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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10449
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 pl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1589-1603
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10546/1
Title:: Detached binding formerly attached to Add MS 10546 (the 'Moutier-Grandval Bible')
Scope & Content:: Add MS 10546/1 is a portion of the former cover, now kept separately, of black velvet with six copper round plaques (repoussé) showing the Crucifixion, the Lamb of God and the symbols of the Evangelists that was made for Henry Speyr-Passavant, a former owner of the manuscript between 1822 and 183...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1822-1836
Extent:: Detached binding of black velvet and six copper plates

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10592
Title:: Vignettes representing manifestations of Buddhist Saints. [Pu ti ye cai hui fo xiang ji]. [菩提葉彩繪佛像集]. Concertina volume with illustrations on leaves of the ficus religiosa, containing vignettes of manifestations of Buddhist saints (or Luohans) and descriptions of the illustrations on the left side of each picture.
Scope & Content:: China: Colored drawings executed in China, on leaves of ficus religiosa, or Bodhi tree. Buddhists: manifestations of Buddhist saints: written in Chinese.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Chinese
Date Range:: before 1911
Extent:: 1 volume (22 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10969
Title:: Scholia on Dionysius Periegietes, Orbis descriptio; Oracula Sibyllina
Scope & Content:: Scholia on Dionysius Periegietes, Orbis descriptio; Oracula Sibyllina
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11252
Title:: Letters of King Charles I to Prince Charles and to the Speaker of the House of Lords, 1646-1648; letters on Scottish politics, 1681-1688; epitaph on Mary Digby (d. 1692); 17th-century cipher keys
Scope & Content:: A miscellaneous collection, including letters between King Charles I and Parliament preliminary to the negotiations at Newport in 1648. A note on the back of f. 15v noted the collection as 'Letters of King Charles I & others'. A not particulary legible note suggests that some of the papers w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cipher and English
Date Range:: 1646-1681
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11292
Title:: PSALTERIUM; Æthiopice. Codex membranaccus, sec. fortassis xiv. Duodecimo. [11,292.]
Scope & Content:: Bible: Psalterium, cum Canticis.: Æthiopice. Æthiopic MSS:.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Geez
Date Range:: c 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11293
Title:: CODEX Armenicus. Membranaceus, sec. fortassis xiv. In Quarto minori. [11,293.]
Scope & Content:: Æthiopic MSS:.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11356
Title:: Works of Phocylides, Pythagoras and Gavrios Hellen
Scope & Content:: Works of Phocylides, Pythagoras and Gavrios Hellen, including: Gnomai monostichoi.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 1566
Extent:: 5 items

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