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1. Add MS 4101-4478

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Title:
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
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish
Date Range:
[1200-1799]
Extent:
378 items

2. Add MS 4388

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Title:
John Pell: notes on logic, geometry and music.
Scope & Content:
Collections relating to music, mainly in the hand of John Pell, mathematician and diplomatist. Preceded by some notes on logic and geometry also in Pell's hand (ff. 1-13). Includes notes, tables, exercises and papers relating to the studies of John Birchensha on music from a mathematical basis a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish and English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume (109 folios)

3. Add MS 4857-4900

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Title:
BANKS COLLECTION
Scope & Content:
Collections, mostly in Icelandic and relating to Iceland, presented by Sir Joseph Banks, 1767-1781. Banks visited Iceland in 1772 and brought back a collection of printed books and MSS. which he presented to the British Museum on 3 December 1772. The MSS. may be identified from a 'Catalogue of B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, English, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, and Low German
Date Range:
[1160-1799]
Extent:
44 items

4. Add MS 4875

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Scope & Content:
BANKS COLLECTION. Vol. XIX (ff. 88). Seven romantic Sagas, together with another incomplete saga and extracts from newspapers; 18th cent. 'Nos. 3-9' according to a note on f. 1. Viz.:- (1) 'Valldemars Saga': in 12 chapters. Story of Valdemar, son of King Philip of Saxland. Cf. Add. MS. 4859, a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, English, German, and Icelandic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 4888

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Scope & Content:
BANKS COLLECTION. Vol. XXXII (ff. 52).'Psal[t]erium natale edur faedingar psaltare'. Thirty Psalms on the Incarnation and Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ by Gunnlaugr Snorrason, priest at Helgafell in west Iceland (d. 1796); 18th cent. The psalms were printed at Hólar in 1747. 'No. 29' accordi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, English, and Icelandic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 5243

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"Regum Daniae effigies ex Aulaeis Croneburgicis maxima ex parte depictae". An album of drawings of Danish kings.
Scope & Content:
Pen and ink drawings of Danish Kings, starting with King Dan. I and concluding with King Christian IV. The volume formerly belonged to Olaus Wormius, whose autograph ('sum Olai Wormii') it bears on f. 1. The drawings are executed directly on the folios of the manuscript, mostly on both recto and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume (62 folios)

7. Add MS 10143

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Title:
CHRONICA OLAI PETRI, Nericiencis, (fratris Laurentii Archiepiscopi,) qui primum fuit scriba Civitatis Stockholmensis, dein Cancellarius Episcopi Strengnensis, ac demum pastor ecclesiae Stockholmensis, ad annum 1520; Danice. Folio. [10,143.]
Scope & Content:
Sweden: Chronica P. Olai: ad ann. 1520.: Danice. Petrus Olaus, Nericiensis: Chronica: ad ann. 1520.: Danice.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish
Date Range:
1520
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 11072

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JOHANNIS ARNÆI, Episcopi Scalholtensis, Disquisitio de tributo parochianorum in illuminationem templorum ;-Ejusdem Edictum publicum de legali decimationis modo 1730;--Elenchus graduum cognationis vel affinitatis in Islandia;-De locis sepeliendi in Islandia legalibus, auctore Jona Jacobsson, 1773 ;-Arnæ Magnæi Disquisitio de sustentatione viduarum, sacerdotum, et episcoporum Islandicorum; -Finni Johannæi, Episc. Scalholtensis, Disquisitio epistolaris de pecore ferreo in Islandia ;-Jonæ Jacobs...
Scope & Content:
Arnas Magnæus: Disquisitio de sustentatione viduarum, sacerdotum et episcoporum Islandicorum.: Isl. et Dan. Law of Iceland, Norway, and Denmark: Elenchus graduum cognationis vel affinitatis in Islandia.: Isl. et Dan. Law of Iceland, Norway, and Denmark: Sermo de jure ecclesiactico Islandiæ: Is...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish and Icelandic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 11080

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Title:
COLLECTIO VETUSTA constitutionum et edictorum, apriscis Norvegiæ Regibus editorum ;-Recessus et Ordinantia Christiani III., Daniæ et Norvegiæ Regis -Articuli regis Frederici II., de jure matrimoniali; -De scholis litterariis Islandiæ Constitutio Christiani VI. ;-Ejusdem regis Præscripta de discipulorum in iisdem scholis habitaculis, vestitu, victu, etc. Islandice et Danice. Chartaceus, secc. xvii. et xviii. Quarto. [11,080.]
Scope & Content:
Law of Iceland, Norway, and Denmark: Constitutiones Christiani VI. de scholis litterariis Islandiæ. Law of Iceland, Norway, and Denmark: Articuli regis Frederici II. de jure matrimoniali. Law of Iceland, Norway, and Denmark: Recessus et ordinantia Christiani III. Daniæ et Norvegiæ regis. Law ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, English, and Icelandic
Date Range:
17th century.-15th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 11094

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STORE DÖMUR, sive Senatus-Consultum Islandicum de gradibus matrimonii prohibitis in Islandia, 1565; Originale Islandicum, cum versione Danica, et alia Latina ab Arna Magnæo. Chartaceus, sec. xviii. Quarto. [11,094.]
Scope & Content:
Arnas Magnæus: Senatus-consulti Islandici de gradibus matrimonii prohibitis in Islandia: versio Latina. Law of Iceland, Norway, and Denmark: Senatus-consultum Islandicum de gradibus matrimonii prohibitis in Islandia.: Isl. Dan. et Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, Icelandic, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

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