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Name Cavendish-Bentinck, William Arthur Henry, 7th Duke of Portland, 1893-1977

1. Add Ch 76671-76767

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Add Ch 76671-76767
Title:
PORTLAND CHARTERS: charters acquired with the Portland Papers (Add. MSS. 70001-70523), allocated to the British Library by H.M. Treasury in May 1987, having previously been on deposit in the British Library as Loan MS. 29. The Portland charters contain a significant group of early 12th-13th century charters chiefly associated with Fountains Abbey (Add. Ch. 76710-76718) as well as two important collections of early Scottish charters (Add. Ch. 76696-76709; 76747-76763). For a calendar of Add. ...
Scope & Content:
Portland Papers: Harley family; Earls of Oxford: Papers of the Harley and related families: 9th-mid 19th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
12th century-18th century
Extent:
97 items

2. Add MS 70001

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Title:
Papers of Sir Robert Harley of Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire, 1604-1630
Scope & Content:
This volume is largely composed of the papers of Sir Robert Harley (bap. 1579, d. 1656) of Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire, 1604-1630. However, it opens with a letter to his father Thomas Harley (c. 1543-1631) and with copies of a letter of the divine Samuel Ward (1603). It seems probable that the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1582-1630
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 70001-70523

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Title:
THE PORTLAND PAPERS. Papers of the Harley Family of Brampton Bryan, and of the related families of Vere, Holles, Cavendish and Cavendish-Bentinck; 9th-mid 19th cent. Originally housed at Welbeck Abbey and deposited in the British Museum between 1947 and 1967 by His Grace, the seventh Duke of Portland as 'The Portland Loan' (Loan 29). For a survey of the Portland Archive as a whole, including those sections now in other repositories, see R. J. Olney, 'The Portland Papers', in Archives, XIX, n...
Scope & Content:
Portland Papers: Harley family; Earls of Oxford: Papers of the Harley and related families: 9th-mid 19th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
9th century-Mid 19th century
Extent:
529 items

4. Add MS 70513

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Title:
Collection of metrical saints' lives in Anglo-Norman French ('The Campsey Manuscript')
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the only surviving medieval collection of rhymed saints' lives in Anglo-Norman French. It is known as the 'Campsey Manuscript', after the female Augustinian priory of Campsey, in Suffolk, where it was housed during the 14th century. An added inscription in the manuscript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 70516

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PORTLAND PAPERS. Vol. DXVI (29/333{2}). Collection of fragments; 9th-17th cent. Latin, Greek, Irish, German and Italian. Heraldic bookplate of 6th Duke of Portland, f. i. Vellum and paper; ff. iv+90. A. Fragment of a patristic text relating a story of a pimp and a notary to illustrate the po...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
9th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 70518

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Add MS 70518
Title:
Miscellaneous letters and papers, 1540-1706
Scope & Content:
These letters are calendared in Historical Manuscripts Commission, Portland Manuscripts, II, 5-64. They form part of a section of miscellaneous manuscripts amongst the Portland Papers, which were originally held at Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire. The Portland Papers were deposited at the British...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
1540-1706
Extent:
1 volume