1. Add MS 4710
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2. Add MS 4724
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- Add MS 4724
- Title:
- Orationes, or declamations, in Latin and Greek by King Edward VI, 1548–1552
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 2r–222v: Autograph manuscript of King Edward VI's declamations. The declamation 'Non sumus sponte mali' (ff. 66r–67v) is in a different hand and evidently by a different writer, as the king refutes his arguments in the declamation beginning at f. 112r. The dots in the margin of f. 66v, for...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1548-1552
- Extent:
- 1 volume
3. Add MS 4828
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- Add MS 4828
- Title:
- LIST OF THE BISHOPS OF SODOR AND MAN, with a short account of each, from 447 to 1755, preceded by a few words about St. Patrick's first landing in the Isle of Man
- Scope & Content:
- Paper; ff. i + 7. Small octavo. Presented by Dr. Mark Hildesley, Bishop of Sodor and Man, 4 July 1767. Bishops of Sodor and Man: List of, with biographical notes 447-1755,: bef. 1767.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- before 1767
- Extent:
- 1 item
4. Add MS 5025
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- Add MS 5025
- Title:
- Alchemical rolls (The Ripley Scrolls)
- Scope & Content:
- This is one of the twenty-one so-called Ripley Scrolls, a scroll that contains alchemical illustrations and a series of poems of the ‘Verses upon the Elixer’ that was produced for English owners from the fifteenth until the seventeenth centuries. The Ripley Scroll takes its name name from George...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- Late 16th century-Early 17th century
- Extent:
- Four paper rolls, framed in four parts
5. Add MS 5141
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- Add MS 5141
- Title:
- Portrait and Life of Geoffrey Chaucer
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript comprises a single leaf, which seems to have once belonged to a larger volume. The recto features a full-length portrait of the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, holding a penner and a rosary, alongside his arms (Party per pale argent and Gules a bend counter-changed), an English da...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1600
- Extent:
- 1 volume
6. Add MS 5209
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- Add MS 5209
- Title:
- Thomas Maynarde, Account of a voyage of Sir Francis Drake
- Scope & Content:
- Account of the 1595 voyage to Puerto Rico made by Sir Francis Drake (1540–1596), pirate, sea captain, and explorer. Written by Thomas Maynarde. f. 1r: Title page, ‘Sir Fr: Drake his Voyage. 1595. By Tho: Maynarde’. ff. 2r-37r: Account of the 1595 voyage, beginning ‘It appears by the attempts a...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- Late 16th century-Early 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
7. Add MS 5253
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- Add MS 5253
- Title:
- 'Collections of Costumes of various nations, Chiefly Indian; Chinese Buildings, &c.', from the Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, by different hands
- Scope & Content:
- Drawings of inhabitants of several parts of the world from a variety of sources. Drawings 1-2, 8-11, 14-17, 23-25 and 28-29 are associated with the traveller and artist, John White (fl. 1577-1593). Hans Sloane commissioned watercolour copies from an album now in the British Museum Prints &...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 17th century-18th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume (78 drawings)
8. Add MS 5259
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- Add MS 5259
- Title:
- Drawings and notes on human and animal anatomy
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains anatomical images and representations of pathological conditions affecting the human body. Some of the inscriptions on these drawings feature historic language. Where these inscriptions have been transcribed, they are enclosed in inverted commas. Drawings and manuscript...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 16th century-18th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume (231 items)
9. Add MS 5266
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- Add MS 5266
- 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)
10. Add MS 5289
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- Add MS 5289
- 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