Word: manuscripts
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Also on exhibition is a manuscript of Horace's Odes and Epodes, written in an Italian hand of the fifteenth century for Leonardo Bruni and given by him to the Grand Inquisitor Torquenada...
Among the authors and works represented in the Memorial Room collection are manuscript and proof corrections by Tennyson of his "The Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava." a less well known companion poem to "The Charge of the Light Brigade...
...corrections of Thackeray's are also on display one of a manuscript of his lecture on George II, the other of the Roundabout Papers. Other proofs corrected personally by the author include "The Surgeon's Daughter." by Scott, "The Amazing Marriage," by Meredith, "Ballads," by Rosetti, and a proof of "Bells and Pomegranates," by Browning, on which in addition to the usual annotations, he drew pictures in the margin illustrating his points...
Another interesting exhibition is a copy of Ovid's works complete except for the Metamorphoses. This is an Italian manuscript of the fifteenth century written for the most part on paper. About 100 parchment leaves, however, are interspersed among the paper ones. Most of these are palimpsets, or parchment which has been used a second time, the first impressions having been obliterated...
...they used no crowbar or ax. Resourceful, they peeked last week into the box with the aid of an Xray. Amused, they saw only the outlines of a horse pistol, dice box, skull, scissors, bead bag, pins, coins, rings, and what is believed to be the roll of a manuscript...