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Language Cipher Level [32] Fonds

1. Add MS 10035

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Add MS 10035
Title:
Collection of verbs from a Calepino dictionary, written in cipher
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of verbs from a Calepino dictionary, named after the Italian lexiocographer Ambrogio Calepino (b. c. 1440, d. 1510), who initially compiled it in 1502. Calepino's dictionary was reprinted many times during the 16th century. The edition this version of the te...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, Dutch, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 11252

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Add MS 11252
Title:
Letters of King Charles I to Prince Charles and to the Speaker of the House of Lords, 1646-1648; letters on Scottish politics, 1681-1688; epitaph on Mary Digby (d. 1692); 17th-century cipher keys
Scope & Content:
A miscellaneous collection, including letters between King Charles I and Parliament preliminary to the negotiations at Newport in 1648. A note on the back of f. 15v noted the collection as 'Letters of King Charles I & others'. A not particulary legible note suggests that some of the papers w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher and English
Date Range:
1646-1681
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 18983

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Add MS 18983
Title:
Original letters from King Charles I to Prince Rupert, 8 Mar 1643-4 Aug 1645
Scope & Content:
Thirteen letters of King Charles I to Prince Rupert, 8 Mar 1643-4 Aug 1645. Twelve of these letters were bought by the British Museum at the sale of Prince Rupert's correspondence in 1851-1852, and were evidently separated from the main chronological series (Add MSS 18980-18982) as letters of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher and English
Date Range:
8 Mar 1643-4 Aug 1645
Extent:
1 volume (bound with Add MS 18992)

4. Add MS 33531

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Add MS 33531
Title:
State papers and correspondence relating to England and Scotland
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–222v: A volume of papers relating to border affairs between England and Scotland (1528–1594), Scottish state papers and correspondence (1449–1594), and the reign of James VI (1567–1594). Among the papers relating to Mary, Queen of Scots, are transcripts of the proceedings of the Commissi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1449-c 1594
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 33596

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Add MS 33596
Title:
Official papers of King Charles I, 1633-1646; captured royalist correspondence of George Digby, Baron Digby, 1645; royalist cipher keys; articles of surrender of Scottish royalists to General George Monck, 1654-1655
Scope & Content:
This is a miscellaneous collection, including warrants and awards made by King Charles I both before and during the Civil War; captured royalist correspondence; seven royalist cipher keys; and articles of surrender to George Monck during his pacification of the Highlands. The tranche of seven ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher and English
Date Range:
13 May 1633-18 May 1655
Extent:

1 volume

6. Add MS 40690

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Add MS 40690
Title:
ORIGINAL LETTERS. etc., 1529-1872 and undated, largely (perhaps entirely) collected by Joseph Green Cogswell, LL.D., Superintendent of the Astor Library, New York (see A. E. Ticknor, Life of J. G. Cogswell, privately printed, 1874). Some of the letters are accompanied by engraved portraits (for which see the Index) and printed matter. Contents:- 1. Charles [V, Holy Roman Emperor] to his aunt [Margaret, Duchess of Savoy, Archduchess of Austria] as Regent [of the Netherlands]; Saragossa, 20 ...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 1 Cyphers: Letter of the Emperor Charles V partly in: 1529.f. 2 Netherlands, United Provinces: Letter to Margaret of Austria, as Govemor, from her nephew Charles V: 1529.: Fr. and cypher.f. 2 Charles V; Emperor of Germany: Letter to his aunt Margaret of Savoy: 1529.: Fr. and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and German
Date Range:
1529-1872
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 48000-48196

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Add MS 48000-48196
Title:
THE YELVERTON MSS
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers chiefly of Robert Beale, Clerk of the Council (b. 1541, d. 1601), together with additions of the 17th century, including manuscripts of Sir Henry Yelverton, Justice of the Common Pleas (b. 1566, d. 1629), Beale's son-in-law, Sir Christopher Yelverton, Justice of the Kin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Scots, Spanish, and Welsh
Date Range:
[1100-1899]
Extent:
197 items

8. Add MS 61101-61710, Add Ch 76069-76142, Seal CCV.8

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Add MS 61101-61710, Add Ch 76069-76142, Seal CCV.8
Title:
BLENHEIM PAPERS
Scope & Content:
The archive, formerly housed at Blenheim Palace, co. Oxon, consists chiefly of the correspondence and papers of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, his wife Sarah, née Jenyns, and their son-in-law Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, whose descendants by his second wife, Anne Churchill,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Catalan, Cipher, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish
Date Range:
16th century-20th century
Extent:
610 items

9. Add MS 63625

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Add MS 63625
Title:
EDWARD SOMERSET, 2ND MARQUESS OF WORCESTER: 'A Centurie of the Names & scantlings of such Inventions as att present I can call to mynde to have tryed & perfected ...', 'From August the 29th 1659 To September 21th 1659'; circa 1659-1663. Differing somewhat in phraseology from the other known manuscript of the work in Harl. 2428, ff. 48-55, and from the text as first published in 1663. Scribal copy, with two apparently autograph insertions on f. 1, and some additions in cipher on f. 11...
Scope & Content:
Ciphers: Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester: Inventions: `A Centurie of . . . Inventions' by Marquess of Worcester: circa 1659-1663: Partly cipher: Copy with autogr.(?) additions.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher and English
Date Range:
c 1659-1663
Extent:
1 item

10. Cotton MS

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Cotton MS
Title:
Cotton Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
The Cotton Manuscripts contains a variety of material, much of it relating to the history, literature and culture of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the 17th century. It is particularly rich in: (a) manuscripts written in Old English; (b) monastic cartularies; (c) saints’ Liv...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, Arabic, Cipher, Coast Miwok, Cornish, Danish, Dutch, Dutch, Middle, English, English, Middle, English, Old, Flemish, French, French, Old, German, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Inuit, Irish, Irish, Middle, Italian, Javanese, Latin, Low German, Occitan, Old, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Saxon, Old, Scots, Scots, Spanish, Temne, and Welsh
Date Range:
5th century-19th century
Extent:
1,429 manuscripts