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1. Add MS 5141

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Title:
Portrait and Life of Geoffrey Chaucer
Scope & Content:
This manuscript comprises a single leaf, which seems to have once belonged to a larger volume. The recto features a full-length portrait of the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, holding a penner and a rosary, alongside his arms (Party per pale argent and Gules a bend counter-changed), an English daisy,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 10449

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Title:
Stage plots of five Elizabethan plays
Scope & Content:
Stage plots were working documents for the practicalities of theatrical performances, sketching out entrances, and characters and actors in scenes, and with material on properties, stage business and music and noises. They were documents made up as part of the preparation of productions. The plots d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1589-1603
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 42561

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Scope & Content:
Vol. II, ff. 239. James Ingram, DD President of Trinity College, Oxford (1824): Annotations by(?): bef. 1826. includes: ff. 1, 3, 4 George Henry Lee, 4th Earl of Lichfield: Letters to Rev. T. Warton: 1771. f. 2 Jonathan Shipley, Dean of Winchester; Bishop of Llandaff 1769, of St Asaph 1769: Letter t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1742-1826
Extent:
1 item

4. Egerton MS 1787

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Egerton MS 1787
Title:
Deed of mortgage by William Shakespeare
Scope & Content:
Original deed of mortgage by William Shakespeare, of Stratford-on-Avon, gentleman, and others, to Henry Walker, of London, of a dwelling-house in Blackfriars. 11 March, 1612/13. With autograph signature ‘Wm Shakspe’, one of six surviving signatures of William Shakespeare. Includes the signatures of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Mar 1613
Extent:
1 item