Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
John Stow survey of London: incomplete manuscript
Image not available
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Image not available
Manuscripts
The manuscript, written in Italian by an unknown author probably in the late 18th century appears to be text copied from another manuscript and is incomplete and unfinished. The manuscript deals with the topic of electricity.
mssHM 75079
Image not available
Manuscripts
This manuscript is about Stow Park in Lincolnshire, England. It gives a descriptive and historical account of Stow and the nearby town Gainsborough. The manuscript appears to be part of a larger manuscript; it contains "Part VIII" and "Part IX," and the pages are p. 98-118. It is incomplete and it ends mid-sentence.
mssHM 80991
![King Johan : [manuscript]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4WJXVPG%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
Manuscripts
ff. 1-35; f. 35v blank. [John Bale] King Johan. Incipit: To declare the powres, & their force to enlarge/ the scriptur of god, doth flow In most abowndaunce. Explicit: Also to preserue hir most honourable counsell/ To the prayse of God, and glorye of the Gospell. Thus endeth the ii playes of kynge Iohan. English. Revisions and 2 added leaves (ff. 12, 14) in the first part (ff. 1-22), and all of the second part (ff. 23-35) in the author's hand. J. Payne Collier, ed., Kynge Johan: a Play in Two Parts by John Bale. Camden Society 2 (London 1838), the first edition, from this unique manuscript. J. M. Manly, ed., Specimens of the Pre-Shaksperean Drama (Boston 1897) 1:523-618 from Collier's edition. W. Bang, ed., Bales Kynge Johan nach der Handschrift in der Chatsworth Collection. Materialen zur Kunde des älteren englischen Dramas 25 (Louvain 1909) in facsimile with reference to verse numbers in Manly's edition. J. H. P. Pafford, ed., with assistance of W. W. Greg, King Johan by John Bale. Malone Society (Oxford 1931) in type-facsimile with plates of portions of ff. 1, 6, 23v, 32. B. B. Adams, ed., John Bale's King Johan (San Marino 1969). P. Happé, ed., The Complete Plays of John Bale (Cambridge, 1985-86).
mssHM 3
Image not available
Manuscripts
Incomplete; this part of the manuscript is that covered in the 3rd edition from page 50 to 194.
mssHM 6275
Image not available
Manuscripts
This manuscript, which is in Latin, is a concord between John Rabie, John Penticost and Judith Penticost. It was drawn up in Sussex, England in 1625. The manuscript may be incomplete.
mssHM 80992
![A plan of the Fort of Beau Seiour with the attack in Iune 1755 [cartographic material]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4MO7HCU%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
Manuscripts
Manuscript map depicting the Fort of Beauséjour, later Fort Cumberland and showing the road to Bay Vert. Copied by Samuel Holland, probably in 1756, from an original by John Brewse.
mssHM 15424