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Lansdowne manuscripts

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Seal ofGilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke, from Lansdowne MS. 203.

TheLansdowne manuscripts are a significant named collection of theBritish Library, based on the collection ofWilliam Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne.^[1] The purchase of the collection by theBritish Museum was in 1807.^[2]

The main features of the collection, as outlined byNicholas Harris Nicolas, are:^[3]

State papers and correspondence ofLord Burghley.
Papers ofSir Julius Caesar.
Papers ofWhite Kennett; his manuscripts passed toJames West and so to Lansdowne.^[2]
Historical papers from the 15th century to 18th century, relating to major figures in English history.
William Petyt's parliamentary papers, and papers of legal interest.
Topographical and heraldic collections.

Notes

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^British Library, Manuscripts, archived from theoriginal (Mar 4, 2016)
^^a ^bDictionary of National Biography, Kennett, White, D.D. (1660–1728), bishop of Peterborough, by Thompson Cooper. Published 1892.
^Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas,A Description of the Contents, Objects, and Uses of the Various Works Printed by Authority of the Record Commission (1831), pp. 106–7;Google Books.

External links

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Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum (1819) (compiled byHenry Ellis andFrancis Douce);Google Books.

British Library

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collections

Ephemera	Ettridge Collection Evanion Collection Francis Place Collection Jaffray Collection National Reports Collection
Literature	Ashley Library Cotton Library Dexter Collection Durrell Collection Eccles Collection Ediciones Vigía Garrick Collection Hannas Collection Harold Pinter Archive King's Library Leyden Medical Dissertations Paston Letters Private Case Suppressed Safe collection Thomason Collection Todd-Bowden Collection of Tauchnitz Editions
Manuscripts	Arundel Manuscripts Coptic Language Collection Cotton Collection Egerton Collection Harleian Collection Royal manuscripts King's manuscripts Lansdowne manuscripts Stowe manuscripts Syriac Collection Stefan Zweig Collection
Maps	Beudeker Collection
Newspapers	Burney Collection
Philatelic	Bailey Collection Blackburn Collection Bojanowicz Collection Booth Papers Burnett Collection Campbell-Johnston Collection Chismon Collection Chinchen Collection Contributions Agency Collection Crawford Library Crown Agents Archive Crown Agents Collection Davies Collection Ewen Collection Feldheim Collection Fitzgerald Collection Fletcher Collection Foreign and Commonwealth Office Foreign Office Collection General Collection Ginger Collection H.M. Customs and Excise Collection H.M. Stationery Office Collection Harrison Collection Harrison & Sons Collection Heys Collection Imperial War Museum stamp collection Inland Revenue Stamping Archive Johnson Collection Kaluski Collection Kay Collection Langmead Collection Landmark Trust Lundy Archive McInroy Collection Model Collection Monks Collection Mosely Collection Muraleetharan Papers Murray Collection Photograph Collection Postal Authority Publicity Collection R.P.S.L. Handouts Collection Row Collection Ryan Collection Seymour Collection Scott Collection Shelley Collection Sherborn Collection Smith Collection Supplementary Collection Tapling Collection Treasury Excise Correspondence Turner Collection of Forgeries Turner Collection of Newspaper Tax Stamps Turner Collection of Railway Letter Stamps U.P.U. Collection Walker Collection Williams Papers Wilson-Todd Collection
Sound	British Library Sound Archive Oral History of British Science St Mary-le-Bow Debates

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