Britanniae Romanorum: manuscript

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  Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890. "The Sentiment of the Sword. A Country-House Dialogue: First Evening-Second Evening:" [early draft], A.MS.S. (87 p.), ([before 1890 Oct.]). Kirkpatrick Catalogue: 107, Box 1

  Manuscripts

  Note: includes some illustrations; some pages in other hands. Cataloger's Notes: this manuscript was left unfinished at the time of Burton's death. In 1911, it was edited, with notes, by A. Forbes Sieveking and published by Horace Cox; originally published in The Field.

  RBL 35(1)

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  Westall, Richard, 1765-1836. Westall's Illustrations of Byron's Works, with Suitable Extras, and a Brief Memoir

  Manuscripts

  Bound volume, 31 pages (with 28 blank pages interleaved between the illustrative plates); the printed illustrative plates were drawn by Richard Westall and engraved by various artists. The "brief memoir" of Bryon and the "suitable extras" (short extracts from various poems by Bryon) are written in an unknown hand and signed with the initials: "MM" and dated, 1834. The volume also has the bookplate of Henry Ecroyd Smith on the inside front cover.

  HM 63286

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  Scale of perfection : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  HM 112 consists of 2 parts, the first being ff. 1-12v (the chapter list and chapters 1 through most of 16), written in the beginning of the fifteenth century; the second part, ff. 13-78v, copied towards the middle of the century: the matching page dimensions suggest that the second was an intentional completion of the earlier, supposedly unfinished portion. HM 112 itself was the second part of a larger manuscript of which the first is now London, Brit. Lib. Add. 10052, the Speculum religiosorum by Walter, canon of Holy Trinity in London, while the third is now Brit. Lib. Add. 10053, containing, among other texts, Edmund Rich's Speculum ecclesie in English and Hilton's Eight Chapters. The quires in all 3 manuscripts are signed in roman numerals in the lower right corner of the last leaf verso: in Add. 10052, i-ix; in HM 112, x-xvii (but with the penultimate full quire, i.e. now quire 8, skipped; the last 3 leaves, all singletons, have no roman numeral); in Add. 10053, xviii (on the first leaf, a singleton, presumably the end of the last quire in HM 112), then xix-xxix followed by 4 more quires (the first 2 labelled a and b); it would thus appear that the roman numerals represent an effort to unite separate materials. Add. 10053, ff. 1-83 and, possibly with some variations, ff. 85-98, are by the same hand as the second part of HM 112. The name of John Pery is associated with both: in HM 112, on f. 78v, the explicit reads ". . . quod I. Pery" (perhaps in a different hand from the rest of the explicit); in Add. 10053, on f. 29 "quod I. Pery" and on f. 83 "Orate pro anima domini Iohannis Pery canonici ecclesie sancte trinitatis london. infra algate qui hunc librum fieri fecit cuius anime propicietur deus Amen." Span folios: ff. 1-78v. Other Decoration: 4-, 3- and 2-line initials done in both pts. by the same flourisher, in blue with red penwork; the opening initial, f. 4, 6-line, in parted red and blue infilled with void leaf designs and flourished in red; paragraph marks alternating red and blue; paragraph marks usually in red only (a few in blue). HM 112 consists of 2 parts, the first being ff. 1-12v (the chapter list and chapters 1 through most of 16), written in the beginning of the fifteenth century; the second part, ff. 13-78v, copied towards the middle of the century, probably as an intentional completion of the earlier, supposedly unfinished portion. Numerous corrections and insertions in more than one hand (one probably Pery's).

  mssHM 112

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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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  Shokubutsu Zu : [manuscript], [approximately 1800]

  Manuscripts

  Full page illustrations of plants/grains; Latin names given in Roman alphabet, Japanese names provided in both Katakana and Kanji; placards indicating name(s) of each grain/plant appears to be much later addition (attached directly to pages with adhesive); otherwise, no written script -- only illustrations; inserted tag suggests that the two volumes may have been intended to be part of a larger work.

  mssHM 81222

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  Bibliothecae regiae in palatio D Iacobi codd. tam mss. quam impress. catalogus : manuscript

  Manuscripts

  This is apparently the original catalogue of King Charles I and King Charles II's printed books and manuscripts in the library at St. James's Palace; the volume also formerly owned by Colonel Lovelace in the 17th century. The volume is bound in red morocco leather; at each corner of the central panel and on the back are crowns with the letters C.C. intertwined. There are additional blank pages at the beginning and end of the volume, with some minimal insect damage; with modern autograph notes in pencil on the first page.

  mssHM 180