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Name Madden, Frederic, Knight, Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum, 1801-1873

41. Add MS 62001-62078

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Records of the Department of Manuscripts of the British Museum kept by Sir Frederic Madden, Keeper of Manuscripts; 1837-1866. Mostly autograph. For a copy of his personal diary, 1819-1873, now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, with other personal papers, see Facs. *1012 (1-44). Incorporated from Departmental archives, 1981. Paper. Seventy-eight volumes.
Scope & Content:
British Museum: Sir Frederic Madden, KH; Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum: Diaries, reports, handlists, etc., rel. to Department of Manuscripts by Sir Frederic Madden: 1837-1866.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1837-1866
Extent:
78 items

42. Add MS 62122

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Title:
St Jerome, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew; Commentary on the Book of Daniel
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This is one of the few manuscripts to survive from the Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary and Saint Rumon at Tavistock (Devon). This manuscript was produced in the 12th century, and contains biblical commentaries by the Church father St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), whose writings were central to the st...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 12th century
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A parchment codex

43. Add MS 62572-62578

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Title:
COTTON LIBRARY PAPERS: materials of Sir Frederic Madden, Keeper of Manuscripts 1837-1866, relative to his restoration of the manuscripts forming the Cotton Library after their damage by fire at Ashburnham House in 1731; 1837-1866. Partly printed. Incorporated from the Departmental library and archives, 1983. Paper. Seven volumes.
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Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet; antiquary: British Museum: Catalogues of Libraries, etc: Sir Frederic Madden, KH; Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum: Notes and schedules rel. to restoration of Cotton MSS by Sir Frederic Madden: 1837-1866: Partly printed.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1837-1866
Extent:
7 items

44. Add MS 63652

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MADDEN-NICHOLS PAPERS: correspondence and papers, principally of Sir Frederic Madden, K.H., Keeper of Manuscripts in the British Museum, and John Bowyer Nichols, F.S.A.; 1773-1856, n.d. Partly copies and printed. Purchased at Sotheby's, 1 Nov. 1983, lot 287 (part). Paper; ff. 331. British Library arrangement. Bound in two volumes, ff. 1-167 and 168-331. The principal contents are as follows: 1. ff. 1-167v. Correspondence and papers of Sir Frederic Madden, K.H., and Sir Frederick Gustav...
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includes: ff. 1-167v passim England; Royal Household: Papers of Sir F. Madden and Sir F. G. Fowke rel. to privileges of Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber: [1818?]-1841, n.d: Partly printed.f. 6 Francis Seymour-Conway, 2nd Marquess of Hertford; afterwards Ingram-Seymour-Conway: Sir Frederick Gu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1773-1856
Extent:
1 item

45. Add MS 70850

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MCCRIMMON COLLECTION. Vol. XII (ff. 160). Correspondence relating to the Departments of Printed Books, Manuscripts and Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts; 1771-1956, n.d. English and French. Contents: 1. ff. 1-96. General correspondence of Keepers and other staff of the Department of Pri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1771-1956
Extent:
1 item

46. Add MS 71174

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Title:
SIR FREDERIC MADDEN: draft article 'Remarks on the Anglo-Saxon Charters granted to the Abbey of St Denis', published in Archaeological Journal, xiii (1856), pp. 355-371. Presented by the Society of Antiquaries of London, June 1993.
Scope & Content:
Abbey of St Denis: Sir Frederic Madden, KH; Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum: Article, 'Remarks on the Anglo-Saxon Charters granted to the Abbey of St Denis' by Sir Frederic Madden: circa 1856: Draft.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1856
Extent:
1 item

47. Add MS 71512

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SIR FREDERIC MADDEN: miscellaneous notes and memoranda of Sir Frederic Madden, Keeper of Manuscripts relating to the period 1777-1857; circa 1827-1857, n.d. Supplementing Add. 62001-62078. Incorporated from the Departmental Archives, May 1993. Paper; ff. 42. British Library arrangement.
Scope & Content:
Sir Frederic Madden, KH; Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum: Notes and memoranda of Sir Frederic Madden: circa 1827-1857, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1827-1857
Extent:
1 item

48. Add MS 73524 A-HH

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Title:
Miscellaneous Letters and Papers. Paper and vellum; ff. 166. British Library arrangement.
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includes: ff. 1-18 West Inches: British America, and United States: Thomas Irving, Inspector General of Imports and Exports: Report on illegal trade in the West Indies, especially with the United States: 1787?: Xerox copy.f. 19 Lieutenant-General Sir Charles William Maxwell, governor of Sie...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1560-1979]
Extent:
34 items

49. Add MS 74734 B

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B. Offprint relating to the seals of the see and city of Glasgow, from part of the appendix to John Smith (ed.), Burgh Records of Glasgow, 1573-1581 (Glasgow, 1832), with annotations in the hand of Sir Frederick Madden. This offprint was found with Detached Seal XXXV. 95, a cast of the seal of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1832
Extent:
1 item

50. Add MS 78754

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Title:
Francis Grose. ‘A Provincial Glossary; with a collection of local proverbs and popular superstitions’; 1790. Interleaved and annotated by Sir Frederic Madden. Bound-in an interleaved copy of ‘A Supplement to the Provincial Glossary of Francis Grose’ by Samuel Pegge (b. 1733, d. 1800). With a letter of 16 October 1895 from Clara Strachan to Prof. [Joseph] Wright concerning her work on his slips relating to Grose’s and Pegge’s Provincial Glossary of 1895. Purchased at Sotheby’s, lot 77, 1...
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Samuel Pegge, d 1800 antiquary: 'A Supplement to the Provincial Glossary of Francis Grose': 1814. Joseph Wright, Professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford: Clara Strachan, of Reading, county Berkshire: Letter to Joseph Wright from Clara Strachan: 1895. Dictionaries: Sir Frederic Madden, KH;...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1790
Extent:
1 item