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1981. Add MS 5015

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Add MS 5015
Title:
'A CATALOGUE of all the Manuscripts Bequeathed by the Rev. Thomas Birch, D.D. to be preserved in the British Museum To which is added a Catalogue of all the other Manuscripts Bequeathed Presented or Purchased to the Present Time by the Rev. Samuel Ayscough'; 1781
Scope & Content:
A transcript, chiefly in Ayscough's autograph, of part (i.e. covering Add. MSS. 4101-5014) of his Catalogue of the Manuscripts preserved in the British Museum hitherto undescribed ... published in 1782, the contents being arranged in numerical order of the MSS. and not in subject order as in the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1781
Extent:
1 item

1982. Add MS 5017

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Add MS 5017
Title:
'ORDERS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF OUR BEDCHAMBER and Privy Lodgings with the Districts of the same', drawn up by James II; 14 Apr. 1685
Scope & Content:
. Certified as a true copy by Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland. Paper; ff. 12. Small folio. A.D. 1685. The MS. formerly belonged to Thomas Payne, the elder, bookseller, who gave it to George Scott of Woolston Hall, co. Essex, on 30 May 1770 (cf. note in Scott's hand, f.1). It was purchased...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Apr 1685
Extent:
1 item

1983. Add MS 5021

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Add MS 5021
Title:
Maps, chiefly of various parts of Sweden
Scope & Content:
A large folio volume with maps in ink and watercolours, chiefly of various regions in Sweden. The maps are on paper, which has been pasted down on the folios of the album or laid down on canvas. The maps include manuscript place names and table of contents, all in Swedish, unless otherwise speci...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Swedish
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (11 items)

1984. Add MS 5023

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Add MS 5023
Title:
Miscellaneous drawings of the human body, ships and geometrical figures
Scope & Content:
15 loose drawings, 11 of which are stored together in one folder, catalogued as Add MS 5023. Items 1, 2, 6 and 14 from Add MS 5023 are rolls and are stored separately and catalogued as Add MS 5023/1, Add MS 5023/2, Add MS 5023/6 and Add MS 5023/14. The drawings in this folder all differ in siz...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 folder (11 drawings)

1985. Add MS 5024

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Add MS 5024
Title:
Miscellaneous maps and views
Scope & Content:
The 3 rolls are Add MS 5024/1 (an 18th century view of Istanbul); Add MS 5024/2 (a view of Beijing) and Add MS 5024/3 (a map of St James' square in London).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:

2 boxes (3 rolls)

1986. 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

1987. Add MS 5026

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Add MS 5026
Title:
Nature prints of various plant leaves
Scope & Content:
One roll with nature prints obtained from various sorts of leaves. Some leaves were covered in green ink, others with black ink and then impressed on paper to produce nature prints. The roll is made up of 14 sheets laid down on canvas.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 box (1 roll)

1988. Add MS 5027 A

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Add MS 5027 A
Title:
Maps, charts, notes and draft material mostly from Joan Blaeu's workshop in Amsterdam
Scope & Content:
Maps, nautical charts and related draft material mostly from the Amsterdam mapmaking office of Joan Blaeu, official cartographer for the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Some of the maps, charts and notes are signed by assistants of Blaeu, namely Dionysius Paulusz. van Husum and Jan Alberts. All ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, German, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume (133 items)

1989. Add MS 5027 D

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Add MS 5027 D
Title:
Maps of locations in the Netherlands where the army of Stadtholder Frederick Henry have been stationed
Scope & Content:
Fifteen maps picturing locations in the Netherlands where the army of Stadtholder Frederick Henry (1584-1647) have been stationed. The maps are signed by Balthasar Florisz. van Berckenrode, a Dutch draughtsman who specialised in cartography. The maps are all executed in brown ink and watercolour ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch and English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume (20 folios)

1990. Add MS 5027 E

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Add MS 5027 E
Title:
A collection of poems in Dutch, followed by watercolours of insects
Scope & Content:
A series of poems (ff. 1-35) written in pen and brown ink in Dutch, directly on the folios of the manuscript, both recto and verso. Some of the poems are dated at specific points in time between 1679 and 1683 and indicated as written in Rotterdam. Topics of the poems include death and commemorat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch and English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume (185 folios)

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