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1. Add MS 5266

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Title:
Drawings of birds with inscriptions in Hans Sloane's and Thomas Browne's hand
Scope & Content:
Drawings of birds executed in a variety of techniques and by different draughtsmen. The only exceptions are items 82, 91 and 93, which are prints of birds. The drawings are executed on paper and pasted onto the folios of the manuscript. Many drawings bear inscriptions in Hans Sloane's and / or S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (164 items)

2. Add MS 5289

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Title:
‘Miscellaneous Drawings of various Plants, Flowers, and Fruits in Indian-Ink, and colours, by different hands’, from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane
Scope & Content:
Album of drawings of plants by miscellaneous hands and of differing origin and date. The first 99 drawings in this album are those of Philippine plants sent by the Jesuit Georg Joseph Kamel (1661-1706) to James Petiver (1665-1718), many of which were used as the basis for the engravings in Pet...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 10290

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Title:
The Middle Dutch Historie van Jason and Dat Scaecspel
Scope & Content:
This paper manuscript contains two separately produced parts with Middle Dutch texts. The first part contains De Historie van Jason, the only extant handwritten copy of the Middle Dutch translation of l’Histoire de Jason written in 1460 by Raoul Lefèvre (15th century): an author who is thought t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch
Date Range:
c 1470 - c 1480
Extent:

1 volume

4. Add MS 11575

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Title:
Spieghel der menscheliker behoudenisse (the Speculum humanæ salvationis in Dutch)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-5: Added paper leaves with a description and table of contents in a modern hand; ff. 6-102: Spieghel der menscheliker behoudenisse, a Middle Dutch verse adaptation of the Speculum humanæ salvationis, in the dialect of West Flanders. The Speculum is an early fourteenth-century ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch
Date Range:
c 1410
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Add MS 14028

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Title:
Diplomatic papers and collections of Robert Beale
Scope & Content:
This is a collection of Robert Beale's papers and other collected documents. At some point, possibly in 1784, it became split from the main collection of Beale papers in the Yelverton Manuscripts. It was acquired by the antiquary George Chalmers and after his death was bought by the British Muse...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1526-1594
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 15410

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A fifteenth-century manuscript containing Old Testament books from a Dutch History Bible, featuring commentary from the Historia Scholastica by the French theologian Peter Comestor (d. 1179).
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Old Testament books, from the Book of Genesis until the Book of Esther, in a Dutch History Bible in which the biblical text alternates with commentary from the Historia Scholastica by the French theologian Peter Comestor (d. 1179). In the fifteenth century the History Bi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch
Date Range:
c 1440
Extent:

Parchment manuscript

7. Add MS 19969

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Title:
Letters and state papers relating to the treaties and embassies of Ferdinand de Boisschot, Baron of Saventhem
Scope & Content:
Letters and state papers concerning certain treaties and embassies. Principally relating to Ferdinand de Boisschot (c. 1560s-1649), Baron of Saventhem and Dutch Ambassador to England. With genealogies and arms of several families, 1615-1647. ff. 2r-10v Documents relating to the embassy of Ferdi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1615-1647
Extent:
1 volume

8. Add MS 25114

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Title:
Original state papers, 1527–1545
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–351v: A volume of original letters and state papers, relating chiefly to the embassies of Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, to the courts of Francis I and Charles V, 1527–1545. ff. 1r–18r: Copy of a treaty in Latin between Francis I and Henry VIII for the marriage of the Princess M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1527-1545
Extent:
1 volume

9. Add MS 28330

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Title:
Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes two works by Lucas De Heere written and illustrated by the author: ff. 1r-27v: Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland, a short description of England, Scotland and Ireland; preceded by f. 1r: a title page; ff. 2v-3r: a printed map of the British Isles,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch
Date Range:
1573-1575
Extent:

Paper codex

10. Egerton MS 1694

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Egerton MS 1694
Title:
Original letters addressed to Robert Beale (1576-1579, 1587) and to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1585-1587), with other papers concerning English involvement with the Dutch Revolt
Scope & Content:
This volume relates to the English involvement with the Dutch Revolt. The volume was once part of the Yelverton manuscripts, from which it became separated, and it embodies the involvement and preoccupation with the Dutch Revolt of the collection's originator, Robert Beale (1541-1601). Beale w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1576-1587
Extent:

1 volume

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