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1. Add MS 5232

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Add MS 5232
Title:
Maps, drawings and notes collected by Engelbert Kaempfer and relating to his travels
Scope & Content:
Maps and drawings of views, antiquities and plants relating to Engelbert Kaempfer's (1651-1716) travels through Russia, the Persian Empire and Japan. Kaempfer was a German doctor, naturalist and physician who travelled to the Persian Empire as part of a Swedish embassy and was subsequently appoi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, German, Greek, Japanese, Latin, and Russian
Date Range:
late 17th century-early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (243 items)

2. Add MS 5234

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Add MS 5234
Title:
Drawings by Gerard Hofstede van Essen, Dr Edward Browne and others
Scope & Content:
This album contains many drawings with inscriptions that include outdated terms. Where these inscriptions have been transcribed, the text is always in between inverted commas. This is an album of drawings executed by G. Hofstede van Essen, Edward Browne and other draughtsmen. These are primaril...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:

1 volume (105 items)

3. Sloane MS 1-4100

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Sloane MS 1-4100
Title:
Sloane Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts collected by Sir Hans Sloane (d 1753). c 1100-c 1750. 4100 manuscripts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Breton, Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Modern, Greenlandic, Hebrew, Irish, Italian, Latin, Low German, Malayalam, Official Aramaic, Polish, Portuguese, Romance languages, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Venetian
Date Range:
c 1000-c 1750
Extent:
4153 items

4. Sloane MS 1775

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Sloane MS 1775
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Scope & Content:
Sloane 1775 Chartaceus, in Quarto, ff. 254, sec. XVII. 1. Catalogus morborum, cum remediis eorumdem. f. 1-22. 2. 'The manner of the Duke of Buckingham's Election for the Chancellour of the University of Cambridge, with certaine observations on the same. Junii 1o. 1626.' ff. 23-30. Annexed ar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Sloane MS 3056

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Sloane MS 3056
Title:
Psalms and Odes
Scope & Content:
This volume contains 150 psalms in Arabic according to Ibn al-Fadl’s revision, followed by Psalm 151 (marked as outside of the canonical books) and the ten biblical Odes. Contents: Psalms 1–150, fols. 1v–114v Psalm 151, fol. 114v–115r The First Song of Moses 1, fols. 115v–116v The Second S...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
Codex, 128 ff

6. Sloane MS 3113

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Sloane MS 3113
Title:
Cevahirü'l-kelimat - جواهر الكلمات
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a versified Arabic-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary by Şemsi. In a prologue in mesnevi (ff 1-15), the author relates how he was induced by friends to write this vocabulary in imitation of those first composed by Ferişteoğlu for Arabic, and then by Şahidi for Persian. His object wa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1105
Extent:
1 text, 97 ff

7. Sloane MS 3299

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Sloane MS 3299
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Scope & Content:
Major Richard Salwey, Prisoner in the Tower: Allowance of materials to, for petitioning Charles II.: 1661. Philip V of Spain: Account of Spanish ships taken and burnt in Rodondello Harbour by the English and Dutch,: 1702. includes: f. 1 Elizabeth I of England: Letter to, from the Consuls and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1661-1702
Extent:
1 item

8. Sloane MS 3583

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Sloane MS 3583
Title:
Tuhfe-yi Şahidi - تحفۀ شاهدی
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a tabular version of the Tuhfe-yi Şahidi, a well-known versified Persian-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary composed in 920 AH (1514-15 CE) by Şahidi, who died in 957 AH (1550-51 CE). The formatting of the text and addition of Arabic equivalents was completed by Al-Ḥājj Mūsá al-Shar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Latin, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1704
Extent:
1 text, 48 ff

9. Sloane MS 3676

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Sloane MS 3676
Title:
Scope & Content:
Leonhardt Thurneisser zum Thurn: Cabala in Alchemy; translated by S. Michelspacterus: 1667. Johann Remmelin, Dr. of Philosophy and Physic at Ulm: MS was dedicated to him: in 1667. Justus Raphelengius: Tacuini sanitatis Elluchasem Elimithar versio interlinearis: 1614.: Arab. and Lat.: Autogr.: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Latin
Date Range:
1614-1667
Extent:
1 item

10. Sloane MS 4053

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Sloane MS 4053
Title:
Scope & Content:
Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet: Original correspondence, chronologically arranged: 17th-18th centt. includes: f. 1 Jaques Levi, of Venice: Letters to Sir H. Sloane: 1722-1744.: Fr. and Engl. ff. 1, 198, 337, 353 Abbé Jean Paul Bignon, Librarian to Louis XV: Letters to Sir H. Sloane: 1709-1741, and n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item