Alan Gradon Thomas's notes on medieval manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Includes papers relating to Peter Lombard’s Commentary on the Pauline Epistles, Les Pelerinages de Terre Sainte (Phillipps Ms. 6664), the Penwortham Breviary, and breviaries and books of hours in general.
Historical papers relating to H. G. Commin's bookshop
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to Commin’s bookshop before Alan Thomas’s ownership. Includes correspondence with customers, profit and loss accounts for the final four years of trading before Thomas’s acquisition of the business, and an itemised valuation of the Commin’s stock in 1934 carried out by E. Joseph ...
The 1992 letters chiefly relate to invitations to Alan Thomas’s memorial service. The 1993 letters chiefly relate to the continuation of the business under Shirley Thomas.