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91. Add MS 38597

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LETTER-BOOK contaning,, drafts of letters, official and private, of Thomas Read [Reid, Ithaedus], Latin Secretary to James I, covering the period 1619-1623 ; with a few common-places. Autograph, except for f. 109. The official correspondence, which forms the bulk of the volume, comprises drafts, chiefly in Latin, of letters from James I to foreign sovereigns, etc., dealing, among other matters, with the sending of English levies to Poland; the Palatinate War and the special embassy of Sir Ed...
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James I of England: State letter of, in letterbook of his Latin Sec., T. Read: 1619-1623.: Drafts. Philip IV of Spain: Letters to, from James I: 1620, 1621.: Lat.: Drafts. includes: f. 1 Christian IV of Denmark: Letter to the Queen Mother, Sophia, from James 1: 1619.: Lat.: Draft. f. 1 b Fred...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1619-1623
Extent:
1 item

92. Add MS 45310

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Add MS 45310
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WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. VOL. XIV (ff. ii + 121). Contents:- (1) Diary, 14 Dec. 1874-31 May 1875, recording briefly Morris's progress in his translation of The Aeneids Of Virgil (first published October 1875; also C.W., vol. xi). ff. 2-13. (2) 'Sigurd the Volsung', from the begin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1874-1875
Extent:
1 item

93. Add MS 45317

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WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. XXI (ff. i + 76). Contents:- (1) 'The Story of Egil' (from the Icelandic, 'Egils Saga Skallagrimssonar'); 13 chapters and part of a 14th, differing slightly from the text of 40 surviving chapters printed in Morris, i, pp. 565-636. ff. 1-18. (2) 'The ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1865-1931]
Extent:
1 item

94. Add MS 45318

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WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. XXII (ff. 96). Contents:- (1) 'The Niebelungennôt', 216 stanzas, being all of the translation from the Middle High German epic that Morris completed (see C.W., vii, p. xxxiii). A few stanzas are quoted in Morris, i, pp. 473-474. A note by May Morris on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1865-1931
Extent:
1 item

95. Add MS 45319 A-C

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Add MS 45319 A-C
Title:
B, C. WILLIAM MORRIS LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. XXIII- XXV. Diaries (in the form of octavo ruled note-books and all written in pencil) kept by Morris on his two visits to Iceland in the summers of 1871 and 1873.
Scope & Content:
Iceland: Diaries of visits to, by W. Morris: 1871, 1873. Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: W. Morris; marginal sketches, etc.: late 19th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1871-1873
Extent:
3 items

96. Add MS 45348

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Vol. XI (ff. 149). 1925-1938, n.d. includes: f. 1 Sir William Hamo Thornycroft, sculptor: Letter to Miss May Morris: 1925.ff. 2, 13 Anna Simons, German calligrapher: Letters to Miss May Morris: 1925, 1927.f. 5 Welbore St Clair Baddeley, of Painswick; author: Letter to Miss M. Morris: 192...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1925-1938
Extent:
1 item

97. Add MS 45712

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Add MS 45712
Title:
ICELANDIC PRINTING 45712. 'CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF ICELANDIC BOOKS presented by Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. Also of the Books printed in Iceland which are preserved in the "King's Library". With a chronological list of Printers in Iceland', by Thomas William Lidderdale, of the Department of Printed Books, compiled circ. 1870. This catalogue deals with the printed portion only of the Icelandic material presented to the British Museum on 3 Dec. 1773 by Sir Joseph Banks (the MSS., viz. Add....
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Catalogues of Libraries, etc: Icelandic printed books in the British Museum: circ. 1870. British Museum: Catalogues of Icelandic printed books: circ. 1870. Thomas William Lidderdale, of the British Museum: Catalogues of Icelandic printed books in the British Museum compiled by: circ. 1870. Ic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

98. Add MS 45713

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Add MS 45713
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CATALOGUE (with press-marks) of forty-eight works printed in Iceland 1756-1867, preserved in the Department of Printed Books, arranged chronologically and compiled by Thomas William Lidderdale of the same Department; circ. 1870. All the items, with the exception of Myndabók, Copenhagen, 1853, were incorporated in Lidderdale's Catalogue of the Books Printed in Iceland from A.D. 1578 to 1880, in the Library of the British Museum, published by the Trustees in 1885. Paper; ff. 22. Octavo. Circ. ...
Scope & Content:
Catalogues of Libraries, etc: Icelandic printed books in the British Museum: circ. 1870. British Museum: Catalogues of Icelandic printed books: circ. 1870. Thomas William Lidderdale, of the British Museum: Catalogues of Icelandic printed books in the British Museum compiled by: circ. 1870. Ic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

99. Add MS 45746

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Add MS 45746
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THE ROBERT STEELE GIFT (Continued) Add. MS. 45746 supplements Add. MSS. 45338-45353, 45407-45412, 52332, 52333, and like them was presented by Robert Steele, Esq., Litt.D., literary executor to Miss May Morris. 45746. WILLIAM MORRIS PAPERS. Vol. XXIII (ff. 242). Correspondence of May Morris and Eiríkr Magnússon, Icelandic scholar, relating to the preparation of The Collected Works of William Morris, vols. vii and viii, 1911. For some other related correspondence, 1910-1911, see also Add. MS...
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Iceland: rel.to W. Morris's and E. Magnússon's translations from Icelandic, 1910-1911. includes: ff. 1-40, 41-54 (copies, by May Morris) Eiríkr Magnússon, Icelandic scholar: Annotations, etc., on W. Morris, 'Journals of Travels in Iceland: 1871, 1873', 1910-1911.ff. 1-54 Voyages and Travel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1871-1911
Extent:
1 item

100. Add MS 48086

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TRANSCRIPTS FROM PUBLIC RECORDS of the 13th-16th centt.; late 16th-early 17th centt. Chiefly Latin. Notes by Beale passim. 1. ff. 3-8. Perambulations of the New Forest and the Forests of Bere, Eversley and Pamber, all co. Southt., and Bagshot, co. Surr.; 1300-1301. Latin. The original document...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item