Licensing Terms for Externally Provided Content

This page has been created to keep track of the permissions and licensing terms for externally provided content, especially digitisations of manuscripts and books.

The Beinecke Library, Yale University

Image: Osborn D1 MS (excerpts from the Burn transcript of Herbert's licensing records)
Permission expiry:No permission required; correspondence 23 March 2016.
LPD entry: Entries featuring Burn transcript extracts are found under the Beinecke category page.

The Bodleian Libraries, The University of Oxford

Image: MS Ashmole 236, fol.77v (Simon Forman's eyewitness account of "Cox of Collumpton")
Permission expiry: 27 October 2025
LPD entry: Cox of Collumpton


Image: MS Ashmole 208, fols.201r-v (Simon Forman's eyewitness account of "Richard the 2")
Permission expiry: 27 October 2025
LPD entry: Richard the 2


Image: MS. Eng. Hist. c. 476, fol. 133r ("Prologue to the Square Play")
Permission expiry: 20 January 2026 (verified by correspondence 12 May 2016)
LPD entry: Square Play, The


Image: MS Rawlinson Poet 85, fols.77v-78rv (Robert Mills' poem addressed to fellow St John's alumnus John Finet)
Permission expiry: 09 July 2029 (verified by correspondence 09 July 2019)
LPD entry: Terminus et Non Terminus

The British Library

Image: Add. MS.10449, fols.1, 2, 4 & 5 (STAGE-PLOTS of old Plays, viz.-the Deade Man's Fortune, Frederick Basilea, the Battle of Alcazar, etc.)
Permission expiry: In perpetuity; permission granted 07 Oct 2015.
LPD entries: Dead Man's Fortune, The; Fortune's Tennis, Part 2; Frederick and Basilea; Troilus and Cressida


Image: India Office Marine Department Records, IOR/L/MAR/A/XII (fragment from the diary of Benjamin Greene)
Permission expiry: In perpetuity; permission granted 07 Oct 2015.
LPD entry: Fragment of a play in the Journal of Benjamin Greene


Image: Add MS 88878, fols.1r-2v (Play about the Duke of Florence)
Permission expiry: In perpetuity; permission granted 07 Oct 2015.
LPD entry: Play about the Duke of Florence (BL Add MS 88878)


Image: MS Egerton 2623, ff.37-38 (Play of Oswald)
Permission expiry: In perpetuity; permission granted 07 Oct 2015.
LPD entry: Play of Oswald (BL MS Egerton 2623)


Image: Add. MS 10444 fols.34r, 55v, 82r, 85r (musical settings for "Van Weely" and "The Nobleman")
Permission expiry: In perpetuity; permission granted 07 Oct 2015.
LPD entries: Jeweller of Amsterdam; Nobleman, The


Image: Add. MS 11608, fol. 15v-16r (musical setting for "Rocks, woods and mountains")
Permission expiry: In perpetuity; permission granted 07 Oct 2015.
LPD entry: Cardenio


Image: Lansdowne MS 807, fol. 1r-v (Warburton's list)
Permission expiry: In perpetuity; permission granted 07 Oct 2015.
LPD entries: Warburton's List; entries found in the Warburton's List category


Image: Lansdowne MS 55, fol. 11-12 (MS cast list)
Permission expiry: In perpetuity; permission granted 07 Oct 2015.
LPD entries: Sulla Dictator; Masque at Gray's Inn


Images: Sloane MS 1775, fol. 242r-249v ("Translation into Latin of scenes in the play of Romeo and Juliet")
Permission expiry: In perpetuity; permission granted 07 Oct 2015.
LPD entries: Romeus and Julietta


Images: Sloane MS 2893, pp.190-92 ("Hill's List of Early Plays in Manuscript")
Permission expiry: In perpetuity; permission granted 07 Oct 2015.
LPD entries: Hill's List of Early Plays in Manuscript



Images: MS Cotton Titus C vi, fols. 203r–204v
Permission expiry: In perpetuity; permission granted 07 Oct 2015.
LPD entries: Royal Entertainment: Hermit and Nymphs; Tilt Entertainment (?): Merlin and Pilgrims



Images: BL MS Harley 4628, fos. 272r-282v
Permission expiry: In perpetuity; permission granted 07 Oct 2015.
LPD entries:Romanus

Cardiff Libraries

Image: Cardiff Central Library MS 3.42. Philip Powell's commonplace book, p.139
Permission expiry: In perpetuity; permission granted 28 March 2017.
LPD entry: Play of the Saxons

Christ Church Library, Oxford

Image: Ch. Ch. MSS Mus 56-60, no.56 ("Woods, rocks and mountains")
Permission expiry: 08 January 2030 (granted 08 January 2019 for 11 years)
LPD entry: Cardenio

Dulwich College

Image: MS I f45v (detail)
Permission expiry: All images © David Cooper and reproduced with kind permission of the Governors of Dulwich College. No further reproduction permitted.
LPD entry: Fair Constance of Rome, Parts 1 and 2.


Image: MS VII, f11v (detail)
Permission expiry: All images © David Cooper and reproduced with kind permission of the Governors of Dulwich College. No further reproduction permitted.
LPD entry: Galfrido and Bernardo.


Image: MS VII, f21v (detail)
Permission expiry: All images © David Cooper and reproduced with kind permission of the Governors of Dulwich College. No further reproduction permitted.
LPD entry: Paradox.


Image: MS VI, f63r (detail)
Permission expiry: All images © David Cooper and reproduced with kind permission of the Governors of Dulwich College. No further reproduction permitted.
LPD entry: Troilus and Cressida.


Image: MS VI, f106r (detail)
Permission expiry: All images © David Cooper and reproduced with kind permission of the Governors of Dulwich College. No further reproduction permitted.
LPD entry: Two Shapes.


Image: MS XIX
Permission expiry: All images © David Cooper and reproduced with kind permission of the Governors of Dulwich College. No further reproduction permitted.
LPD entry: Second Part of the Seven Deadly Sins, The.

The Folger Shakespeare Library

Image:
Permission expiry: CC-BY-SA licensing
LPD entry: Entries featuring photographs of Folger holdings are found under the Folger category page.

Fondation Martin Bodmer (Cologny, Geneve)

Image: STC 21528 (Locrine Q, Buc signature)
Permission expiry: in perpetuity, permission granted 19 May 2015.
LPD entry: Estrild

Guildhall Library, City of London

Image: Title page woodcut from Luke Hutton (attrib.), The discovery of a London monster called, the black dog of Newgat (London : Wilson, 1612). Guildhall Library, A 8.7 NO 24.
Permission expiry: in perpetuity, permission granted 8 June 2023.
LPD entry: Black Dog of Newgate, Parts 1 and 2

Hatfield House

Image: Richard Topcliffe's 1597 letter to Robert Cecil (Cecil Papers 54/20)
Permission expiry: in perpetuity, permission granted 18 March 2016.
LPD entry: Isle of Dogs, The

Houghton Library, Harvard University

Image: MS Eng 1285, fols.3-4 ("Meleager" Argument)
Permission expiry: No permission required; correspondence 30 October 2014.
LPD entry: Meleager, Publii Ovidii Nasonis


Image: MS Thr 10.1, fols.21–46v ("The Part of Poore")
Permission expiry: No permission required; correspondence 11 July 2015.
LPD entry: Play of Poore


Image: f MS Thr 276 ("Account listing : manuscript, 1610 and before")
Permission expiry: No permission required; correspondence 20 April 2017.
LPD entries: Charlemagne; Saul and David

The Huntington Library

Image: Albion Knight RB60584, leaves B1, B4, and C1-4 (fragment of A mery playe bothe pytthy and pleasaunt of albyon knyghte)
Permission expiry: No permission required; correspondence 20 February 2016
LPD entry: Albion Knight


Image: Enterlude of detraction, light judgment, verity, and justice RB 131401:11 (fragments from two leaves)
Permission expiry: No permission required; correspondence 20 February 2016
LPD entry: Enterlude of detraction, light judgment, verity, and justice


Image: The Book of John a Kent and John a Cumber HM500 (detail of the ambiguous date: 1590/1595/1596)
Permission expiry: No permission required; correspondence 20 February 2016
LPD entry: The Wise Man of West Chester

National Archives

Image: STAC 5/L1/29 (Lincoln v Dimocke, Bayard, Dickenson, Cradock.)
Permission expiry: In perpetuity, permission to reproduce up to 20 images granted 25 May 2016 (=image 1/20); further permission required for the commercial and non-commercial use of images.
LPD entry: Death of the Lord of Kyme, The


Images: L.C. 5/12, p.212-13 (Lord Chamberlain's Department: Warrant Book 5/12)
Permission expiry: In perpetuity, permission to reproduce up to 20 images granted 25 May 2016 (=images 2&3/20); further permission required for the commercial and non-commercial use of images.
LPD entry: Osmond the Great Turk


Image: SP 52/62/19 (Correspondence of George Nicolson, 15 April 1598. To William Cecil, Lord Burghley)
Permission expiry: In perpetuity, permission to reproduce up to 20 images granted 25 May 2016 (=images 4-6/20); further permission required for the commercial and non-commercial use of images.
LPD entry: Anti-Scots Play

Schøyen Collection, Oslo and London

Image: MS 1627 (the "Tapster fragment")
Permission expiry: in perpetuity, permission granted 19 May 2016; further permission required for the commercial and non-commercial use of the image.
LPD entry: Play of Thieves and a Gullible Tapster.

Society of Antiquaries of London Library

Image: STC 24636.7 ("The Plot of the Play, Called Englands Joy")
Permission expiry: in perpetuity, permission granted 08 July 2015; further permission required for the commercial and non-commercial use of the image.
LPD entry: England's Joy

Thomas Plume's Library

Image: Plume MS 25 B, p 71 (detail and full page) ("Thomas Plume's notes on Ben Jonson")
Permission expiry: in perpetuity, permission granted 21 June 2017; further permission required for the commercial and non-commercial use of the image.
LPD entry: Phoenissae

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Image: Christopher Hunt, Fragments of a Stationer's Account Book, (1603-1607) (August 1603) (Pre-1650 MS 153)
Permission expiry: in perpetuity (06 Oct 2018).
LPD entry: Love's Labour's Won

University of Melbourne (Baillieu Library)

Image: Mortimer His Fall (from STC 14754, Jonson F2)
Permission expiry: in perpetuity.
LPD entry: Mortimer His Fall

Warwickshire County Records Office (WCRO)

Image: Warwick, WCRO, CR136-V148 pp.15-16
Permission expiry: in perpetuity (granted 12 Dec 2016).
LPD entry: Heliogabalus