Manuscripts




  • 9th-18th Century Manuscripts (MS 1-1221)
    Mediaeval manuscripts and collections of personal papers.


  • Musical and Liturgical Manuscripts
    Manuscripts on musical or liturgical themes.


  • Carew Papers (MS 596-638)
    Papers of Sir George Carew collected whilst he was President of Munster.


  • Bacon Papers (MS 647-662)
    Papers of Anthony Bacon, private secretary for foreign affairs to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.


  • Shrewsbury Papers (MS 694-710)
    Papers of the Earls of Shrewsbury, from the 15th to the 17th centuries.


  • Gibson Papers (MS 929-942)
    Papers belonging to Edmund Gibson, Lambeth Librarian and later Bishop of London.


  • Notitia Parochialis (MS 960-965)
    Parochial returns from 1500 incumbents to an enquiry into the value of benefices in 1705.


  • Secker Papers (MS 1118-1128, MS 1130, MS 1134)
    Correspondence and papers brought together by Archbishop Secker.


  • Greek Manuscripts (MS 1175-1207)
    Manuscripts collected during his visits to the East by J.D.Carlyle.


  • MS 1222...1860
    Miscellaneous manuscripts acquired mainly between 1812 and 1970.


  • Selborne Papers (MS 1861-1906)
    Papers of Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne, and members of his family.


  • MS 1907...2340
    Miscellaneous manuscripts acquired mainly between 1958 and 1969, dating from the 13th to the 20th century.


  • MS 2341...3119
    Miscellaneous manuscripts mainly acquired since 1968, dating from the 13th to the 20th century.


  • The Queen Anne Churches (MS 2690-2750)

    Papers of the Commission for the Building of Fifty New Churches, appointed by Act of Parliament in 1711.



  • MS 3120...3469
    Miscellaneous manuscripts principally acquired since 1980, and dating mainly from 1660 onwards.


  • Talbot Papers (MS 3192-3206)
    Papers of the Earls of Shrewsbury, purchased by the Library in 1983.


  • Fairhurst Papers (MS 3470-3533)
    Correspondence originally located in Archbishop William Laud's study at the time of his imprisonment.


  • MS 3534...3598
    Miscellaneous manuscripts acquired between 1988 and 1991, dating from the 13th to the 20th century.


  • MS 3599-
    Miscellaneous manuscripts acquired and catalogued since 1991, dating from the 12th century onwards.


  • Isaac Williams Papers (MS 4473-9)
    Papers of the leading Tractarian, Revd Isaac Williams.


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