Search

Name Drury, Henry Joseph Thomas, schoolmaster and scholar, 1778-1841

11. Egerton MS 2974

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2974
Title:
ORIGINAL letters, etc., addressed to the Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin on the publication of his Bibliomania, 1809-1813. Several are published in his Reminiscences (1836). Among the writers, whose names are all given in the Index, are Dr. Philip Bliss. Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges. Edward Copleston [Bishop of Llandaff, 1828]. Isaac D'Israeli. Francis Douce. James Edwards. Sir Henry Ellis, K.H. Thomas Grenville. William Hamper. Joseph Haslewood, F.S.A. Joseph Hunter. John McCreery. Sir Walter Sc...
Scope & Content:
Thomas Frognall Dibdin, DD; bibliographer: Letters to, on his Bibliomania: 1809-1813. includes: f. vi b Art. Portraits: Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin, D.D., etching by Mrs. M. Turner.: 1821: Etching.f. vi b Mary Turner, wife of Dawson Turner: Portrait of Dr. Dibdin etched by: 1821.f. vi b ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1809-1813
Extent:
1 item

12. Egerton MS 2976

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2976
Title:
MACROBIUS, " Commentarii in somnium Scipionis," preceded by the text of the work itself, the heading to which is " Sonnium Publii Scipionis Affricani a Marco Tullio Cycerone descriptum et a Macrobio Ambrosio expositum." Heading to the commentary: " Macrobii Ambrosii Theodosii u.c. et ill. commenta ex Cicero[n]is (sic) in somnivm Scipionis." Glosses and notes both between the lines and in the margins by a contemporary hand, which has corrected the whole text. As corrected the text seems fairl...
Scope & Content:
Macrobius: Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis: circ. 1100. George Dunn, of Woolley Hall, Maidenhead: Bookplate. Marcus Tullius Cicero: Somnium Scipionis, with commentary of Macrobius: circ. 1100. Bookplates: Dunn (George), d. 1912. Bindings ITALIAN: Wooden boards, brown leather, blind-tooled, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1095-1499
Extent:
1 item

13. Egerton MS 3143

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3143
Title:
ST ROBERT OF KNARESBOROUGH: prose and verse material in Latin and English mostly relating to the life and cult of the hermit, Robert Flower (d. 24 Sept. 1218), compiled late 15th cent. For a complete list of contents see The Metrical Life of St Robert of Knaresborough, ed. J. Bazire (Early English Text Society, orig. ser. no. 228, 1953), in which all the English, and much of the Latin, material is printed with introduction, and which includes (in Appendix B) the Latin prose life preserved in...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ENGLISH: Brown calf, by C. Lewis: early 19th cent. Saint Robert, of Knaresborough: Collections rel. to his life and cult: 15th cent.: Lat. and Engl. Poetry TWO OR MORE LANGUAGES: Metrical life of St Robert of Knaresborough: 15th cent.: Lat. and Engl. Charles Lewis, d 1836 bookbinder:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item