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1941. Add MS 4828**

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Title:
SPECIMEN OF MINIATURE WRITING by William Isaac Blanchard; 1768
Scope & Content:
The Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments are written on a piece of paper 'the Size of a Silver Penny' mounted in a brass viewing case, made by George Adams of Fleet Street, in which a magnifying glass has been incorporated. Presented by William Isaac Blanchard, circa. 1768. George...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1768
Extent:
1 item

1942. Add MS 4829-4834

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Title:
Transferred
Scope & Content:
Transferred to the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

1943. Add MS 4835

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Title:
LETTER FROM JOSEPH MEAD to Dr. Charles Morton, describing the bark of the Nova Scotia birch-tree, on a piece of which the letter is written; 9 Mar. 1761
Scope & Content:
According to a note in the autograph of T. Birch it was read before the Royal Society on 12 Mar. 1761. Birch bark; ff. i + 1. Folio. A.D. 1761. Presented by Dr. Charles Morton, circ. 1768. Nova Scotia, North America: Letter written on birch bark from: 1761. Joseph Mead: Letter to C. Morton: 17...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Mar 1761
Extent:
1 item

1944. Add MS 4836

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Title:
HOURS, etc., chiefly in Latin
Scope & Content:
Contents:- (1) Calendar, copiously illuminated, with a saint's feast for every day of the year indicated in blue, red or gold. The saints' names in gold include the following:- Geneviève (3 Jan.), Vincent (22 Jan.), Pris (i.e. Praejectus, 25 Jan.), Charles (i.e. Charlemagne, 28 Jan.), Leu (i.e. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1945. Add MS 4837

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Add MS 4837
Title:
Transferred
Scope & Content:
Transferred to the Department of Printed Books.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

1946. Add MS 4839-4844

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Title:
HUGGETT COLLECTIONS
Scope & Content:
Collections for a history of Eton College from its foundation in 1446, made by and chiefly in the autograph of the Rev. Roger Huggett, Librarian of Eton College and Vicar of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, who bequeathed them to the British Museum in 1769. Six volumes. They consist of notes and tr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
6 items

1947. Add MS 4845-4847

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Title:
Collections for a history of St. George's Chapel or College, in Windsor, made by and partly in the autograph of the Rev. Roger Huggett (cf. 4839-4844), who bequeathed them to the British Museum in 1769
Scope & Content:
Three volumes. The contents include (a) copy of the 'Statuta Liberae Capellae sive Collegii Scti. Georgii . . .', 30 Nov. 1352 (4845, ff. 10b- 40b);- (b)'Articles of Complaint of the Minor-Canons of Windsor against ye Dean & Canons with the Dean and Canons Answer ... 1729 & 1730' (4846);...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
3 items

1948. Add MS 4848

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Title:
'LA DISCIPLINE ECCLESIASTIQUE des Eglises reformées de France. C'est à dire L'ordre par lequel elles sont conduittes et gouvernées'; 1609
Scope & Content:
The main work (ff. 3-44b) consists of fourteen chapters, at the end of which is a list of the National Synods 1559-1609, with those of 1612 and 1614 added in a later hand. For a similar MS, carrying the list of Synods down to 1637, see Harley MS. 3980. The second part contains accounts of the tr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1609
Extent:
1 item

1949. Add MS 4849-4850

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Add MS 4849-4850
Title:
Transferred
Scope & Content:
Transferred to the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

1950. Add MS 4851

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Title:
THE NATIONAL COVENANT drawn up by the Scottish Presbyterians as a protest against the attempt to establish Episcopacy in Scotland; 1638
Scope & Content:
The present copy, in the hand of William Cummine, was written at Edinburgh and bears the signatures of more than a thousand persons, including the Earls of Montrose, Rothes, Lothian, Wemyss, Dalhousie, and Eglinton, Barons Loudoun, Fleming, Balmerino, and Melville, James Stewart, Provost of Glas...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1638
Extent:
1 item

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