Ivanhoe; a romance : autograph manuscript of portions of volumes II and III, [1819].

Text of the manuscript is preceded by a note in an unknown hand reading "Ivanhoe . This greater part dictated. This fragment is all, or nearly all, that he wrote himself. Published 1819." With later penciled additions indicating that the note was written on Abbotsford stationery and that it was removed in 1931 from a volume of Waverley (the autograph manuscript fragment, MA 541).
The manuscript has been collated with the first printed edition (1820). The manuscript contains: 1) Vol. II, Chap. VII, line 13, p. 208, commencing "Let the old tree wither," to the end of Vol. II; and 2) Vol. III, Chap. I, complete, Chap. II, from the beginning to p. 60 Chap. III, complete. Capt. IV, complete . Chap. V, complete. Chap. VI, complete. Chap. VII, complete. Chap. VIII, complete. Chap. IX, complete. Chap. X, complete. Chap. XI, complete. Chap. XIII, complete except for poem on pp. 296-97. Chap. XIII, complete, complete. Chap. XIV (and last) complete.
When purchased by Pierpont Morgan, this manuscript was bound with the autograph manuscripts of Waverley (MA 541) and The Bridal of Triermain and other material (MA 451) in brown leather stamped in gilt with a coat of arms with a stag and the word "Vigilantia" (Cadell's crest). This volume was disbound in 1931; Ivanhoe was put into a green morocco gilt binding by Rivière; Waverley was bound in brown half leather over brown cloth covered boards; The Bridal of Triermain and other material was returned to the original binding.