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British Literary Manuscripts Online
British literary manuscripts from mediaval to the 19th century
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Material Type : Others
Subject : Literature / English Literature / Sociology
British Literary Manuscripts Online presents facsimile images of British literary manuscripts included in the collections of libraries and museums such as British Library. It enables you to search by collection title and person's name. Please note the database provides you with digital images only. The contents are not available in full text. Below are the parts you have access to:
-Part I, c. 1660-1900
Part I inludes letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, essay, journals, and more — from the Restoration through the Victorian era. It covers extensive materials related to major British literary figures from the Brontë sisters to Sir Walter Scott to Oscar Wilde, consisting of 400,000 pages.
The primary source content of this part has been digitized from some of the most prestigious collections in the world, including the British Library, Forster and Dyce Collections, National Library of Scotland, and Folger Shakespeare Library.
-Part II: Medieval & Renaissance
Part II consists of approximately 374,000 pages of letters, poems, stories, plays, chronicles, religious writings, and other materials, from roughly 1120 to 1660. It includes important historical documents like the letters of Alcuin and Lanfranc and the chronicles of Waverly, Glastonbury, Saint Martin, and Lichfield. Among many other documents, this collection covers rare and previously inaccessible works from the British Library such as:
Beowulf (Cotton Vitellius A. xv)
Judith (Cotton Vitellius A. xv)
Sermo Lupi ad Anglos (The Sermon of the Wolf) by Wulfstan II, Archbishop of York (Cotton Nero A. i)
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: The Abingdon Chronicle II (Cotton MS. Tiberius B i.)
The Book of Margery Kempe (Additional MS 61823)
York Corpus Christi Plays (York Mystery Plays) (Additional MS 25290)
This database is available via Gale Primary Sources also. Put check marks on the databases of your choice to perform a cross-search on the same platform.