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Borrow (George Henry) Miscellaneous notes (Iberian peninsula, including The Bible in Spain; Manchu Testament; poems, etc.

Archive File: BC MS ROM 1/3/3/3

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Borrow (George Henry) Miscellaneous notes (Iberian peninsula, including The Bible in Spain; Manchu Testament; poems, etc.

Level: File

Classmark: BC MS ROM 1/3/3/3

Original reference: BC MS 19c Borrow

Creator(s): Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)

Date(s): c.1840

Language: Spanish; English; Latin; Romany; Manchu

Size and medium: 1 vol; 1 file

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/504867

Collection group(s): Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections

Description

1) Undated leather bound notebook containing autograph (handwritten) manuscript, chiefly in pencil.


Includes notes/drafts of parts for, "The Bible in Spain;" "Manchu Testament;" notes on his expenses whilst working on the Manchu Testament and poems, including “Song, From the Romany or Gypsy language,” “Farewell O chrystal songs away I rise . ..”. “To Mary Anne” and “Carolans Receipt,"



Also includes unpublished account of narrow escape from death between Cintra and Mafra.


2) Handwritten note on contents with 5 bookmark notes [probably written by Dora Yates/members of the Gypsy Lore Society who likely would have helped with the catalogue description in 1962].

Physical characteristics

Measurement details: ff. 38. 160 x88 mm.

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Physical and technical conditions

Binding: stamped leather with pencil-loops.

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