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After Pinter's death, the British Library updated its official Harold Pinter Archive Blog, posting a memorial notice on 29 December 2008, stating that "Harold was a formidable and generous champion of the Library and its work, and the British Library was immensely proud to have added the Pinter archive to our Manuscript Collections in 2007 ...
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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the British Library, formerly the British Museum. 2 vols: vol 2. London, 1926. 259-98. ...
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 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 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).
It remained in the British Library as MS Arundel 263 when the library separated from the British Museum in 1973. The most recent facsimile was published in 1998. [ 6 ] On 30 January 2007 the manuscript became part of the British Library's project " Turning the Pages ", when it was digitised along with Codex Leicester , and became available in ...
The manuscript contains 13 leaves each measuring 9 + 1 ⁄ 4 in × 6 + 7 ⁄ 8 in (230 mm × 170 mm), most of which were torn along the outer edges. Each page of the manuscript is palimpsest, except folio 9. [3] The youngest text of the palimpsest contains the Homilies of John Chrysostom. The writing is in two columns per page, 25–29 lines ...