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Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3783 A-B
Title:: GRAILY HEWITT: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám; 1935
Scope & Content:: Calligraphically written in gold and blue as an exercise to test different recipes of gilding ground. The blue script serves as a guide to the intended appearance (weight etc.) of the chrysography. Attached, by a blue silk cord, is a small companion note-book containing the recipes used on each ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1935
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3783 B
Title:
Scope & Content:: GRAILY HEWITT. Vol. II. Note-book with recipes. Paper; ff. 21. 90 x 55mm. 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: 1935.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1935
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3784
Title:
Scope & Content:: WODHULL CATALOGUES. Vol. I. 'An Alphabetical Catalogue of the Thenford Library'; n.d., but apparently dating from sometime towards the end of Wodhull's life. Locations are given for each book; a key for the location marks is given on f. i. Paper; ff. . 320 x 200mm. Contemporary vellum binding.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1817
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3784-3785
Title:: WODHULL CATALOGUES: catalogues of the library of Michael Wodhull, book collector and translator (b.1740, d.1816); 1817, n.d. Partly Latin Ownership inscriptions of William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg of Hinton Blewitt, 29 Sept. 1958: Eg. 3784, f. ; Eg. 3785, f. . Purchased from Peter Murray Hill (Rare Books) Ltd., 9 March 1971.
Scope & Content:: Catalogues of Libraries, etc: Michael Wodhull, translator of Euripides: Thenford, Northamptonshire: Catalogues of library of Michael Wodhull at Thenford: 1817, n.d.: Lat. and Eng.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1817
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3785
Title:
Scope & Content:: WODHULL CATALOGUES. Vol. II. 'A Catalogue of the Library that late belonged to Michael Wodhull Esqre of Thenford in Northamptonshire written out with much haste, and many errors, by John and William Russell [John Russell, Master of Charterhouse School; William Russell, his brother, fellow and af...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1817
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3786
Title:: SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT: 'King Priam', opera in 3 acts; 1961. Full score. Autograph. Various inks, with some pencil annotations. Dedicated 'To Karl Hawker' (f. 1). For sketches see Add. 72026 ff. 29v, 32v-33, 34v, for libretti see Add. 72036-72039 and for the composer's arrangement of the third interlude from Act III see Add. 72030. Full score published Schott, 1963. Formerly Loan 59. Purchased from Karl Hawker, Esq, 11 Nov. 1971. ff. 123. 360 x 270mm. In a quarter leather binding with gold le...
Scope & Content:: Sir Michael Kemp Tippett, OM; CH; composer: Karl Hawker, painter and friend of Sir Michael Tippett: 'King Priam', opera in 3 acts words and music by Sir Michael Kemp Tippett, dedicated 'To Karl Hawker': 1961: autogr.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1961
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3787
Title:: JOHN, 2ND BARON HERVEY: 'Agrippina, a Tragedy', etc.; circa 1709-1744. Copies. Hervey's unpublished play forms the main text in a notebook of miscellaneous material that is transcribed in a single unidentified hand. Armorial bookplate (f. ii), after 1756, of the Earl of Ilchester inside front cover, on paste-down (f. i) which also carries letter 'A' jotted in modern pencil in bottom left-hand corner. Purchased, through the Farnborough Fund, from Richard Hatchwell of Chippenham, co. Wilts, 16...
Scope & Content:: includes: ff. 4-8 Thomas Burnet, DD; prebend of Sarum: Meditations addressed to Lady Hertford on the death of her son Viscount Beauchamp: 1744: Copy.ff. 4-8v George Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp: Frances Seymour, wife of Algernon, 7th Duke of Somerset: Thomas Burnet, DD; prebend of Sarum: Cor...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1704-1744
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3788
Title:: LIBER PACIS FOR 1590: list, produced in the Crown Office, of commissioners of the peace in order of precedence for every county in England and Wales (excepting Lancashire); 1590. This is apparently the only extant Liber Pacis for 1590, and provides the only complete record of which people served as justices of the peace during that year. There are notations indicating members of the quorum, the custodes rotulorum and sheriffs for the year. At the end (f. 49) is a list of the judicial circuit...
Scope & Content:: Law OF ENGLAND: Elizabeth I of England: Crown Office: Liber Pacis: 1590: Lat. and Eng.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1590
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3789
Title:
Scope & Content:: WREST PARK MS. 15. Genealogical collections, extracts from records, chronicles, cartularies, etc., illustrated with coats of arms and drawings of seals, in the autograph of Robert Glover, Somerset Herald; 1577. Partly Latin. Burghley sale, Heraldry no. 7; C.M.A., no. 31; H.M.C., no. 15. Paper;...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1577
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3789-3795
Title:: WREST PARK MANUSCRIPTS: miscellaneous manuscripts, chiefly genealogical and heraldic, from the manuscript collections of the Grey and Lucas families formerly preserved at Wrest Park, co. Bedf., which were calendared in the 2nd Report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission (1870), Appendix, pp. 4-9. The majority of the Wrest Park MSS. were acquired from the collections of William Cecil, Lord Burghley (sale-catalogue, 21 Nov. 1687, Heraldry section, pp. 91-92: Department of Printed Books pre...
Scope & Content:: Wrest Park, Bedfordshire: Manuscripts from the library at: 17th cent.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: [1500-1799]
Extent:: 7 items

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