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Scottish poetry An album of manuscript poems attributed to Miss Munro, Miss Cranston, Mr Nayley, Mrs Burrel, Mr Bannatine, Mr Dunlop, Sir Robert Murray, including Ode to Lady Betty Hamilton by Doctor Rossie, Epitaph on the Duke of Hamilton by Dr. Moore to the Duchess of Argyle, Oscar's Ghost, Epitaph on Dr. Stevenson, written by Mr Dunlop at the desire of the Hodge-podge club, contemporary half calf, 4to, [c.1800]; and a short A.L.S. from Compton Mackenzie and Gore Vidal

A good collection of pre-stamp covers and entires, various marks inc:- 1d post, straight line mileage, manuscript and free front.

CORNISH MANUSCRIPT. Interesting 84 page account book 1795-1812 firm of haberdashers, jewellers, watch repairers (possibly Jewish merchant's). accounts noticed:- Rose Price 1795; Mr Joseph Batten, Penzance Quay, 1796; Mr Harvey Junr, Hayle, 1797; Mr John Pentriath, Mousehole 1796; Mr John Hampton for the Poor of Penzance, 1810; Mr Sam Tregarthen, Scilly, 1805. Many of goods sent sailling Packets, Gun Brigs etc. tall 8vo, some fraying and holing discovered circa 1914 at J.W. Meek & Sons.

LARKIN (PHILIP) "The Less Deceived." 1st edn with Floor for sea page 38, flat spine, orig cl, dj, 8vo, unclipped, Marvell Press, 1955 vg copy; inserted 5 line manuscript verse possibly in Larkin's hand. (See illustration)

Emigration Permit manuscript document dated 1856 permitting a German citizen to emigrate to the United States issued in Minden

Railways - West Midlands manuscript document on 3pp large legal folio dated 1852 being a petition from the Earl of Stamford to make a mineral railway at Amblecote, West Midlands, in order to develop his lucrative seams of coal and ironstone in the area, together with an amusing cartoon featuring a steam engine, circa early 19th c , a railway related booklet, a Deed of Settlement for the Railway Rolling Stock Company of Wolverhampton, an indenture on parchment dated 1868 for the North London Railway Co and a few other railway related items

Medieval leaf – Hours of the Virgin single leaf from an Hours of the Virgin, Paris, Phiippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, c1510, woodcut vignettes showing stages of the cross, printed black letter text with manuscript illuminated capitals in blue, gold, and red, fine condition. Matted for framing, approx 4x6ins

Horses and Hunting fine group of documents relating to horses and hunting including a letter of attorney from Thomas Elyot of St Martins in the Fields, Middx, Master of the King’s Harehounds, regarding the collection of moneys due to his late father , Thomas Elyott, Groom of the Bedchamber, dated May 3rd 1679 with the seal of Thomas Elyott; a letter from Sir William Craven to the Earl of Craven with detailed assessment of a horse, dated May 2nd 1674; an incomplete notice for the meeting of Sir J H Preston’s Harriers, undated; a manuscript document being the appointment of a gamekeeper in the manors of Hackness and Burmistone, Yorks, by Sir John van Bempde Johndson Bt – a draft dated 1823, and a hunting permit issued in France in 1876.

Royalty – Scotland – the Bowes Lyon family Bound volume of mainly manuscript documents charting the bitter law suit found for five years from 1821 concerning the destiny of the Earldom of Strathmore and Kinghorne in Scotland, including legal depositions, statements, opinions etc etc. Probably the entire case and presumably the only papers still to survive concerning this remarkable case. John Lyon-Bowes the 10th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, an ancestor of the Queen Mother (and also obviously of the present Queen) had had a long liaison with a commoner, Mary Milner, with whom he had a son called John Bowes. In 1820 hours before his death, the Earl married Mary at his home in County Durham. As a result, his younger brother , Thomas Lyon- Bowes, objected to the titles and lands passing to the young boy, John Bowes, who had been born in 1811 on the basis that he was illegitimate. A subsequent court case found that the titles could not be inherited by John as his father was not domiciled in Scotland, and under Scottish law as it was at the time, he was declared illegitimate and therefore unable to inherit. As a result the titles and Scottish estates passed to Thomas Lyon-Bowes, the late Earl’s younger brother, who became the 11th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and the English estates passed to his young son, who’s birth under English law had been legitimised by the 11th hour marriage of the Earl. John Bowes subsequently distinguished himself in many fields of activity. A member of the Jockey Club, he ran a highly successful racehorse stable which won the Derby four times, the 2,000 guineas three times and the St Leger once. He is however best remembered today as the founder of the Bowes Museum in Co Durham, which has been described as the Wallace Collection of the North. His mother, Mary Milner, married his boyhood tutor, Sir William Hutt. The Queen Mother was the youngest daughter of the 14th Earl – the family name by that time being inverted to ‘Bowes-Lyon’. The present volume therefore provides a unique original record of the bitter legal wrangle which ensued over the ancestry of the present Queen.

Law and Order manuscript certificate dated July 5th 1824 issued to the Sheriff of Lancashire ordering the release of a prisoner from Lancaster Gaol. Unusual.

Jersey early 18th c manuscript document on a single leaf of vellum, no date, but reign of George II being a confirmation of the right to hold a piece of land on Jersey, signed by Charles Lampriere, Lieutenant, and Jean Dumarq to base with official wax seal, written in Channel Isles French.

Nelson – Trafalgar contemporaneous manuscript copy of the Thanksgiving message for the victory at Trafalgar issued in conjunction with Vice Admiral Collingwood’s General Order of October 22nd 1805, written in a neat hand on 3pp folio, watermark of 1806, framed and glazed with typed transcript. The message takes the form of a prayer of thanksgiving : ‘…for the protection of thy hand in the service in which we have been engaged that thou has been a covering to us by night and by day that thou hast given a blessing to our labour and endeavours in the service of our Country and has brought us in safely to our land…’

Autograph – Sir Andrew Mitchell manuscript document signed dated Whitehall May 19th 1769 being an account of the Extraordinary Disbursements submitted by Sir Andrew Mitchell, ‘Knight of the most honourable Order of the Bath, His Majesty’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleniptentiary to the King of Prussia’, countersigned by the Earl of Rochford, allowing payment of 150 pounds. Rochford’s signature is significant as it was his casting vote at the cabinet meeting in May 1769 which rejected the Duke of Grafton’s proposal to repeal the American tea duties – which of course led to the infamous ‘Boston Tea Party’ and thereon to the War of Independence. As such Rochford can be considered to be one of the architects of the war and eventual loss of America. Mitchell (1708- 71), Scottish diplomatist was envoy to Frederick the Great.

Manuscript inventory fine and extensive ms inventory being the auction results of the sale of the entire contents of what was probably an inn or ale house 1798, listing everything which was sold and to whom and for how much. No place is indicated but from the combination of the names it will doubtless be possible to trace. Written in a neat hand on 8pp folio. Together with an Elizabethan indenture relating to the Lancashire area

Canals – John Rennie group of manuscript letters , late 18th/early 19th c concerning canal construction including a letter dated April 25th 1821 written by James Caird to Edward Hull, Secretary to the Harbour Commission at Donaghadee saying that his enquiries were under the consideration of Mr Rennie - most probably John Rennie the great canal engineer – together with two letters concerning the construction of the Monkland Canal in Scotland, and three other letters concerning Scottish canals

Italian Manuscript 1789 written on 59pp folio, probably an ecclesiastical discourse

Bills and Receipts bundle of approx 50 bills and receipts, 18th c, all relating to the estate of the London Wine Merchant Benjamin Adams, mostly manuscript, but some with printed headings, including a fine ms bill for a new ‘handsome chariot’. Note: miscellaneous lot not subject to return.

Ecclesiastical – appointment of a Bishop attractive manuscript document on a single leaf of vellum dated 1830 being an address to William IV from the Dean and Chapter of Bangor Cathedral informing him that Christopher Bethell had been appointed Bishop of Bangor, attractively written with wafer seal attached by original vellum tag Bishop Bethell was the author of several important ecclesiastical works, most notably General View of the Doctrine of Regeneration in Baptism (1821). A high churchman, he struggled as Bishop mainly because he only spoke English at a time when the majority of his diocess only spoke Welsh !

Nottingham – Reform Bill Riots manuscript document being the affidavit of Dr Alexander Manson concerning the destruction of his house in Nottingham during what is now known as the Nottingham Reform Bill Riots, dated October 15th 1831, 1 ½ pp folio, with further ½ p addendum, signed by Manson and countersigned by J H Barker, Mayor of Nottingham, together with a warrant in the name of William IV written on a single leaf of parchment dated November 25th 1831 issued to the Sheriffs of Nottingham ordering them to summon the population of the City to face interrogation for the rioting. Two historic documents in British social history and in the history of the City of Nottingham. Following the rejection of the second Reform Bill in the House of Lords, serious rioting broke out in Nottingham which became some of the most serious rioting ever to take place in the country. A mob set about systematic destruction in the centre of the city, and eventually made its way to the Castle which they burned down. Alexander Manson had been a physician for more than 20 years in the City and had been one of the principle opponents of Reform. As a result, the mob sought out his house in Stoney Street and destroyed it.

Jamaica 1835 manuscript inventory of shipments of sugar from Jamaica in 1835 with conjugate letter from a London based merchant to his counterpart in Jamaica discussing the sugar trade between the West Indies, Liverpool and London

Railways – West Midlands an outstanding archive of more than 900 letters and documents relating to the building of the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway, particularly in the Dudley area, 1847-53, including correspondence, legal documents for conveyance of land, lists of buildings and other properties which were needed to be demolished for the construction of the line, manuscript plans of sections of the line and other area, some with extensive annotations in the hands of engineers and surveyors, original engineers’ notebooks with extensive notation , documents mentioning Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Chief Engineer for the line, lists of landowners, tenants etc., lists of compensation payments for land and properties acquired to build the line, documents relating to many industrial properties in the area as well as the extensive canal network, and papers relating to the building of the railway tunnel under Dudley. An outstanding archive which has lain unknown and unstudied for more than 150 years. Of all the railway building taking place in the country during this period, this was unquestionably the most difficult. The line was vital for the development of the rapidly expanding industry in the West Midlands, ensuring that the vast industrial output would reach the rest of the country and abroad in far less time than via the extensive canal networks which had been in place for more than 100 years. However, the route of the new line had to thread its way through the most heavily industrialised and populated region in the country – with the landscape pock marked by old pits and workings, to say nothing of the already existing network of canals. Brunel was appointed Chief Engineer but he grossly underestimated the cost, leading to the building of the line taking a staggering nine years. His scheme was typically ambitious, with the building of a tunnel under Dudley. Much of the line in the Black Country was closed during the Beeching era of the 1960s, which saw the Dudley and Wolverhampton Low Level stations closed.

London manuscript document on seven large leaves paper, late 18th c, being an abstract of title for properties in Herring Court, Red Cross Street, London. The document traces ownership of the properties back to 1619, thus providing considerable information on the inhabitants of these properties from the Reign of James I.

Political archive of manuscript and printed documents all relating to the Percy Habitation of the Primrose League, 1890s including a letter signed by Arthur James Balfour thanking them for their resolution on the Irish Question, secretarial letters from other leading politicians of the time in similar vein, a ‘confidential’ printed circular warning Habitations of the League of a ‘Home Rule Van’ (i.e Irish Home Rule) which was likely to visit the area and steps they should take to counter the activities of the Van together with various papers concerning the activities of the League and three ms lists of members etc etc. The Primrose League, named after the favourite flower of Benjamin Disraeli, was an organisation formed to spread Conservative principles which ran from 1883 until 2004. These papers therefore reflect the activities of the League only a few years after its foundation.

Devon - Manuscript will the last will and testament of John Drewe of Danombe in the Parish of Coffinswell, Devon, dated 1803, a notarial copy written in a very attractive hand on a single leaf of paper with probate certificate attached, partly printed document with manuscript insertions, on a single leaf of paper, bearing a fine impression of the embossed seal of the Bishop of Exeter, together with a manuscript document being an extract from the parish register of Branscombe. All in fine condition Devon wills from this period are scarce

Two Leaves from a Persian Manuscript depicting an interior scene with dignitaries and attendants and a scene of a dignitary being floated down a river on a raft, opaque watercolour and ink on paper, with floral borders, both with text verso, both mounted in double-sided glazed frames 19x10cm., ea., (2)

WALPOLE ST PETER’S AND WALPOLE ST ANDREW’S LAND RENT BOOK CIRCA1841, containing a good quantity manuscript details and plans, large fo, old hf cf worn

Two Victorian scrap albums, 1820-1880, each containing interesting watercolours, pencil drawings,caricatures, topographical views, manuscript poems and prose, verses and scraps

Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey edited from manuscript journals by Robert Walpole 1817, Longman Hurst, Ress, Orme and Brown, leather binding, 28 x 22cm

A technical profile bound manuscript of the First Class barbette "Majestic" class battleship H.M.S. Hannibal, 1896 comprising ten double pull-out leaves, the first with a full list of specifications, the remaining nine technical ink and watercolour drawings of profile and deck views, hull shapes and details of boilers and ammunition chambers etc., bound with quarter calf marbled boards with title label 6½ x 9¼in. (16.5 x 23.5cm.) One of the ten "Majestic" class First Class battleships - the largest ever built at 14,900 tons, Hannibal was launched on 28th April 1896 at Pembroke Dock. She mounted 4-12in., 12-6in. and 18-12pdr guns and measured overall 421 feet with a 75 foot beam. Her reciprocating engines could produce 16 knots under normal conditions and also powered electrical hoists and lamps throughout. Crewed by a complement of 672, Hannibal never saw action and was sold from the service in 1920. The volume offered here may have been a naval architect's student piece, or possibly produced on board by a talented midshipman to supplement his log. The drawings are of a very high standard and remain in exceptionally good condition.

ESTCOURT (Thomas) 3 sketch & watercolour albums belonging to T. Estcourt, 1820's; 2 later watercolour albums; a fancy diary ca. 1830; and a manuscript play book, 1880's? (7).

[LIVRE D'AMOUR] OAKLEY (John) MANUSCRIPT entitled 'Extracts from Various Authors, Selected by..." 8vo, pp 268 & 2ff index, all in the same hand, in presentation binding of blue straight grain morocco gilt, upr. cvr. with name 'Anne Coleman' in gilt (Oakley's fiancŽ), clasps (tongues gone) a.e.g., English, ca. 1825.

MANUSCRIPT, a coll'n of approx. 20 letters, envelopes, etc., 1733-early 19th c, diverse matter, subjects, some postal interest, in a modern clear pocket folder (1).

[MANUSCRIPT] anonymous vol of some 60 ff. + loose, in the same hand, together with a few leaves in a different hand, mostly MEDICAL extracts, but much general material taken from newspapers & magazines, ca.1825.

COACHING & TOLL ROADS. – A very rare George II toll pass. [Great Britain:] 1744. A folding dark-brown calf and paper pass (69 x 54mm.) The left inner cover with applied paper label with 19 lines of letterpress text beneath the letterpress heading ‘Gate-Keepers Orders’ with manuscript signature at foot ‘Tho: Ripley’, the right inner cover with gilt tooled border incorporating ‘The Kings Private Roads’, ‘G II R’, ‘MDCCXLIV’ and ‘No 1020’ all surrounding a central area blocked in blind with an official stamp. The outer covers with borders decorated in single fillet and dog-tooth roll tools, contained within original black shagreen two-part slip-case, lined in red velvet. Provenance: the Tyrwhitt Drake family and thence by descent.

PHOTOGRAPHS. – A black and white photograph titled in manuscript ‘M.T.C. Reviewed by the “Queen” at Buckingham Palace’ and dated 1945. (150 x 200mm.). – And a small collection of other photographs and postcards (a lot).

LEGAL DOCUMENT. – A manuscript deed of gift on vellum, dated 1376. (210 x 225mm. approx.) Written in the Norman French being a deed of gift from Robert de Maunton and John Cupper to Robert Collan, John del Stoles, John Hafter and Richard Braybon during the reign of Edward III, hung with five round pendant wax seals. Box framed and glazed.

PHOTOGRAPHS, THE ALPS. – An album containing approx 51 mounted albumen-print photographs. [N.p.: Frith’s, [n.d. but circa 1890.] Folio (465 x 380mm.) The photographs mounted mostly two to a page above manuscript titles, including ‘Lucerne’, ‘Rhone Glacier and Hotel’, ‘Wetterhorn’, Grindelwald’, ‘The Eiger’, ‘Geneva’, ‘Milan’ and ‘Matterhorn’. Original morocco, g.e. (scuffed and rubbed).

PHOTOGRAPHS. – Nine black and white photographs of railway interest. [N.p.: n.d. but circa 1924.] (approx 156 x 206mm.) The photographs mounted with manuscript titles within an album containing numerous other smaller photographs. Contemporary cloth. Note: the nine photographs of India, mainly of the Khyber Railway and its construction. – And two other albums of photographs (3).

EPHEMERA. – Dennis WHEATLEY. A T.L.S. by Wheatley on headed paper addressed to ‘T.F. German Esq.’ and dated ‘10th February, 1961’. 1p. (226 x 180mm.) The letter thanking the recipient for a ‘very interesting manuscript about the Carlist War in Spain’ and signed in blue ink (folded). With original envelope. – And a collection of earlier ephemera including a ‘scrap’ album and documents (a lot).

BOOK REFERENCE. – Graham PARRY. Hollar’s England a mid-seventeenth-century View. London: 1980. Large 4to (319 x 243mm.) Numerous illustrations. Original cloth, dust-jacket. – And thirty-one others, including a number on manuscript books (32).

An Arabic manuscript book, possibly a prayer book, small 8vo, in tooled leather binding with foldover flap (spines a little cracked)

FRAZER (Mrs J G) Asinette, A French Story for English Children, corrected manuscript summary of the story on 12 leaves, presumably in the author's hand. This must have been for H.M.Brock's use as he illustrated the book which was published in 1900 by Dent. Sold with a large collection of pencil sketch illustrations for various mainly childrens' stories by the Brocks

MIDDIMAN (S) Select Views in Great Britain, London: J & J Boydell c.1812, oblong 8vo, 53 engraved plates, text in English and French, marginal age staining, covers worn and detached; Oxfordshire Illustrated, 8vo, in 2 vols, lacks all before B2 (p.3) in Vol. I, many engravings (some folding) and contemporary manuscript notes, uncollated, worn cloth (3)

Part of a page from an illuminated manuscript, depicting a Saint holding a quill, 3" square, two small Russian icons painted on wood one depicting Christ, the other the Madonna and child, and a small image of Christ framed in silver coloured metal, (4), PROVENANCE: Thetis Blacker.

TOBAGO - 1880 (Nov) '1d' on half of 6d orange, bisect provisional with manuscript surcharge (SG 7) tied to piece by crisp 'A14' numeral, hint of a toned perf tip, still very fine and rare thus, cat £800

The original Boer War manuscript diaries of Shoeing-Smith F. H. A. O’Dell, 12th Company, R.E., comprising three separate, folded notebooks with detailed handwritten entries covering the periods April to October 1900 (approx. 60pp.), October 1900 to February 1901 (approx. 12 pp.), and February 1901 to December of the same year (approx. 20pp.), two with his name and unit inscribed on opening pages, and all in all a rare and fascinating record of a non-commissioned soldier’s experiences on active service in South Africa, a record that also amounts to a valuable history of the 12th Company’s activities in the Boer War, occasional staining , worn folded spines and page ends, but his neat ink and pencil entries in good sound condition (Lot) £200-250 Frederick H. A. O’Dell, from Ampthill, Bedfordshire, was awarded the Queen’s South Africa Medal 1899-1902 with clasps for ‘Cape Colony ‘, ‘Orange Free State ‘, ‘Johannesburg ‘, ‘Diamond Hill ‘and ‘Belfast ‘, in addition to the King’s Medal with two dated clasps. Having arrived in South Africa at the end of 1899, 12th Company R.E. was attached to the 3rd Infantry Division.

Ceylon, 1834-6 Approx 104 pencil sketches of topographical views, illustrations unsigned, some with manuscript account of the tour on reverse, contained in half calf folio box (box in distressed state)

Richardson (Samuel Tuke) An interesting collection of original artwork and illustrated manuscript notebooks, including numerous sketches, watercolour drawings and diary entries by the Darlington artist S. T. Richardson. Subjects are predominantly northern topography, horses and coaching. The lot also includes an illustrated account of a fishing trip to Wales and an 1896 N.E. shipbuilding diary of questionable authorship (qty)

Boer War Diary Diary of No 8423 Corporal J.W. Matthews, Royal Army Medical Corps during the Boer War 1899 & 1900, manuscript, a very interesting account of life in the RAMC with the benefit of a legible hand, original sheep with worn spine (taped, lacking clasp)

Manuscript commencing 'Some Account of the Forepart of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge who died in Truth's Service at the house of Robart Lackeys at Killnock in the County of Carlow in Ireland ...1755, ownership inscription dated 1773, further entries in different hand, Quaker interest, approx 200 pages, vellum (worn)

[The Koran] Illuminated manuscript Koran, note on loosely inserted undated card states '....this book was found in the Kaniguram, N.W.F. India over 30 years ago, Kaniguram is the principle village of the Masud Tribe ......', tooled goatskin, worn, loose pages, sold not subject to return

AN IMPORTANT BASINET, WESTERN EUROPEAN, EARLY 15TH CENTURY formed in one piece with a medially-ridged crown rising to a high point, the lower edge arched over the brow and turned outwards at the sides and rear, the base encircled by a series of small stitch-holes for the attachment of a lining, and each of its sides pierced above them with a pair of rivet-holes for the attaching a chin-strap, the left rear one retaining its rivet (the apex of the crown rusted through at the front, the lower edge chipped at three points, pierced at each side with a pair of small wiring-holes and the rear with an early patched repair), and in dark patinated condition throughout 26.5cm; 10 3/8in high An almost identical helmet, formerly in the collection of the French collector Georges Pauilhac, is now in the Musée de l'Armée, Paris (Inv. No. M.Po.676). See J-P. Reverseau 1982, pp. 22-3, fig. 25. This basinet is an extremely rare example of that from which the sallet probably evolved. Its crown can be compared in form with that of a kettle-hat in the Museé du Louvre, Paris, known from documentary evidence to have been owned by King Charles VI of France in 1411. See M. Fleury 1988, pp. 150-5. Similar helmets are depicted in contemporary French manuscript illuminations such as the Histoire Romaine, dated to circa 1410 [Biblioteque National Français, Paris, ms fr. 264, fol.138, illustrated in F. Autrand et al 2004, pp. 43 and 45]. They can also be seen in numerous early 15th century Spanish paintings such as the altarpiece of St George, by a Valencian artist, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and a Crucifixion scene by Jaume Cabrera in a private collection, Barcelona (C. M. Kaufmann, 1970, p. 72, fig. 6; and M. de Riquer, 1968, fig. 144.

A George III gold and enamel memorial ring for Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson by John Slater of the Strand London, dated 21st October 1805, one of approximately 58, the square head with the letter N beneath a viscount's coronetand B for Bronte beneath a ducal coronet above the word Trafalgar with polychrome enamel detailing, on a tapered hoop shank, bearing the motto Palman Qui Meruit Ferat (let him bear the palm of victory who has won it), the underside engraved 'lost to his Country 21 Oct 1805 aged 49', finger size N, losses to the gold work and enamelling on the head the shank split at the base.Approximately 58 of these memorial rings were made by John Slater of the Strand following the death of Nelson at Trafalgar in 1805. The executors of Nelson's will gave the rings to Nelson's relatives. close friends and pall bearers, and a manuscript in the British Museum details all these recipients. Three of these rings are known to have been offered for sale, the first being at Sotheby's in 1926, and the last was sold in 1968 for £190. The ring offered here, although in a poor state of repair, does offer the possibility to the buyer the chance of returning this important and historic jewel to its original state

A Hand-scribed Manuscript of New Music; 'Chants for Canticles and Psalms (A Complete Psalter), seven different settings for the Kyrie Eleison, ninety-eight hymn tunes with five new hymns, a festival setting for The Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis' by Richard Sharpe Meats, completed December 1937, with additions 1949. Bound in book form with blocked initials to the cover; R.S.M., and a correspondence from the Warden of The Royal School of Church Music dated 1954.

Two Manuscript Pages from a 15th Century Diurnal, Paris, Circa 1450 A.D. Written in Latin in bâtarde script with red & blue capitals. The frame is glazed on both sides enabling the view of the back & front. Each page measuring 4½ ins x 3½ ins (11 cms x 9 cms), in a gilt wood frame measuring 10 ins x 12½ ins (25 cms x 32 cms).

Two Manuscript Pages from a 15th Century Diurnal, Paris, Circa 1450 A.D. Written in Latin in bâtarde script with red & blue capitals. The frame is glazed on both sides enabling the view of the back & front. Each page measuring 4½ ins x 3½ ins (11 cms x 9 cms), in a gilt wood frame measuring 10 ins x 12½ ins (25 cms x 32 cms).

Two Manuscript Pages from a 15th Century Diurnal, Paris, Circa 1450 A.D. Written in Latin in bâtarde script with red & blue capitals. The frame is glazed on both sides enabling the view of the back & front. Each page measuring 4½ ins x 3½ ins (11 cms x 9 cms), in a gilt wood frame measuring 10 ins x 12½ ins (25 cms x 32 cms).

A Set of Manuscript Pages from a 15th Century antiphonal/choir missal manuscript, circa 1450 AD. Written in Monastic Gothic hand with red & blue capitals. The frame is glazed on both sides to enable a view of both sides. Contains the music for The Feast Day of St. John the Baptist, consisting of six staves of four lines each. 7 ins x 5 ins (18 cms x 12.5 cms). The gilt wood frame measuring 12½ ins x 14 ins (32 cms x 36 cms).

Typewritten manuscript 'My Memories' by Robertson Hare, two vol; full leather bound notebook, tooled name to cover

Copy of manuscript letters from George Canning to the Russian Ambassador in Paris and others (3)