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The work of W. de Brailes : an English illuminator of the thirteenth century
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
HM 82600 is a bound scrapbook compiled by J.R. Abbey and contains autograph notes by Sydney Cockerell, correspondence, catalogue descriptions, photographs, and printed material (1901-1948). The scrapbook contains material about the Psalter of St. Jerome, Penitential Psalms of Francesco Maria I Duke of Urbino, Hours written in 1496 by Petrus Antonius Salandus of Reggio, Juvenalis Satirue, Hieronymi Epistolae morales de from the Monastery of St. Justina at Padua. Notable people in the scrapbook include: John Roland Abbey, Bernard Berenson, Catherine Robina Borland, Sir Charles H. N. Bunbury (11th Baronet), Ethel Mae Offer, Greville Horsley Palmer, Albert Van de Put, and James Wardrop.
mssHM 82600-82601
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Manuscripts
An album created by Sydney Cockerell; cover is dated 1898. The album contains autograph letters, many with envelopes, photographs, and printed material; some pages have been annotated by Cockerell. Previous to the acquisition by the Huntington Library some of the pages have been removed and some items have been removed from the pages which remain.
mssHM 36896-36934
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Manuscripts
The collection contains 55 letters from English museum curator Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) chiefly to American scholar Muriel J. Hughes (born 1903), as well as some additional letters to Hughes from Cockerell's secretary Dorothy Hawksley (1884-1970), and a few later pieces of ephemera. Cockerell to Muriel J. Hughes, whom he met through a mutual friend. Some of the letters were dictated to and written by Dorothy Hawksley for Cockerell, who signed each letter. The letters from May 1962-1965 are from Dorothy Hawksley to Muriel J. Hughes after Cockerell's death. In a few of his letters, Sir Sydney Cockerell mentions his son, Christopher, who: invented the Hovercraft. Sydney Cockerell also occasionally mentions well-known British celebrities, such as Bernard Shaw.
mssHM 63186-63262