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1. Add MS 16629 A-B

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Add MS 16629 A-B
Title:
Two copies of the foregoing work, written on similar paper rolls, in small Devanagari character, about the end of the last century, and ornamented with miniatures. In a painted wooden case, and velvet wrapper. [16,629 a, b.]
Scope & Content:
Devímahátmya: : Sans.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Sanskrit
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
2 items

2. Add MS 26604

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Add MS 26604
Title:
[Philological collections by William Erskine]
Scope & Content:
PHILOLOGICAL collections by William Erskine:- 1. A printed table showing "the form of the characters, pronunciation, andpower,ofthe Guzzerat alphabet", and a comparative vocabulary of Sanskrit, Latin, and English, ff. 2, 4. 2. Vocabulary of Catharine II, Empress of Russia, in Sanskrit, Mahra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Hindustani, Manchu, Marathi, Mongolian, Sanskrit, Sinhalese, and Uighur
Date Range:
1796-1810
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 35229

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Title:
"CORONA CATHOLICA," by Charles Kent: an epigram in English founded on St. Malachy's prophecy applied to the accession of Leo XIII., with versions in fifty languages, ancient and modern, by various scholars, mostly in the autograph of the translators. The original collection of these versions, published in 1880, is amplified, by the addition of alternative renderings, to almost one hundred. An account of St. Malachy (Archbishop of Armagh, 1134-1148) is prefixed. Paper; ff. 196. About A.D. 188...
Scope & Content:
Charles Kent: Corona Catholica: 1880. Saint Malachy,; Archbishop of Armagh (1134-1148): Epigram based on the prophecy of, etc.: 1880. Leo XIII; Pope: Epigram on his accession, with polyglot versions: circ. 1880. includes: f. 19 Count V- Ferrero: Latin version of epigram: 1880. f. 20 Edward W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, English, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, Persian, Russian, Sanskrit, Swedish, and Urdu
Date Range:
1880
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 88942

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Add MS 88942
Title:
The Papers of William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)
Scope & Content:
The British Library collection contains notebooks, letters, photographs, diaries, unbound Assyriological and mathematical folios, natural specimens in herbaria, offprints of Talbot’s articles, patents, artefacts and a small selection of books from Talbot’s library. Whilst the covering dates of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, Coptic, Cypriot, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, Gaelic, German, German, Middle High, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Indo-European languages, Irish, Italian, Latin, Pashto, Persian, Persian, Old, Sanskrit, Spanish, Swedish, Syriac, Turkish, Ottoman, and Welsh
Date Range:
1732-1952
Extent:

849 files

5. Add MS 88942/1

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Title:
William Henry Fox Talbot: Notebooks and loose notes
Scope & Content:
Talbot's notebooks testify to his wide-ranging intellectual and practical scientific interests, which extended far beyond pioneering photographic research and invention to encompass research in mathematics, optics, astronomy, botany, horticulture, Assyriology, philology, and many associated aven...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, Coptic, Cypriot, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, Gaelic, German, German, Middle High, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Indo-European languages, Irish, Italian, Latin, Pashto, Persian, Persian, Old, Sanskrit, Spanish, Swedish, Syriac, Turkish, Ottoman, and Welsh
Date Range:
1778-1877
Extent:
386 folders

6. Add MS 88942/1/58

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains notes on Egyptian (including some Hieroglyphics), Greek, Sanskrit, Afghan, Persian (all in Latin script), mainly as lists of words that are partly alphabetical. It also contains some ancient historical notes, probably extracted from a book and a list of books on languages s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, Greek, Ancient, Pashto, Persian, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (30 folios, 30 pages of text)

7. Add MS 88942/1/64

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains etymological notes on Greek, Latin, German, Danish, Italian, Persian, and lists of words with 'uncertain and doubtful origin'. Back to front (upside-down): lists of population figures for England, Wales, Scotland, and other partly demographical figures and accounts of Englis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, French, Gaelic, Greek, Ancient, Irish, Italian, Latin, Persian, Sanskrit, and Welsh
Date Range:
1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 40 pages of text), 23 loose sheets (23 folios, 44 pages of text)

8. Seal CCV.4

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Seal CCV.4
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Scope & Content:
CAST of a seal in Nagari characters being an invocation to Rama in doggerel Sanskrit, probably early 19th cent. Used to seal a letter written by Henry Edward Fox, afterwards 4th Baron Holland, to Eleanor, wife of John Nicholas Fazakerley, M.P., dated at Elba 5 October 1827, now Add. MS. 61937, f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Sanskrit
Date Range:
1981
Extent:
1 item

9. Seal XXXV.196-CCIX.1

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Seal XXXV.196-CCIX.1
Title:
Detached Seals
Scope & Content:
Collection of detached seals which may be original impressions detached from the documents of which they once formed a part, casts of original impressions, or modern impressions from surviving matrices. Some detached seals are also to be found in the Sloane and Cotton charters collections, and t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Latin, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
16818 items