RECENT ACQUISITIONS

Western Manuscripts Acquisitions January-December 1982 By Scot McKendrick Hagiographical miscellany; i8th cent. Church Slavonic. Formerly owned by the Antoniev Siisky Monastery, Novgorod. Detached binding is 62115 B. The spine is strengthened with four fragments from a medieval Russian manuscript. Add. MS. 62115A, B. Heirmologion, with musical notation; early 19th cent. Church Slavonic. Eight sections prefaced by decorated leaves containing headings in vyaz., headpieces and borders in full colour. Add. MS. 62116. James Simon: Music manuscripts; 1920-44.

Sir Mansfeldt de Cardonnel Findlay (18611932): Correspondence from the period of his service as Counsellor of Embassy in charge of HM agency at Cairo during the summer; mainly 1903-5. Presented by Lady Mary Findlay^ Sir Mansfeldt's daughter-in-law. Add. MSS. 62124, 62125. Asquith family: Letters to Sir Herbert Beerbohm and Lady Tree; before 1894-1929, n.d. Includes letters from H. H. Asquith, ist Earl of Oxford and Asquith, from his wife Margot to Lady Tree, and from Violet Asquith (later Lady Bonham-Carter). Add. MS. 62126.

Mostly autograph. Presented by Professor Ulrich E. Simon., son of the composer. Add. Medical treatises; 15th cent. Latin and English. MSS. 62117-62120. Written in England in the hands of several

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

St Jerome: Commentaries on St Matthew and the prophet Daniel; 12th cent., from Tavistock Abbey, co. Devon. Written in England, with decorated capitals and smaller coloured initials. Formerly belonged to Sir Frederic Madden and Alexander, Baron Peckover. Add. MS. 62122.

scribes. Late i5th-cent. binding by the 'Crucifer Binder' (see M. M. Foot in The Book Collector, xxviii (1979), pp. 554-5). Earlier owners include John Irton, Robert Syddall, and John Byrom, by whom the volume was bequeathed (1763) to Chetham's Library, Manchester. Add. MS. 62127. Katherine Mansfield: Short story, 'A Suburban Fairy Tale', dated 15 Mar. 1919. Add. MS. 62128.

Sir Algernon E. West, GCB: Diary; 1856- 'Monita S. Basilii ad monacos' (Migne, PL 103. 16 Oct. 1861, with a few gaps. The diary 638-700) and related material, with fragments contains mainly very brief references to West's of two Roman histories, and letters of Hildefamily and social activities. Presented by S. C. bert. Bishop of Lemans 1097 and Archbishop Roberts Esq., MA, D.Phil. Add. MS. 62123. of Tours 1125-33; I2th-i3th cent. This IOI

manuscript (Vyner MS. 6107), with Add. Memorandum in French describing French society in 1770-1; originally written for MSS. 62130-62133, was formerly in the Colonel St Paul on his being appointed secrelibrary of Fountains Abbey and later formed tary to Lord Stormont, the Ambassador at part of the collection of Henry Vyner. See Paris {1^12). Copy in the hand of Lady GlenHMC, 5th Report (1876), p. 294, and N. R. Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (Lon- bervie dating from 1794 or later, with subsequent annotations by Sylvester Douglas, don, 1964), p. 89. Add. MS. 62129. Lord Glenbervie. Add. MS. 62139. Parables of Solomon, etc. Miscellaneous theological treatises and sermons, written, prob- Squire family prayer-book, printed in 1627, with many manuscript additions and annotations ably in England, in two hands; 13th cent. relating to the family. Included are a number (Vyner MS. 6108). Add. MS. 62130. of entries in an early i9th-cent. hand but Bernardus de Gordonio: 'Lilium medicine' purporting to have been made during the (composed 1303) and three short treatises, Civil War by Samuel Squire, one of Cromwritten, probably in England, in two hands; well's officers. See W. Rye in English Historical early 14th cent. (Vyner MS. 6109). Add. MS. Review., i (1886), pp. 753-4. Presented by Miss 62131. H. M. L. Squire of Hove, co. Sussex. Add. Grammatica, etc., including liturgical music; MS. 62140. 14th and 15th cent. (Vyner MS. 6120). For Collection of exempla in Latin, containing the music see H. K. Andrews and T. Dart, sixty-six tales, beginning 'Beatus authorius 'Fourteenth Century Polyphony in a Founretulit se vidisse tres laqueos inimici per tains Abbey MS Book', Music and Letters, universa terra explicatos'. The chief sources xxxix (1958), pp. 1-12, and RISM B IV^, referred to in the text are the Fathers and pp. 275-9. Add. MS. 62132A. the Vitae patrum. Probably compiled in Two leaves from a missal containing plainchant northern France towards the end of the from the Ordo Exsequiarum. (Formerly kept 13th cent., and written in the late 13th with Vyner MS. 6107, but identified in 1977 cent, in north France or England. Add. as pastedowns from Add. MS. 62132A.) Add. MS. 62141. MS. 62132B. Francis Capper Brooke: Journals of travels in Collection of hymns, religious songs, etc., with Europe (especially Italy) and Asia Minor, words in Welsh., arranged mostly for three or 1840-51. Add. MSS. 62142-62151. four voices; ^.1830. Names of hymn-tunes and Bass part-book of consort pieces, mostly for other titles are sometimes given in English. three viols, arranged in suites, by John JenTransferred from the Lending Division. Add. kins, William Lawes, John Hingston, 'Mr. MS. 62133. Primrose', and 'Mounsieur Blondill'; midHenry King: Miscellany comprising sixty-two 17th cent. With full score, for two trebles of his poems; n.d., c.1638. This manuscript and bass viols, of the Suite in D minor by was not known to Margaret Cram, Poems of Primrose. Formerly in the muniments of Sir Henry King (Oxford, 1965). Formerly owned William Botcler, of Biddenham, co. Beds, by Arthur A. Houghton. Add. MS. 62134. (d. 1656). Add. MS. 62152A, B. Wyatt Papers: Correspondence and papers of the Wyatt family of AUington Castle, Boxley and Quex, co. Kent; i6th-i8th cent. Add. MSS. 62135-62138.

Northcliffe Papers: Correspondence and papers of Alfred Charles William Harmsworth (18651922), Viscount Northclitfe 1917, journalist and newspaper proprietor; 1880-1922, n.d.

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

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

'Logica: etiam Moralis. F. Dillon . . .'; 1675. Course in philosophy, comprising commentaries in Latin on the works of Aristotle on logic and ethics, probably given at a French university. Presented by Miss M. Bally of Radlett, co. Hertford. Add. MS. 62398.

Shirley's Roll: Painted and tricked shields of arms, most of English nobility and gentry, but including nineteen flill-page coloured drawings of arms of sovereigns; late 15th cent., with i6th- and i7th-cent. additions. Scots rent book, comprising receipts for rent in English. For a full description ofthe contents, cash and kind for the farm of Polfaden, co. see A. R. Wagner, Aspilogia I: a Catalogue of Inverness., held by the Shaw family of the English Medieval Rolls ofArms (Oxford, 1950), Earle of Moray; 1731-72. Presented by Gordon p. 125. Formerly belonged, with Add. MSS. Elsmore, Esq. Add. MS. 62399. 62450-62452, to H. L. Bradfer-Lawrence, Map of Port Mahon; 1782. Depicts situation FSA. Add. MS. 62449. of Feb. 1782, and is related to M. S. Carmona Works by or attributed to St Gregory, etc., and S. Drouet's map of'El Puerto de Mahon mostly copied by the monk John Awne, y su Costa desde Cala Murta hasta Cala probably at Mount Grace Priory, co. Yorks.; Rafalet . . .' (engraved 1786). Presented by mid-i5th cent. Add. MS. 62450. friends and colleagues in memory of V. C. Carter., formerly Chief Conservation Officer., Ranulph Higden: Polychronicon. etc., comprising an imperfect index to the Polychronicon., Department of Manuscripts. Add. MS. 62400. a verse genealogy of English kings from Papal diplomacy 1699-1702: Letters to Abbate William I to Edward III, and a short version Atto Melani, when Papal Auditor in Paris, of the Polychronicon, with additions in Book from Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, great-nephew VII from John of Tynemouth's Historia Aurea of Pope Alexander VIII and later Bishop of and a Latin Brut. English, mid-i5th cent. Ostia and Velletri, and from Cardinal FabAdd. MS. 62451. rizio Paulucci, Secretary of State to Pope Verbal Concordance to the Scriptures; English, Clement XI. Italian. Partly signed. Partly in probably mid-i3th cent. This manuscript cipher with deciphering. Add. MS. 62401. apparently represents an early stage in the Circular map of London and environs; compilation of a concordance. Add. MS. Anonymous. Add. MS. 62402. 62452. Long Papers: Correspondence and papers of Walter Hume Long (1854-1924), ist Viscount Long 1921, statesman, mostly relating to his political career but including some earlier material on family history; i8th cent.-i924, n.d. Add. MSS. 62403-62443. 'French and Italian Revolutionary Medals and Casts': Catalogue of the collection of casts, produced in Birmingham, assembled by the Revd William Robert Hay, Vicar of Rochdale; [1829]. Transferred from the Lending Division. Add. MS. 62444.

Papers chiefly relating to the Monmouth Rebellion; 1680-9. Formerly among the papers of Sir Robert Clayton (1629-1707). Add. MS. 62453Von Schlicht Family: Genealogical tree showing the descent of the family from 1450, illuminated with coats of arms and a drawing of the Crucifixion showing Mathias von Schlicht (d. 1596) and his wife kneeling at the foot of the cross; 19th cent. Imperfect. Transferred from the Department of Oriental Antiquities, British Museum. Add. MS. 62454.

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Cave Papers: Correspondence and papers of George Cave (1856-^1928), Viscount 1918, Home Secretary 1916-19, Lord Chancellor 1922-4, 1924-8, with correspondence of his wife, Anne Estella Countess Cave, 1928, and his biographer. Sir Charles Edward Mallet, 1859-1932. Presented by Lady Cave in igj2. Add. MSS. 62455-62516. Ralph Vaughan Williams: 'Fantasia on Sussex Folk Tunes' for cello and orchestra; 1929. Full score. Copy, with substantial autograph amendments. Presented by Mrs R. Vaughan Williams. Add. M S . 62517. Richard Martin, Warden of the Mint: Agreement by Queen Elizabeth I for the coining of money by him, followed by a schedule of fees for officers of the Mint; temp. Elizabeth I. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books. Add. MS. 62518.

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: 'Hiawatha', trilogy, op. 30, nos. 1-3, settings of words by Longfellow for soloists, chorus, and orchestra; 1898-1900. Autograph. Full scores. Add. MSS. 62519 62521. Add. MS. 62523

Thomas Heroti Jones, 7th Viscount Ranelagh: Letters to William, Viscount Lowther (later 2nd Earl of Lonsdale), 30 Nov. 1835-2 Sept. 1837, with a copy of a letter from Lowther to Ranelagh, May 1837. The correspondence principally relates to the first Carlist War. Add. MS. 62522. Book of Hours, in Latin., of Sarum use, written and illuminated in England c. 1450 60. Includes ten miniatures (from an original total of fourteen), accompanied by elaborately decorated borders. The border decoration is attributable to an immigrant artist known as the 'Caesar Master'. Add. M S . 62523. Dame Ethel Smyth: Letters to S. B. Hobsbaum in Berlin, concerning possible productions of her opera The Wreckers; 1928 9. Add. M S . 62524. New Year's Gift Roll of Mary I, recording gifts exchanged between Queen Mary and her court

on New Year's Day, i Jan. 1557. Also recorded are wedding, christening, and other presents made by the Queen 8 Feb. 155610 Feb. 1557. Signed by the Queen in four places. Text printed in J. Nichols, Illustrations of the Manner and Expenses of Ancient Times in England (London, 1797), pp. 1-28. Add. MS. 62525. Benjamin Sweet, al. Swete: Letters, etc., as clerk to the Army Pay Office in the Low Countries and (after 1702) as Paymaster of the Forces in the Low Countries, to Richard Hill, his predecessor as Paymaster; 16921716. Add. MS. 62526. Sir Thomas Overhury: 'A discourse of passages betweene the Earle of Essex, Northampton, and Somersett, the Countesse of Somersett,

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

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.

N. Donne: 'The Practice of Navigation, Dialling, surveying of Landes, and measuring of timber . . .', i638-ir.i69O. Includes written surveys of manors of Penhale in Cornwall, 1651, and Warkworth in Northumberland, 1679. Add. MS. 62538.

Henri, Due de Rohan: 'Memoires du Due de Rohan sur les troubles advens en France depuis la mort de Henry le Grand Jusques a la paix faicte avec les reformez au mois de Juin 1629*, followed by 'Apologie de Monsieur le Due de Rohan sur les derniers Charles Tournemire: 'Sonate-Poeme' for piano troubles de la France a cause de la Religion', and violin, op. 65; 1935. Score and violin the ninth of his Discours Politiques; 17th cent., part. Autograph. Presented by Madame Charles with a few i8th-cent. notes. Erench. Add. Tournemire. Add. MS. 62539. MS. 62528. 'The Nowell-Burghley Atlas'; c. 1564-70. GeoLords Journals: Calendar of the Journals ofthe graphical commonplace-book containing two House of Lords, 1510-1754. Add. MSS. maps, of Sicily, and of England, Wales, 62529-62532. Ireland, and part of Scotland, by Lawrence Karl Weiss ('C. Karlweis') and Hermann Bahr: Howell, and itineraries partly in the hand of 'Aus der Vorstadt', licensed by the Deutsche William Cecil, ist Baron Burghley. Described in A Description of the Maps and ArchitecVolkstheater on 9 Mar. 1893. Transferred from tural Drawings made by William Cecil, ist the Department of Printed Books. Add. MS. Baron Burghley, now at Hatfield House (Lon62533don, Roxburghe Club, 1971), pp. 19, 36-8, 64. Statutes of England, etc.; probably compiled in Add. MS. 62540. London, early 14th cent. Includes a collection of Statutes; *Cas des brefs'; cap. i of the anonymous tract 'Seneschaucy'; a register of writs; royal letters, etc.; Annals of England, 1066-1280; and a Chronicle of London, 11891315. Add. MS. 62534.

Le Neve's Equestrian Book: Heraldic collection containing a pictorial roll of arms with coloured drawings of eighty-eight equestrian knights; c. 1465-78. Also included are painted shields of English arms, executed in the studio of John Writhe, Garter King of Arms 1478-1504, or his son Sir Thomas Wriothesley, Garter 150534. Add. MS. 62541.

P, B. Shelley: Letters from Edward Trelawny and Daniel Roberts, RN, to the Revd Thomas Hall, English Chaplain at Leghorn, arranging for the cremation of Shelley and Edward Williams; 8, 10, and 13 Aug. 1822. Also included is a copy of a letter from Byron to Hall; 14 Aug. 1822. Add. MS. 62535. Order of the Garter: 'Statutes and ordinances of the mooste noble order of Sainte George named ye Garter'; mid-i6th cent. Formerly owned by Francis Layton (d. 1661), Master of the Jewel House. Add, MS. 62536. Cranbrook Papers: Private and political letters

Christopher Logue: Diary and correspondence relating to his poetry-readings, etc.; 1968-80. Autograph and typewritten, signed. Presented by Christopher Logue, Esq. Add. MSS. 6254262544. ' N . T . C : 'A Caveate before Christmas or A shorte discourse of Sport, Play and Recreation in generall'; 1622. Add. MS. 62545. Album of autographs and autograph letters of 20th-cent. composers and musicians, mainly

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