James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts
Container / Volume:
Box 5 | Folder P.B. V / 1-10
Image Count:
4
Abstract:
The collection consists of manuscript copies of several thousand individual English poems, dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The majority of the items date from between 1650 and 1800.
Alternative Title:
Verses to the memory of my dearest sister Lady Barbara May
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--16th century, English poetry--17th century, English poetry--18th century, English poetry--19th century, and English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a promptbook of Macbeth, written in an interleaved copy of a printed edition of the play. The handwritten notes provide stage directions; scene descriptions; and sound and lighting directions; as well as directions for...
Description:
Binding: machine-grain morocco. Pasted on front cover: a printed ticket which reads "Mr. Chas. Pitt Theatre Royal Sheffield. Machbeth."
Subject (Name):
Macbeth,--King of Scotland, 11th cent.--Drama, Pitt, Charles Dibdin, Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616.--Macbeth, Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Dramatic production--History, and Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Stage history--Sources
Subject (Topic):
English drama--17th century, Promptbooks, Stage fighting, Theater--Production and direction--United States, and Theater--United States--19th century
An anthology of translated and Russian accounts of the posthumous miracles of the Virgin Mary.
Description:
130 miniatures from the second half of the 19th century, including full illuminations depicting miracles of the Virgin.
Subject (Name):
Mary,--Blessed Virgin, Saint--Apparitions and miracles--Russia, Mary,--Blessed Virgin, Saint--Devotion to--Russia, and Pantelei,--son of Afanasi--Ownership
