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Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9654
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Scope & Content:: POETRY. Manuscript of anonymous risqué poem beginning 'A songe. To Tanton Dean I chore a bere and a brood', possibly of West Country origin. Creation dates: Circa 1650 - 1670
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 11 Mar 2010
Extent:: 1 photocopy

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9655
Title:
Scope & Content:: NEW ZEALAND. Typed Letter Signed from Cyril Newall, later Baron Newall, Governor General of New Zealand, to 'Our Empire' for its New Zealand number in praise of that country's war effort. Creation dates: Sep 1943
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 29 Mar 2010
Extent:: 1 photocopy

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9656
Title:
Scope & Content:: WILDE, Oscar. Autograph Letter Signed to Wilde's assistant editor on 'The Woman's World', Arthur Fish. Sotheby's, LO 9777, 17 Dec 2009, Lot 84. Creation dates: [Aug 1890]
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 31 Mar 2010
Extent:: 2 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9657
Title:
Scope & Content:: GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Autograph Letter Signed to his publisher Georg Joachim Göschen, giving his final instructions for the first publication of 'Faust'. Bonhams, 17807, 23 Mar 2010, Lot 71. Creation dates: Mar 1790
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 12 Apr 2010
Extent:: 2 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9658
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Scope & Content:: DANBY, Francis. Autograph Letter Signed to John S Enys. Bonhams, 17807, 23 Mar 2010, Lot 48. Creation dates: Oct 1860
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 12 Apr 2010
Extent:: 2 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9659
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Scope & Content:: MANNING, Thomas. TIBET. TRAVEL. Manuscript copy, prepared by his daughter, of the chinese scholar Thomas Manning's narrative of his journey in the year 1811 from Calcutta to Lhasa in Tibet. Creation dates: Circa 1835
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 11 Mar 2010
Extent:: Digital images (1 disc)

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9660
Title:
Scope & Content:: HOSKYN, Lieut John, RN. GREECE. SOUTH AMERICA. Manuscript journal, on the ship 'HMS Surprise', surveying the Ionian Islands, and on the ship 'HMS Nassau', surveying the Straits of Magellan and Patagonia, including watercolours, illustrations and maps. Bonhams, Sep 2009. Creation dates: 1865 - ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 11 Mar 2010
Extent:: Digital images (1 disc)

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9661
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Scope & Content:: STANHOPE, Dame Anne (c. 1511-1588). Book of household accounts of Dame Anne Stanhope at her house at Shelford in Nottinghamshire, written by her steward or bailiff William Foster. Creation dates: Mar 1585 - Mar 1586
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 11 Mar 2010
Extent:: 13 photocopies

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9662
Title:
Scope & Content:: HUNDRED YEARS WAR. Diplomatic document of safe-conduct issued by John Croft and William Lyle, councillors, and Nicholas de Ryssheton, doctor in law, as ambassadors of Henry IV, to the emissaries of the Duchess of Burgundy, Countess of Flanders and Artois, enabling them to travel freely in Artois...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 15 Mar 2010
Extent:: 1 colour print

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9663
Title:
Scope & Content:: BOOK OF HOURS. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, being a Book of Hours which includes 13 large miniatures, 4 of which have borders made up of accessory scenes, 4 small miniatures, and 2 historiated initials, use of Paris & Rome. France, Savoy. Creation dates: Circa 1470
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 22 Mar 2010
Extent:: 14 photocopies

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