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Balcarres Papers.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.29.2.1-29.2.9a
Scope and Contents
In the original inventory (a copy of which is at MS.3581, folios 6-7) signed by Thomas Ruddiman, then Underkeeper of the Library, the papers are listed in thirty-eight bundles. Most of these were arranged and bound during the period 1820-1849. Of the remainder, Adv.MSS.19.1.24 and 29.2.9a were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that Adv.MS.19.1.24 belonged to the collection. Adv.MS.16.2.3, now a small quarto volume, had also become separated from the rest of the papers, but can be...
Dates:
1231-1686, and undated.
Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.15
Scope and Contents
Each volume has a contents list (folios 1, 77) and the second volume has its own foliation added in an apparently later hand.The first volume (folios 1-74) consists of copies (in the same hand), made apparently in or about 1585, of the following:(i) ‘Discorso del Priore d`Inghilterra a Papa Pio V circa la Riduttione di quel Regno’ (folio 2), being an account by Sir Richard Shelley, Grand Prior of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, written apparently early in 1570,...
Dates:
1537-1606.
Letter of John O`Brien, Liverpool, to Giuseppe Garibaldi.
File
Identifier: Acc.10364
Scope and Contents
Mentions statues of Garibaldi donated by George Clark Stanton,
Includes passport, undated, by Garribaldi to Stanton.
Dates:
1860.
Microfilm of romance of the lovers Pamphilia and Deiphebo.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.846
Dates:
Early 16th century.
Papers concerning a translation by Hamish Henderson of Antonio Gramsci "Lettere dal Carcere".
File
Identifier: Acc.10616
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence.
Dates:
1951-1974.