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• British Library

BL (or BL-involved) programs

• International Dunhuang Project
• EThOS
• Incunabula Short Title Catalogue
• Sloane Printed Books Project
• Short Title Catalogue Netherlands

BL groups/facilities

• British Library, Boston Spa
• British Library Business & IP Centre
• Private Case (the restricted-access collection)

Many individual collections are listed in subpages of this guide. Printed material; MS material

• Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections, British Library
  • British Library Arabic Manuscript Collection
  • British Library Armenian Manuscript Collection
  • British Library Coptic Language Collection
  • British Library Ethiopic Manuscript Collection
  • British Library Javanese Manuscript Collection
  • British Library Persian Manuscript Collection
  • British Library Sanskrit Manuscript Collection
  • British Library Syriac Manuscript Collection
  • India Office Records - needs work cleaning up Gandhi section!
    • India Office Private Papers - possibly notable?
    • Archaeological Survey of India photographs
  • Indonesia Merdeka Collection
  • Burney Collection of Parabaiks (Burmese, not the same Burney as below)
  • Phayre Collection (Burmese)
  • Mandalay Collection (Burmese)
  • Mackenzie Collection (drawings of India)

• European Collections
  • British Library Leyden Medical Dissertations Collection
  • Czech and Slovak Samizdat Collection
  • Dutch Underground Press Collection
  • French Revolutionary Tracts Collection (aka Croker Collection)
  • German and Austrian Exile Periodicals Collection
  • Hannås Collection of Scandinavian Books
  • Kino-Pechat Collection (Soviet cinema leaflets)
  • László Waltherr Collection (Hungarian ephemera) JSTOR 4423024
  • St George's German Church Collection
  • Todd-Bowden Collection of Tauchnitz Editions (merged to Tauchnitz)
  • Tyrkova-Williams Collection (White Russian movement)
  • Arnold Collection of French Almanacs
  • Ashbee Library ("strong in continental literature with a notable accumulation of erotica") - Private Case?
  • Ashbee Cervantes Collection

• American Collections
  • Canadian Colonial Copyright Collection (1895-1924) eBLJ
  • British Library Ediciones Vigía Collection (Cuba)
  • Domínguez Collection (Latin American pamphlets) JSTOR 4423037 BL
  • Rund Collection (underground literature)

• British Library Sound Archive
  • Oral History of British Science
  • St Mary-le-Bow public debates
  • ...and various others; possibly not individually notable

• English Literature & Drama
  • Ashley Library (English poetry)
  • Bagford Collection of Ballads (c17th)
  • Dexter Collection of Dickensiana (Dickens)
  • Lord Chamberlain's Plays
  • Luttrell Collection (Ballads)
  • Garrick Collection (Early English drama)

• General collections (inc. individual libraries & archives)
  • Banks Library (Joseph Banks)
  • Bloomfield Collection (Robert Bloomfield)
  • Broxbourne Library (15th-16th century books)
  • Boase Collection (Catholic Apostolic Church)
  • Dyson Perrins Collection JSTOR 4422661
  • Evelyn Library (John Evelyn)
  • Edwards Collection (part of Old Royal Library)
  • Grenville Library
  • Harold Pinter Archive
  • Hilton Collection of Chronograms
  • Huth Library
  • Ian Tyson Collection
  • Herbert Spencer Library
  • Hanover Military Library (staff college at Hanover, captured 1945)
  • John Osborne Collection
  • Kipling Collection
  • King's Library
  • Lady Eccles Oscar Wilde Collection
  • Larkin Collection (Philip Larkin)
  • Lawrence Durrell Collection
  • Lumley Library (part of Old Royal Library)
  • Marie Stopes Collection
  • Old Royal Library
  • Shaw Collection (George Bernard Shaw) JSTOR 4422692
  • Court Bookshop Collection (Children's chapbooks)
  • Cracherode Collection (fine editions)
  • John Morris Library (part of Old Royal)
  • Sloane Collection
  • Millar Collection JSTOR 4423015 (Miller: ODNB)

• Newspapers, pamphlets, ephemera and grey literature:
  • Abbott Collection (Parliamentary papers 1731-1800)
  • Barry Ono Collection of Penny Dreadfuls
  • British Comics Collection
  • Burney Collection of Newspapers (17th-18th century newspapers)
  • Burney Collection of Theatrical Materials
  • Burney Collection of Playbills
  • Burney Collection of Book Sale Catalogues
  • Chadwick Tracts (early c19th politics)
  • Dicey Chapbook Collection
  • Dal Pozzo Prints Collection
  • Evanion Collection (Victorian ephemera)
  • Francis Place Collection (political ephemera 1770-1850)
  • Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts
  • Pre-Revolutionary Russian Bonds Collection
  • Ettridge Collection (trade literature - domestic appliances)
  • Lysons Collectanea (Cuttings & advertisments)
  • National Reports Collection
  • Northern Ireland Political Pamphlets Collection (and also a similarly titled but larger one at the Linen Hall)
  • Patent Office Library
  • Cox Collection of Art Catalogues
  • Cox's Fragmenta (playbills, cuttings, etc; 1788-1833) JSTOR 4422929
  • Russell Collection of Playbills (1845-1908)
  • Sennett Collection (women's suffrage)
  • Yelverton Manuscripts JSTOR 4422457
  • Macmillan Collection JSTOR 4423106
  • Talbot Collection - Henry Fox-Talbot eBLJ

• Maps:
  • Althorp Collection (England)
  • Bauza Collection (Spanish America)
  • Beudeker Collection (Benelux)
  • Crace Collection (London)
  • King's Topographical Collection\King's Maritime Collection (from the King's Library) JSTOR 4422759
  • Royal United Services Institution Collection

• Music
  • Hirsch Collection
  • John Julian Collection (Hymnals)
  • Roxburghe Ballads Collection - Roxburghe Ballads just deals with the 1847 publication
  • Royal Music Library
  • Royal Philharmonic Society Archive
  • Stefan Zweig Collection

• Bibliography and bookbindings:
  • Ames Collection (pre-1749 titlepages)
  • Bagford Collection of Titlepages (1528-1715)
  • Davis Collection (bookbindings)
  • Franks Collection of Armorial Bookbindings eBLJ
  • Jaffray Collection (bookbinding)
  • Olga Hirsch Collection of Decorated Papers (bookbinding)
  • Cockerell Collection (Kelmscott Press)

• British Library Philatelic Collections

Mostly historical. Additional MS is a large series of mostly miscellaneous items; it contains coherent groups, but isn't one itself. Possibly unsuitable for an article?

To expand from Named Manuscript Collections and Archives.

• • Additional Manuscripts - general series
  • Arundel Manuscripts
  • Ashley Manuscripts
  • Burney Collection of Manuscripts - "Collection" article refers to the newspapers, but there was also a MS collection
  • Cotton library
  • Egerton Collection
  • Guilford Collection
  • Hargrave manuscripts
  • Harleian Collection
  • Henry Davis Collection
  • "IO Isl MS" (India Office?)
  • King's Manuscripts
  • Lansdowne manuscripts
  • Oriental Manuscripts
  • Royal manuscripts, British Library
  • Sloane Manuscripts
  • Stowe manuscripts
  • Yates Thompson Manuscripts

See also list at Wikipedia:GLAM/BL/Royal

• Americae, sive quartae orbis partis, 1562 -(map)
• Henry VIII's prayer roll [1]
• Rous Roll JSTOR 4422536
• Bref récit et succincte narration (Jacques Cartier, three surviving copies)
• Paston Letters (possibly misplaced - are these a named collection?)
• Lyte Pedigree (Add MS 48343) - large vellum genealogical table showing the descent of James VI.