BRIDGEWATER AUTOGRAPHS. Vols. I-XVI (ff. ii+ 140, ii + 147, ii + 140, iii + 147, ii + 148, ii + 144, ii + 146, ii + 144, ii + 142, ii + 142, ii + 139, i + 148, i + 145, ii+ 139, i + 136, i + 140). Fair copy of an index in various hands, accompanied by notes on the persons named, written 1813- 1814, in French, with some obsersvations and corrections, mostly in English, added down to circ. 1824 by Lord Bridgewater himself, and after the receipt of the MSS. in the British Museum by John Holmes,...
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Casimir Noel, notary, of Paris: Indices of Bridgewater Autographs arranged by: 1829.
BRIDGEWATER AUTOGRAPHS: indices to most of the original sixty-seven volumes of the collection of Egerton manuscripts bequeathed to the British Museum by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (d. 1829), compiled circ. 1811-1824. Each index or set of indices is alphabeticallv arranged, but does not refer to any manuscript by number. A signed memorandum in the hand of Lord Bridgewater bequeathing his manuscripts to the library of Ashridge House appears at the beginning of most of the v...
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British Museum: Original index of Egerton MSS.: circ. 1811-1824. John Holmes, Assistant Keeper at the British Museum: Corrections, etc., by, in index volumes to Bridgewater autographs: aft. 1830. Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater: Indices to his MSS., with autogr. notes: circ. 181...