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Lecture notes written by Pafford when a student at University College London, on lectures delivered by W.P. Ker, Professor of English Language and Literature. The notes are on form and style in poetry and the 17th century.

Files containing working papers of published works, lectures, broadcasts and book reviews, including manuscript drafts, notes, correspondence, typescript drafts and final copies.

Translations and notes from Hippocrates.

The collection consists of lecture notes taken when Powell was a student at Oxford, and notes for his own course of lectures at University College London.

Correspondence and papers, 1883-1938, mostly relating to Arnold Bennett's death and the demands on his estate, including his will, arrangements for the funeral, correspondence between the two Mrs Bennetts, the settlement for his daughter, papers of his secretary, financial affairs, and correspondence about sale of rights.

Notebooks containing typescripts of plays, essays and poems on various subjects and eminent individuals with some manuscript annotations, all written by Fritz Gross (except one item in notebook 1).

Papers, including personal and professional correspondence; a heavily annotated copy of A.J.Ayer's 'Thinking and Meaning'; proof copy of J.E.McTaggart's 'Philosophical Studies'; Keeling's work on time and other reviews and articles; reviews of Keeling's own works; draft and proof articles for 'Encyclopaedia Britannica' and related correspondence; Keeling's birth and death certificates and documents relating to his will; 2 letters from Bertrand Russell (photocopies); a photocopy of details of Keeling's imprisonment as a conscientious objector in the First World War.

Notebooks containing lecture notes, notes on medieval French architecture, and lists of architecture students and lecture titles for various sessions.

Original sketches and surveys of Sicilian buildings, with dimensions.

Papers of Professor Sidney Smith on Ancient Near Eastern Chronology for the Cambridge Ancient History (2nd edition), largely comprising typescript drafts with manuscript annotations, including the Middle Assyrian, Susan, Achaemenean, Iranian, Syrian, Hebrew and Babylonian Calendars; Egyptian, Syrian and Babylonian history; Babylonian, Hittite, Egyptian and other King-lists; the Hittites; Assyrian sources and regnal years; intercalation; and bibliography.

Manuscript record of experiments labelled 'Laboratory Notes', kept while studying engineering at University College London.

Correspondence, 1819-1825, between Francis Place and his daughter and son-in-law, Elizabeth and William Adams, concerning their travels in South America (including Buenos Aires and Chile).

Papers of Professor Eric Crook, 1934-1982, comprising papers relating to biochemical engineering at University College London, (UCL) including Crook's historical account of the development of biotechnology; papers relating to research at UCL, collaborating with the Department of Chemical Engineering, including on the production of coenzyme A and enzymes on solid supports; and papers relating to the establishment of the postgraduate diploma in biochemical engineering, 1959.

Lecture material including drafts for Cook's Procter Memorial Lecture; papers relating to publications including material for Crook's own publications; bound volume of Crook's offprints, 1934-1964; papers relating to the founding of the Journal of Biochemical and Microbiological Technology and Engineering, 1957-1962; papers relating to the Medical Research Council, the Science Research Council and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, 1971-1978; papers relating to meetings and visits, 1967-1982 and two photographs of Crook.

Papers of Cedric Austen Bardell Smith, [1934]-2003, comprising biographical material including obituaries and tributes; copy of Smith's inaugural lecture as Weldon Professor, Life, Form and Number and papers relating to peace studies including articles published in The Friend.

Near complete run of Smith's publications, 1934-2003; book reviews; unpublished draft of a book on genetics and papers relating to Smith's co-editorship of Colson News including editorial board meetings, correspondence and master copies of all the issues.

Papers relating to talks and lectures chiefly comprising transparencies to illustrate lectures, on topics including genetics, statistical analysis, astrology, linguistics and place names.

Papers relating to 'Blanche Descartes' or 'F de Carteblanche' (an imaginary mathematician under which name a number of mathematicians, including Smith, published their work) including copies of the output of 'Blanche Descartes', 1947-1986 and an article 'The story of Blanche Descartes' in the Mathematical Gazette, 2003.

Fragments of Smith's research papers including computer print outs, punched cards and analysis of figures relating to the work of Michel Gauquelin; papers relating to the analysis of language and manuscript notes on Linkage.

Correspondence, 1966-1993.

Minute book of the Metropolitan Red Lion Club, with letters from members and some verses, menus and sketches. Press cuttings give resumés of the Club's activities and its connection with the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

Notes on a course of lectures on botany, delivered by John Lindley, Professor of Botany at London University. The notes were taken by Thomas Howitt, with pencil sketches in the text. Six pages of notes are of a later period, probably not by Howitt.

The text of twelve lectures on Equity, delivered by Graves during his professorship at University College London.

Catalogue of the private library of Professor Robert Edmond Grant, written in his hand after 1861.

Augustus De Morgan's mathematical tracts, copied by John Power Hicks from the original manuscripts in the Library of University College London.

Manuscript poem entitled 'Ulster soldier', dated 13 April 1942 at Omagh.

MS ADD 64 contains notes on electricity: mostly graphs and diagrams. MS ADD 65 consists of manuscript notes, graphs and diagrams, taken from lectures on electrical technology given by Professor John Ambrose Fleming.

Piltur og stulka: Indride and Sigrid, an Icelandic tale translated from the Danish of Kr. Kalund. Manuscript of the beginning of the work, comprising about one-tenth of the whole.

Notebooks on lectures on mathematics, languages and political economy attended by Bagehot when a student at University College London.

Handwritten diaries and notebooks containing writings on Greek history, Roman mythology, notes from lectures, poetry verses and prose.

Undated manuscript notes on the Staatliches Skulpturensammlung (state sculpture collection), Albertinum, Dresden.

Genealogical notes taken from church monuments in and around London.

Notes for lectures on English law at University College London.

Manuscript notes on William Golden Lumley's lectures in English Law, delivered at University College London.

Anonymous student's notes on chemistry lectures by Joseph Black (1728-1799) when Professor of Medicine and Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, on subjects including chemicals and heat.

Correspondence between Augustus De Morgan and George Boole, Professor of Mathematics at Queen's College Cork, dated 1842-1864. The collection also includes letters from John Stuart Mill, and letters from various correspondents mostly dated 1846-1848.

Manuscript volume, c1531, containing Hector Boece's Chronicles of Scotland, translated into Scots by John Bellenden.

Manuscript volume, 18th century, containing William Glanville's reports of cases on the King's Bench. A note on the flyleaf is dated 1746.

Parchment roll, late 15th century, containing a genealogical table of the Kings of England to Edward IV, showing their descent from Adam and Eve, flanked with text and with a brief preface. In the last medallion of the table Edward IV (who reigned 1461-1470, 1471-1483) appears as king, although the accompanying text ends in 1453.

Manuscript volume, 'A memorial of God's last twenty nine years wonders in England, for its preservation and deliverance from Popery and slavery...from the restitution of Charles II to the abdication of James II. 1689', with the text set out in the form of a printed book, apparently a copy of the printed edition. Folio 2v bears the signature J Taylor, 1753. The binding is part of a folio sheet of a 14th-century manuscript bearing text of prayers and psalms.

The London University Examiner, edited by Wilfred Collet and Charles Dobson, parts 1-15 (except 11-12), 1833.

Manuscript volume transcribed by Louis Bellec, 1823-1826, including 'Tragedie Sant Loeis', a play.

Grant by Leopold I to Friderich Caspar and Johann C Herman of Neuhoff, 17th century.

Eighteen charters, 1367-1552, relating to members of the Montfort family of Holland.

Manuscript 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.

Prayer Book, 1592.

Gebetbuch (Book of Prayers), early 15th century.

Gebetbuch (Book of Prayers), dated 1534, 1538 and 1539, with later additions, some dated 1656 and 1663.

Gebetbuch (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.

Manuscript 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.

Manuscript volume, 15th century, containing institutes of a congregation of canons, comprising a prologue, 15 institutes, and a commentary after each institute in one or more chapters, 37 in all. The name of the congregation is not given, but institutes are apparently those of the canons of St George in Alga, Venice. Folio 1 bears a later table of the chapters. Folios 13v-14v are blank.

Manuscript volume [17th century] containing Antonio Milledonne's 'Historia de sacri concili divisa in due libri ... ' (history of the holy council [presumably the Council of Trent] in two volumes).

Manuscript volume, apparently dating from 1425, containing a dictionary of medical terms and other treatises. Marginal comments throughout, 16th-17th century, including medicinal recipes, the entries frequently stating the name of the person who found them beneficial and the date. The fly-leaf bears text of theological content in a 13th-century script.

Manuscript volume, 15th century, containing Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini's 'Facetiae', a collection of humorous tales, mostly anti-clerical in content.

Fourteenth-century manuscript volume containing Johannes De Sacro Bosco's tract 'De Sphera' (ff 2-10) and other tracts, including mathematical and astrological subjects, among them 'Tractatus algorismi' (ff 11-16). The text is accompanied by diagrams in red or red and black. The volume bears on the back: 'Liber Astro/logic / M.S.' Entries on folio 1r are dated 1340 and (in an inscription of Iacobus Vannis) 1383.

Manuscript 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.