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2021. Add MS 5208

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Add MS 5208
Title:
SYON ABBEY: rules, etc., of the Bridgettine Abbey of Syon, co. Midd.; late 15th-early 16th cent. Latin. Origin: England. For other manuscripts of rules of this house, in English, see: Arundel MS. 146;- St Paul's Cathedral MS. no. 5, N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, i, London (1969), pp. 243-244. Marginalia throughout, 15th-16th centt. Heavily excised material on fly-leaf (f. 1v). Item M. 72 in the library catalogue of Syon Abbey, Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS. 14...
Scope & Content:
Orders; Religious. Bridgettines: Syon Abbey; Middlesex: Isleworth, Middlesex: Rules, etc., of the Bridgettine Abbey, Syon: mid 15th-early 16th cent: Lat. includes: ff. 3v, 10v, 15 Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Initials: early 16th cent. ff. 3v-15 Saint Bridget,; of Sweden: Rule of O...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century-Early 16th century
Extent:
1 item

2022. Add MS 5209

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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

2023. Add MS 5220

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Title:
‘Drawings of animals, monsters, skeletons, etc.’ from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, by different hands
Scope & Content:
Album of drawings by miscellaneous hands and of differing origin and date. The pages are not numbered. The drawings are listed as numbered items in pencil (1928). Folio number refers to the digital foliation. [f. 1] 1. Drawings of fish; pen, ink and wash; signed bottom right ‘HG fecit’; Insc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (42 drawings)

2024. Add MS 5222

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Title:
Miscellaneous maps and charts
Scope & Content:
17 maps and plans, all but one mounted on rolls. The rolls are Add MS 5222/1-5 (miscellaneous charts and maps); Add MS 5222/6-9 (Maps and charts by Thomas Bowrey); Add MS 5222/10 ( Nautical chart attributed to Thomas Bowrey); Add MS 5222/11-12 (Nautical charts and maps attributed to Thomas Bowre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:

17 maps

2025. Add MS 5232

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Title:
Maps, drawings and notes collected by Engelbert Kaempfer and relating to his travels
Scope & Content:
Maps and drawings of views, antiquities and plants relating to Engelbert Kaempfer's (1651-1716) travels through Russia, the Persian Empire and Japan. Kaempfer was a German doctor, naturalist and physician who travelled to the Persian Empire as part of a Swedish embassy and was subsequently appoi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, German, Greek, Japanese, Latin, and Russian
Date Range:
late 17th century-early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (243 items)

2026. Add MS 5233

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Title:
Drawings, notes and letters collected by Dr Edward Browne during his travels across Europe
Scope & Content:
Sketches, notes and letters collected and / or made by Dr Edward Browne during his travels across Europe (1664-65 and 1668-69) and later assembled by his father, Dr Thomas Browne. The drawings and inscriptions are made on paper and pasted on the folios of the albums. Several items bear an additi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

1 volume (89 items)

2027. Add MS 5234

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Title:
Drawings by Gerard Hofstede van Essen, Dr Edward Browne and others
Scope & Content:
This album contains many drawings with inscriptions that include outdated terms. Where these inscriptions have been transcribed, the text is always in between inverted commas. This is an album of drawings executed by G. Hofstede van Essen, Edward Browne and other draughtsmen. These are primaril...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:

1 volume (105 items)

2028. Add MS 5238

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Title:
Miscellaneous figure drawings and architectural drawings by Christopher Wren, Robert Hooke and others
Scope & Content:
Architectural and figure drawings by various draughtsmen. Among them are architectural drawings by Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke relating to the design of the Monument to the Great Fire of London. The drawings are executed on paper and pasted on the folios of the album. Summary description o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:

1 volume (94 items)

2029. Add MS 5240-5241

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Title:
"Cavesson Francois ou Traicté de l’ambouchure des chevaux". A treatise about horse tack accompanied by drawings of bridles and bits
Scope & Content:
The volume contains two separate manuscripts that have been bound together: Add MS 5240 and Add MS 5241.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1659
Extent:

1 volume (158 folios)

2030. Add MS 5244

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Title:
John Dunstall, manuscript version of his manual "The Art of Delineation, or Drawing. In 6 Books"
Scope & Content:
This is the only known surviving version in manuscript form of the unpublished treatise "The art of delineation, or drawing", written and illustrated by John Dunstall, schoolmaster at Blackfriars in London, active as printmaker and art teacher between 1653 and 1693. The manuscript includes a com...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume (113 folios)

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