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A catalogue of the manuscripts at Ashburnham place.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manuscripts--Great Britain--Catalogs.
- Manuscripts.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 88 unnumbered pages ; 43 x 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by C. F. Hodgson, 1853.
- Notes:
- Includes, in addition to the collection known as the "Appendix," the Libri mss., bought by Lord Ashburnham in 1847, and the Stowe and Barrois mss. acquired in 1849.
- The Stowe mss. were purchased from the estate in 1883 by the British museum, the Irish mss. being transferred to the library of the Royal Irish academy at Dublin. The British museum issued a catalogue of the collection in 1895-96.
- In 1884 the Italian government bought all but 100 of the Libri mss. and deposited them in the R. Biblioteca mediceo-laurenziana at Florence. The remaining 100 of the Libri mss. and 66 of the Barrois were turned over in 1888 to the Bibliothèque nationale, having been proved to be mss. stolen from French libraries. The Bibliothèque nationale also bought 69 ms. at the auction sale of the remainder of the Barrois collection June 10-14, 1901. The "Appendix" as bought by Henry Yates Thompson in 1898, and, after some of the mss. had been selected for his own collection, the remaining 177 were sold by auction May 1st, 1889.
- Photocopy. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania, 1983.
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