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Egerton MS 1-67
- Record Id:
- 032-003881450
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003881450
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100121539293.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 1-67
- Title:
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Egerton MS volumes 1-67
- Scope & Content:
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The original collection of 67 manuscript volumes bequeathed by Francis Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (1756-1829), to the British Museum in 1829.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003881450", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Egerton MS 1-67: Egerton MS volumes 1-67" },{ "id" : "040-003895121", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 1: Book of expenses of the Monastery of San Giovanni Evangelista, Parma" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907411", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 66: Pedigree of Francis Henry Egerton" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003895122", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 2-3: Mémoires du Règne du Roy Henry II" },{ "id" : "041-003895125", "parent" : "040-003895122", "text" : "Egerton MS 2: Lettres et Mémoires du Règne du Roy Henry II. Vol. 1 of 2." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-003895126", "parent" : "040-003895122", "text" : "Egerton MS 3: Lettres et Mémoires du Règne du Roy Henry II. Vol. 2 of 2." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003895127", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 4: Mémoires du Duc de Rohan, and, Apologie sur les derniers Troubles de la France, by the Duc de Rohan" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003895128", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 5: Original letters of Kings and Queens of France" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003895130", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 6-8: A collection of state letters and papers, chiefly from Ambassadors and Envoys of France" },{ "id" : "041-003895131", "parent" : "040-003895130", "text" : "Egerton MS 6: A collection of state letters and papers, chiefly from Ambassadors and Envoys of France. Vol. 1 of 3." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-003895132", "parent" : "040-003895130", "text" : "Egerton MS 7: A collection of state letters and papers, chiefly from Ambassadors and Envoys of France. Vol. 2 of 3." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-003895133", "parent" : "040-003895130", "text" : "Egerton MS 8: A collection of state letters and papers, chiefly from Ambassadors and Envoys of France. Vol. 3 of 3." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003895134", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 9: Instruction au Duc de Guise après la Saint Barthelemy; signée par Charles IX, le 30 Août 1572" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003895135", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 10-13: Letters to the Marquis de Chasteauneuf" },{ "id" : "041-003895136", "parent" : "040-003895135", "text" : "Egerton MS 10: Letters to the Marquis de Chasteauneuf. Vol. 1 of 4." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-003895167", "parent" : "040-003895135", "text" : "Egerton MS 11: Letters to the Marquis de Chasteauneuf. Vol. 2 of 4." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-003895168", "parent" : "040-003895135", "text" : "Egerton MS 12: Letters to the Marquis de Chasteauneuf. Vol. 3 of 4." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-003895169", "parent" : "040-003895135", "text" : "Egerton MS 13: Letters to the Marquis de Chasteauneuf. Vol. 4 of 4." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003895170", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 14: Despatches of Baron de Lowendahl in Corsica, 1731-1732, with letters to him from Maréchal de Saxe, 1744-1748" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907214", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 15-27: Original letters of various authors" },{ "id" : "041-003907215", "parent" : "040-003907214", "text" : "Egerton MS 15: Original letters of various authors. Vol. 1 of 13." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-003907216", "parent" : "040-003907214", "text" : "Egerton MS 16: Original letters of various authors. Vol. 2 of 13." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-003907217", "parent" : "040-003907214", "text" : "Egerton MS 17: Original letters of various authors. Vol. 3 of 13." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-003907218", "parent" : "040-003907214", "text" : "Egerton MS 18: Original letters of various authors. Vol. 4 of 13." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-003907219", "parent" : "040-003907214", "text" : "Egerton MS 19: Original letters of various authors. Vol. 5 of 13." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-003907220", "parent" : "040-003907214", "text" : "Egerton MS 20: Original letters of various authors. Vol. 6 of 13." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-003907221", "parent" : "040-003907214", "text" : "Egerton MS 21: Original letters of various authors. Vol. 7 of 13." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-003907222", "parent" : "040-003907214", "text" : "Egerton MS 22: Original letters of various authors. Vol. 8 of 13." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-003907223", "parent" : "040-003907214", "text" : "Egerton MS 23: Original letters of various authors. Vol. 9 of 13." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-003907224", "parent" : "040-003907214", "text" : "Egerton MS 24: Original letters of various authors. Vol. 10 of 13." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-003907225", "parent" : "040-003907214", "text" : "Egerton MS 25: Original letters of various authors. Vol. 11 of 13." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-003907226", "parent" : "040-003907214", "text" : "Egerton MS 26: Original letters of various authors. Vol. 12 of 13." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-003907227", "parent" : "040-003907214", "text" : "Egerton MS 27: Original letters of various authors. Vol. 13 of 13." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907276", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 28: Letters of Queen Christina of Sweden" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907328", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 29: Letters from Stanislaus I of Poland, Catherine his Queen, and their daughter Marie, afterwards Queen of Louis XV" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907330", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 30: Original letters of the Maréchal de Turenne" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907332", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 31: Letters of Cardinal Mazarin, chiefly to the Marquis de Castelnau" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907333", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 32: Letters of Cardinal Fleury" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907335", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 33: Original letters of M. Bossuet and M. de Buffon" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907336", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 34: Part of Le Temple de Gnide, by Charles-Pierre Colardeau" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907340", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 35: Pieces in verse and prose by Guillaume Colletet" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907341", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 36: Papers in the hand of François Fénélon, with plans for the studies of the princes of France" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907342", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 37: Description d’une sphère mouvante, par Antide Janvier" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907344", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 38: Madrigaux au Roy sur les devises des jettons pour l’année 1704, par Moreau de Mautour" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907345", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 39: Letters of Madame de Pompadour chiefly to the Duc d’Aiguillon" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907346", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 40: Poems of Jean Baptiste de Santeul" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907347", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 41: A letter to Voltaire and several small pieces of poetry by the Marquis de Vauvenargues" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907348", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 42: Letters of Voltaire" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907349", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 43: Voltaire: ‘L’Enfant Prodigue’, with manuscript alterations and corrections by the author" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907351", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 44: Copies of letters of various Italian writers of the 16th-17th centuries" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907352", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 45: Collection of sonnets and other works by Italian poets of the late 18th and early 19th century" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907353", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 46: Collection of letters of Saverio Bettinelli, Giovanni Bianchi, and Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907354", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 47: Letters of Cagliostro" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907355", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 48: Letters of Galileo Galilei" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907356", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 49: Letters from Pietro Metastasio to Vincenzo Camillo Alberti" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907357", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 50: Letters from Lodovico Antonio Muratori to Cassiodoro Montagioli" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907394", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 51: Letters of Giralomo Tiraboschi" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907358", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 52: Lettre inédite de la Seigneurie de Florence au Pape Sixte IV. 21 Juillet 1478, edited by Francis Henry Egerton (Paris, 1814). Printed…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907395", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 53: Livre premier des Commentaires des Guerres Civiles de France par M. Manassés de Feuquiere" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907396", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 54-55: Registre des dons patriotiques faits à la Convention Nationale, pour les frais de la Guerre" },{ "id" : "041-003907397", "parent" : "040-003907396", "text" : "Egerton MS 54: Registre des dons patriotiques faits à la Convention Nationale. Volume 1 of 2." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-003907398", "parent" : "040-003907396", "text" : "Egerton MS 55: Registre des dons patriotiques faits à la Convention Nationale. Volume 2 of 2." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907399", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 56-58: Collection of autographs" },{ "id" : "041-003907400", "parent" : "040-003907399", "text" : "Egerton MS 56: Collection of autographs. Vol. 1 of 3." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-003907401", "parent" : "040-003907399", "text" : "Egerton MS 57: Collection of autographs. Vol. 2 of 3." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-003907402", "parent" : "040-003907399", "text" : "Egerton MS 58: Collection of autographs. Vol. 3 of 3." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907403", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 59: Copies of letters in Lord Bridgewater’s collection" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907404", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 60-64: Original letters addressed to Lord Bridgewater" },{ "id" : "041-003907405", "parent" : "040-003907404", "text" : "Egerton MS 60: Original letters addressed to Lord Bridgewater. Vol. 1 of 5." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-003907406", "parent" : "040-003907404", "text" : "Egerton MS 61: Original letters addressed to Lord Bridgewater. Vol. 2 of 5." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-003907407", "parent" : "040-003907404", "text" : "Egerton MS 62: Original letters addressed to Lord Bridgewater. Vol. 3 of 5." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-003907408", "parent" : "040-003907404", "text" : "Egerton MS 63: Original letters addressed to Lord Bridgewater. Vol. 4 of 5." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "041-003907409", "parent" : "040-003907404", "text" : "Egerton MS 64: Original letters addressed to Lord Bridgewater. Vol. 5 of 5." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907410", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 65: A collection of passports" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003907412", "parent" : "032-003881450", "text" : "Egerton MS 67B: Papiers ornés etc." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003881450
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Egerton MS 1 : Book of expenses of the Monastery of San Giovanni Evangelista, Parma
Egerton MS 66 : Pedigree of Francis Henry Egerton
Egerton MS 2-3 : Mémoires du Règne du Roy Henry II
Egerton MS 4 : Mémoires du Duc de Rohan, and, Apologie sur les derniers Troubles de la France, by the Duc de Rohan
Egerton MS 5 : Original letters of Kings and Queens of France
Egerton MS 6-8 : A collection of state letters and papers, chiefly from Ambassadors and Envoys of France
Egerton MS 9 : Instruction au Duc de Guise après la Saint Barthelemy; signée par Charles IX, le 30 Août 1572
Egerton MS 10-13 : Letters to the Marquis de Chasteauneuf
Egerton MS 14 : Despatches of Baron de Lowendahl in Corsica, 1731-1732, with letters to him from Maréchal de Saxe, 1744-1748
Egerton MS 15-27 : Original letters of various authors
Egerton MS 28 : Letters of Queen Christina of Sweden
Egerton MS 29 : Letters from Stanislaus I of Poland, Catherine his Queen, and their daughter Marie, afterwards Queen of Louis XV
Egerton MS 30 : Original letters of the Maréchal de Turenne
Egerton MS 31 : Letters of Cardinal Mazarin, chiefly to the Marquis de Castelnau
Egerton MS 32 : Letters of Cardinal Fleury
Egerton MS 33 : Original letters of M. Bossuet and M. de Buffon
Egerton MS 34 : Part of Le Temple de Gnide, by Charles-Pierre Colardeau
Egerton MS 35 : Pieces in verse and prose by Guillaume Colletet
Egerton MS 36 : Papers in the hand of François Fénélon, with plans for the studies of the princes of France
Egerton MS 37 : Description d’une sphère mouvante, par Antide Janvier
Egerton MS 38 : Madrigaux au Roy sur les devises des jettons pour l’année 1704, par Moreau de Mautour
Egerton MS 39 : Letters of Madame de Pompadour chiefly to the Duc d’Aiguillon
Egerton MS 40 : Poems of Jean Baptiste de Santeul
Egerton MS 41 : A letter to Voltaire and several small pieces of poetry by the Marquis de Vauvenargues
Egerton MS 42 : Letters of Voltaire
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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67 volumes
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French
Italian
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- -9999
- End Date:
- -9999
- Date Range:
- Unspecified
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Available for research unless otherwise stated
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- Custodial History:
- Bequeathed to the British Museum by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater, in 1829. Egerton also left a sum of money to purchase further manuscripts to augment the collection, which is still open to new accessions.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- The description for each manuscript has been transcribed from the Annual List of Donations and Bequests to the Trustees of the British Museum 1829 (1831)
- Names:
- Egerton, Francis Henry, 8th Earl of Bridgewater, 1756-1829
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Egerton MS 3060-3085