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Name Dawson, Warren Royal, Egyptologist and librarian, 1888-1968

1. Add MS 43381

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PSALTER AND COLLECTAR, in Latin, written apparently (see art. 3 below) for the Franciscan convent of the Holy Spirit at Reggio di Emilia in Italy (not Reggio del Canino, as suggested in Brit. Mus. Quart., vii, 1932- 1933, P. 132), for whose foundation in 1438 see L. Wadding, Annales Minorum, 3rd ed., xi, 1932, p. 58. Contents:- (1) Psalter. Lacks three leaves, of which the stubs are numbered as ff. 40, 41 and 46, containing part of Ps. cxviii and Ps. cxxxix (end)-cxliv (beginning). ff. 2-4...
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Reggio nell'Emilia, Italy: Psalter, written for the Franciscan convent of the Holy Spirit at: late 15th cent.: Lat. Orders Religious. Franciscans: Psalter, etc., written for the convent of the Holy Spirit at Reggio (Emilia): late 15th cent.: Lat. Liturgies LATIN: Psalter, etc., written for the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 43688 M

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M. Three drafts of letters from Thomas Astle, antiquary, as Receiver- General of the Sixpence in the Pound; 27 Oct., 7 Nov. 1798, 4 Nov. 1799. The first two are addressed to Francis Freeling, Secretary of the Post Office (1st Bart. 1828); the third to George Rose, Secretary to the Treasury. ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1798-1799
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 43770

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MELVILLE PAPERS (4th ser.), consisting of letters and papers partly addressed to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville 1802, Secretary of State for War 1794-1801, etc.; 1793-1817, n.d. For other Melville papers see Add. MSS. 40100-40102, 41079-41085 and 41345. The contents relate chiefly to matters of defence, and include plans for repelling invasion by land and sea, offers to raise troops, and proposals concerning the Militia. The names of writers of letters are given in the Index to this Cat...
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includes: ff. 1, 7, 9 Sir George Yonge, 5th Baronet: Circular letters to Colonels and agents of regiments: 1793.: Copies.ff. 3-174 passim Army; England: Miscellaneous papers rel. to: circ. 1793-1817, n.d.ff. 13-17 Colonel Paris, French émigré: Proposal for raising a French Corps in Englan...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1793-1817
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 43837

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CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS OF SIR JOSEPH BANKS, Bart., P.R.S., mainly relating to his estate at Revesby, co. Lincoln, and the surrounding district; 16 Apr. 1790-10 Oct. 1812, n.d. Some copies and autogr. drafts of letters from him are included. Names of writers are given in the index to this Catalogue. Other Banks papers relating to the estate are in Yale University Library. The correspondence is calendared in The Banks Papers, ed. W. R. Dawson, 1958. Paper; ff. i + 88. Folio. 1790-1812. Pres...
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Sir Joseph Banks, Baronet; PRS: Correspondence and papers rel. to his Lincolnshire estate,: 1790-1812, n.d. Revesby, Lincolnshire: Correspondence and papers of Sir J. Banks conc. his estate at: 1790-1812, n.d. includes: ff. 1-6 William Pennell, attorney, of Horncastle, county Lincolnshire: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Apr 1790-10 Oct 1812
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 45226

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LETTERS AND AUTOGRAPHS (22), chiefly of minor Victorian artists; 1829-1867. Largely (perhaps entirely) collected by Augustus Keily, manager of the Exeter branch of the Devon and Cornwall Banking Co., circ. 1874- 1886. Most are addressed to Henry Sanford Bicknell, whose collection of paintings was sold at Christie's 7-8 Apr. 1881 and whose father, Elhanan Bicknell, was a friend of Keily's (two letters written by him to Keily are included in the present collection). Arranged alphabetically. Na...
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Henry Sanford Bicknell, art collector: Letters to: 1834-1867. includes: ff. 1-2 Elhanan Bicknell, patron of art: Letters to A. Keily: 1856-1860.f. 3 Abraham Cooper, RA: Letter to the Master and Fellows of Dulwich College: 1829.f. 4 Edmund Cotterill, sculptor: Letter to H. S. Bicknell: 18...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1829-1867
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 45265-45268

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BRACEBRIDGE PAPERS. Journal and commonplace books of Charles Holte Bracebridge, J.P., of Atherstone Hall, co. Warw. (b. 1799, d. 1872), on whom see C. Woodham-Smith, Florence Nightingale, 1950, passim. Paper. Four volumes. Oblong quarto. XIX cent. (watermark 1794 in each volume). Contemporary calf bindings. Hodgson's sale-cat, 31 Oct. 1935, lot 558. Bookplates of the donor in each volume. Presented by Warren R. Dawson, Esq., O.B.E., F.S.A.
Scope & Content:
Charles Holte Bracebridge, of Atherstone Hall; writer: Journal and commonplace books: 1818-1823.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
4 items

7. Add MS 45498

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MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS, viz.:- A. Certificate of election as Tribuno Superiore in the Legione Calabro- Meridionale of the Falange Sacra issued to citizen Eugenio Panizza; May, 1865. Ital. Signed, and partly written, by Giuseppe Mazzini, the Italian statesman. Endorsed with an instruction by the Comitato Centrale Segreto of the Falange Sacra, Naples. f. 1. Presented by Frank Cantalamessa, Esq., grandson of the recipient. B. Certificate of domicile issued by the municipal officers,...
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includes: f. 1 Italy: Falange Sacra certificate issued by G. Mazzini: 1865.: Ital.f. 1 Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian patriot: Falange Sacra certificate issued by: 1865.: Ital.f. 4 France; Sovereigns of, and transactions in particular reigns. First Republic: Certificate of domicile issued by t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1616-1936
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 45878

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CERTIFICATE OF ARMS, in Spanish, issued by Don Gabriel Ortiz de Cagiguera, King of Arms to Charles IV of Spain and Knight Pensioner of the Order of Charles III, jointly to Don Josef Lucas de Gorvea y Badillo, Fiscal of the Real Audiencia in Lima, and his two brothers, Don Manuel and Don Eusebio de Gorvea y Badillo, resident in Lima; 1792. The certificate was drawn up at the request of the brothers (f. 6) after the issue to them in 1791 of two patents of nobility (f. 3). lt includes descripti...
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Don Gabriel Ortiz de Cagiguera, Spanish King of Arms; Knight Pensioner of the Order of Charles III: Certificate of arms by: 1792.: Span.: Signed. End-papers: Marbled paper; Spanish: 1792. Eusebio de Gorvea y Badillo, of Lima; son of P de Gorvea of Orduña: Certificate of arms: 1792.: Span. Jos...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Spanish
Date Range:
1792
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 46917

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LETTERS OF MAJ.-GEN. THOMAS HARDWICKE, the zoologist; 1804-1828, as follows:- (1) Letters (14) to Sir James Edward Smith, M.D., F.R.S., the botanist; 1 June 1804-12 Jan. 1818. Copies, made from Linnaean Society Smith MS. 22, ff. 129-159b, by the donor of the present volume. See W. R. Dawson, The Smith Papers (Catalogue of the Manuscripts ... of the Linnaean Society ..., part I), 1934, pp. 51-52. ff. 1-31. (2) Letters (13) to, with one rel. to, Sir William Betham, Ulster King of Arms; 20 ...
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includes: ff. 1-31 Major-General Thomas Hardwicke, zoologist: Letters to Sir J. E. Smith: 1807-1818.: Copies. ff.32,36-60b Major-General Thomas Hardwicke, zoologist: Letters to Sir W. Betham: 1825-1828. f.34 Major-General Thomas Hardwicke, zoologist: Letter to E. Fernie: 1826. f. 61 Admiral Wil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1804-1828
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 47458

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MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS, viz:- A. Papers relating to Thomas Grenville, mainly concerning the future of his library and his death and burial; 24 Nov. 1838-31 Dec. 1846. Besides a note from Grenville to his executors and a note of his death and burial, there are two letters from Grenville to his nephew Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges- Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, four to the latter's son Richard Plantagenet, 2nd Duke 1839, a copy of a letter from the 1st Duke...
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includes: ff. 1, 5 Thomas Grenville, bibliophile and statesman: Letters to the 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos: 1838.ff. 3, 7-14 Thomas Grenville, bibliophile and statesman: Letters to the 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos: 1838-1845.f. 4 Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenvill...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1400-1846
Extent:
1 item