Manuscripts

  • Feeney collection: the scores of works by leading twentieth and twenty-first century composers commissioned by the John Feeney Charitable Trust and first performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Finding No: FCS
  • Little Malvern Court manuscripts: a small collection of medieval and post-medieval manuscripts including a Launceston Priory book of hours and other devotional texts. Finding No: LITTLE MALVERN
  • Medieval manuscripts: see separate resource guide.
  • Mingana collection: Arabic and Syriac Middle Eastern manuscripts, together with a very small amount of Hebrew material and some coins, seals and clay tablets. The content is mostly religious, mainly Islamic and early Near Eastern Christian. Finding No: MINGANA
  • We have a highlights tour for this collection.
  • Selbourne manuscripts: a miscellaneous collection of largely bound manuscripts including devotional and liturgical texts, books of hours, commonplace books and albums, volumes of medical prescriptions and household recipes, volumes of watercolours and illustrations, and other items, 14th century–c 1900. Finding No: SEL
  • Shaw-Hellier collection: eighteenth century music manuscripts including many copies of compositions by Handel. The collection also includes dance tunes and military band arrangements. Finding No: SH
  • St Mary's, Warwick manuscripts: a small collection of manuscripts from the parish library established in 1701 which largely consists of theological works. Finding No: ST MARY'S
  • Wigan manuscripts: a small collection of miscellaneous manuscripts dating from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, including mathematical and astronomical texts; devotional writings including material relating to the early history of Methodism; Latin and Greek essays; and notes on English rhetoric and history. Finding No: WIGAN