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Tibetan Tantric Manuscripts from Dunhuang: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Stein Collection at the British Library

Jacob Dalton,Sam van Schaik

This heavily indexed descriptive catalogue provides an indispensable doorway into the Tibetan Dunhuang collections. Its publication promises to make possible many further studies of these long-neglected treasures, particular those relating…

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Three Gandhari Ekottarikagama-Type Sutras: British Library Kharosthi Fragments 12 and 14

Mark Allon

This is volume two of ‘Gandharan Buddhist Texts’, a series that presents editions and studies of the first-century A.D. birch bark scrolls in the British Library’s Kharosthi manuscript collection.

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Publish and be Free: A catalogue of clandestine books printed in The Netherlands 1940-1945 in the British Library

In May 1970 the 25th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands was celebrated in the King’s Library of the British Museum with an ex hibition of Dutch clandestine printing.

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A Guide to the Autograph Letters, Manuscripts, Original Charters: And Royal, Baronial, and Ecclesiastical Seals Exhibited in the Department of Manuscripts and in the King’s Library

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A Guide to the Autograph Letters, Manuscripts, Original Charters - And Royal, Baronial, and Ecclesiastical Seals Exhibited in the Department of Manuscripts and in the King’s Library is an unchanged…

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The Index Library; 32 (1649-1714), pt. 2, L-Z

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Travelling Library. Finding List

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The British Colonial Library: In 12 Volumes, Volume 3

Robert Montgomery Martin

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Catalogue Of Books Printed In The Xvth Century Now In The British Museum

This meticulously researched catalogue provides an invaluable resource for scholars and collectors of early printed books. With detailed descriptions and provenance information for each item, this book sheds new light…

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Catalogue Of Books Printed In The Xvth Century Now In The British Museum

This meticulously researched catalogue provides an invaluable resource for scholars and collectors of early printed books. With detailed descriptions and provenance information for each item, this book sheds new light…

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Catalogue of a Selection from the Stowe Manuscripts, Exhibited in the King’s Library in the British Museum

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Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years …, Volume 3

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The Index Library; Ser. 1 & 2, Vol. 3, Pt. 1, A-F (1889)

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The Feral Piers: A Reader’s Experience of the British Library Cotton Caligula A XI Manuscript of Piers Plowman

Rosanne P. Gasse

What do we mean when we talk about the text of Piers Plowman? What is the concept of a literary text when that construct exists in so many variant and…

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Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century now in the British Library (BMC). Part XIII: Hebraica

The Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century Now in the British Museum (British Library), generally referred to as BMC, is a monument in the history of the book…

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Der Lateinisch-Altenglische Libellus Precum in Der Handschrift London, British Library, Arundel 155

Dominik Kuhn

Die Arbeit bietet eine Edition der 40 lateinischen Privatgebete und ihrer altenglischen Glossierung in der Psalterhandschrift Arundel 155 (aus Canterbury, 11. Jh.). Inhaltlich und sprachlich fugt sich dieser Libellus precum…

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Studies in the Harley Manuscript: The Scribes, Contents, and Social Contexts of British Library MS Harley 2253

This book is the first comprehensive examination of a manuscript that is of supreme value to literary scholars of medieval English literature.

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John Hardyng, Chronicle: Edited from British Library MS Lansdowne 204: Volume 1

One of a handful of texts from the last years of Henry VI’s reign, John Hardyng’s first Chronicle, written in 18,782 lines of verse and seven folios of prose, offers…

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Gandharan Avadanas: British Library Kharosthi Fragments 1-3 and 21 and Supplementary Fragments A-C

Timothy Lenz

Features editions and studies of five fragmentary scrolls containing collections of avadanas, or edifying stories. This title presents manuscript fragments that comprise twenty-one avadanas that briefly summarize stories, typically furnishing…

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The Guild Book of the Barbers and Surgeons of York (British Library, Egerton MS 2572): Study and Edition

A new exploration of the secular manuscripts and medieval medical texts associated with the York Guild and its members.

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Die Glossen Der HS. British Library, Cotton Cleopatra A. III: Phonologie, Morphologie, Wortgeographie

Wolfgang Kittlick

Mit der systematischen sprachwissenschaftlichen Untersuchung der im 10. Jahrhundert aus zum Teil wesentlich alterem Material kompilierten -Cleopatraglossare- schliesst die Arbeit eine Lucke in der altenglischen Glossenforschung. Nach einer Analyse der…

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Munimenta Gildhallae Londoniensis

This historic volume brings together three important records of the City of London: the 'Liber Albus', a collection of statutes and regulations of the city dating back to the 14th…

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Catalogue Rules Supplementary to Catalogue Rules, Author and Title Entries Compiled by Committees of the American Library Association and the (British) Library Association. American Ed. Boston, 1908.

John Crerar Library

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Library Edition of the British Poets

George Gilfillan,William Shakespeare

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Catalogue of the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society

This book is a comprehensive catalogue of the British and Foreign Bible Society's library, including works in many languages and on a wide range of genres and subjects. Scholars, historians…

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John Mirk’s Festial: Edited from British Library MS Cotton Claudius A. II, Volume 2

First edition for over 100 years of The Festial, by the Augustinian canon John Mirk, of Lilleshall Abbey, the best known medieval sermon collection. Volume 2 completes the edition begun…

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Moses the Egyptian in the Illustrated Old English Hexateuch (London, British Library Cotton MS Claudius B.iv)

Herbert R. Broderick

Broderick argues that the iconography of Moses in a famous eleventh-century manuscript has Hellenistic Egyptian origins.

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The Lady Jane Grey’s Prayer Book: British Library Harley Manuscript 2342, Fully Illustrated and Transcribed

J Stephan Edwards

British Library Harley Manuscript 2342, known as The Lady Jane Grey’s Prayer Book, photographically reproduced in its entirety and accompanied by a precise transcription of the text plus that same…

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The Lady Jane Grey’s Prayer Book: British Library Harley Manuscript 2342, Fully Illustrated and Transcribed

J Stephan Edwards

Lady Jane Grey was among the first of the English Protestant martyrs. This is her personal prayer book, photographically reproduced in its entirety and accompanied by a precise transcription of…

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Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects (1865)

Royal Institute of British Architects

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…

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The Index Library; 32 (1649-1714), pt. 2, L-Z

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Wycliffe Exhibition in the King’s Library

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IBSS: Economics: 1968 Volume 17

Compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science,International Committee for Social Sciences Documentation

Presented in bilingual form (English/French), these bibliographies list the most important publications in the field of economics in 1986. Arranged in a decimal system of classification and including author and…

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Intl Biblio Econom 1969 Vol 18

International Committee for Social Sciences Documentation

Presented in bilingual form (English/French), these bibliographies list the most important publications in the field of economics in 1986. Arranged in a decimal system of classification and including author and…

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A Catalogue of Books in the Library

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Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the British Archaeological Society of Rome, Mdccclxxi.

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A Catalogue of the Kannada, Badaga, and Kurg Books in the Library of the British Museum

Discover the rich literary heritage of southern India with this comprehensive catalog of Kannada, Badaga, and Kurg books in the British Museum Library. Featuring detailed descriptions of over 2000 books…

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Anglo-Saxon Prognostics: An Edition and Translation of Texts from London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius A.iii.

Edition and translation of prognostic guides and calendars, intended as an effort to foretell the future.

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A New Version of the Gandhari Dharmapada and a Collection of Previous-Birth Stories: British Library Kharosthi Fragments 16 + 25

Timothy Lenz

Presents an examination of the British Library Kharosthi scrolls, which are fragile and brittle fragments of manuscript on birch-bark rolls. This book presents two texts, one representing an anthology of…

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The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist V: Manuscripts in the Additional Collection 10001-14000, British Library, London

Peter Brown (Customer),Elton D. Higgs (Author)

The great scholar and palaeographer Sir Frederic Madden (1801-73) was Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum (as it then was) when most of the items in this Handlistwere acquired…

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The Household Roll of Eleanor de Montfort, Countess of Leicester and Pembroke, 1265: British Library, Additional MS 8877

Edition with English translation of a document shedding huge light on one of the most important figures of her time.

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Coronation Exhibition: Manuscripts, Printed Books, Prints, Drawings and Medals Exhibited in the Kings’s Library of the … Museum

Edward VII

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A Guide to the Printed Books Exhibited to the Public in the Grenville Library and King’s Library. [By J. Winter Jones]

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Prince Philip & Queen Elizabeth II: The biography - Long Live Her Majesty, the British Crown, and the 73-year Royal Marriage Portrait

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Prince Philip was born on the island of Corfu in Greece, on June 10, 1921. As members of Greek and Danish royalty, Philip and his family were banished from his…

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A Catalogue of the Books Relating to British Topography, and Saxon and Northern Literature: Bequeathed to the Bodleian Library in the Year MDCCXCIX by Richard Gough, Esq. F.S.A.

Richard Gough (1735-1809), director of the Society of Antiquities for over twenty-five years, was an eighteenth-century authority on British topography and an eager proponent of Saxonist scholarship. Published in 1814…

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This set of previously-out-of-print titles reissues a selection of classic works on India. These range from works on the Indian princes, the palaces of the Raj, the plight of the…

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Tibetan Tantric Manuscripts from Dunhuang: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Stein Collection at the British Library

Three Gandhari Ekottarikagama-Type Sutras: British Library Kharosthi Fragments 12 and 14

Publish and be Free: A catalogue of clandestine books printed in The Netherlands 1940-1945 in the British Library

A Guide to the Autograph Letters, Manuscripts, Original Charters: And Royal, Baronial, and Ecclesiastical Seals Exhibited in the Department of Manuscripts and in the King’s Library

The Index Library; 32 (1649-1714), pt. 2, L-Z

Travelling Library. Finding List

The British Colonial Library: In 12 Volumes, Volume 3

Catalogue Of Books Printed In The Xvth Century Now In The British Museum

Catalogue Of Books Printed In The Xvth Century Now In The British Museum

Catalogue of a Selection from the Stowe Manuscripts, Exhibited in the King’s Library in the British Museum

Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years …, Volume 3

The Index Library; Ser. 1 & 2, Vol. 3, Pt. 1, A-F (1889)

The Feral Piers: A Reader’s Experience of the British Library Cotton Caligula A XI Manuscript of Piers Plowman

Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century now in the British Library (BMC). Part XIII: Hebraica

Der Lateinisch-Altenglische Libellus Precum in Der Handschrift London, British Library, Arundel 155

Studies in the Harley Manuscript: The Scribes, Contents, and Social Contexts of British Library MS Harley 2253

John Hardyng, Chronicle: Edited from British Library MS Lansdowne 204: Volume 1

Gandharan Avadanas: British Library Kharosthi Fragments 1-3 and 21 and Supplementary Fragments A-C

The Guild Book of the Barbers and Surgeons of York (British Library, Egerton MS 2572): Study and Edition

Die Glossen Der HS. British Library, Cotton Cleopatra A. III: Phonologie, Morphologie, Wortgeographie

Munimenta Gildhallae Londoniensis

Catalogue Rules Supplementary to Catalogue Rules, Author and Title Entries Compiled by Committees of the American Library Association and the (British) Library Association. American Ed. Boston, 1908.

Library Edition of the British Poets

Catalogue of the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society

John Mirk’s Festial: Edited from British Library MS Cotton Claudius A. II, Volume 2

Moses the Egyptian in the Illustrated Old English Hexateuch (London, British Library Cotton MS Claudius B.iv)

The Lady Jane Grey’s Prayer Book: British Library Harley Manuscript 2342, Fully Illustrated and Transcribed

The Lady Jane Grey’s Prayer Book: British Library Harley Manuscript 2342, Fully Illustrated and Transcribed

Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects (1865)

The Index Library; 32 (1649-1714), pt. 2, L-Z

Wycliffe Exhibition in the King’s Library

IBSS: Economics: 1968 Volume 17

Intl Biblio Econom 1969 Vol 18

A Catalogue of Books in the Library

Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the British Archaeological Society of Rome, Mdccclxxi.

Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum

A Catalogue of the Kannada, Badaga, and Kurg Books in the Library of the British Museum

Anglo-Saxon Prognostics: An Edition and Translation of Texts from London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius A.iii.

A New Version of the Gandhari Dharmapada and a Collection of Previous-Birth Stories: British Library Kharosthi Fragments 16 + 25

The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist V: Manuscripts in the Additional Collection 10001-14000, British Library, London

The Household Roll of Eleanor de Montfort, Countess of Leicester and Pembroke, 1265: British Library, Additional MS 8877

Coronation Exhibition: Manuscripts, Printed Books, Prints, Drawings and Medals Exhibited in the Kings’s Library of the … Museum

A Guide to the Printed Books Exhibited to the Public in the Grenville Library and King’s Library. [By J. Winter Jones]

Prince Philip & Queen Elizabeth II: The biography - Long Live Her Majesty, the British Crown, and the 73-year Royal Marriage Portrait

A Catalogue of the Books Relating to British Topography, and Saxon and Northern Literature: Bequeathed to the Bodleian Library in the Year MDCCXCIX by Richard Gough, Esq. F.S.A.

Routledge Library Editions: British in India

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