RECENT ACQUISITIONS

Western Manuscripts

Acquisitions January-December 1982

By Scot McKendrick

Hagiographical miscellany; i8th cent. ChurchSlavonic. Formerly owned by the AntonievSiisky Monastery, Novgorod. Detached bind-ing is 62115 B. The spine is strengthenedwith four fragments from a medieval Russianmanuscript. Add. MS. 62115A, B.

Heirmologion, with musical notation; early19th cent. Church Slavonic. Eight sectionsprefaced by decorated leaves containing head-ings in vyaz., headpieces and borders in fullcolour. Add. MS. 62116.

James Simon: Music manuscripts; 1920-44.Mostly autograph. Presented by ProfessorUlrich E. Simon., son of the composer. Add.MSS. 62117-62120.

Letters to Sir John and J. F. R. Stainer fromcomposers and musicians; 1860-1932. Add.MS. 62121.

St Jerome: Commentaries on St Matthew andthe prophet Daniel; 12th cent., from Tavi-stock Abbey, co. Devon. Written in England,with decorated capitals and smaller colouredinitials. Formerly belonged to Sir FredericMadden and Alexander, Baron Peckover.Add. MS. 62122.

Sir Algernon E. West, GCB: Diary; 1856-16 Oct. 1861, with a few gaps. The diarycontains mainly very brief references to West'sfamily and social activities. Presented by S. C.Roberts Esq., MA, D.Phil. Add. MS. 62123.

Sir Mansfeldt de Cardonnel Findlay (1861-1932): Correspondence from the period of hisservice as Counsellor of Embassy in charge ofHM agency at Cairo during the summer;mainly 1903-5. Presented by Lady Mary Find-lay^ Sir Mansfeldt's daughter-in-law. Add.MSS. 62124, 62125.

Asquith family: Letters to Sir Herbert Beer-bohm and Lady Tree; before 1894-1929, n.d.Includes letters from H. H. Asquith, ist Earlof Oxford and Asquith, from his wife Margotto Lady Tree, and from Violet Asquith (laterLady Bonham-Carter). Add. MS. 62126.

Medical treatises; 15th cent. Latin and English.Written in England in the hands of severalscribes. Late i5th-cent. binding by the'Crucifer Binder' (see M. M. Foot in TheBook Collector, xxviii (1979), pp. 554-5).Earlier owners include John Irton, RobertSyddall, and John Byrom, by whom thevolume was bequeathed (1763) to Chetham'sLibrary, Manchester. Add. MS. 62127.

Katherine Mansfield: Short story, 'A SuburbanFairy Tale', dated 15 Mar. 1919. Add. MS.62128.

'Monita S. Basilii ad monacos' (Migne, PL 103.638-700) and related material, with fragmentsof two Roman histories, and letters of Hilde-bert. Bishop of Lemans 1097 and Archbishopof Tours 1125-33; I2th-i3th cent. This

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manuscript (Vyner MS. 6107), with Add.MSS. 62130-62133, was formerly in thelibrary of Fountains Abbey and later formedpart of the collection of Henry Vyner. SeeHMC, 5th Report (1876), p. 294, and N. R.Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Lon-don, 1964), p. 89. Add. MS. 62129.

Parables of Solomon, etc. Miscellaneous theo-logical treatises and sermons, written, prob-ably in England, in two hands; 13th cent.(Vyner MS. 6108). Add. MS. 62130.

Bernardus de Gordonio: 'Lilium medicine'(composed 1303) and three short treatises,written, probably in England, in two hands;early 14th cent. (Vyner MS. 6109). Add. MS.62131.

Grammatica, etc., including liturgical music;14th and 15th cent. (Vyner MS. 6120). Forthe music see H. K. Andrews and T. Dart,'Fourteenth Century Polyphony in a Foun-tains Abbey MS Book', Music and Letters,xxxix (1958), pp. 1-12, and RISM B IV^,pp. 275-9. Add. MS. 62132A.

Two leaves from a missal containing plainchantfrom the Ordo Exsequiarum. (Formerly keptwith Vyner MS. 6107, but identified in 1977as pastedowns from Add. MS. 62132A.) Add.MS. 62132B.

Collection of hymns, religious songs, etc., withwords in Welsh., arranged mostly for three orfour voices; ̂ .1830. Names of hymn-tunes andother titles are sometimes given in English.Transferred from the Lending Division. Add.MS. 62133.

Henry King: Miscellany comprising sixty-twoof his poems; n.d., c.1638. This manuscriptwas not known to Margaret Cram, Poems ofHenry King (Oxford, 1965). Formerly ownedby Arthur A. Houghton. Add. MS. 62134.

Wyatt Papers: Correspondence and papers ofthe Wyatt family of AUington Castle, Boxleyand Quex, co. Kent; i6th-i8th cent. Add.MSS. 62135-62138.

Memorandum in French describing Frenchsociety in 1770-1; originally written forColonel St Paul on his being appointed secre-tary to Lord Stormont, the Ambassador atParis {1^12). Copy in the hand of Lady Glen-bervie dating from 1794 or later, with sub-sequent annotations by Sylvester Douglas,Lord Glenbervie. Add. MS. 62139.

Squire family prayer-book, printed in 1627, withmany manuscript additions and annotationsrelating to the family. Included are a numberof entries in an early i9th-cent. hand butpurporting to have been made during theCivil War by Samuel Squire, one of Crom-well's officers. See W. Rye in English HistoricalReview., i (1886), pp. 753-4. Presented by MissH. M. L. Squire of Hove, co. Sussex. Add.MS. 62140.

Collection of exempla in Latin, containingsixty-six tales, beginning 'Beatus authoriusretulit se vidisse tres laqueos inimici peruniversa terra explicatos'. The chief sourcesreferred to in the text are the Fathers andthe Vitae patrum. Probably compiled innorthern France towards the end of the13th cent., and written in the late 13thcent, in north France or England. Add.MS. 62141.

Francis Capper Brooke: Journals of travels inEurope (especially Italy) and Asia Minor,1840-51. Add. MSS. 62142-62151.

Bass part-book of consort pieces, mostly forthree viols, arranged in suites, by John Jen-kins, William Lawes, John Hingston, 'Mr.Primrose', and 'Mounsieur Blondill'; mid-17th cent. With full score, for two treblesand bass viols, of the Suite in D minor byPrimrose. Formerly in the muniments of SirWilliam Botcler, of Biddenham, co. Beds,(d. 1656). Add. MS. 62152A, B.

Northcliffe Papers: Correspondence and papersof Alfred Charles William Harmsworth (1865-1922), Viscount Northclitfe 1917, journalistand newspaper proprietor; 1880-1922, n.d.

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Presented by Sir Geoffrey Harmsworth^ Bart.Add. MSS. 62153-62397.

'Logica: etiam Moralis. F. Dillon . . .'; 1675.Course in philosophy, comprising commen-taries in Latin on the works of Aristotle onlogic and ethics, probably given at a Frenchuniversity. Presented by Miss M. Bally ofRadlett, co. Hertford. Add. MS. 62398.

Scots rent book, comprising receipts for rent incash and kind for the farm of Polfaden, co.Inverness., held by the Shaw family of theEarle of Moray; 1731-72. Presented by GordonElsmore, Esq. Add. MS. 62399.

Map of Port Mahon; 1782. Depicts situationof Feb. 1782, and is related to M. S. Carmonaand S. Drouet's map of'El Puerto de Mahony su Costa desde Cala Murta hasta CalaRafalet . . .' (engraved 1786). Presented byfriends and colleagues in memory of V. C.Carter., formerly Chief Conservation Officer.,Department of Manuscripts. Add. MS. 62400.

Papal diplomacy 1699-1702: Letters to AbbateAtto Melani, when Papal Auditor in Paris,from Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, great-nephewof Pope Alexander VIII and later Bishop ofOstia and Velletri, and from Cardinal Fab-rizio Paulucci, Secretary of State to PopeClement XI. Italian. Partly signed. Partly incipher with deciphering. Add. MS. 62401.

Circular map of London and environs;Anonymous. Add. MS. 62402.

Long Papers: Correspondence and papers ofWalter Hume Long (1854-1924), istViscount Long 1921, statesman, mostly re-lating to his political career but includingsome earlier material on family history; i8thcent.-i924, n.d. Add. MSS. 62403-62443.

'French and Italian Revolutionary Medals andCasts': Catalogue of the collection of casts,produced in Birmingham, assembled by theRevd William Robert Hay, Vicar of Roch-dale; [1829]. Transferred from the LendingDivision. Add. MS. 62444.

Frederick Tolkien: Lola Descartes, opera inthree acts; ir.1905. Autograph full score andtypewritten libretto. Presented by Dr S. F. M,Cressall. Add. MSS. 62445-62448.

Shirley's Roll: Painted and tricked shields ofarms, most of English nobility and gentry,but including nineteen flill-page coloureddrawings of arms of sovereigns; late 15thcent., with i6th- and i7th-cent. additions.English. For a full description ofthe contents,see A. R. Wagner, Aspilogia I: a Catalogue ofEnglish Medieval Rolls of Arms (Oxford, 1950),p. 125. Formerly belonged, with Add. MSS.62450-62452, to H. L. Bradfer-Lawrence,FSA. Add. MS. 62449.

Works by or attributed to St Gregory, etc.,mostly copied by the monk John Awne,probably at Mount Grace Priory, co. Yorks.;mid-i5th cent. Add. MS. 62450.

Ranulph Higden: Polychronicon. etc., compris-ing an imperfect index to the Polychronicon.,a verse genealogy of English kings fromWilliam I to Edward III, and a short versionof the Polychronicon, with additions in BookVII from John of Tynemouth's Historia Aureaand a Latin Brut. English, mid-i5th cent.Add. MS. 62451.

Verbal Concordance to the Scriptures; English,probably mid-i3th cent. This manuscriptapparently represents an early stage in thecompilation of a concordance. Add. MS.62452.

Papers chiefly relating to the Monmouth Rebel-lion; 1680-9. Formerly among the papers ofSir Robert Clayton (1629-1707). Add. MS.

62453-Von Schlicht Family: Genealogical tree show-

ing the descent of the family from 1450,illuminated with coats of arms and a draw-ing of the Crucifixion showing Mathias vonSchlicht (d. 1596) and his wife kneeling atthe foot of the cross; 19th cent. Imperfect.Transferred from the Department of OrientalAntiquities, British Museum. Add. MS. 62454.

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Add. MS. 62517 (Reproduced by permission.)

Cave Papers: Correspondence and papers ofGeorge Cave (1856-^1928), Viscount 1918,Home Secretary 1916-19, Lord Chancellor1922-4, 1924-8, with correspondence of hiswife, Anne Estella Countess Cave, 1928, andhis biographer. Sir Charles Edward Mallet,1859-1932. Presented by Lady Cave in igj2.Add. MSS. 62455-62516.

Ralph Vaughan Williams: 'Fantasia on SussexFolk Tunes' for cello and orchestra; 1929. Fullscore. Copy, with substantial autographamendments. Presented by Mrs R. VaughanWilliams. Add. MS. 62517.

Richard Martin, Warden of the Mint: Agree-ment by Queen Elizabeth I for the coiningof money by him, followed by a schedule offees for officers of the Mint; temp. Elizabeth I.Transferred from the Department of PrintedBooks. Add. MS. 62518.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: 'Hiawatha', trilogy,op. 30, nos. 1-3, settings of words by Long-fellow for soloists, chorus, and orchestra;1898-1900. Autograph. Full scores. Add.MSS. 62519 62521.

Thomas Heroti Jones, 7th Viscount Ranelagh:Letters to William, Viscount Lowther (later2nd Earl of Lonsdale), 30 Nov. 1835-2 Sept.1837, with a copy of a letter from Lowther toRanelagh, May 1837. The correspondenceprincipally relates to the first Carlist War.Add. MS. 62522.

Book of Hours, in Latin., of Sarum use, writtenand illuminated in England c. 1450 60. In-cludes ten miniatures (from an original totalof fourteen), accompanied by elaboratelydecorated borders. The border decoration isattributable to an immigrant artist known asthe 'Caesar Master'. Add. MS. 62523.

Dame Ethel Smyth: Letters to S. B. Hobsbaumin Berlin, concerning possible productions ofher opera The Wreckers; 1928 9. Add. MS.62524.

New Year's Gift Roll of Mary I, recording giftsexchanged between Queen Mary and her court

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on New Year's Day, i Jan. 1557. Also re-corded are wedding, christening, and otherpresents made by the Queen 8 Feb. 1556-10 Feb. 1557. Signed by the Queen in fourplaces. Text printed in J. Nichols, Illustra-tions of the Manner and Expenses of AncientTimes in England (London, 1797), pp. 1-28.Add. MS. 62525.

Benjamin Sweet, al. Swete: Letters, etc., asclerk to the Army Pay Office in the LowCountries and (after 1702) as Paymaster ofthe Forces in the Low Countries, to RichardHill, his predecessor as Paymaster; 1692-1716. Add. MS. 62526.

Sir Thomas Overhury: 'A discourse of passagesbetweene the Earle of Essex, Northampton,and Somersett, the Countesse of Somersett,

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Sir Thomas Overbury and others . . .*;17th cent. See B. White, Cast of Ravens:The Strange Case of Sir Thomas Overbury(London, 1967), pp. 246, 248. Add.MS. 62527.

Henri, Due de Rohan: 'Memoires du Due deRohan sur les troubles advens en Francedepuis la mort de Henry le Grand Jusquesa la paix faicte avec les reformez au moisde Juin 1629*, followed by 'Apologie deMonsieur le Due de Rohan sur les dernierstroubles de la France a cause de la Religion',the ninth of his Discours Politiques; 17th cent.,with a few i8th-cent. notes. Erench. Add.MS. 62528.

Lords Journals: Calendar of the Journals oftheHouse of Lords, 1510-1754. Add. MSS.62529-62532.

Karl Weiss ('C. Karlweis') and Hermann Bahr:'Aus der Vorstadt', licensed by the DeutscheVolkstheater on 9 Mar. 1893. Transferred fromthe Department of Printed Books. Add. MS.62533-

Statutes of England, etc.; probably compiled inLondon, early 14th cent. Includes a collectionof Statutes; *Cas des brefs'; cap. i of theanonymous tract 'Seneschaucy'; a register ofwrits; royal letters, etc.; Annals of England,1066-1280; and a Chronicle of London, 1189-1315. Add. MS. 62534.

P, B. Shelley: Letters from Edward Trelawnyand Daniel Roberts, RN, to the Revd ThomasHall, English Chaplain at Leghorn, arrangingfor the cremation of Shelley and EdwardWilliams; 8, 10, and 13 Aug. 1822. Also in-cluded is a copy of a letter from Byron toHall; 14 Aug. 1822. Add. MS. 62535.

Order of the Garter: 'Statutes and ordinancesof the mooste noble order of Sainte Georgenamed ye Garter'; mid-i6th cent. Formerlyowned by Francis Layton (d. 1661), Master ofthe Jewel House. Add, MS. 62536.

Cranbrook Papers: Private and political letters

to Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, ist Earl ofCranbrook; 1866-1904, n.d. See The BritishLibrary Journal, xii (1986), pp. 172-5. Add.MS. 62537.

N. Donne: 'The Practice of Navigation, Dial-ling, surveying of Landes, and measuring oftimber . . .', i638-ir.i69O. Includes writtensurveys of manors of Penhale in Cornwall,1651, and Warkworth in Northumberland,1679. Add. MS. 62538.

Charles Tournemire: 'Sonate-Poeme' for pianoand violin, op. 65; 1935. Score and violinpart. Autograph. Presented by Madame CharlesTournemire. Add. MS. 62539.

'The Nowell-Burghley Atlas'; c. 1564-70. Geo-graphical commonplace-book containing twomaps, of Sicily, and of England, Wales,Ireland, and part of Scotland, by LawrenceHowell, and itineraries partly in the hand ofWilliam Cecil, ist Baron Burghley. Describedin A Description of the Maps and Architec-tural Drawings made by William Cecil, istBaron Burghley, now at Hatfield House (Lon-don, Roxburghe Club, 1971), pp. 19, 36-8, 64.Add. MS. 62540.

Le Neve's Equestrian Book: Heraldic collectioncontaining a pictorial roll of arms with coloureddrawings of eighty-eight equestrian knights;c. 1465-78. Also included are painted shields ofEnglish arms, executed in the studio of JohnWrithe, Garter King of Arms 1478-1504, orhis son Sir Thomas Wriothesley, Garter 1505-34. Add. MS. 62541.

Christopher Logue: Diary and correspondencerelating to his poetry-readings, etc.; 1968-80.Autograph and typewritten, signed. Presentedby Christopher Logue, Esq. Add. MSS. 62542-62544.

' N . T . C : 'A Caveate before Christmas or Ashorte discourse of Sport, Play and Recreationin generall'; 1622. Add. MS. 62545.

Album of autographs and autograph letters of20th-cent. composers and musicians, mainly

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British, European, and American, the majoritywith musical quotations. Compiled by Cor-nelius Rainsford, Esq.; 1974-82, with a fewearlier items, 1891-1950. Presented by thecompiler. Add. MS. 62546.

Siegfried Sassoon: 'Memoirs ofa Fox-Hunting

Man'. The autograph draft (1926-7) andcorrected typescripts of Sassoon's first volumeof autobiography, published in 1928, withoriginal drawings for the illustrated editionof 1929, and related material. Add. MSS.62547-62550.

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

ELIZABETH HARLAND: Modern British section, EngHsh Language Books.

JOHN N. K I N G : Professor of English, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. CurrentlyNational Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellow at the FolgerShakespeare Library, Washington, DC.

SCOT MCKENDRICK: Western Manuscripts, Special Collections.

T. s. PATTIE: Western Manuscripts, Special Collections.

DENNIS E. RHODES: Formerly Deputy Keeper in the Department of Printed Books.

T. c. SKEAT: Formerly Keeper of Manuscripts in the British Museum.

PENELOPE WALLis: Art historian and lecturer in the Education Service.

MARIAN WENZEL: Artist and art historian.

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