1. Add MS 4710
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2. 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
3. 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
4. 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)
5. 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)
6. 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
7. Add MS 6895
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- Add MS 6895
- Title:
- Butterfly and Moth Paintings by Elizabeth Dennis Denyer ('Drawings of Lepidopterous Insects')
- Scope & Content:
- Book of butterfly and moth paintings by Elizabeth Dennis Denyer (1765/6-1824), based on specimens collected mostly in the environs of London and housed in the collection of William Jones of Chelsea (1745-1818). The paintings are preceded by notes and an index (ff. 1r-7r) that lists the specimen...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1800
- Extent:
-
66 folios
8. Add MS 8959
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- Add MS 8959
- Title:
- Log-book of the Endeavour, Lieutenant James Cook, Commander, from May 1768 to July 1771
- Scope & Content:
- Log-book of the Endeavour, Lieutenant James Cook, Commander, from May 1768 to July 1771
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- May 1768-Jul 1771
- Extent:
- 1 volume
9. Add MS 8960
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- Add MS 8960
- Title:
- Register of the men of the ship Endeavour, 1768-1771
- Scope & Content:
- Register of the crew of James Cook's first voyage, 1768-1771. 'Endeavour Banks, Complement 70 men. Began wages 25 May 1768. Also lists Marines borne as part of the complement.' Provides details of their ages, wages, place of birth, etc.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1768-1771
- Extent:
- 1 volume
10. Add MS 10337
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- Add MS 10337
- Title:
- The virginal book of Elizabeth Rogers, 1656, containing many almaines, marches, corrantes, airs, etc., in score, with the names of the composers
- Scope & Content:
- passim. 'Elizabeth Rogers hir Virginall booke: February the 27, 1656;' with an index to the contents in the same hand; before 1656. Consists of arrangements of songs, dances, etc., for that instrument, mostly anonymous, the music being written on two staves of 6 lines each. A leaf (v. Index) is ...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume