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A catalogue of the Harleian manuscripts in the British museum : with indexes of persons, places, and matters : printed by command of His Majesty King George III in pursuance of an address of the House of Commons of Great Britain.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Lea Collection Portfolio Z6621.B85 H3 1808 v.1-4
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- British Museum. Department of Manuscripts.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manuscripts--Great Britain--Catalogs.
- Manuscripts.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--History--Sources.
- History.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Sources.
- Penn Provenance:
- Royal Artillery Library (London, England) (bookplate) (Lea copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 volumes ; 45 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : [Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan], 1808-1812.
- Notes:
- Imprint from colophon at end of v. 1.
- Based on the catalogue begun 1708 by Humphrey Wanley, successively continued by D. Casley, W. Hocker and C. Morton, and published 1759[-1763] in 2 vols. Revised by Robert Nares, Stebbing Shaw, Joseph Planta and Francis Douce, with indexes by T.H. Horne. Published by direction of the Record commission.
- Includes indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries Lea copy: each vol. has bookplate ("Royal Artillery Library"), printed label with ms. shelf mark, and ms. duplicate note dated 1871 on front pastedown.
- Penn Libraries Lea copy: v. 1: boards detached; v. 2: upper board detached; v. 3: upper board, front free endpaper, half-title, title leaf and 2 leaves of text detached; v. 4: boards, last leaf of text and back free endpaper detached; backstrip mutilated.
- OCLC:
- 879381
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