Manuscripts

Mercurius panegyricus : manuscript

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Description: A manuscript copied out in an unknown hand; it appears to be a copy of a printed broadside found in: An Account of the Secret Services of Monsieur de Vernay... (RB 110713). This manuscript removed from Bridgewater volume 4/G 2 (HEH E-PV. 88854-92).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1683.
Call number: mssHM 83591
Creator: S. L(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Transferred from the Printed Books Dept., June 23, 1941.
Dimensions: 30 cm :

The judges declared : manuscript

Manuscripts

A manuscript in English, with slight staining. Original note of transfer states: "Removed from duplicate discarded ; i.e. former acc. no. 97062, Bridgewater 43/F20." The discarded book (RB 97062) was William Camden's Tomus alter et idem, or, The historie of the life and reigne of that famous princess, Elizabeth, printed in London in 1629; it was discarded on January 4, 1941.

mssHM 83589

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A prologue ; Epilogue spoke by Mrs. Price : manuscript

Manuscripts

The Prologue and Epilogue are two separate manuscripts, in different hands, still attached after removal from volume. A Prologue begins: "Tis not five yeares since this was a Sweete Place..." (2 p.); the Epilogue begins: "Our theatre alas is quite undone..." (2 p.). The manuscripts were removed from Bridgewater pamphlet volume 2/G 16 (HEH 133562-90) which was broken up for the removal of duplicates.

mssHM 83590

Five scraps of manuscript notes, written by Diana Korzenik

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Five scraps of manuscript notes, written by Diana Korzenik, that had been laid into Arthur Dow's Composition: A Series of Exercises Selected from a New System of Art Education, 1899, (HEH RB# 603472). Accompanying these five notes is a photocopy of page 13 from Dow's Composition.

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Appareil à Gaz: manuscript, letter, diagram, and note

Manuscripts

One five-page manuscript entitled Appareil à Gaz describing an illuminating gas plant, plus one diagram of the gas works and a letter (two pages), written by Lankez? to Monsieur Banuel? from Metz, France, and dated 1819. The manuscript includes emendations and marginalia, and the diagram covers both pages of a 30 x 43 cm folded sheet that contains calculations and a brief annotation on verso. Also includes one sealed note with text, "appareil pour la production du gaz à éclairage, No. 11."

mssHM 83200

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[Manuscript notes on a law text?]

Manuscripts

Text is in Latin; manuscript notes regarding a law text. Formerly laid into Noua Statuta (RB 59497).

mssHM 82941

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The soul of Rouget De Lisle : manuscript

Manuscripts

A signed, autograph manuscript poem; with old tape repairs, originally framed behind glass, now removed. The poem was inspired by an early incident in the First World War; Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle wrote the words and music of "The Marseillaise." This poem was published in "The Man Who Saw and Other Poems Arising Out of the War," London: John Murray, 1917.

mssHM 83395

Mercurius panegyricus : manuscript

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