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Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 5228

1. Add MS 5228

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Title:
Sketches and notes by Albrecht Dürer
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A volume of sketches and notes by Albrecht Dürer, comprising mainly studies of the human figure and proportions, with some geometric and architectural perspective drawings included at the end (ff. 191v-219v). The two flyleaves at the beginning of the manuscript contain a detailed typewritten t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High
Date Range:
Late 15th century-Early 16th century
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230 paper leaves, mounted on guards

2. Add MS 52280

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TRUMBULL JOURNALS. Vol. II (ff. i+38). 'A Short Acct of my Negotiation att ye Court of Florence 1687' (f. 17) seeking unsuccessfully to arrange a marriage between Queen Mary's brother, Francesco, and the Grand Duke's daughter, Anna. Partly Italian and French. Preceded (ff. 1-16) by autograph cop...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1687
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 52281

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Title:
CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS OF SIR JOSEPH BANKS, Bart., P.R.S, partly in the hand of his sister, Sarah Sophia Banks; 1777-1820. Partly French. Partly printed. The present correspondence was not used by W. R. Dawson for his calendar of The Banks Letters, 1958. For further Banks MSS., see also H. B. Carter, Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820): a guide to biographical and bibliographical sources, Winchester, 1988. Preceded (ff. i-ib) by a contents list, 9, 11 Nov. 1924. Belonged until 1929 to the Knatch...
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Sir Joseph Banks, Baronet; PRS: Correspondence and papers: 1777-1820. includes: f. 1-4b George Stewart, of St James' parish, Westminster: Agreement to assign lease of house in Soho Square to Sir J. Banks, etc.,: 1777: Signed. Partly printed.ff. 1-46 John Lane: Witnessed: 1777.ff. 1-4b Lo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
1777-1820
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 52282

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CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS OF FIELD MARSHAL SIR CHARLES HENRY BROWNLOW, G.C.B. (b. 1831, d. 1916), mostly relating to campaigns on the North-West Frontier; 1851-1876. See History of the 20th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Infantry, Brownlow's Punjabis, 1910. Presented by Brig. C. A. L. Brownlow, D.S.O. Paper; ff. 167. Folio.
Scope & Content:
Field-Marshal Sir Charles Henry Brownlow, GCB: Correspondence and papers: 1851-1876. India: Correspondence and papers of Field-Marshal Sir C. H. Brownlow: 1851-1876. includes: f. 1 Major-General Sir Hugh Massey Wheeler, KCB: Letter to Sir C. H. Brownlow: 1851. ff. 3-7 General Sir James Abbott...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1851-1876
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 52283

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Title:
DIARY OF AN EGYPTIAN TOUR by Henry Westcar (b. 1798, d. 1858); 1823-1824. Copy, with annotations interpolated, passim, and an index added at the end on f. 285b, by Warren Royal Dawson, 1950. The original was acquired by the German Egyptologist Ludwig Keimer and passed to the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Cairo. See W. R. Dawson and E. Uphill, Who was Who in Egyptology, 1972, pp. 79, 156-7, 302. Presented by the Copyist. Paper; ff. xvi+285. Small quarto. 1950.
Scope & Content:
Henry Westcar, English traveller: Diary of his tour in Egypt,: 1823-1824: Copy, 1950. Voyages and Travels: H. Westcar; tour in Egypt,: 1823-1824: Copy, 1950. Diaries and Memoranda: H. Westcar; tour in Egypt,: 1823-1824: Copy, 1950.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1823-1824
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 52284

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TRAVEL DIARY OF LT.-COL. GEORGE COTSFORD CALL, 18th Foot, son of Sir John Call, 1st Bart.; 1808, 1810. Autograph copy, circa 5 Dec. 1846. See f. 18. Later belonged to Wathen Mark Wilks Call. See his note on f. 1, 1886, appended to a note giving him the MS. initialled 'A.C.[all]', 1875. Presented by Dr H. J. Alexander. Paper; ff. 67. Octavo. 1846. Red calf binding. 1. ff. 2-18. 'Ramble in Spain with F[rederick] W[hitworth William] Aylmer', 6th Baron Aylmer, landing at Gijon 12 Sept. 1808,...
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Lieutenant-Colonel George Costford Call, son of Sir J Call, 1st Baronet: Travel diary,: 1808-1810: Autogr. copy, 1846. Voyages and Travels: Journals of journeys in Spain, Sweden, Prussia and France,: 1808-1810: Copy, 1846. includes: ff. 2-18 Frederick Whitworth William Aylmer, 6th Baron Ayl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Dec 1846
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 52285

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Vol. I, ff. ii+187 Joseph Cradock, author: Letters to,: 1763-1826, n.d. includes: f. ii Bookplates and Book-stamps: Thomas Sydney Blakeney, Secretary, Friends of the National Libraries: Bookplate of Thomas Sydney Blakeney: 1977. f. 1 Charles Clement Adderley: Letter to J. Cradock: circa 1812....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1763-1828]
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 52285-52286

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Title:
LETTERS, ETC., PARTLY FAMILY, TO JOSEPH CRADOCK, author (b. 1742, d. 1826) and his wife, Anna Francesca, née Stratford (d. 1816); 1763-1828, n.d.
Scope & Content:
Also includes correspondence of his publisher and executor, John Bowyer Nichols, by whom some of the letters were printed in Cradock's Literary and Miscellaneous Memoirs, iv, 1828. Arranged by writers in rough alphabetical order. Only letters A-F are contained in the present volumes. Other corre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1763-1828
Extent:
2 items

9. Add MS 52286

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Scope & Content:
Vol. II, ff. 184 Joseph Cradock, author: Letters to,: 1763-1826, n.d. includes: ff. 1-22 Anna Francesca Cradock, née Stratford; wife of J Cradock: Letters, etc., to her husband, Joseph: 1765-1766.ff. 23-31b Manors and Manorial Documents: Correspondence, etc., rel. to Foxton Manor,: bef. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 52287

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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: 'Hymn Tune Prelude [for piano, based] on "Song 13"' (f. 1), 'Oh my love, how comely now', by Orlando Gibbons; 1928. Autograph. For Song 13, see George Wither, The Hymnes and Songs of the Church, for the tune of 1623. Dedication on f. 2b 'To Harriet Cohen (but only if she likes it, if not return to me and delete your name – I shan't be huffy) from R Vaughan Williams'. First performed at the Wigmore Hall by Harriet Cohen, 14 Jan. 1930. Published 1930. See M. Kennedy...
Scope & Content:
Ralph Vaughan Williams, OM; composer: Hymn Tune Prelude,: 1928: Autogr.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1928
Extent:
1 item