SEVEN charters and instruments relating to Bishop's Hatfleld, Kimpton, and the manors of Holmes and Laurence Ayot, co. Hertf. 1351-1572; -Indenture for the delivery and receipt of church plate by the Commissioners appointed within the county of Hertford, to Sir Francis Jobson, for the King's use...
Manuscripts collected by Thomas Birch (b. 1705, d. 1766), D.D., and bequeathed by him to the British Museum, of which he was a Trustee from 1753 until his death
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They comprise not only original documents (including some of Birch's own private papers) but also a number of transcripts, many of which were made by Birch himself, from originals preserved in public and private collections. Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Collections of, bequeathed to the Britis...
John Dunstall, manuscript version of his manual "The Art of Delineation, or Drawing. In 6 Books"
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This is the only known surviving version in manuscript form of the unpublished treatise "The art of delineation, or drawing", written and illustrated by John Dunstall, schoolmaster at Blackfriars in London, active as printmaker and art teacher between 1653 and 1693. The manuscript includes a com...
‘Locutiones seu Phrases quæ reperiuntur in Novo Testamento, et primo apud Mattheum, quæ videntur secundum proprietates (quæ Idiomata Græcè vocantur) lingua Hebrææ sive sacræ, ad Serenissimum inclitissimumque Angliæ Regem, [Henricum VIII] collecta à Thoma Wakefeld, Cantabrigiense’ A dedication is...
A COLLECTION Of philological papers, consisting of copies of inscriptions in different parts of India;-Specimens of writing in European characters by Taddesee or Saganee Indians, in North America, with translations;-Specimen of writing by the native Indians of Newfoundland; -Impressions from two brasen tablets supposed to have been engraved in Egypt, and probably talismanic [See MS. Add. 10,608] ; - Alphabetum Judaico-Teutonicum ; - Charm, written in Hebrew on a strip of parchment ;-Bardic...
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Writing: Specimens of writing, by different Indian tribes. Newfoundland: Specimeti of writing by the native Indians of. Inscriptions: Inscriptions in various parts of India. Indians of N. America and Newfoundland: Specimens of their writing. India: Copies of inscriptions, in different parts ...
Friendship album or ‘Stammbuch’ of Sir Thomas Cuming of Scotland, during his time at the University of Heidelberg. Containing autographs and coloured arms, collected principally at Basle, Heidelberg, Leiden, London, Prague and Vienna, in the years 1612-1623. ff. 1r-2v Copy of letters from Fred...