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Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 1376
Title:
Scope & Content:: Eleven Valentines written by Christina Rossetti to her mother; 1876-1886. Autograph fair copies written on one side only of eleven octavo leaves of various cream and grey laid papers (ff. 20 and 21 are wove paper). With the exception of ff. 2 and 3 all the leaves form bifolia with another leaf o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1876-1886
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 2468
Title:
Scope & Content:: ''The History Of The Young Men From Their First Settlement To The Present Time'': a volume contributed by Patrick Branwell Brontë to the imaginary history written between 1829 and 1839 principally by Branwell and Charlotte Brontë; 1830-1831. Autograph fair copy, with revisions and deletions, wri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1830-1831
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 2469
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'The Wool is Rising. or, The Angrian Adventurer': a volume contributed by Patrick Branwell Brontë to the imaginary history written between 1829 and 1839 principally by Branwell and Charlotte Brontë; 1834. Autograph fair copy, with revisions and deletions, written on both sides of eleven octavo l...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1834
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 4020
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letter from Mary Shelley to Claire Clairmont, chiefly describing an excursion to Lucca to hear an improvisation given by Tommaso Sgricci in the theatre there; [14] Jan. 1821. Printed, with many inaccuracies in the Italian part of the text, in F. L. Jones, The Letters of Mary W. Shelley, vol. i, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [14] Jan 1821
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 4022
Title:
Scope & Content:: Two Letters from Mary Shelley to Jane Hogg, formerly Williams, the earlier (ff. 1-2b) chiefly concerning Mary's discovery that Jane had been spreading scandalous rumours about her, the later chiefly concerned with a request that Jane would see to the removal of Mary's furniture from the house of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1828-1843
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 5023
Title:
Scope & Content:: Letters (6) from Mary Shelley to Claire Clairmont; 27 Oct. [1844], 7 [July 1845], [12 Oct. 1845], [12 Dec. 1845], 30 Aug. [1846], [15 Dec. 1848]. The letters concern, among other matters, the troubles she had on her son Percy inheriting the baronetcy and the Field Place estate, the recovery by A...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1844-1848
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 17
Title:: Glossed Proverbs, and Glossed Ecclesiastes with prologues
Scope & Content:: This manuscript was most likely written around the mid-12th century in France. It contains the Book of Proverbs and the Book of Ecclesiastes with marginal and interlinear glosses. Contents: ff. 1r-22r: A prologue to the Book of Proverbs (glossed). ff. 22r-74r: The Book of Proverbs (glossed)...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 28
Title:: Glossed Gospel of Mark
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains the Gospel of Mark with interlinear and marginal Gloss. The manuscript’s provenance suggests that it was most likely produced in England. Contents: ff. 1r-111r: The Gospel of Mark with marginal and interlinear gloss. [f. 111v is an empty leaf]. Decora...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 29
Title:: Gospel of Luke with Glossa Ordinaria;St Jerome, Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-110r: Evangelium Secundum Lucam (The Gospel of St Luke), with the Glossa Ordinaria (Ordinary Gloss) in the margins, beginning of the Gospel: 'Quoniam quidem multi conati sunt'; beginning of the Ordinary Gloss: 'Vitulus sacerdotalis est hostia', including an interlinear gloss. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 42
Title:: Ambrosiaster, Commentaria in Epistolas Beati Pauli
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century English manuscript contains the Commentaria in Epistolas Beati Pauli (Commentary on the Pauline Epistles), a 4th-century work that is considered to be an important source for the reception of the Pauline Epistles before St Augustine of Hippo. The Commentaria was written by an u...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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