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Right, so manuscripts!
..or archival volumes, to be exact. Not quite #FlyleafFriday , more like #TitlePageThursday but fun anyways:

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A treat for #FlyleafFriday ! Anyone have £3k to spare to buy Christopher Yates' 1675 mss bk?
http://ebay.eu/1G0kxsB http://t.co/5XTZSnLWFR

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Can't post pics shown in this panel, but here's one taken by me.
#RSA15
#FlyLeafFriday http://t.co/1E52CQnO03

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Some amazing #FlyleafFriday images shown in this session, of waste pages pasted to endboards.
#RSA15

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Ditto! MT @HipBookfairy: @SLevelt @BLMedieval @samklai @Stylisticienne Incredible collection! My contributions very modest. #FlyleafFriday

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A reader making use of Egelsham's 1780 grammar (from ECCO). "Futer" for 'Future' - child or foreigner?
#FlyleafFriday http://t.co/RWSofFrWsY

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…but check out the mangled front cover in this book of London port records, 1604. (TNA E 190/12/3)
#FlyleafFriday http://t.co/Pvr091xBzk

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Sadly I don't have anything for #FlyleafFriday this week - also busy at #PoPsymp - but I hope to have something next week.

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Back leaf:
"Steal not this Book
for fear of shame;
Underneath is
the owner's name"
[3/3]
#FlyleafFriday http://t.co/0GTfFGxFvy

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Owned by a Joseph Harris.
"When land is gone
Money is spent; then
Learning is most
Excellent."
[2/3] #FlyleafFriday http://t.co/WVp0riniB8

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From my own bookshelf: Hill's "Young Secretary's Guide" 26th ed. 1754, worn leather covers [1/3]
#FlyleafFriday http://t.co/hh7Mn0T8Dt

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Back leaf: "Gulielmus Pickance Ejus Liber", 1744. Maybe the front leaf scribbler's (grand)father?
#flyleafFriday http://t.co/Epm8oRvV1O

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Greenwood, "London Vocab., Eng. & Latin" 8th ed 1736. Paper covers. "William Pickance Janry 13th 1816"
#flyleafFriday http://t.co/EeBRFhX0JU

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Excited to be contributing to #FlyleafFriday from my own library this week (and next)! Moving on from 17C mss to 18C printed books..

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"Occurrences … from the … acceptation of the Crowne of Bohemia … vnto the looseinge of the Palatinate"
#FlyleafFriday http://t.co/C9eorgvMHt

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Close-up of inscription and sample page.
"his Master's name is Mr Bond"
TNA WO 55/1779
#FlyleafFriday #NotJamesBond http://t.co/Rs9VkeYHLe

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John Falkener's Mathematical Book, 1629
TNA WO 55/1779
#FlyLeafFriday
Nice leather covers - again! http://t.co/DRYFikgvb3

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Another scrivener's waste book, 1610s, TNA WARD 9/351/2. Vellum covers made from recycled indenture!
#FlyleafFriday http://t.co/j8rsokBTK9

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The text is a random direction: "at the Eagle & Child a Sadlers shopp & as you goe from py Corner /" #FlyleafFriday http://t.co/JUvuzcoEob

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Scrivener's waste book, 1610s, TNA WARD 9/351/1. Great leather covers, just look at that clasp! #FlyleafFriday http://t.co/NYwJUpfz9b

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Ambrose Randolph's notebook c. 1600. TNA SP 9/192. Scribbles & verse.
"Gondomar Anagram: Roman-dog."
#FlyleafFriday http://t.co/BEtZnQsuKS

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"Sic transit gloria mundi
so doth the glory of the world passe"
Thomas Wilson's notebook, early 1600s
#FlyLeafFriday http://t.co/lCMiSifhs1

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Almost forgot #FlyleafFriday
School notebook of William Cecil, son of 1st Earl Salisbury.
Get that signature right! http://t.co/SR71f2XivU

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@SLevelt Not sure, the endleaf is the right way up. :)
#FlyleafFriday http://t.co/L1a5DsaBcX

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Here's the other side..
#FlyleafFriday http://t.co/pq5pfYaMlZ

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How's this for #FlyleafFriday :
High Court of Admiralty book of examinations etc, 1590s http://t.co/LQbhMg5avM

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