Agents

London, British Library

repositories (institutions) – See also: Manuscript repositories

Sources

Secondary sources (select)

Irish interest

OʼGrady, Standish Hayes, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the [British Library, formerly the] British Museum, vol. 1, London: British Museum, 1926.

Flower, Robin, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the [British Library, formerly the] British Museum, vol. 2, London: British Museum, 1926.

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Flower, Robin, “Manuscripts of Irish interest in the British Museum”, Analecta Hibernica 2 (1931): 292–340.

Flower, Robin, “The Irish manuscripts in the British Museum”, Transactions of the Philological Society 27 (1911–6, 1916): 118–122.

Welsh interest

Evans, J. Gwenogvryn, Report on manuscripts in the Welsh language, vol. 2: The British Museum, Historical Manuscripts Commission, London, 1910.

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Bell, H. Idris, “The Welsh manuscripts in the British Museum collections”, Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion 1936 (1937): 15–40.

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Owen, Edward, A catalogue of the manuscripts relating to Wales in the British Museum, vol. 1, London: The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1900.

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Owen, Edward, A catalogue of the manuscripts relating to Wales in the British Museum, vol. 2, London: The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1903.

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Owen, Edward, A catalogue of the manuscripts relating to Wales in the British Museum, vol. 3, London: The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1908.

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Owen, Edward, A catalogue of the manuscripts relating to Wales in the British Museum, vol. 4, London: The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1922.

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Catalogue of additions to the manuscripts in the British Museum in the years MDCCCXLI–MDCCCXLV [1841–1845], London: Trustees, 1850.

Add. MSS 11749–15667, Egerton MSS 889–1139, Add. Ch. 5143–6292, seals, papyri.

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Collections

Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. 1: Text, London: Trustees, 1895.

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Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. 2: Index, London: Trustees, 1896.

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Scott, Edward J. L., Index to the Shane manuscripts in the British Museum, London, 1904.

Wright, Cyril Ernest, Fontes Harleiani: a study of the sources of the Harleian collection of manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, London: British Museum, 1972.

Catalogue of additions to manuscripts in the British Museum, multiple, London: Trustees.

General

Nickson, M. A. E., The British Library: guide to the catalogues and indexes of the Department of Manuscripts, 3rd ed., London: British Library, 1998.

Watson, Andrew George, Catalogue of dated and datable manuscripts c. 700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols, London: British Library, 1979.

Ellis, H. J., and F. B. Bickley, Index to the charters and rolls in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum, 2 vols, London, 1900–1912.

The British Library Journal (journal), British Library, 1975–1999

The Electronic British Library Journal (journal), British Library, 2000–present