Facsimile of BL Yates Thompson MS 36 ff 129-190 (miniatures only). Introduction by John Pope-Hennessy and translation by Charles Singleton. Thames and Hudson, London 1993. Presented by the publisher in accordance with his contract.
English Illumination: The Douai Psalter. 82 photographs taken in 1979 of the damaged fragments surviving from the Douai Psalter, written and illuminated in England (East Anglia) in the early 14th century. The manuscript was ruined by damp while buried for safety during the First World War and has...
Correspondence of Charles Blacker Vignoles (b.1793, d.1875), railway engineer: a temporary calendar of the original letters at Portsmouth City Records Office. Three sets of photocopies: 1814-1823, 1823-1840, 1842-1873. Presented by the Portsmouth City Records Office, May 1979 and incorporated Apr...
SLAVONIC GOSPELS. Évangéliare ancien sebe du Prince Miroslav. Reproduction, by Alexander I., King of Servia, of a 12th cent. ornamented MS. in the palace at Belgrade. Ed L. Stojanovic. 1897. Bible SLAVONIC: Evangéliaire serbe du Prince Miroslav (MS. in the palace at Belgrade), 12th cent. Facsim...
*277. FRENCH ILLUMINATION: Ingeburge Psalter (Chantilly, Musée Condé, MS. I695), executed in or shortly before 1213, for Ingeburge, wife of Philip Augustus (see description by the Duc d'Aumale, Chantilly. Cabinet des Livres MSS., i, 1900, pp. 15-12; and by J. Meurgey, Les principaux MSS. à peintures du Musée Condé Chantilly, 1930, pp. 15-18). Photographs (40), taken by Giraudon of Paris in 1926, of the Calendar medallions, full-page miniatures and historiated initials.
MARIE ANTOINETTE: Rotographs of documents written or signed by Marie Antoinette, formerly in the possession of the donor (see Sotheby's salecat., 24-25 Jan. 1955, lots 286, 287); circ. 1783-1792 and n.d. Presented by W. Westley Manning, Esq.
(1), *(2). LATIN PALAEOGRAPHY: Codices Corbeienses Leninopolitani. Histoire de l'atelier graphique de Corbie de 651 à 830 reflétée dans les Corbeienses Leninopolitani. By Olga Dobiash-Rozhdestvenskaya. 1934- (Académie des Sciences de l'URSS. Travaux de l'institut de l'histoire de la science et d...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING: Photographs of the autograph MS. of nos. 1-24 of 'Sonnets from the Portuguese' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, presumably the MS. prepared for the printer for the 1850 edition of her Poems. Another autograph manuscript of the 'Sonnets'is Add.MS.43487. Presented by the ...
TENNYSON: Rotographs of the autograph manuscript of his poem, 'Locksley Hall', in the possession of the donor; before 1842. Together with photostats of (a) two letters of Tennyson to F. Goddard Tuckerman, the donor's grandfather, 6 Feb. 1855 and n.d., and (b) an extract from a letter from F. God...
BRITISH AUTOGRAPHS: Rotographs of autographs of British interest from the MS. collections in the National Library, Vienna, viz.:-(1) Queen Elizabeth, 1562;-(2) William III, as Prince of Orange, 1676;(3) Queen Mary, 1679;-(4) William III, 1690;(5) James Watt, 1789;-(6) Sir Walter Scott, n.d.;-(7)...