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Printable version; In other projects ... British Library Arundel collection (6 P) C. Cotton Library (50 P) E. ... Pages in category "Manuscripts in the British Library"
First page of an Italian illuminated manuscript of Cicero's Philippics; Kings MS 21 f. 2. The King's manuscripts are a collection of 446 historical manuscripts held in the British Library. The collection was originally assembled by King George III, and was passed to the British Museum by George IV in 1823 as part of the King's Library. The ...
The Egerton Collection is a collection of historical manuscripts held in the British Library. The core of the collection comprises 67 manuscripts bequeathed to the British Museum in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater , along with £12,000 (the Bridgewater fund).
Printable version; In other projects ... Manuscripts in the British Library (12 C, 63 P) C. ... Collection of the National Archives (United Kingdom) (28 P)
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "British Library Royal manuscripts" The following 14 pages are in this ...
In that same year King George III donated the collection to the new British Museum at Montagu House, where they were originally known as the "King's pamphlets" and added to the Royal Library Collection. In 1973, the museum transferred the Thomason Tracts to the British Library where they continue to be housed. [2]
The Lord Chamberlain's plays are a collection of manuscripts held by the British Library comprising scripts of all new plays in Britain that needed to be approved for performance by the Lord Chamberlain, a senior official of the British royal household, between 1824 and 1968. [1]
The Royal manuscripts are one of the "closed collections" of the British Library (i.e. historic collections to which new material is no longer added), consisting of some 2,000 manuscripts collected by the sovereigns of England in the "Old Royal Library" and given to the British Museum by George II in 1757. They are still catalogued with call ...