Scope and Contents From the Collection: Many manuscripts acquired by the University Library before the middle of the nineteenth century either originated as or were made up into bound volumes, and were classified alongside printed material. Most carry what is known as a 'two-letter' reference, running (for western manuscripts) from Dd.1.1 through to Oo.7.60. They comprise mainly medieval and early modern manuscripts. This catalogue is based on entries for western post-medieval manuscripts in the 5-volume Catalogue of the...

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Letter to John Hailstone about the Woodwardian Professorship election, 1788

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Letters to John Hailstone; verses; etymological notes

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Walter Whiter, M.A., formerly Fellow of Clare Hall, and Rector of Hardingham, Norfolk. A. A folio volume, containing Collections for his Etymological Dictionary, mostly cancelled as having been used.
B. A quarto similar volume.
C. A quarto volume of Collections, headed 'Sanscritiana.'
D. A quarto volume, headed 'Notitiæ Celticæ.'
E. A quarto volume, headed 'Meditationes Mythologicæ.'

Scope and Contents Collections of Walter Whiter for the remaining portions of his Etymological Dictionary, of which two volumes were published at Cambridge, 1811, 1825. Outside the first bundle is written, 'Finished for the Press, Oct. 30th 1826, the day at which I had arrived at the sixty eighth year of my age.' Outside the second, 'Ready for the Press. This was again examined and corrected some years after it was written. The examination was finished June 30, 1829.' Outside the third and fourth, 'Ready for...

Scope and Contents 'Nova Tentamina Mythologica, or Attempts to unfold various portions of Mythology by a new mode, or by new materials of illustration, founded on a principle universally known and acknowledged, which are intended to illustrate the connection of Mythology with the acts and the artists of the ancient world,' by Walter Whiter. This, which is written out for the Press, consists of 21 parts, (the first 9 having the word 'examined' written outside,) besides an Introduction, and some papers on Free...

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An interleaved copy, with additions, of W. Whiter's 'Specimen of a Commentary on Shakspeare' and 'Attempt to explain and illustrate various passages of Shakspeare', London, 1794.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Many manuscripts acquired by the University Library before the middle of the nineteenth century either originated as or were made up into bound volumes, and were classified alongside printed material. Most carry what is known as a 'two-letter' reference, running (for western manuscripts) from Dd.1.1 through to Oo.7.60. They comprise mainly medieval and early modern manuscripts. This catalogue is based on entries for western post-medieval manuscripts in the 5-volume Catalogue of the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Many manuscripts acquired by the University Library before the middle of the nineteenth century either originated as or were made up into bound volumes, and were classified alongside printed material. Most carry what is known as a 'two-letter' reference, running (for western manuscripts) from Dd.1.1 through to Oo.7.60. They comprise mainly medieval and early modern manuscripts. This catalogue is based on entries for western post-medieval manuscripts in the 5-volume Catalogue of the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Many manuscripts acquired by the University Library before the middle of the nineteenth century either originated as or were made up into bound volumes, and were classified alongside printed material. Most carry what is known as a 'two-letter' reference, running (for western manuscripts) from Dd.1.1 through to Oo.7.60. They comprise mainly medieval and early modern manuscripts. This catalogue is based on entries for western post-medieval manuscripts in the 5-volume Catalogue of the...