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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 ...
The Additional manuscripts is a collection of manuscripts stored at the British Library. [1] The collection was started at the British Museum in 1756, and passed to the British Library on its establishment in 1973. They form by far the largest collection of manuscripts at the library, and comprise all the manuscripts acquired by gift, purchase ...
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).
Here follow some of the texts found in the manuscript: Necrology for Art Buidhe mac Domhnaill Riabhaigh, f. 3-4. Amra Choluim Chille (incomplete), f. 9b. Baile Bricín. f. 17a; Forfess Fer Falgae, f. 19r a-b. Verba Scáthaige, f. 19v a-b. Echtra Chondla, f. 19v b-20r b; Seilg Sléibhe na mBan "The Chase of Sliabh na mBan (Slievenaman)", f. 20 b 1.
Pages in category "Manuscripts in the British Library" The following 63 pages are in this category, out of 63 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Between 1660 and 1664 Barlow offered the tracts, together with two copies of a manuscript catalogue to the university for £4,000 but the sale was not agreed. Thomason remained hopeful that they would be sold, and in his will dated 1664, he charged his three executors (Barlow, Thomas Lockey, and John Rushworth ) with selling the collection to ...
This is an incomplete list of some of the manuscripts from the Cotton library that today form the Cotton collection [1] of the British Library. Some manuscripts were destroyed or damaged in a fire at Ashburnham House in 1731, and a few are kept in other libraries and collections.
It remained in the British Library as MS Arundel 263 when the library separated from the British Museum in 1973. The most recent facsimile was published in 1998. [ 6 ] On 30 January 2007 the manuscript became part of the British Library's project " Turning the Pages ", when it was digitised along with Codex Leicester , and became available in ...