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Fragments.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Portions of something that are torn, broken off from, or dislocated from their original whole.

Found in 259 Collections and/or Records:

Two fragments, undated, of manuscripts of articles by James Grant., [Before 1888.]

 File
Identifier: MS.8882
Scope and Contents

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 Both articles appear to be unpublished.

Dates: [Before 1888.]

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.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.45
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 16th century, early 18th century.

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.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.44
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: ?16th century or 17th century.

Two parchment fragments apparently from the same folio volume, presumably a missal or breviary., 15th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.11
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 15th century.

Two short, nearly contiguous vertical strips of vellum from what appears to be a French legal document., 16th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.47
Scope and Contents

The fragments had been used as binding strips in a copy (pressmark K.50.f) of ‘M. Acci Plauti comoediae viginti’ (Lugduni Batavorum, 1593).

Dates: 16th century.

Two small parchment fragments, each from a different formal document of French provenance., 16th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.43
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 16th century.

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.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.24
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: ?Early 17th century.

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.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.33
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: ?16th century.

Two unrelated vellum fragments., 15th century, ?late 16th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.32
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 15th century, ?late 16th century.

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.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.40
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: Late 13th century or early 14th century.

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.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.22
Scope and Contents The portions of text visible in the vellum fragments appear to relate to the Creation, or to the events related in Genesis. The names of Ambrose (twice) and Augustine are mentioned, possibly for purposes of citation.All the items were recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark K.66.d) of ‘Orationum uolumen primum [-tertium]’ (Parisiis, 1543), by Cicero. The vellum fragments had been used as binding strips; two of the paper leaves, containing a number of unintelligible...
Dates: 14th century, 16th century.

Two vellum fragments stuck together, which appear to be from two unrelated English legal documents., ?16th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.38
Scope and Contents

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].

Dates: ?16th century.

Two works on Islamic theology, copied, 19th century, in a coarse West African script, with interlinear and marginal notes., 19th century.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.1896-1897
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 19th century.

Typescripts of a Scots version of ‘Macbeth’ by Edith Anne Robertson., [Circa 1970.]

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Identifier: MS.26979
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: [Circa 1970.]

Typescripts of and notes and fragments concerning 'Space Cat and the Deep Sea' by Ruthven Todd., 1966, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.26853
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1966, undated.

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.

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Identifier: MS.8870 (3)
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 1802-1808.

Typescripts of nine short stories by Violet Jacobs., 1921-[circa 1945], undated.

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Identifier: MS.27412
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1921-[circa 1945], undated.

Various manuscripts and fragments, almost all undated, in the autograph of Hugh Miller., 1819-[1852, or before.]

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Identifier: MS.7518
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Two 'Descriptive Letters' probably intended for publication and signed 'M--r', concerning a visit to Edinburgh in 1824 (folio 1);(ii) Fragmentary notebooks, 1819-1820, undated, mainly containing poems, some of which were published with many alterations in ‘Poems written in the leisure hours of a journeyman mason’ (Edinburgh, 1829) (folio 10);(iii) Description of the parish of Cromarty: basically the text of the description...
Dates: 1819-[1852, or before.]

Various works edited by Christopher Murray Grieve, 'Hugh MacDiarmid'., [1940, or before]-1953.

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Identifier: MS.27077
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Fragmentary manuscripts and typescripts of ‘The golden treasury of Scottish poetry’, selected and edited by Hugh MacDiarmid (London, 1940). (Folio 1.) It includes a letter of MacDiarmid to the publisher commenting on the introduction. (Folio 58.) (ii) Draft introduction, notes and partial typescript of an anthology of work by Scottish poets, circa 1950. (Folio 64.) (iii) Introduction and part of the text and page-proofs of ‘Selected poems of William Dunbar’,...
Dates: [1940, or before]-1953.

Vellum and paper fragments from various manuscripts and printed sources, all recovered from the binding of the same work., 1522, or before.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.13
Scope and Contents The fragments are as follows:(i)-(iv) Two vellum and two paper fragments from unidentified works which are not recorded in ‘Patrologia Latina’. Fragments (i) and (ii) are from the same source, and fragment (i) has a printed fragment pasted across its top.(v)-(xvii) Thirteen fragments, all of which are bifolia from which the tops of the leaves have been cut, of a work apparently summarizing the New Testament or the Bible. Fragments (v)-(x) relate to Matthew Chapters...
Dates: 1522, or before.