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Item — Box Or Ms 687 - Box 4: Series Or Ms 687
Identifier: Or Ms 687/36
Scope and Contents
Transcription of original label: "Copy of the original "Farman" i.e., the order granted in 1717 by the Mughal King Farukh Sharh to the East India Company to carry on their trade in the provinces of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. With various pieces of Latin and English translation."
Dates:
undated
Item — Box CLX-A-355
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0029
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a compiled work entitled Gutachten des hochsten Gericht[s]hofes Schottlands nebst anderen Documenten, welche sich auf die Errichtung der Professur der Musik bei der Universitat von Edinburgh beziehen (Edinburgh, 1853), edited and with an introduction by John Donaldson, Reid Professor of the Theory of Music at the University of Edinburgh. The English title is 'Judgement of the court session of Scotland with other documents relating to the...
Dates:
1853 (date of the original)
Series — Box CLX-A-337: Series Coll-1711/1; Series Coll-1711/3; Series Coll-1711/2
Identifier: Coll-1711/1
Scope and Contents
This series comprises:
- The personal correspondence of Joseph Joachim from 1847 to 1909, including a group of approximately 35 letters sent to his nephew Harold Joachim.
- Later correspondence regarding Joseph Joachim, mostly from family and friends, from 1899 to 2002.
Dates:
1847-2002
Series — Box CLX-A-1122: Series Coll-1383/4
Identifier: Coll-1383/4
Scope and Contents
Series of letters from various correspondents, on various subjects. See individual descriptions for more details.
Dates:
? 1597-1931
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-203/B3
Scope and Contents
A series of letters sent by Charles Lyell, to others. Some of these correspondents also appear in the two A-Z series. It is not clear why these letters have been separated from earlier series of records, however they may have been gathered together by Katharine Lyell in her editorial of 'Life, Letters and Journals', with some marked 'not copied', published or unpublished.
Agassiz Memorial Fund
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Dates:
1829-1874
Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-1711/1/2
Scope and Contents
This subseries comprises correspondence regarding Joseph Joachim, mostly from family and friends, from 1899 to 2002.
Dates:
1899-2002
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-203/B1
Scope and Contents
This series of correspondence is arranged alphabetically, A-Z. Each correspondent has been assigned a file number – there may be several folders within that file, evidencing the longevity and depth of the relationship between Lyell and the correspondent.
Lyell himself, Mary or Arabella Buckley have mostly recorded a summary of the contents of the correspondence, either on the letter itself, or, on the associated envelope. These summaries have been used as the basis of the catalogue...
Dates:
1826-c. 1884
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Coll-146/A
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Consists of inscribed and annotated books from Koestler's library, along with English-language editions and translations of his work into many languages; and Koestler's manuscripts and papers from 1940 to March 1983. Also contains correspondence with or about members of Koestler's family; personal material including diaries, address books, medical files and other personal documents; literary manuscripts including interviews, broadcasts and speeches; correspondence with specific people;...
Dates:
1939-1993
Part
Identifier: MS 149/ ff. 29r-32v
Contents
The last four folios of MS 149 contain copies of a document concerning forms of absolution, from between 1464 and 1471. ff. 30v-32v containing these documents are bound with the text parallel to the binding, different from the other text in this manuscript, and indeed from ff. 29r, 30v-32v.F. 30r contains 12 lines of English and Latin verse, including As the moone taks of the soon light both far and also ner, So doith a Foole of a wyse man wytt by the...
Dates:
15th century
Series — Box CLX-A-1121: Series Coll-1383/3; Series Coll-1383/5
Identifier: Coll-1383/3
Scope and Contents
Series of documents relating to religion or to the Church, such as printed pamphlets on various popes, a manuscript on Locke's disputes with the bishop of Worcester, a theological essay in French about the question of free will, a petition, and a commentary on the bible. Also includues a collection of approx. 30 palm leaf manuscripts in Burmese, probably religious.
Dates:
1579-mid 19th century