Manuscripts

Five books of the Pentateuch :

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Description: The volume is in a case.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 18th century.
Call number: mssHM 1117
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of October 1929.
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[Vallejo Mining Company (?)]. Account book

Manuscripts

Includes a list of witnesses in an 1874 land case. The volume is in poor condition.

mssEl Dorado County

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Caroline Corry commonplace book

Manuscripts

A Victorian era commonplace book containing poems, drawings, and locks of hair. The original poems include an acrostic of Caroline Corry's name and "Lines for an Album," "Friendship," and "Memory," as well as many unattributed pieces; the volume also includes several attributed pieces including poems by Joanna Baillie, Geoge Gordon, Lord Byron, and Reginald Heber. The volume is illustrated with a pen and ink drawing of a man, a pencil drawing of a dog's head, and several pasted-in engravings of various people and scenes. The volume also contains one page with 28 locks of hair stitched onto the page; each lock of hair is labeled with a name, and, in some cases, a date, of Corry's family and friends. The volume is bound in contemporary quarter red roan with faded blue-gray sides, with some damage to the spine and one loose page laid into the volume.

mssHM 84412

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Commonplace book. English poetry : manuscript

Manuscripts

The volume contains poems copied out in several unidentified hands, including poems by Lord Byron and Mary (Botham) Howitt; there is also a watercolor illustration and a pencil drawing. Please note: the volume is in very fragile condition with only a partial spine, loose covers and pages.

mssHM 82900

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A book of receits

Manuscripts

Bound volume of English manuscript recipes, both for cooking and medicine, written beginning in the 17th century (in several hands). Some of the recipes are attributed to a specific person (both women and men) with a note if it was tested; in some cases, the name of the person who tested it is also provided. The manuscript is organized into four sections: medicine, recipes coming from Lady Bray, distillation, and cookery. There are four loose items in the inside front cover. About half of the volume is blank. Bound in vellum.

mssHM 84007

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Law notes of John Burrows taken while at Middle Temple

Manuscripts

This volume contains law notes kept by Burrows while he was studying at Middle Temple. It consists mainly case reports and there is an index in the back of the volume of the cases "in their order of time." Notes in other hands, but mainly by Burrows. The volume is undated.

mssHM 80845

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Frederick Treves guest book

Manuscripts

Memento of a welcome party for Sir Frederick Treves held at the Maple Club in Tokyo, May 3, 1904. The album contains twenty-four pages of signatures of Japanese and British celebrities, apparently inscribed by pen-brush. Enclosed in the volume is a photo postcard of Treves signed and dated 1908. The volume also contains a signed color sketch by a Japanese artist.

mssHM 83433

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