A Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum

Manuscripts In the Lansdowne Collection/Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Lansdownianæ. With Indexes of Persons, Places, and Matters. [Edited by Henry Ellis, based on cataloguing work by Francis Douce]. Reprint der Ausgaben London 1819.

Insgesamt umfasst die Beschreibung 1245 Nummern. From Ellis' preface: "The Collection of Manuscripts which forms the subject of the present Catalogue was purchased in 1807 by a Vote of Parliament of the representatives of the then late Marquis of Lansdowne [...]. It is divided into two Parts; the first division or class consisting of the Burghley Papers only; the second comprehending the remainder of the manuscripts in general, including the Cæsar and Kennett Papers. Of the Burghley Papers, one volume contains copies of charters and other documents of an early period; but the remainder, amounting to one hundred and twenty-one volumes in folio, consist of statepapers, interspersed with miscellaneous correspondence, daring the long reign of Queen Elizabeth; and among these is the private memorandum-book of Lord Burghley. [...] To this part of the Catalogue, on account of the importance of the papers, a separate Indes has been added. Of the remaining manuscripts, in a series of more than ffty volumes are comprised a large portion of the papers and correspondence of Sir Julius Cæsar, Judge of the Admiralty in Queen Elizabeth's time, and Chancellor of the Exchequer and Master of the Rolls in the time of King James the First and King Charles the First. [...] The papers of Dr. White Kennett, Bishop of Peterborough, extend through a hundred and seven volumes of different sizes; the greater part written by the bishop's own hand. [...] Exclusive of these larger series, the Lansdowne Collection of Manuscripts comprehends many valuable works on different subjects. In British History, Topography, and Jurisprudence, for the limited extent of the collection, it is particularly rich". Zwei Bände in einem, zus. XII,529,[150] Seiten, Leinen (Anglistica & Americana; Band 91/Olms Verlag 1974) etwas bestoßen/somewhat bumped