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The Royal manuscripts are one of the "closed collections" of the British Library (i.e. historic collections to which new material is no longer added), consisting of some 2,000 manuscripts collected by the sovereigns of England in the "Old Royal Library" and given to the British Museum by George II in 1757. They are still catalogued with call ...
The Additional manuscripts is a collection of manuscripts stored at the British Library. [1] The collection was started at the British Museum in 1756, and passed to the British Library on its establishment in 1973. They form by far the largest collection of manuscripts at the library, and comprise all the manuscripts acquired by gift, purchase ...
P. P. Lond.Lit.207; Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 208 + 1781; Papyrus 18; Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 7; Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 11; Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 20; Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 30
The Stefan Zweig Collection is an important collection of autograph manuscripts formed by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. After his death in 1942 his heirs continued to develop the collection, and donated it to the British Library in 1986. The collection includes many literary and music manuscripts, mainly in the composers' own hands. [1]
Between 1660 and 1664 Barlow offered the tracts, together with two copies of a manuscript catalogue to the university for £4,000 but the sale was not agreed. Thomason remained hopeful that they would be sold, and in his will dated 1664, he charged his three executors (Barlow, Thomas Lockey, and John Rushworth ) with selling the collection to ...
First page of an Italian illuminated manuscript of Cicero's Philippics; Kings MS 21 f. 2. The King's manuscripts are a collection of 446 historical manuscripts held in the British Library. The collection was originally assembled by King George III, and was passed to the British Museum by George IV in 1823 as part of the King's Library. The ...
British Library, India Office, IO Bijapur 7, Otto Loth's Catalogue, no. 967. In 1848, Bijapur was annexed by the British and the library and institution were found to have no funds for their support. The scholar Charles d'Ochoa visited between 1841 and 1843, and arranged the manuscripts, separating "those preserved from the those utterly ...
The Egerton Collection is a collection of historical manuscripts held in the British Library.The core of the collection comprises 67 manuscripts bequeathed to the British Museum in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater, along with £12,000 (the Bridgewater fund).