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2771. Add MS 6794

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Title:
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS: 'Historiae Alexandri Magni'; 1469. Latin. Origin: Balkans. Beg. 'Iter hec Alexander ad conducendum'. Text is that of Book III of the printed editions; for textual variations see S. Dosson, Étude sur Quinte Curce, sa vie et son oeuvre (Paris, 1887), p. 332. Usual textual omissions. Dosson gives a brief description of all known MSS. of the text. See also: Q. Curti Rufi Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis, ed. E. Hedicke (1908); Reynolds, pp. 148-149; Watson, no. 6. Fro...
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Watermarks: Mont: 15th cent. Bindings FRENCH: Red leather, gilt-stamped, boards only, possibly French: 18th cent. Elias Banuarites, of Sibenik: Wrote: 1469. Quintus Curtius Rufus: 'Historiae Alexandri Magni': 1469: Lat. includes: f. 24 Watermarks: Tête de boeuf: 15th cent. ff. 43, 45, 47-50...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1469
Extent:
1 item

2772. Add MS 6795

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Title:
Sir William Musgrave’s autograph catalogue of English portraits, from Egbert of Wessex to the end of George II
Scope & Content:
In quarto, ff. 120. Sir William Musgrave’s autograph catalogue of English portraits, from Egbert to the end of George II, arranged on the plan of Granger (see Add MS 5726, E, F; Add MS 6391, 3). Purchased in Dec 1825.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[18th century]
Extent:
1 volume (120 folios)

2773. Add MS 6796

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ROMAN DE MÉLUSINE: Coudrette, 'Le Roman de Mélusine', a verse romance composed circa 1400-1410; late 15th cent. French. Origin: France. Imperfect at the beginning, lacking the first four folios. Missing material is supplied with a title page in a late 17th cent. hand, ff. 1-7v. Beg. 'Le Philozophe fut moult saige'. First complete line of the original text, 'Le mieux enseigne de touz trois'. Printed in Le Roman de Mélusine ou Histoire de Lusignan par Coudrette, ed. E. Roach (1982),...
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Watermarks: Bull: 15th cent. Poetry FRENCH: Coudrette: Coudrette, 'Le Roman de Mélusine': late 15th cent: Fr. includes: f. 8 Léonor de Rohan, wife of Louis, Prince de Guémené: Ex libris: mid 16th cent. ff. 308-308v Poetry FRENCH: Jehan Mansel: Acrostic verses spelling the name of J. Mansel: l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

2774. Add MS 6797

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JEHAN MANSEL: 'La Fleur des Histoires', vol. 2, part 2; late 15th cent. French. Origin: France. The complete work is in four volumes, the second of which covers the history of Rome to the reign of Constantine. The present MS., the second of a two-part set, is of the second recension, which was completed in 1467. Beg. 'Les consules et les pretres comencerent' (f. 2). Ends (Epilogue): 'a tous leaulz crestiens le pere et le filz et le saint esperit. Amen.' (f. 275v). Followed: (a) by a treatise...
Scope & Content:
Art. Illuminations and Drawings FRENCH: J. Mansel, 'La Fleur des Histoires': miniatures, borders, initials: late 15th cent. History: Jehan Mansel: 'La Fleur des Histoires', vol. 2, part 2 by Jehan Mansel: late 15th cent: Fr. includes: ff. 2, 134v Heraldry: Mathefelon family: Painted arms inco...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2775. Add MS 6804-6872

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Title:
Dispatches and Correspondence, from and to Sir Andrew Mitchell KB, Envoy to the Court of Prussia
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Dispatches and Correspondence, from and to Sir Andrew Mitchell KB, Envoy to the Court of Prussia
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1740-1771
Extent:
69 volumes

2776. Add MS 6880

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Title:
Account of leasing out the Clarenden Press, and Privilege of Prining, by the University of Oxford, to Messrs. Wright & Gill, in the year 1766'
Scope & Content:
Account of leasing out the Clarenden Press, and Privilege of Prining, by the University of Oxford, to Messrs. Wright & Gill, in the year 1766'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (32 pages)

2777. Add MS 6881

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Title:
Statutes of the Monastery of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Brussels, confirmed by Archbishop of Machlin
Scope & Content:
'Statutes compiled for the better observation of the holie Rule of the most Glorious Father and Patriarch, Sainct Benedict, confirmed by the Ordinarie authoritie of the Lord Mathias Hovius, Archbishop of Machlin, & Primate of the Netherlandes &c. and by him delivered to the English Relig...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume (183 pages)

2778. Add MS 6883

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Title:
Account of a Turkish voyage, descriptions of Florence, Tuscany, Hermitage of Camaldoli, and Britain, and a relation by the Duke of Alva to the Spanish council of state on war with Portugal
Scope & Content:
1. ‘Memoires of a Turkysshe Voyage, collected in Constantinople in the yere of our Lorde God 1629’ [1578]. ff. 1-26v. 2. ‘A Relation of the matters of the cytie of Florence, and the State of Toscane, to whiche Don Francesco de Medices commaundethe, as the thyrde grete Duke thereof, 1629 [1580]...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume (42 folios)

2779. Add MS 6888

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Title:
Measuring distance and magnitude at sea, by Joseph Mead
Scope & Content:
‘Chasing-sailing, shewing, at such times as we are favour’d with fair weather and smooth water, some rules for better discovering at several distances how far objects are off at sea, and how much ships are gained on or sail’d from in chase; also rules for better discovering the magnitude of stran...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
1 volume (44 folios)

2780. Add MS 6894

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Title:
PSALTER: with preface of St Jerome, Canticles and Athanasian Creed, written and illuminated probably in London; 2nd quarter of the 15th cent. Latin. Origin: England. See A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles. Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490, ed. K. L. Scott, I, p. 72, n. 17, II, pp. 180, 201, Table I (p. 379). The MS. was given in a mutilated state by Mr Joseph Parker of Exmouth to Miss Eliza Dennis Denyer of Chelsea, in July 1792. All but two of the original historiate...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ENGLISH: Black leather, gilt-stamped: early 19th cent. Calligraphy: Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Eliza Dennis Denyer, of Chelsea: William Jones, artist?: Pages with illumination added to a 15th cent. Psalter by Miss E. D. Denyer and W. Jones: circa 1792. Art. Illuminations...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

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