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1. Stowe Ms 1-1085

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ms 1-1085
Title:
Stowe Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts collected by Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham (d 1839) at Stowe House, Bucks. c 1000-c 1800. 1085 manuscripts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Dutch, English, English, Old, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Modern, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, Scots, Spanish, and Welsh
Date Range:
c 1000-c 1800
Extent:
1085 items

2. Stowe MS 30

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 30
Title:
Prayer book presented to Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Illustrated prayer book, in various languages, dated 1578 and presented to Queen Elizabeth I for New Year. Written in inks of various colours, with illuminated titles and initials. Possibly presented by William Absolon (Lawson, ‘This Remembrance of the New Year’, p. 143). Previously also associ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1578
Extent:
1 volume

3. Stowe MS 54-310

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 54-310
Title:
CLASS IV. HISTORY.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
12th century-19th century
Extent:
257 items

4. Stowe MS 132-137

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 132-137
Title:
TRANSCRIPTS Of despatches, instructions to ambassadors, negotiations, treaties, etc., chiefly relating to the general history of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Six volumes. Vol. II. has on f. 2 an engraved portrait, " W. Delff sculpsit," of Sir Dudley Carleton, Ambassador at Venice and the Hague, etc. (ob. 1632), and on f. 1 the book-plate of Richard, lst Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. All the volumes bear the book-plate, dated 1701, of Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex. Paper; xviith ...
Scope & Content:
Treaties: Negotiations, treaties, etc., relating to European history: 14th-17th centt. Records, Public: Transcripts of State papers on the general history of Europe: 16th. -17th centt. Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex: Book-plates. Bookplates: Capell (Algernon), Earl of Essex: 1701.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
14th century-17th century
Extent:
6 items

5. Stowe MS 132-267

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 132-267
Title:
SECT. V. - STATE PAPERS, DIPLOMATIC AND POLITICAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
14th century-19th century
Extent:
136 items

6. Stowe MS 133

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 133
Title:
Scope & Content:
Vol. II. (ff. 320). ANGLO-BELGlCA, or state-papers relating to affairs between England and the Netherlands, many of which refer to the trade of the two countries to the East Indies; 1585-1659. 1. Treaties of England with the United Provinces, viz.: 1585. ff. 12, 19, 34-42;-1608. ff. 53-63;-162...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and French
Date Range:
1585-1659
Extent:
1 item

7. Stowe MS 155

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 155
Title:
Scope & Content:
COLLECTION of State papers, letters, and miscellaneous documents, many of which relate to the Civil War and the affairs of the Commonwealth; 1564-1760. The letters at the end relate to literature and kindred subjects, and several of them are addressed to Dr. John Hill, Apothecary, etc., who acqu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:
1564-1760
Extent:
1 item

8. Stowe MS 164

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 164
Title:
Scope & Content:
MISCELLANEOUS historical and other papers; 1588-1721. With a table of contents in the hand of Thomas Astle. 1. Part of the book of the Commissioners for the Sequestration of delinquents' estates in co. Essex; 31 Jan. 1645 [6]-17 Apr. 1646. f 2. Morant, in his Hist. of Essex, i., 1768, p. 421, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch and English
Date Range:
1588-1721
Extent:
1 item

9. Stowe MS 222-232

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 222-232
Title:
HANOVER PAPERS, being the correspondence and papers of J- Robethon, private secretary (1) to William III., (2) to George William, Duke of Zell, and (3) to George Louis, Elector of Hanover, and George I. of England; 2 Oct. 1692-13 Nov. 1719. Eleven volumes. Paper. Folio. Vols. i.-x. have been re-arranged chronologically ; vol. xi., consisting of intercepted Jacobite correspondence, remains unaltered. At Robethon's death the collection passed to his eldest son, Col. Robethon, and after the lat...
Scope & Content:
J- Robethon, Private Secretary to William III., and afterwards to George I: Official and private correspondence and papers: 1692-1722.: Fr., Engl., and Germ. James Macpherson, Historian: Transcribed and published extracts from MSS: in 1775. George I of England: Correspondence and papers of J. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
2 Oct 1692-13 Nov 1719
Extent:
11 items

10. Stowe MS 229

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 229
Title:
Scope & Content:
HANOVER PAPERS. Vol. VIII. (ff. 379). 10/21 July, 1716- 29 Dec./ 9 Jan. 1716. The writers are:- J[ohn] Barrington, al. Shute, [afterw. 1st Viscount Barrington], to Baron Bernstorff; Tofts in Essex, 1 Aug. f. 24. [Franz Caspar, Baron von] Bothmer; London, 10/21 July, 1716-25 Dec./5 Jan 1716/7. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, and German
Date Range:
[21 Jul 1716-9 Jan 1716]
Extent:
1 item