MS 5/1 - MS 5/5 Papers relating to the administration of Cope's library

The Hampshire and Isle of Wight collections of Sir William Cope (1812-92), twelfth Baronet, of Bramshill, Hampshire, were bequeathed to the Hartley Institution in 1892. The manuscripts listed here fall into several categories:

• MS 5/1 - MS 5/5 - papers relating to the administration of Cope's library
• MS 5/6 - MS 5/9 - Cope family papers
• MS 5/10 - MS 5/38 - manuscripts relating to Hampshire and the Isle of Wight 
• MS 5/39 - MS 5/42 - poll books and election material

Date range:

c. 1655-1889

MS 5/1 Catalogue of Sir William Cope's library: three large volumes, with slips pasted to them, largely in manuscript, but with some cut from a printed catalogue including Cope's shelfmarks from Bramshill: mid to late 19th century

Former References:

AO201

MS 5/2 A paper notebook, probably dating from the 1870s or 1880s, in the hand of Sir William Cope, twelfth Baronet, listing `Hampshire civil war tracts', together with a letter from Cope to [H.M.Gilbert], enclosing the notebook and offering him every assistance in the preparation of a new edition of his Bibliotheca Hantoniensis, 30 Jul 1889

Former References:

AO247

MS 5/3 A notebook, in the hand of Sir William Cope, giving a list of books relating to Hampshire added to his library subsequent to 1879: late 19th century

Former References:

AO247

MS 5/4 A notebook, containing an incomplete `Index to Hampshire pamphlets with dates, authors, maps and illustrations': late 19th century

Former References:

AO247

MS 5/5 Henry March Gilbert Bibliotheca Hantoniensis. An attempt at a bibliography of Hampshire (Southampton, c. 1873), annotated extensively by Sir William Cope

This large-paper edition of the book was issued interleaved and this copy has numerous additions and corrections in the hand of Sir William Cope, together with entries from other catalogues pasted in, and Bramshill shelfmarks.

Former References:

Printed book stock and A640