Manuscripts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to handwritten documents, and may also be used to distinguish certain documents from published or otherwise printed documents, as in the cases of typed personal letters or a typescript from which printed versions are made.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Fair copy in the hand of Mary Shelley of 'Don Juan', cantos 6, 7 and 8, by Lord Byron, with manuscript annotations and notes by Lord Byron., 1822.
Item
Identifier: MS.43333
Scope and Contents
Title page, folio 1.
Preface in Byron's hand dated 1822, folios 2-4.
Fair copy of 'Don Juan' canto 6 in the hand on Mary Shelley with corrections by Byron, dated 1822, folios 5-21.
Fair copy of 'Don Juan' canto 7 in the hand on Mary Shelley with corrections by Byron, dated 1822, folios 22-32.
Fair copy of 'Don Juan' canto 8 in the hand on Mary Shelley with corrections by Byron, undated, folios 33-48.
Dates:
1822.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Papers of and relating to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet.
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Manuscripts of poems, plays and prose of or relating to Lord Byron and his circle.
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Manuscripts and fair copies mainly of the narrative poetry of Lord Byron.
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Manuscripts of 'Don Juan', a poem by Lord Byron; with a fair copy of cantos VI, VII and VIII in the hand of Mary Shelley.
Manuscripts of works and translations by Lord Byron; with some copy in the hands of Lady Byron, Charles Hanson, John Cam Hobhouse, Augusta Leigh, John Murray [II], and Mary Shelley., 1807-1823, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.43348
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts here have been broadly arranged in chronological order. First lines are given in brackets after the title of the poem. ‘Lord Byron: Complete poetical works’, edited by Jermone McGann, has been used in some of the following descriptions.Corrected manuscript draft of an untitled poem (“As relics left of saints above …”) in the hand of Byron, undated [?1806]: folio 1;Corrected manuscript of ‘Parody on Sir W. Jones’s Translation from Hafiz – “Sweet...
Dates:
1807-1823, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of John Murray, publishers.
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Papers of and relating to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet.
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Manuscripts of poems, plays and prose of or relating to Lord Byron and his circle.
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Manuscripts, fair copies, fragments and material relating to the non-narrative poems of Lord Byron.
Volume containing manuscript poems of Lord Byron and some letters of various correspondents; with a manuscript catalogue relating to manuscripts and correspondence of Lord Byron., ?1811-1831, undated.
Item
Identifier: MS.43341
Scope and Contents
There are here two volumes. The first contains a number of manuscripts of the poetry of Byron, with some correspondence of and to Byron.The content has been listed in the order in which it appears in the volume. For poetical works, first lines are given in brackets after the title of the poem. The manuscripts are in the hand of Byron unless otherwise stated; pencil notes are in an unidentified hand.‘Lord Byron: Complete poetical works’, edited by...
Dates:
?1811-1831, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
/
Archive of John Murray, publishers.
/
Papers of and relating to George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet.
/
Manuscripts of poems, plays and prose of or relating to Lord Byron and his circle.
/
Manuscripts, fair copies, fragments and material relating to the non-narrative poems of Lord Byron.