A guide to the autograph letters, manuscripts, original charters, and royal, baronial, and ecclesiastical seals exhibited in the Department of manuscripts and in the King's library - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...fragments of poems, miscellaneous notes, a list of his works, etc. Add. MS. 27,901. 178. Sir Walter Scott. Autograph manuscript of the novel of "Kenilworth," by Sir Walter Scott, corrected for the press; written between Sept. 1820 and Jan. 1821. Egerton MS. 1661. 179. George Gordon, Lord Byron. "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: a Eomaunt." The first and second cantos, as copied for the press for the first edition, London, 1812; with corrections and notes in the author's own hand. Egerton MS. 2027. 180. Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay. b. 1800--d. 1859. A leaf of the rough autograph draft of the twenty-fifth and concluding chapter of his History of England. Add. MS. 24,094. Presented, in 1861, by Ms sister, Lady Trevelyan. CHAETEES. In cases on the right hand, as the visitor enters from the Grenville Library. 1. Grant, with the consent of Elfred alfred The Great, King of Wessex, and the Witenagemot, by Archbishop Ethered and the monastery of Christ Church, Canterbury, to Liaba or Leafa, son of Birgwin, of land called Gilding Yalding?, co. Kent for 20 altered into 25 mancuses of gold. Dated A.d. 873. Latin. A contemporary copy, in the hand used by Wessex scribes. The names of the witnesses, which include ESelulf, King of Wessex d. 857, and Archbishop Ceolnoth d. 870, have evidently been copied from other charters. Stowe Ch. 18. 2. Grant by King Eadred to Elfwyn, a nun, of six "mansas," or in the Kentish tongue "syx sulunga," of land at Wicham Wickham Breaux, co. Kent, for two pounds of the purest gold. Dated A.d. 948. Latin, with the boundaries of the land in Anglo-Saxon. Witnessed by King Eadred, Eadgifu his mother, Oda, Archbishop of Canterbury, Wulfstan, Archbishop of York, and others. Stowe Ch. 25. 3. Grant by K...
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