Archive Reference (shelfmark): Add MS 45442-45496 / Name: Frazer, James George, OM, anthropologist / Digitised Content: No - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 45442
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Scope & Content:: Vol. I (A). ff. v + 83. includes: f. i Sir James George Frazer, OM; anthropologist: Preface (?) to 'The Golden Bough' (3rd ed.): circ. 1911-1915.: Imperf. draft. ff. 63b, 64 Sir James George Frazer, OM; anthropologist: Anthropological articles: 1885-1890.: Mostly drafts.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1885-c 1930
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 45442-45496
Title:: FRAZER NOTE-BOOKS 45442-45496. NOTE-BOOKS OF JAMES GEORGE FRAZER (knt. 1914; F.R.S. 1920; O.M. 1925), anthropologist, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, d. 1941. They are described by Frazer in T. Besterman, A Bibliography of Sir James George Frazer O.M., 1934, pp. xix-xxi; see also R. A. Downie, James George Frazer: The Portrait of a Scholar, 1940, pp. 100-103. Frazer's short reference for each note-book is given in round brackets. Paper. Fifty-five volumes. Quarto. Circ. 1885-circ. 193...
Scope & Content:: Commonplace Books: Sir J. G. Frazer: circ. 1885-1930. Manners and Customs: Anthropological note-books of Sir J. G. Frazer: circ. 1885-circ. 1930. Sir James George Frazer, OM; anthropologist: Note-books: circ. 1885-1930.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1885-c 1930
Extent:: 55 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 45484
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Scope & Content:: Vol. XLIII (Pythagoras). (ff. i + 54). The symbols of Pythagoras and analogous customs. At. ff. 52b-54 is probably a draft of part of 'Some popular superstitions of the ancients', Folk-Lore, i (1890), pp. 145-171. includes: ff. 52b-54 Sir James George Frazer, OM; anthropologist: Anthropologica...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1885-c 1930
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 45487
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Scope & Content:: Vol. XLVI (F). (ff. ii + 68). Customs connected with fire, etc. (ff. 2-1O passim, 26); man-woman simulation, including couvade, and blood-covenant (ff. 27-44); the death of the god and scapegoat customs (ff. 49-51, 54-58b); birth customs (ff. 52-53). At ff. 5b-12 passim are drafts, etc., of 'The...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1885-c 1930
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 45488
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Scope & Content:: Vol. XLVII (N). (ff. ii + 62). Burial and mourning customs. At ff. 4-12 are drafts, etc., of 'On certain burial customs as illustrative of the primitive theory of the soul', The Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xv (1885), pp. 64-1O1 ; and at f. 62b is a list of chapter-titles headed 'Th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1885-c 1930
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 45496
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Scope & Content:: Vol. LV (LON). (ff. 122). Flood legends (ff. 2-10b). The volume also contains notes for additions to the proofs, and drafts of the preface and dedication, of Folk-Lore in the Old Testament, 3 vols., 1918, including (ff. 28, 64) the dedication used for Sir Roger de Coverley and other Literary Pie...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1885-c 1930
Extent:: 1 item

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