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  • 1
    1790-1799
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 1240
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: Thomas Lambard (Lambarde).
    Extent:200 x 160 mm. 1 volume (i + 64 + i folios); Binding: red cloth binding stamped in gilt, 'Kent Sermons. MSS. Lambarde. 1794.'
    Language:English
  • 2
    1824-1831
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 1332
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: Unknown.
    Extent:162 x 98 mm. 1 volume. 20 folios, paginated [1], 2-33, [34-40 blank]. Medium: wove paper, watermarked '1825'. Binding: marbled paper covers
    Language:English
  • 3
    17th century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 1158
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: Christopher Feake.
    Extent:200 x 150 mm. 1 volume (221 folios); Binding: contemporary calf binding. Condition: both boards are detached
    Language:English
  • 4
    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
  • 5
    1st half 15th century [1432?]
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 109
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: Unknown.
    Extent:1 volume. vi + 123 + ii folios, foliated (i-iii), 1-126, (127-8) (modern foliation). A now damaged foliation in the hand of item 4, ff. 1-143, repeats two numbers, 23 or 24 and 27 or 28, and takes account of fourteen of the leaves missing from item 3; it was made when items 1 and 2 were in their present state, when the first leaf of item 3 was out of place and the second leaf missing and when the gap after f. 101 already existed (Ker). Dimensions: 283 x 205 mm. Collation of ff. 4-126 and Norwich ff. 1-8: 1 20 lacking 1 and 16-20 (16-20 were probably blank), 2 nineteen (ff. 18-36), 3 12 lacking 2 and 12 (ff. 54, 37-45), 4 12 lacking 7 and 11 (ff. 46-51; Norwich ff. 5-7; f. 52), 5 12 lacking 2 and 3 after f. 53 and 7-9 after f. 57 (ff. 53, 56-60), 6 12 lacking 7-9 after f. 66, 7 12 lacking 10-12 (ff. 70-4; Norwich ff. 1-4), 8 four (ff. 75-8), 9 14 (ff. 79-92), 10 12 lacking 5-7 after f. 96, 11 16 (ff. 102-17), 12 10 (ff. 118-22; Norwich f. 8; ff. 123-6). Condition: ff. 59-60 are torn, with significant loss of text towards the foredges; generally the manuscript is damp-affected, with some staining and abrasion to the edges of leaves. Medium: paper, except ff. 75-8 which are vellum. Binding: blind-tooled calf binding, 19th century
    Language:Middle English and Latin
  • 6
    1661-1662
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 960
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: William Benn.
    Extent:179 x 114 mm. 1 volume (445 folios); Condition: slightly imperfect, lacking the first three leaves; original numbering 7-896. Binding: full bound by Bramhall and Menzies in black book-cloth
    Language:English
  • 7
    1680-1681
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 1415
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: Sarah Henry.
    Extent:88 x 142 mm. 1 volume. c.388 pp. Medium: paper. Binding: brown leather over paste boards; spine reinforced with calf, probably in the 19th century. Condition: some abrasion to the edges of leaves, with minor loss of text; first two sections of textblock loose
    Language:English
  • 8
    17th to 19th centuries
    Ref:GB 133 RAF
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Collector: Reverend Thomas Raffles.
    Extent:20 subfonds; 67 items
    Language:Predominantly English. One manuscript is in Tahitian and there are occasional autograph letters, etc., in other languages