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    Archive Collections
  • 1
    The George Gissing Collection
    1870-1999
    Ref:GB 133 GRG
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Gissing George Robert ( 1857-1903) Novelist.
    Extent:3 subfonds; 384 items
    Language:English
  • 2
    John Lydgate, The Siege of Troy
    Mid 15th century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 1
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: John Lydgate.
    Extent:1 volume. ii + 174 + iii folios. Dimensions: 450 x 325 mm. Collation: 1-21 8, 22 six (ff. 169-74). Medium: vellum. Binding: purple velvet-covered boards, rebacked in the 19th century in purple morocco; single ornate gilt catchplate on foredge of upper board (clasp and hinge missing)
    Language:Middle English
  • 3
    Glossary of South Lancashire Dialect
    19th century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 969
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: Samuel Bamford.
    Extent:230 x 83 mm. 1 volume (200 folios); . Binding: half-bound in calf, marbled paper-covered boards
    Language:English
  • 4
    Transcription of The Guide of Honour
    1692
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 417
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Authors: Anthony Stafford and Bishop Joseph Hall of Norwich.
    Extent:138 x 90 mm. 1 volume (ii + 46 + i folios);
    Language:English
  • 5
    Illuminated Manuscript of Dickens'A Christmas Carol
    20th century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 1224
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: Alan Lansdown Tabor.
    Extent:285 x 185 mm. 1 volume (iii + 55 + ii folios); Binding: bound by Fazakerley of Manchester in crushed red levant morocco with gold tooling and gilt edges
    Language:English
  • 6
    Manuscript of Hardy's A Tragedy of Two Ambitions
    [1888]
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS. 124
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: Thomas Hardy.
    Extent:Extent of unit of description: 260 x 205 mm. 1 volume (36 folios); Binding: full-bound in polished dark red morocco by W. & E. Bramhall
    Language:English
  • 7
    Oliver Madox Brown: Novels and Stories
    19th century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 1235
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: Oliver Madox Brown.
    Extent:various sizes. 381 items;
    Language:English
  • 8
    Papers of Giovanni Pontiero
    1983-1998
    Ref:GB 133 GPA
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Pontiero Giovanni 1932-1996 lecturer writer and translator.
    Extent:9 items
    Language:English and Portugeuse
  • 9
    Pricke of Conscience Manuscripts Collection
    Late 14th to 15th centuries
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MSS 50, 51, 90
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Unknown.
    Extent:3 items
    Language:Middle English and Latin
  • 10
    Papers of Harold Blundell (George Bellairs)
    1929-1982
    Ref:GB 133 BLU
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Blundell Harold 1902-1982 author and banker x pseudonym George Bellairs.
    Extent:0.8 linear metres
    Language:English and French
  • 11
    Mirror of the Life of Christ
    Mid 15th century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 98
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of translator: Nicholas Love.
    Extent:1 volume. ii + 140 + ii folios, foliated 1-140 (modern foliation). Dimensions: 300 x 200 mm. Collation: 1 8 lacking 1 and 2, 2-11 8, 12 8 lacking 5 after f. 90, 13-16 8, 17 8 lacking 2 after f. 126, 18 8 (leaf 8 was a pastedown). Quires are signed in the usual late medieval way. Two leaves are missing after, f. 90 and after f. 126. Condition: f. 1r is affected by damp-staining. Medium: vellum; paper flyleaves. Binding: full brown calf, rebacked in brown morocco, ?17th century
    Language:Middle English
  • 12
    L.P. Hartley Papers
    1914-1986
    Ref:GB 133 LPH
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Leslie Poles Hartley 1896-1972 novelist and essayist.
    Extent:10 linear metres
    Language:English
  • 13
    John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes
    Mid 15th century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 2
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: John Lydgate.
    Extent:1 volume. ii + 185 + ii folios, foliated 1-185 (modern foliation). Dimensions: 415 x 295 mm. Collation: 1-10 8, 11 8 lacking 6 after f. 85, 12-22 8, 23 10. Signatures of the usual late medieval kind, but only 't 1' remains intact (f. 144: 19 1). Medium: vellum. Binding: dark blue morocco, elaborate gilt roll borders, spine compartments richly gilt, 19th century
    Language:Middle English
  • 14
    Amable Tastu Collection
    1821-1865
    Ref:GB 133 AMT
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Sabine Casimire Amable Tastu née Voïart 1798-1885 writer.
    Extent:36 items
    Language:All items are in French
  • 15
    Meditations on the Life of Christ and other 15th-century manuscripts
    15th Century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 94
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Extent:Extent of unit of description: 1 volume (i + 168 + i folios); Medium: vellum
    Language:Middle English and Latin
  • 16
    Walter Savage Landor Papers
    1802-1864
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MSS 1237-1238
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: Walter Savage Landor.
    Extent:2 subfonds
    Language:English
  • 17
    Process of þe Passion; The Gospel of Nicodemus
    Mid 15th century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 895
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author Unknown.
    Extent:1 volume. 125 folios; ff. 111-124 have medieval foliation: iii-x, xiii-xv, xv (sic), xx, xxi. Dimensions: 230 x 137 mm. Collation: 1 16 lacking 1 and 16 (ff. 1-14), 2-9 12, 10 12 lacking 1, 2, 11 and 12 (ff. 111-118), 11 12 lacking 5-8 after f. 122 and 12, blank, after f. 125. Medium: vellum. Binding: contemporary binding of bevelled oak boards and pink-stained deer-skin; two strap-and-pin fastenings (only the upper pin and lower strap remain)
    Language:English and Latin
  • 18
    Thrale-Piozzi Manuscripts
    1732-1854
    Ref:GB 133 TPM
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Hester Lynch Piozzi née Salusbury afterwards Thrale.
    Extent:110 subfonds
    Language:English
  • 19
    Elizabeth Gaskell Manuscript Collection
    c 1840-1867
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MSS 726-734, 876-877
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Gaskell Elizabeth Cleghorn.
    Extent:11 subfonds
    Language:English
  • 20
    Joseph Green Collection of Medieval Religious Manuscripts
    Beginning 15th century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MSS 412-413
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Collector: Joseph Joshua Green.
    Extent:2 items
    Language:Middle English