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    Archive Collections
  • 1
    Spencer Manuscript: Notes and Statistics on the Slave Trade
    1751-1787
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 517
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Extent:various sizes. 1 volume (3 folio sheets guarded in);
  • 2
    Canterbury Tales Fragment
    2nd half 15th century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 63
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Chaucer Geoffrey.
    Extent:1 volume. iv + 2 + iv folios. Dimensions: 272 x 195 mm. A bifolium, leaves 2 and 7 in a quire, if the quire was of 8 leaves. Medium: vellum; paper flyleaves. Binding: quarter-bound in brown morocco, marbled paper-covered boards, by Fazakerley of Liverpool, for the John Rylands Library
    Language:Middle English
  • 3
    Theological Discourses by John Lewis
    18th Century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 49
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Lewis John.
    Extent:Extent of unit of description: 194 x 150 mm. 1 volume (106 folios);
    Language:English
  • 4
    A Voyage for Whaling and Discovery round Cape Horn into the Pacific Oceans
    c 1794-1801
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 53
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Colnett Captain James.
    Extent:Extent of unit of description: 294 x 213 mm. 1 volume (275 folios);
    Language:English
  • 5
    Collection of Engravings of Portraits of Painters
    18th Century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 60
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: Unknown.
    Extent:370 x 267 mm. 2 volumes (83 folios and 142 folios);
    Language:English
  • 6
    Hale's History of the Pleas of the Crown
    17th Century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 59
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: Sir Matthew Hale.
    Extent:Extent of unit of description: 307 x 200 mm. 1 volume (iv + 694 + viii folios);
    Language:English and Latin
  • 7
    Abecedario Pittorico, or the Virtuoso's Companion
    18th Century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 56
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi.
    Extent:Extent of unit of description: 325 x 205 mm. 2 volumes interleaved (281 folios, 242 folios);
    Language:English
  • 8
    Manual on Shorthand
    1724
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 52
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: James Weston (1688-1751) Stenographer.
    Extent:Extent of unit of description: 235 x 179 mm. 1 volume (44 folios);
    Language:English
  • 9
    Catalogues of the Spencer Library
    18th to 19th Centuries
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MSS 64-67, 69, 72, 74
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Created by George John 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834) And others.
    Extent:7 subfonds
    Language:English and Latin
  • 10
    Collation of the Printed Mainz Psalter of 1457
    1888 [Collation of 1457 printed Psalter]
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 70
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: Russell Martineau 1831-1898.
    Extent:322 x 199 mm. 1 volume (24 folios);
    Language:English and some Latin
  • 11
    Index to General Conway's Pamphlet Collection
    18th Century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 48
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: Unknown but possibly Henry Seymour Conway.
    Extent:Extent of unit of description: 204 x 158 mm. 2 volumes (78 folios, 111 folios);
    Language:English
  • 12
    Mordaunt Letter-Book
    n.d. [c 1669]
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 55
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    John Mordaunt first Viscount Mordaunt of Avalon (1626-1675).
    Extent:365 x 245 mm. 245 folios, plus two separated sections of 2 folios each;
    Language:English
  • 13
    David Garrick: Lethe, or Aesop in the Shades
    18th Century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 57
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: David Garrick (1717-1779) Actor and playwright.
    Extent:Extent of unit of description: 226 x 181 mm. 1 volume (ii + 51 + ii folios);
    Language:English
  • 14
    Remarks on Collier's Ecclesiastical History
    18th Century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 47
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: John Lewis 1675-1747 antiquarian and theologian.
    Extent:303 x 178 mm. 1 volume (470 folios);
    Language:English
  • 15
    Althorp-Spencer Bibliographical Letters and Papers
    17th to 19th Century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 915
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Authors: various but include Reverend Thomas Frognall Dibdin Richard Bentley Philip Bliss and Frederick James Furnivall.
    Extent:68 items
    Language:English
  • 16
    Thomas Frognall Dibdin Collection
    Early 19th Century [1802-1849]
    Ref:GB 133 DIB
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Names of Authors: Various but mainly Reverend Thomas Frognall Dibdin It is assumed that the authorship of each manuscript is the Rev Dibdin unless otherwise stated.
    Extent:6 subfonds, 14 items
    Language:English