Manuscripts

The King's Tragedy

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Description: Incomplete; these are the last 23 stanzas with changes from both the original manuscript and the printed poem. Bound in full limp vellum, with green silk ties.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1881.
Call number: mssHM 6096
Creator: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Anderson Galleries sale, lot 830, February 1920.
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The King's Tragedy

Manuscripts

Four additional leaves contain revisions of certain of the stanzas; with cardboard cover.

mssHM 6095

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The Virgin : poem

Manuscripts

Manuscript (holograph) poem, "The Virgin," with 2 stanzas in 8 lines, together with another incomplete poem and fragmentary memoranda.

mssHM 13187

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti letter to William Bell Scott

Manuscripts

A.L.S. from D.G. Rossetti to William Bell Scott; the date of 'April 1877' added in pencil at the bottom of letter in an unknown hand.

mssHM 80251

Sequu[n]tur expositiones tabule prime fasciculi medicine

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Johannes de Ketham can convincingly be identified as Hans von Kircheim of Swabia, fl. 1455-1470. This collection of texts was in circulation by 1400. Cf. K. Sudhoff: The fasciculus medicinae of Johannes de Ketham, Alemanus. Milan, 1924. "Consiliu[m] clarissimi doctoris d[omi]ni Petri de Tausignano p[ro] peste euitanda" on pages [27]-[30]. Royal folio, with paper measuring 38.3 x 26.8 cm. Woodcut illustration on leaf a1v printed in red and black. Signatures: a-b⁸ (b8 blank). Initials in red. Binding: Limp vellum wrappers with remnants of leather ties made from manuscript waste from a 13th century [?] biblical commentary.

90929

Feldtbüch der wundartzney

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By Hans von Gersdorff. Cf. Dedication. Possibly a reprint of the original 1517 edition in a different setting of type and without the colophon and other distinguishing details. Not in VD16 or Garrison-Morton. Woodcut illustration on t.p. Woodcuts by Hans Wächtlin, including the "Countrafacter Lasszman" dated 1517 and the Wound Man. Signatures: a⁴ A-O⁶. Binding: limp vellum with cloth ties and ms. title on spine. Initials "C.S.D.D.K." and date "1649" stamped on front cover. Manuscript waste used in binding. Inscription on t.p.: Conv. Vien. Carm. Disc. Occasional marginal ms. annotations. A contemporary ms. index[? ] on [2] p. at end.

621836

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Sir Edward Dering personal and political journal and papers

Manuscripts

The bound volume has limp vellum covers, with some damage to the spine. The family material (18th-20th centuries) contains information about the Dering Motto, Crest and Arms, a printed auction catalogue for the sale of the "Contents of the Mansion Surrenden..." (1928), a printed handlist of Dering MS (U1107), and disbound scrapbook pages of printed clippings, pictures, family and genealogical history; with a few autograph and typewritten notes and letters.

mssHM 55605

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