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172. Add MS 38846-38857
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 38846-38857
- Title:
- JE Hodgkin papers
- Scope & Content:
- MSS. 38846-38857, are composed of papers purchased (together with Add. Ch. 59140-59145) at the sale of John Eliot Hodgkin, F.S.A. (Sotheby's sale-cat., 22-24 Apr. 1914). A number are described by Mr. Hodgkin himself in Rariora, 3 vols., 1902, others in Historical MSS. Commission, 15th Report, Ap...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 16th century-18th century
- Extent:
- 12 items
173. Add MS 39292
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 39292
- Title:
- PAPERS relating to the Dutch West India Company, circ. 1699-1770, being the manuscript part of a collection acquired by the Department of Printed Books in Jan. 1850. The printed portions are bound in three volumes (press-mark 1324. k. 1-3), and include many memorials, reports and extracts from proceedings of the States-General, States of Holland, Chambers of Amsterdam, Zeeland, etc. The manuscript papers are of a similar character, with the additions of notes, probably made by officials of t...
- Scope & Content:
- Netherlands, United Provinces: Papers rel. to the Dutch W. India Co.: 1744-1770.: Dutch.: Chiefly copies. West India Company; Dutch: Papers rel. to: 1744-1770.: Dutch. Trade and Commerce: Papers rel. to the Dutch West India Co.: 1699-1770.: Dutch. Dutch MSS: : 18th cent.: Dutch. includes: f...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Dutch and English
- Date Range:
- c 1699-1770
- Extent:
- 1 item
174. Add MS 39301
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 39301
- Title:
- Miscellaneous papers, viz. 1. " Fürstliche Mindische Cantzeley und Berichts Ordnung": a copy of the Chancery regulations of Christian, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg, Bishop of Minden, apparently made from the edition printed at Rinteln, 1628 [Dept. of Printed Books, 1234. a. 10 (2)] ; followed f. 30 b) by added forms of oaths etc., the last dated 14 Jan. 1672, and by a list of court fees. Germ. f. 1. 2. Political ballads, viz.:-- (a) Verses on an election at Westmeath, beg. " Sir Owen Mak...
- Scope & Content:
- includes: ff. 1-34 Minden, Bishops of. Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg: Chancery regulations of: 1628, with additions to 1672.: Germ.f. 35 County of Westmeath: Verses on an election for: [?1715].f. 35 Political and Satirical Poems: Verses on a Westmeath election: [?1715].f. 35 Ele...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Dutch, English, French, and German
- Date Range:
- 17th century-19th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
175. Add MS 39583-39671
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 39583-39671
- Title:
- PARHAM MANUSCRIPTS. These eighty-nine MSS., 39583-39671, were bequeathed, with Oriental MSS. 8729-8855, by Darea Curzon, Baroness Zouche (d. 1917), having been part of the collection formed at Parham, co. Sussex, by the Hon. Robert Curzon, afterwards 14th Baron Zouche, as the result of his travels in the Levant, etc., in 1833 and later. A copy of his Catalogue of Materials for Writing, ... Rolls and other Manuscripts and Oriental Manuscript Books (1849), with manuscript additions, accompani...
- Scope & Content:
- Parham MSS: Collected at Parham House, co. Suss., by R. Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche (d. 1873) and bequeathed by Darea, Baroness Zouche (d. 1917). Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche: Notes by.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Dutch, English, Flemish, French, Greek, Modern, Irish, Latin, and Slavic languages
- Date Range:
- [800-1899]
- Extent:
- 89 items
176. Add MS 39870
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 39870
- Title:
- JOURNALS, in Dutch, of Peter Vriezema, "twede stuirman " on the Dutch men of war " De Staten General" and " Dordrecht," 1795-6, probably captured when Lucas's ships surrendered to Adm. Elphinstone, 17 Aug. 1796, viz. :- 1. " Jornaal van Den Ondergetekende [Peter Vriezema] Op 't Lants Schip van Oorlog, De Staten General Onder Commando van Den Schout bij Nagt, Samuel Stoorij," 29 July - 7 Dec. 1795. Chiefly at Flushing and the Texel. f. 2. 2. " Jornaal van den Ondergetekende Op S'Lans Schip ...
- Scope & Content:
- Dutch MSS: : 1795, 1796.: Dutch. Peter Vriezema, of the ' De Staten Generaal ' and ' Dordrecht.': journals of: 1795-1796.: Dutch. Voyages and Travels: Journals of P. Vriezema, of the "De Staten Generaal" and " Dordrecht": 1795-1796.: Dutch. Batavian Republic. Navy of Netherlands: Journals of ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Dutch and English
- Date Range:
- 1795-1796
- Extent:
- 1 item
177. Add MS 40737
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 40737
- Title:
- TRANSCRIPTS of Dutch East India records, all in Dutch, relating, to Ceylon:-(1) Report (with ènclosures) from [Johan Gerard van Angelbeek, last Dutch Governor of Ceylon] to the Governor- General and Council of the Dutch East India Co., giving an account of the surrender of the island to the English which culminated in the capitulation of Colombo on 15 Feb. 1796. See G. Nypels, Hoe Nederland Ceilon verloor, 1908, where extracts are given from the similar report, 7 Mar. 1797, sent by van Angel...
- Scope & Content:
- India: Transcripts of records rel. to Ceylon: 1740-1796.: Dutch. Ceylon: Transcripts of Dutch E. India records rel. to: 1740-1796. includes: ff. 1-176 b George III of England: Transcripts of records rel. to surrender of Ceylon to Great Britain: 1796.: Dutch.ff. 1-176 b Johan Gerard van An...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Dutch and English
- Date Range:
- 15 Oct 1773-1 Nov 1773
- Extent:
- 1 item
178. Add MS 41803-41846
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 41803-41846
- Title:
- MIDDLETON PAPERS, consisting mainly of the official correspondence of Charles Middleton, 2nd Earl of Middleton, Secretary of State from 1684 till the flight of James II, with a few earlier papers of previous Secretaries of State, 1660-Nov. 1688 and n.d.
- Scope & Content:
- Cf. Brit. Mus. Quart., iv, 1929-1930, pp. 80-82. A number of letters are addressed to his secretary, Dr Owen Wynne (see above), whose family inherited the papers and added the later, mostly 18th cent., collections, Add. MSS. 41843-41845. The final volume (Add. MS. 41846) consists of the papers o...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish
- Date Range:
- 1660-Nov 1688
- Extent:
- 48 items
179. Add MS 42257-42496
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 42257-42496
- Title:
- THE STEVENS TRANSCR1PTS. Transcripts of letters and papers relating to the history of the American Colonies, [1664?]-1784, but mainly concerned with the period 1776-1784, collected by Benjamin Franklin Stevens (b. 1833; d. 1902); late 19th cent. On Stevens and his collections of transcripts, mostly acquired by the Library of Congress between 1898 and 1906, see G. Manville Fenn, Memoir of Benjamin Franklin Stevens, London, 1903, pp. 172-181, 195-304; Handbook of Manuscripts in the Library of ...
- Scope & Content:
- Benjamin Franklin Stevens, bookseller; US Government Despatch Agent in London: Transcripts of letters and papers rel. to the American War of Independence collected by: late 19th cent. George III of England: Transcripts of letters and papers rel. to the American War of Independence (1776-1784), ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Dutch and English
- Date Range:
- [783]-1857
- Extent:
- 240 items
180. Add MS 42575-42585
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 42575-42585
- Title:
- SHERBORN AUTOGRAPHS
- Scope & Content:
- Original letters and papers, mainly of the 19th and 20th centt., selected from the collection of Charles Davies Sherborn, D.Sc. (d. 1942), which was formed largely in connection with his work at the British Museum (Natural History). The collector's own scheme of classification and alphabetic arr...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, and Swedish
- Date Range:
- 19th century-20th century
- Extent:
- 11 items