REPORT FROM THE COMMITTEE TO WHOM THE PETITION OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, RELATIVE TO THE LANSDOWN MANUSCRIPTS, WAS REFERRED.
(London): British Museum, 1807. folio. disbound signatures. 8 pages. Committee report advising the British Museum Trustees to purchase the Lansdown Manuscripts, one of the foundation acquisitions of the Museum's library, forerunner of today's British Library. Compiled by Lord Shelburne, Willliam Petty, Marquis of Lansdown (1737-1805), the collection touched on all areas of knowledge. It included, among other things: manuscripts of Elizabethan dramas; a treatise on astronomy in Persian; legal documents transcribed from the Domesday Book;..... READ MORE about REPORT FROM THE COMMITTEE TO WHOM THE PETITION OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, RELATIVE TO...
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