions, corrections and annotations by the Paduan grammarian Pietro da Montagnana: f. 1v: An excerpt from Nicholas of Lyra, title: 'Nicolaus de Lyra de ...
Pseudo-Aristotle, Secretum Secretorum, translated by Philip of Tripoli (Philippus Tripolitanus)
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The manuscript includes a pseudo-Aristotelian Arabic treatise, known as the Secretum Secretorum, in the Latin translation by Philip of Tripoli, imperfect. The manuscripts was intended by Walter of Milemete (fl. 1326-73) as a companion volume to his own work, De nobilitatibus sapientiis et prud...
A biblical picture book with explanatory text of varying length, sometimes in rhyming couplets, in Anglo-Norman French, with some English. The material covers Genesis from Creation to Noah (ff. 1-9), the Life of Christ from the Annunciation (preceded by genealogies of Mary and Jesus) to the Asce...
MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. VII (ff. 16+v). Symphony no. 40, in F major, for oboes, horns and strings, in score, by Franz Joseph Haydn; 1763. Autograph. With the composer's annotations (f. 1), 'Synfonia', 'ln Nomine Domini', 'Giuseppe Haydn 763' and (f. 15) at the end of the Finale, 'Laus Deo'. 'No...
MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. IX (ff. ii+120). Concerto, op. 61, for violin or piano by Ludwig van Beethoven, in score; bef. Aug. 1808. Copy, with autograph annotations by the composer relating to expression marks, accidentals, etc., in pencil and red crayon. No title-page. One leaf, at least, contai...
MEYERSTEIN BEQUEST. Vol. X (ff. 17). Autograph music by Ludwig van Beethoven:- (1) Fragment (ff. 2-2b), 50 mm. × 295 mm., cut from the top of one leaf, containing miscellaneous sketches. On the recto are three bars in G marked 'Andante molto mote' and four bars in E flat (?) marked 'overtur vi...
Autograph music:- (1) Sketch for the mazurka in C, op. 56, no. 2, by Fryderyk Chopin; circ. 1843. Two leaves (ff. 1-2), 215 mm × 280 mm, formerly one bifolium, the music being written on the first recto. The sketch contains most of the thematic material, written in sections each ending with a ...