'Sir Henry Tunstall': a poem by Patrick Branwell Brontë; 1838. Autograph fair copy, with revisions, written in minute characters on both sides of six octavo leaves of ruled cream wove paper. No watermark. The poem is dated at the beginning 'Bradford July 31st 1838'. First published in A. H. Japp...
The History of ''Angria'': fragments by Patrick Branwell Brontë
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Part of ''Angria and the Angrians'', Branwell Brontë’s history of Angria (the fictional land he created with Charlotte Brontë), written between1834 and 1839. Autograph fair copy with revisions and deletions, written in minute characters in imitation of print on both sides of eighteen octavo leav...
'My Mouse': a poem by Christina Rossetti; New Year's day, 1877. Autograph fair copy, written on one side only of an octavo leaf of cream laid paper. Watermark 'Joyn[ ] / Super[ ]. Signed with initials 'C. G. R.', and dated. First printed in New Poems, 1896, p. 178. Ashley Library Catalogue, ix, ...
Eleven Valentines written by Christina Rossetti to her mother; 1876-1886. Autograph fair copies written on one side only of eleven octavo leaves of various cream and grey laid papers (ff. 20 and 21 are wove paper). With the exception of ff. 2 and 3 all the leaves form bifolia with another leaf o...
''The History Of The Young Men From Their First Settlement To The Present Time'': a volume contributed by Patrick Branwell Brontë to the imaginary history written between 1829 and 1839 principally by Branwell and Charlotte Brontë; 1830-1831. Autograph fair copy, with revisions and deletions, wri...
'The Wool is Rising. or, The Angrian Adventurer': a volume contributed by Patrick Branwell Brontë to the imaginary history written between 1829 and 1839 principally by Branwell and Charlotte Brontë; 1834. Autograph fair copy, with revisions and deletions, written on both sides of eleven octavo l...
Letter from Mary Shelley to Claire Clairmont, chiefly describing an excursion to Lucca to hear an improvisation given by Tommaso Sgricci in the theatre there; [14] Jan. 1821. Printed, with many inaccuracies in the Italian part of the text, in F. L. Jones, The Letters of Mary W. Shelley, vol. i, ...
Two Letters from Mary Shelley to Jane Hogg, formerly Williams, the earlier (ff. 1-2b) chiefly concerning Mary's discovery that Jane had been spreading scandalous rumours about her, the later chiefly concerned with a request that Jane would see to the removal of Mary's furniture from the house of...
Letters (6) from Mary Shelley to Claire Clairmont; 27 Oct. [1844], 7 [July 1845], [12 Oct. 1845], [12 Dec. 1845], 30 Aug. [1846], [15 Dec. 1848]. The letters concern, among other matters, the troubles she had on her son Percy inheriting the baronetcy and the Field Place estate, the recovery by A...
al-Tuḥfah al-jāmiʿah li-mufradāt al-ṭibb al-nāfiʿah التحفة الجاميعة لمفردات الطب النافعة ‘Āmirī, Yaḥyā ibn Abī Bakr عامري، يحيى ابن أبي بكر
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Treatise on medicine by Yaḥyā ibn Abī Bakr ibn Yaḥyá al-ʿĀmirī (يحيى ابن أبي بكر بن يحيى العامري, d. 893/1488). Contrary to what is suggested by the title, the treatise deals not only with materia medica (covered in the introduction), but also with diagnosis and therapy. On the title page (f. 1...