Add MS 89284/1/99

Notebook and loose pages with notes, ideas and drafts for Monty Python's Life of Brian, as follows:

• A4 size notebook marked 'Monty Python's Life of Christ', including drafts of the scenes with Pilate and Biggus Dickus in front of the crowd, the one where the mother tells Brian his father was a Roman, and the gladiators scene with Judith and Brian. The notebook also includes notes about scene sequence and film schedule. It all consists of a combination of manuscript in Terry Jones and Palin's handwriting and typescript;
• loose pages of a scene of Brian trying to hide from the Roman guards - a combination of manuscript in Terry Jones and Palin's handwriting and typescript, 6 pages;
• draft sketch entitled 'Head's Speech/The Rugby Match/The Hymn' - 3 versions, 1 holograph manuscript, 2 typescript with corrections, 2 pages each;
• draft sketch entitled 'Healed Loony/Casting Out of the Bats' - holograph manuscript, 7 pages (in Palin and Jones' handwriting);
• draft sketch entitled 'The Martyrdom of St Brian', including song 'All Things Bright and Beautiful' - typescript, 8 pages;
• draft notes entitled 'The Gospel According to St Brian. order after meeting 14^th Dec' - typescript with holograph corrections, 3 pages;
• draft notes entitled 'Material at 14/12/1976. Brianity...The Martyrdom of St Brian' - holograph manuscript, 2 pages;
• draft sketch entitled 'Torturer' - manuscript in Terry Jones's handwriting, 6 pages;
• loose pages with draft of scenes and notes - holograph manuscript, (in Palin and Jones' hand), 12 pages;
• typescript drafts entitled 'The Ending (as at 23/3/77)' (3 pages), 'Matthias' House' (9 pages), 'Brian Escapes from his Followers. The Street and the Shepherds' (12 pages), 'Annas and Caiaphas' (3 pages), 'Brian and the Resistance' (4 pages), 'Big Nose and the Sermon on the Mount' (10 pages), 'The 3 Wise Men' (8 pages), 'The Shepherds' (5 pages);
• loose pages from a reporter's notebook, entitled 'Monty Python's Life of Brian', with holograph notes on Palin and Eric Idle's order of scenes, the latter dated 9 Mar 1977 (4 pages);
• leaflet 'Bible Call'.