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1. Add MS 33733-33791

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Add MS 33733-33791
Title:
Grenville Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
form part of the Grenville Library, bequeathed to the British Museum in 1847 by the Rt. Hon. Thomas Grenville. They were transferred to the custody of the Keeper of MSS. in 1890.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
Late 14th century-19th century
Extent:
60 items

2. Add MS 33733, ff ii-iv

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Add MS 33733, ff ii-iv
Title:
Case and magnifying glass for the Triumphs of Charles V
Scope & Content:
Purple velvet of Charles Lewis, c. 1816, in a case of dark blue morocco, velvet-lined, with an early nineteenth-century magnifying glass recessed into it. Also included is the key to the case.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1816
Extent:
Dark blue morocco and velvet case, with magnifying glass and key

3. Add MS 33734

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(Gr. xxiii.) DUCALE, or commission from Antonio Priuli, Doge of Venice, to Bernardo Maripetro as Governor of Justinopolis or Capo d'Istria, with copies of ordinances, etc.; 8 Nov. 1618. Ital. and Latin. Vellum; ff. 197. Bound in crimson velvet. Small Quarto. Venice; Doges of: Priuli (Antonio). ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Nov 1618
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 33735

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(Gr. xlvi.) COLLECTIONS relating to tournaments, etc..- 1. "The ordinances, statutes, and rules made and inacted by John [Tiptoft], Earle of Worcestre, constable of England, by the kinges; [Edward IV.] comandement, at Windsore, the xxixth day of May, in the vi yeare of his noble reigne [1466], t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 33736

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(Gr. x.) " PETRI CARMELIANI Brixiensis poete suasoria Leticie ad Angliam pro sublatis bellis ciuilibus et Arthuro principe nato epistola " : a Latin elegiac poem in. praise of Henry VII. and in celebration of the birth of Prince Arthur in 1486, by Peter Carmelianus of Brescia, afterwards Chaplai...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1485-1509]
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 33737

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(Gr. xxxi.) " A TREATISE of Doctor Nicholas Harpesfeilds concerning Marriage, occasioned by the pretenced (sic) Diuourse betweene King Henry the eight and Queene Katherine." The work, written by Nicholas Harpsfield, Archdeacon of Canterbury, in the reign of Queen Mary, was edited by the Rev. Nic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 33738

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(Gr. xx.) " BULLA gratulatoria super conversione Anglorum ad Catholicam fidem ": copy of a proclamation by Cardinal Otto [Truch,sess von Waldburg], Bishop of Augsburg, 25 Jan. 1555, of a Bull of Indulgence of Pope Julius III. on the reunion of the kingdom of England to the Church of Rome, 24 Dec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Feb 1555
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 33739

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Title:
'The Coppy of a letter written by a M[ast]r of artes in Cambridge to his frende in Londonn concerninge som talke past of late betwene wor[shipfu]ll and graue men aboute the present state and som proceedings of the Earle of Leicester and his frends in Englande' ('Leicester's Commonwealth')
Scope & Content:
This text is a manuscript copy of a work of Catholic political polemic, probably published in Rouen in 1584, possibly by George Flinton or by Georges L'Oyselet. It was published as The copie of a leter, wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his friend in London, concerning some talke past o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1584-1620
Extent:
1 volume

9. Add MS 33740

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Title:
Papers relating to the Spanish Armada, 1588
Scope & Content:
f. 1r: modern contents page. f. 2r: Letter from the Privy Council to the Lord Admiral Howard, informing him that 'a good number of the best and choysest shotte of the trayned bandes' of Kent 'should be forthwith sent to the sea side . . . . to double man the shippes', 21 July 1588, Richmond. Si...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jul 1588-1 Aug 1588
Extent:
1 volume

10. Add MS 33741

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(Gr. xxx.) "AN ACCOUNT shewing the sums granted by Parliament for all Naval Services from the beginning of the American War in 1775 to 1807, both years inclusive; and also an Account of the annual expense of the Navy for the said time, together with the Navy Debt at the end of each year, with th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1775-1807
Extent:
1 item