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| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| British Museum. Department of Manuscripts | 34 |
| Oxford, Edward Harley, Earl of, 1689-1741 | 8 |
| British Museum | 6 |
| Arundel, Thomas Howard | 4 |
| Burney, Charles (1726-1814) | 4 |
| Forshall, Josiah | 4 |
| Forshall, Josiah (1795-1863) | 4 |
| Burney, Charles | 4 |
| Arundel, Thomas Howard Earl of (1585-1646) | 4 |
| Gilson, J P (1868-1929) | 3 |
Autographs of royal, noble, learned, and remarkable personages conspicuous in English history, from the reign of Richard the Second to that of Charles the Second : with some illustrious foreigners; containing many passages from important letters
Nichols, John Gough (1806-1873); Smith, Charles John (1803-1838); British Museum. Department of Manuscripts
1829
"The originals of the present series are mostly the property of the British nation, preserved in its metropolitan Museum."--Pref., p. xiii.
Early stamped bookbindings in the British Museum : descriptions of 385 blind-stamped bindings of the XIIth-XVth centuries in the Departments of Manuscripts and Printed Books
Weale, William Henry James (1832-1917); Taylor, Lawrence librarian; British Museum. Department of Printed Books
1922
Antiquitates Celto-Normannicæ, containing the Chronicle of Man and the Isles, abridged by Camden, and now first published, complete, from the original ms. in the British Museum; with an English translation, and notes; to which are added extracts from the Annals of Ulster, and Sir J. Ware's Antiquities of Ireland, British topography by Ptolemy, Richard of Cirencester, the Geographer of Ravenna, and Andrew, Bishop of Cathness: together with accurate catalogues of the Pictish and Scottish Kings
Johnstone, James (1798); British Museum. Department of Manuscripts
1786
John Milton, 1608-1674 : facsimiles of autographs and documents in the British Museum
British Museum. Department of Manuscripts
1908
Cover-title.
A catalogue of the manuscripts preserved in the British Museum hitherto undescribed : consisting of five thousand volumes, including the collections of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., the Rev. Thomas Birch, D.D. and about five hundred volumes bequeathed, presented, or purchased at various times (v.1)
Ayscough, Samuel (1745-1804); Sloane, Sir Hans (1660-1753); Birch, Thomas (1705-1766); British Museum. Department of Manuscripts
1782
"Commenced in April 1780 and published in 1782 by leave of the Trustees, but as a private venture of the compiler." -- Dict. nat. biog.
A catalogue of the manuscripts preserved in the British Museum hitherto undescribed : consisting of five thousand volumes, including the collections of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., the Rev. Thomas Birch, D.D. and about five hundred volumes bequeathed, presented, or purchased at various times (v.2)
Ayscough, Samuel (1745-1804); Sloane, Sir Hans (1660-1753); Birch, Thomas (1705-1766); British Museum. Department of Manuscripts
1782
"Commenced in April 1780 and published in 1782 by leave of the Trustees, but as a private venture of the compiler." -- Dict. nat. biog.
Athēnaiōn politeia : Aristotle on the constitution of Athens
Aristotle (384 BCE-322 BCE); Kenyon, Sir Frederic G (1863-1952); British Museum. Department of Manuscripts
1891
Schools of illumination : reproductions from manuscripts in the British Museum (pt.2)
Herbert, J A (1862-1948); Gilson, J P (1868-1929); British Museum. Department of Manuscripts
1914-30
" The introduction and brief descriptions are the work of J. A. Herbert, assistant-keeper." Foreword signed: J.P. Gilson.
Schools of illumination : reproductions from manuscripts in the British Museum (pt.3)
Herbert, J A (1862-1948); Gilson, J P (1868-1929); British Museum. Department of Manuscripts
1914-30
" The introduction and brief descriptions are the work of J. A. Herbert, assistant-keeper." Foreword signed: J.P. Gilson.
Schools of illumination : reproductions from manuscripts in the British Museum (pt.1)
Herbert, J A (1862-1948); Gilson, J P (1868-1929); British Museum. Department of Manuscripts
1914-30
" The introduction and brief descriptions are the work of J. A. Herbert, assistant-keeper." Foreword signed: J.P. Gilson.
Facsimiles of royal, historical, literary and other autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum
Warner, Sir George F (1845-1936); British Museum. Department of Manuscripts
1899
Originally published in a yearly issue of thirty facsimiles, 1895-1899.