Photographs, accompanied by notes and correspondence of manuscripts, collected by Cyril Ernest Wright c1933-1972. The first section of the collection contains papers, plates, photocopies, photographs, translations and notebooks containing notes of certain Middle English manuscripts held in The British Library, Oxford Bodleian Library, Durham Cathedral and Cambridge University Library. There are also some items of correspondence concerning Middle English Manuscripts (1948-1977). The second section contains photographs taken from Italian Renaissance manuscripts, notebooks of notes concerning manuscripts in various Dutch, Italian and English libraries and museums. Section 3 contains photographs of manuscripts, plates and proofs for Fontes Harleiani: a Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum. In the final section of the collection is a list of Harley Manuscripts in the Department of Manuscripts at the British Library.
Wright , Cyril Ernest , 1907-1980 , palaeographer and bibliographer2 letters from Francis Wormald of 59 Warwick Square, London to Miss Joan Gibbs, 1 Oct 1967-10 Mar 1970.
Both items are autograph, with signatures. Filed with the original envelopes.
Wormald , Francis , 1904-1972 , antiquarian and palaeographerThe collection, 1930-1970, contains working notebooks and lecture notes on publications written by Francis Wormald. Also includes correspondence relating to publications; files containing material relating to organisations and committees, with which Wormald was concerned, photographs, postcards and pocket diaries.
Wormald , Francis , 1904-1972 , antiquarian and palaeographerPapers of Seymour Montefiore Robert Rosso de Ricci (1881-1942) comprising: Volume of letters from various correspondents and notes concerning the compilation of de Ricci's Bibliotecha Britannica Manuscripta, a proposed comprehensive work on manuscript material in Great Britain, which was never completed, 1934-1955; thirty-four boxes containing over 64,000 index cards giving bibliographic references to archive and manuscript collections in the United Kingdom, listed alphabetically by town, institution and/or college, along with cards giving details of manuscripts held by collectors and dated sales, arranged alphabetically and chronologically.
Ricci , Seymour Montefiore Robert Rosso de- , 1881-1942 , academicCollection of documents, mainly property deeds, dating from before 1162 to 1659, and relating to land in England, Wales and Jersey.
Collated by Professor Francis WormaldBundle of receipts illustrating Secretary and Italic hands between 1613 and 1758.
UnknownThe volume, c1948, contains scripts of lectures delivered by Arthur Jefferies at University College London Library School of Librarianship in 1948. The lectures deal with European handwriting, the origin, development and transformation of Caroline minuscules and Gothic and humanistic scripts.
Collins , Arthur Jefferies , 1893-1976 , palaeographer