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Album of manuscript verse by Caroline de Crespigny, Thomas Medwin and other contemporary English and German poets, with some original drawings and watercolours
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 11916
Caroline de Crespigny’s album is made up predominantly of original autograph verse by herself, Thomas Medwin and the German poets they encountered and translated. Tipped in, pinned or loosely inserted are also original drawings and watercolours, together with cut-outs and press cuttings, and one music manuscript. As far as it has been possible to establish, her own verses are unpublished. A number of other pieces remain unidentified.
Extents: 1.0 volume
Dates:
1838-1861, n.d.
Archive of Audrey Beecham
Collection
Papers of Audrey Beecham (1915-1989), poet and academic, with a small number of boxes concerning the wider Beecham family.
Extents: 6.70 Linear metres (100 boxes)
Dates:
1845-1988, n.d.
Archive of Frederick Louis MacNeice
Collection
Papers of the poet and playwright Frederick Louis MacNeice (1907-1963), with papers of Hedli MacNeice, née Anderson (1907-1990)
Extents: 10.17 Linear metres (76 physical shelfmarks)
Dates:
1917-1989; n.d.
Ashmole Manuscripts
Collection
Among Ashmole's papers are:
Papers of Dr Simon Forman (1552-1611)
Medical and astrological papers of Dr Richard Napier (1559-1634), Theodoricus Gravius and John Dee (1527-1608)
Collections - chiefly astrological - of John Booker (1603-1667) and William Lilly (1602-1681)
Ashmole's collection is also strong in heraldry and local...
Extents: 714 shelfmarks
Dates:
11th-17th century
Dedication Copy of the ode by John Milton Ad Joannem Rousium Oxoniensis Academiae Bibliothecarium
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Lat. misc. d. 77
Dedication Copy of the ode by John Milton Ad Joannem Rousium Oxoniensis Academiae Bibliothecarium.
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates:
23 Jan. 1646/7
A formal analysis and explanation of the treatise of Cicero de Partitione Oratoria and Orations, Letters, Miscellaneous Prose, and Verses
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Auct. F. 5. 13
A formal analysis and explanation of the treatise of Cicero de Partitione Oratoria and Orations, Letters, Miscellaneous Prose, and Verses, written in two hands in about A.D. 1600.
Extents: 364 pages
Dates:
Written in two hands in about A.D. 1600
Forty-two short poems in English and Latin
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Add. B. 106
Forty-two short poems in English and Latin, written in about 1680-1690.
Extents: 80 Leaves
Dates:
written in about 1680-1690
Junius Manuscripts
Collection
Junius Manuscripts
Extents: 12.98 Linear metres (122 boxes)
Dates:
8th-17th century
Notebook containing Latin prose and verse and English verse, in two or more different hands
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. e. 3381
Notebook containing Latin prose and verse and English verse, in two or more different hands
Extents: 100 Leaves
Dates:
17th cent.
Poems by Arthur Holmes (1918), with manuscript and typescript drafts
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 22598
Poems by Arthur Holmes (1918), with manuscript and typescript drafts, 1915-1918, n.d.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1915-1918, n.d.
A transcript of Robert Bridges' Eros and Psyche
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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. poet. d. 213
A transcript of Robert Bridges’ Eros and Psyche.
Extents: 170 pages
Dates:
1884-1885