Fragments.
Found in 259 Collections and/or Records:
Two fragments, undated, of manuscripts of articles by James Grant., [Before 1888.]
The first article is entitled 'Scotland. Picturesque Europe No. 44', and discusses 'Border castles and counties'. The second, beginning on folio 9, is part of an article on Scottish politics, of which the title page is missing. Both articles appear to be unpublished.
Two horizontal vellum strips, presumably contiguous, from a formal document apparently of 16th-century English provenance, possibly relating to persons and properties in a parish of Shipton; with two paper fragments., 16th century, early 18th century.
The fragments were recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark K.107.a) of “Queen Anna`s new world of words” (London, 1611), by John Florio.
On one of the paper fragments, both of which had been used as endpapers, part of an inscription, "... Pryce 04:00:00 Tho Pringle", written apparently in an early 18th-century hand, can be read.
Two letters, 1893, of William Anderson to his colleague Hugh Goldie; fragments of his journal, 1889; copy of letters, 1841, of Mrs Margaret Cowan, Jamaica, to his aunt; and copies of poems., 1841-1893.
Two narrow strips of vellum which appear to be part of a partly printed formal document referring to persons in the parish of Stepney in the county of Middlesex., ?16th century or 17th century.
The fragments were recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark A.65.a.5) of ‘Description exacte des iles de l`archipel, et de quelques autres adjacentes (etc.)’ (Amsterdam, 1703), by Olfert Dapper.
The second fragment is almost completely blank.
Two parchment fragments apparently from the same folio volume, presumably a missal or breviary., 15th century.
The text is written in double columns, with rubrics in scarlet, and initials alternately in blue and scarlet.
The fragments were pasted together and used as a single binding strip in a copy (pressmark Ao.6.6) of ‘Stirpium Adversaria Nova’ (London, 1570) by Petrus Pena and Mathias de L’Obel.
Two short, nearly contiguous vertical strips of vellum from what appears to be a French legal document., 16th century.
The fragments had been used as binding strips in a copy (pressmark K.50.f) of ‘M. Acci Plauti comoediae viginti’ (Lugduni Batavorum, 1593).
Two small fragments of the manuscript of ‘The siege of Malta’ by Sir Walter Scott., 1831-1832.
Two small parchment fragments, each from a different formal document of French provenance., 16th century.
The fragments were recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark A.63.c.18) of ‘De origine et amplitudine ciuitatis Veronae’ (Veronae, 1540), by Torellus Sarayna.
Two small unrelated vellum fragments, both apparently from formal documents, the larger fragment mentioning the name of a deceased John Buzzard, and the smaller apparently referring to the sixth year of James (?VI and I; that is, 1572 or 1608)., ?Early 17th century.
The fragments were recovered from a composite volume of works by Martin Luther (pressmark L.157.h.3) beginning with his ‘Enarratio in tres Prophetas’ (Argentorati, 1536), where they had been used as binding strips.
Two strips of vellum, one a fragment of the lower part of an unidentified formal document in French, probably in a 16th-century hand; the other blank., ?16th century.
The fragments were recovered from a copy (pressmark K.16.e) of ‘De situ orbis’ (Basileae, 1356) by Dionysius Periegetes, where they had been used as binding strips.
Two unrelated parchment fragments; one apparently the top of a leaf from a work, possibly a volume of sermons, quoting John, 1, 12, and Exodus, 33, 6; the other apparently the top of a leaf of unidentified provenance, containing writing in a 14th-century hand., 14th century.
The fragments had been used as binding strips in a copy (pressmark K.58.f) of ‘Argonauticon Libri VIII’ (Antverpiae, 1565), by Valerius Flaccus (edited by L Carrio).
Two unrelated vellum fragments., 15th century, ?late 16th century.
The fragments were recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark K.5.f) of ‘Excerpta ex Tragoediis et Comoediis Graecis’ (Parisiis, 1626), by Hugo Grotius, where they had been used as binding strips. That recovered from the front of the volume is part of a formal document, possibly a late 16th-century precept of clare constat, mentioning Tamworth and persons and places nearby. That recovered from the back appears to be part of a list of names in a 15th-century hand.
Two vellum fragments consisting of the outer margins and the ends of lines of possibly consecutive leaves from an apparently religious or theological work., Late 13th century or early 14th century.
The fragments had been used as binding strips in a composite volume (pressmark K.41.f.1) containing ‘Aethiopicorum libri X’ ([Heidelberg,] 1596), by Heliodorus, and another work.
Two vellum fragments of leaves (or a leaf written in double columns) from an unidentified theological work written in a hand of the 14th century; with a number of paper leaves, most of which are blank., 14th century, 16th century.
Two vellum fragments stuck together, which appear to be from two unrelated English legal documents., ?16th century.
The larger of the fragments is apparently signed J Osborne at Westminster, 12 February 1563, and refers to one John Jeffery.
The fragments had been used as a binding strip in a copy (pressmark FF.1/2.14) of ‘Petri Canisii Societatis Jesu opus catechisticum’, (Lutetiæ Parisiorum, 1618), by Saint Peter [Canisius].
Two works on Islamic theology, copied, 19th century, in a coarse West African script, with interlinear and marginal notes., 19th century.
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Typescript drafts of ‘The last heir’ by Stephen Phillips: miscellaneous subsidiary material, mostly fragments of scenes, rough drafts, and notes, in typescript and in various hands., 1907-1908.
The volume also contains three letters to John Martin-Harvey.
Typescript drafts of ‘The last heir’ by Stephen Phillips: rejected version of Act II Scene 2; and miscellaneous subsidiary material., 1907-1908.
The first four drafts (MSS.7151-7157) are entitled 'The bride of Lammermoor'.
Typescripts of a Scots version of ‘Macbeth’ by Edith Anne Robertson., [Circa 1970.]
The papers consist of manuscript notes (folio 1), the typescript submitted to the BBC (folio 23), a carbon copy of the same text, heavily corrected in manuscript (folio 71), the corrected typescript of a later version (folio 117), and some fragments (folio 164).
Typescripts of and notes and fragments concerning 'Space Cat and the Deep Sea' by Ruthven Todd., 1966, undated.
The contents are as follows. (i)Draft typescript, with manuscript corrections, of 'Space Cat and the Deep Sea', 1966 (folio 1); (ii) Fair typescript, 1966 (folio 47); (iii) Miscellaneous notes and fragments, undated (folio 99).
Typescripts of MS.8865: Brief fragment of the journal, 1802, of John Harden, of another fragment, 1806, from a journal of Helen Allan, the sister of Jessy Harden, and of MS.8864: Four letters, 1805-1808, of Jessy Harden and Agnes Ranken., 1802-1808.
Jessy Harden's journal, essentially a series of family newsletters, was sent in instalments to her sister, Agnes Ranken, in India. Many of her husband's drawings were used to illustrate it. Journals and sketches alike survived because Agnes Ranken preserved them and eventually brought them back to Great Britain.
Typescripts of nine short stories by Violet Jacobs., 1921-[circa 1945], undated.
With the exception of the last (folio 158), a story set in India, of which the first four leaves are missing, they are all published in ‘The lum hat and other stories’. Much of 'The Wade Monument', and two leaves of 'Banny Firelocks' are missing. Also included are a letter from Oliver and Boyd, 1944, rejecting a proposal to publish a collection of short stories (folio 1), and a manuscript fragment of 'Banny Firelocks' (folio 37).