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Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3774 B
Title:
Scope & Content:: MARY RUSSELL MITFORD LETTERS. Vol. I B (ff. 142). Typewritten copies.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1844-1854
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3775
Title:: St Augustine, De Consensu Evangelistarum
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains De Consensu Evangelistarum (The Harmony of the Gospels) by St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430). The manuscript was most likely produced at the Benedictine abbey of Westminster, but was certainly owned by the Abbey in the 13th century. It is one of five ma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Hebrew and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3776
Title:: St Jerome, Commentaries on Jeremiah and Ezekiel
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the first six books of St Jerome's (b. 347, d. 420) commentaries on the Book of Jeremiah and the Book of Ezekiel. It was produced in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century at the Benedictine abbey of St Edmund in Bury St Edmunds; it is particularly in this period, during th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3777
Title:: NATHANIEL NOEL MEMORANDUM AND ACCOUNT BOOK; 1715-1729. Autograph. Account and memorandum book of Nathaniel Noel, bookseller, relating to purchases made for the Harleian Library, and also to purchases for Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland (ff. 59-64 rev.). Contains signed annotations by Humfrey Wanley, Harleian Librarian, and by Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford. The MS. is discussed in: G. F. Barwick, 'The formation of the Harleian Library. Further notes', The Library, 3rd Ser. i (1910...
Scope & Content:: Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford: Harleian Library: Account and memorandum book of N. Noel conc. acquisitions to the Harleian Library: 1715-1729. Accounts: Booksellers: Nathaniel Noel, bookseller: Account and memorandum book of Nathaniel Noel: 1715-1729: Autogr. includes: f. i Alfred Willi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1715-1729
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3778
Title:: RITSON SONGS: Joseph Ritson, Ancient Songs from the time of King Henry the Third to the Revolution (London, 1790). Printed. The personal, partially interleaved copy of Sir Frederic Madden, bearing his annotations. Madden has collated a number of the songs with the original manuscripts. Acquired by Madden in Sept. 1825 (f. iii). Subsequently owned by John Charles Sperrin-Johnson, Professor of Botany at University College, Cork (d.1948). Purchased from Falkner, Grierson & Co., Dublin, 16 A...
Scope & Content:: Music: Poetry ENGLISH: Joseph Ritson, antiquary: Printed Matter: 'Ancient Songs. . .', annotated by Sir F. Madden , by Joseph Ritson: 1790: Printed.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3779
Title:: SUPPLEMENTARY HEATH AND VERNEY PAPERS: miscellaneous papers of Sir Robert Heath, Chief Justice (d.1649) and his family, concerning Parliament; 1626-1679. Supplementary to Eg. 2978-3008, acquired in 1917. The items, which were forwarded to the British Museum by the Historical Manuscripts Commission in 1963, were later identified as papers that should have come to the Museum with the main purchase in 1917. Incorporated in 1966. Paper; ff. 30. British Library arrangement. Largest size 350 x 2...
Scope & Content:: Heath family: Papers of: 1626-1679. includes: ff. 1-2v Sir John Eliot, MP: Statement to the Attorney-General: 1626: Signed.ff. 1-8v George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham: Sir Robert Heath, Chief Justice of King's Bench: England; Parliament: Statements from members of Parliament to Sir R....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1626-1679
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3780
Title:: LA FONTAINE FABLE: 'Le loup et le renard. A Monseigneur le duc de bourgogne', by Jean de la Fontaine; 1690 or 1691. Autograph. Signed. One of two fables of this name, beg. 'D'ou vient que personne en la vie'. For a printed text see La Fontaine. Fables Contes et Nouvelles, ed. R. Groos & J. Schiffrin (1954), Bk. XII, Fable 9, pp. 294-295. Purchased from the Trustees of Viscount Astor's Book Settlement from the Bridgewater and Farnborough Funds, 14 Oct. 1967. Paper; ff. i+2. 246 x 185mm.
Scope & Content:: Poetry FRENCH: Jean de La Fontaine, poet: Fable, 'Le loup et le renard' by Jean de La Fontaine: 1690-1691: Autograph. Signed. includes: f. i Jean de La Fontaine, poet: Art. Portraits: Portrait of Jean de La Fontaine: 18th cent: Engr.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1690-1691
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3781
Title:: Cocharelli, Treatise on the Vices and Virtues (fragment)
Scope & Content:: This item comprises a single parchment leaf from the ‘Cocharelli Codex’, of which only 27 leaves and fragments in three different collections survive. The original codex included two richly-illuminated texts, the first on the vices and virtues and the second on historical events during the tim...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1330-1340
Extent:: 1 parchment leaf, kept in an album.

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3782
Title:: LETTERS TO LADY HAMILTON: letters from the Rev. Alexander John Scott, Chaplain of H.M.S. 'Victory', to Lady Hamilton, with one item addressed to her mother; 27 Oct. 1805-19 Feb. 1806. Scott escorted Viscount Nelson's body back to London and the first letter is written from aboard the 'Victory'. All the letters are printed in The Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents formed by Alfred Morrison (Second Series), The Hamilton and Nelson Papers (1893-1894), ii, pp. 270, 272-276....
Scope & Content:: Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson: Letters of the Rev. A. J. Scott chiefly to Lady Hamilton: 1805-1806. Emma Hamilton, wife of Sir W Hamilton: Alexander John Scott, DD; Chaplain on HMS 'Victory': Letters chiefly to Lady Hamilton: 1805-1806.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 27 Oct 1805-19 Feb 1806
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3783 A
Title:
Scope & Content:: GRAILY HEWITT. Vol. I. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Vellum; ff. i+18. 195 x 148mm. Art. Treatises: Calligraphy: Recipes: Omar Khayyám: William Graily Hewitt, scribe: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, calligraphically written, as an exercise in preparing recipes for gilding grounds, by Graily Hewitt: 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1935
Extent:: 1 item

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