Miscellaneous manuscript notes on ancient history and classical literature.
Sans titreDocuments relating to the career of John Thomas Graves: certificate of admittance to the Inner Temple, 1827, and later correspondence, 1922; warrants from the Poor Law Commission appointing him an assistant Poor Law Commissioner, 1846, and a poor-law inspector, 1847.
Sans titreManuscript notes on historical subjects, with some letters and press cuttings.
Sans titreManuscript notes for lectures on natural philosophy delivered at the Royal Institution, numbered 2 to 21; no 1 is missing.
Sans titreThe collection comprises letters to James Loch and other members of his family. Many of the letters concern the founding and early management of University College London, then known as London University, and matters relating to the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. There are a few letters relating to personal and family matters.
Sans titreScrapbook of letters, legal documents and genealogical notes of the Lancashire and Cheshire Helsby families, including correspondence between members of the firm of Thomas Helsby and Sons in Liverpool and South America (c1828-1835).
Sans titreLetters of thanks from Augustus De Morgan to F Hendriks for sending him certain pamphlets and publications.
Sans titreThe collection consists of manuscript papers, translations, working papers and notes of Alexander Falconer Murison.
Sans titreCorrespondence and poems. Includes a letter from W. P. Ker, Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London from 1889 to 1922.
Sans titrePhotocopies of correspondence with the Hungarian politician Ferencz Aurelius Pulszky.
Sans titreUndated lecture notes on geometry: two closely written sheets pasted onto an otherwise unused notebook.
Sans titreLecture notes by Borenius when he was Professor of History of Art at University College London.
Sans titrePhotocopy of a transcript of the trial of William Walker in Trujillo, Honduras.
Sans titreNotes on bibliographical references on the topography of London in the seventeenth century.
Sans titreManuscript volume, early 15th century, 'Das Büchlein vom schauenden und vom wirkenden Leben', bearing on the inside front cover 'Homiliensammlung, 14 Jh', but the contents comprise not merely a collection of homilies, but a complete text discussing the active and contemplative life, as exemplified by Martha and Mary, and include quotations from the New Testament and other religious texts. The original manuscript of the treatise, of which this is apparently a later and hastily written copy, was apparently written in Paris (f 2v), possibly by a disciple of Meister Eckhart, since it includes a number of quotations from him. A parchment book-guard in the centre of quires 1 and 2 bears Latin text in a 13th-century hand.
Sans titrePrayer Book, 1592.
Sans titreManuscript volume, dated 1488: Mystische Traktate (mystical treatises). Possibly two originally independent manuscripts bound together. Book-guards consist of strips of parchment bearing text in a 14th century script.
Sans titreGebetbuch (Book of Prayers), early 15th century.
Sans titreGebetbuch (Book of Prayers), c1521, including prayers to the Virgin (one in verse) and to St Catherine. Preceded by a calendar, including tables for the Golden Number and a table of signs of the zodiac.
Sans titreGebetbuch (Book of Prayers), 1466, including visitation of the sick, administration of the Last Sacrament, and burial of the dead.
Sans titreManuscript volume, 17th century, 'Das Crocodil. Ein Schauspiel' (the Comedy of the Crocodile).
Sans titreManuscript volume, 15th century, containing a German translation of Guido Delle Colonne, 'Historia Troiana and Alexander Der Grosse' (history of Troy and Alexander the Great, ff 1r-97v and 98r-154v respectively). The binding bears on the back: Romances. M.S.
The binding includes strips of parchment from manuscripts of the 13th century and 1320.
Sans titreManuscript volume, 18th century, containing Grágás (Laws of the Icelandic Commonwealth).
Sans titreManuscript volume, 1826, labelled on the spine 'Edda Snorra Sturlusonar', containing selections: Skrifud á Stavafelli í Loniinnann Aústur Skaptafells Sýsin, af Petri Sveinssyni ...
Sans titreUndated holograph poem by Einar Benediktsson, 'Ódáinsaevi'.
Sans titreManuscript volume, late 15th or early 16th century, containing Juvenal's Satirae 1-16 (satires).
Sans titreManuscript volume, 15th century, containing astronomical and religious treatises, preceded by calendar. Includes astrological treatises, prayers and Latin rhymes. At least some portions of the manuscript were written by a scribe, A D (perhaps Antonius de Meer), at Hertogenbosch in Brabant. Tables and diagrams throughout, some coloured, some with adjustable portions. Coloured ink drawing on folio 11v. Other inserts pasted in, possibly woodcut illustrations, have been removed. One entry on folio 183v is dated 1489.
Sans titreManuscript volume, 19th century [before 1876]: Richard Troward's 'Latinum inverso ordine vocabularium' (Latin vocabulary in reverse order), possibly in his own hand.
Sans titreManuscript volume, 14th century: Novum Testamentum Latinum (Latin New Testament).
Sans titreManuscript volume, 1532, containing St Bonaventure's 'Legenda Beatissimi patris nostri Francisci' (Life of St Francis). The pastedowns are two leaves of a 12th-century homiliary.
Sans titreManuscript volume, 15th century, containing Bartholomew of Pisa's 'De Conformitate Vitae Sancti Francisci Ad Vitam Domini Jesu Christi' (On the conformity of the life of Saint Francis to the life of our Lord Jesus Christ) and lists of privileges etc granted to the Friars Minor (Franciscans), extracted from papal registers by Marcus Trevisanus, minister of the Roman province. The list is dated 1418 in the rubric on folio 313v.
Sans titreItalian Book of Hours, c1470-1480, beginning Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis (office of the Blessed Virgin Mary). Originally 106(?) leaves, with 19th-century additions: full page colour illustrations and decorated borders, including a Crucifixion, added by Caleb W Wing.
Sans titreManuscript volume, 15th century, containing a treatise on meteorology, attributed to Aristotle: Breve ac perutile Philosophiae naturalis commentum incipit Foeliciter. Quantum igitur ad primum praemitto illud Aristotelis in principio Methaurorum. Necesse est ... causa refluxus maris. Bound with a printed work: Sphaera Mundi, by Johannes De Sacro Bosco (Venice, 1478).
Sans titreManuscript volume, 13th century: Vitae Sanctorum et Sermones, containing saints' lives, notes on festivals, and sermons for saints' days.
Sans titreManuscript volume, 15th or 16th century, containing the 'Perspectiva Communis' of John Peckham, in three parts, beginning 'Inter philosophie consideracionis studia ... '. Bound (perhaps from the first) with two printed works, the Arithmetica of Jordanus Nemorarius, edited by Jacques le Fêvre (Johannes Higman and Wolfgang Hopyl, Paris, 1496), and the Geometria speculatiua of Bradwardine (Paris, 1495).
Sans titreManuscript volume, 15th century: De raptu anime Tundali et visione. Pasted to the inside front cover is a full-page colour illustration of Tundal presenting his manuscript to Pope Eugenius, inscribed: Tondali Visione Eugenio Papae Oblata. Folio 1r bears a fragment of another text, in the same hand, as this manuscript was formerly part of a larger manuscript.
Sans titreManuscript Haggadah [early 14th century], for Passover Eve: Jewish order of service for domestic use.
Sans titreManucript Jewish service book [1887]: Siddur, rite of Sana (Yemen). Apparently copied from an original with superlinear vowel-points.
Sans titreManuscript Jewish service book, 1890: Piyyutim for distinguished Sabbaths, Ashkenazic rite.
Sans titrePapers, 1840-1972, of and relating to Karl Pearson, comprising personal and family papers, 1844-1937 (Ref: 1-45); lectures and lecture notes, 1874-1972 (Ref: 46-84); papers relating to literary and scientific work [1870]-1936 (Ref: 85-229); papers relating to the history of the Department of Applied Statistics, University College London, 1895-1936 (Ref: 230-258); papers relating to the work of the Department of Statistics and of Pearson's colleagues, 1895-1962 (Ref: 267-346); papers relating to the journal Biometrika, 1900-1954 (Ref: 347-570); papers relating to Pearson's The life, letters and labours of Francis Galton, 1840-1931 (Ref: 571-598); papers relating to Pearson's wartime research (1914-1918), 1905-1923 (Ref: 599-612); acquired papers, 1842-1923 (Ref: 613-623); general correspondence [1843-1972] (Ref: 624-933). The collection also includes papers of Walter Frank Raphael Weldon (Jodrell Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at University College London), 1860-1935 (Ref: 259-266).
Sans titrePapers of Randolph Quirk, [1950-1989] including on English teaching abroad and related examinations; Survey of English Usage test cards; research papers; correspondence including with former students, publishers and correspondence relating to Vice-Chancellorship; minutes of the Sub Committee in English; press cuttings; testimonials, 1980s; publications and related notes and correspondence; lecture and seminar notes; typescripts of lectures, broadcasts and speeches; accounts; papers relating to the Ford Foundation; papers relating to students; papers relating to University College London English department staff and institutional papers of University College London and the English Department.
Sans titrePhilological papers, 20th century (largely undated), of Elizabeth Stefanyjia Ross, comprising her collection of Middle English alliterative phrases of Scandinavian origin, largely in the form of typescript and manuscript slips.
Sans titreLegal, financial and liquidation papers of the Santa Rosa Milling Company Ltd, 1913-1975. There are also papers of the following associated companies: Cia Molinera De Concepcion, Cia Molinera Santa Rosa, Cia Molinera San Cristobal, Sociedad Molinera De Osorno, and Sociedad Arrocera 'Selecta' Limitada.
Sans titreRecords of the Shakespeare Association, 1914-1955, consisting of minute books, annual reports, membership lists, cash book, correspondence regarding publications and subscriptions, other correspondence and press cuttings.
Sans titreGlass slides illustrating the history of printing presses from 15th century Europe onwards, collected from various sources by Albert Hugh Smith and Arthur Brown for use in a proposed illustrated work which was never completed. The slides may date from between the 1940s and the 1960s, when both Smith and Brown were employed at University College London.
Sans titreTariff information contained in press cuttings relating to Latin American trade, with separate volumes on Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
Sans titrePapers and correspondence, 1939-1981, of Professor Joseph Anthony Charles Thomas concerning his work, comprising manuscript and typescript notes for lectures attended while a student at Cambridge, 1939-1947; typescripts and manuscripts for The Institutes of Justinian; typescripts and manuscripts, including translations, for various articles, lectures and talks, some unpublished; texts for his lectures at Nottingham, 1953-1954, Glasgow, 1955-1961, and University College London, 1965-1980 and undated; general correspondence, 1953-1978, correspondence concerning book reviews, 1962-1980, correspondence concerning articles, 1966-1969, 1975-1981, and correspondence concerning outside talks, A Casebook on Contract, Textbook of Roman Law, and The Institutes of Justinian.
Sans titreThe UCL College Archives are comprised of material charting the history of the university, from its establishment in 1826 to the present day. Most of the collection consists of material created in the day-to-day running of the institution and includes records such as foundation deeds and papers, committee minutes, administrative correspondence, department records and reports, early student society/association papers, staff and student files, building plans and maps, artwork and photographs.
Published material, including university and student journals and monographs, can be found in College Collection and can be searched on UCL Library’s Explore page.
Cataloguing work is ongoing and records are being regularly added and updated. For any material that is not yet available online please contact us at spec.coll@ucl.ac.uk.
Sans titreWilliam Hunter Baillie's transcript of the autobiographic memoranda of his father, Matthew Baillie (1761-1823), 1854, copied from the original, with a letter from William Hunter Baillie commenting on the text of the memoranda
Sans titreCorrespondence and papers created by William Baly and his family; Francis Baly, his mother, William Baly, his father, Frances (Fanny) Shipp, nee Baly, and Elizabeth (Bessy) Baly, his sisters, 1807-1878. Includes correspondence between Baly and members of his family and friends, and between members of his family about Baly, spanning Baly's life and career. Also includes papers, notes and correspondence relating to Baly's professional career, his years as a student in London and then in France and Germany, 1831-36; his various appointments, from his early apprenticeship to a general practitioner in 1828 to his appointment as physician extraordinary to the Queen in 1859, such as indentures detailing appointments and a volume of testimonials supporting Baly's appointment as Assistant Physician at St Bartholomew's Hospital, 1854; his licence and diploma for the Royal College of Physicians; a portrait of Baly by one of his sisters; photographs; obituaries; material relating to the Baly Memorial Fund; and genealogical notes on the Baly family.
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