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1. Add MS 5289

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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

2. Add MS 13828

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Title:
MISCELLANEOUS Papers, Letters and Accounts, relative to the revenue of Bengal, supplies and loans, allowances and salaries of civil estabblishment, customs, post-office, etc., 1796-1804.
Scope & Content:
Among them may be noticed a letter from Rev. D. Mac Kinnon to Lt. Col. Kirkpatrick, on the propriety of founding a college to instruct the natives in English and Greek, with a list of the Arabic translations of Greek authors discovered by Mr. Hastings in 1784, in the Vizir's palace at Lucknow, d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1784-1805
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 88942/1/219

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Plantarum rariorum stationes à W.H.F.T. annis 1814, 1815, 1816, observata.-')
Scope & Content:
Five notebooks list botanical specimens Talbot identified during his travels in Britain and on the continent (Add MS 88942/1/219-223). These notebooks are complemented by Herbaria amongst his papers at the British Library. From an early age, Talbot was keenly interested in plants. As a boy, he ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1814-1816
Extent:
1 notebook (25 ff.)

4. Add MS 88942/1/220

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains detailed descriptions of plants and a list of several places in Europe Talbot travelled to between 1821 and 1823. Back to front (upside down): lists of plants Talbot found during travels mainly in France, Germany and Austria in 1822 and 1823. The notebook also contains a v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1817-1823
Extent:
1 notebook (73 folios, 142 pages of text)

5. Add MS 88942/1/221

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Botanical notebook listing plants and flowers found during a trip to Italy, Switzerland, Austria and Germany starting at Villa Hadriana. At the back of the notebook (upside-down), lists of plants found in Italy, Germany and England with detailed descriptions. Notebook started: 11 May 1823.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1823-1826
Extent:
1 notebook (77 folios, 153 pages of text)

6. Add MS 88942/1/222

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Botanical notebook starting 'Environs of Florence' (May 1826) containing lists of plants found in Italy, Germany and France, and at Lacock, up to 1839. Back to front (upside-down) contains further detailed descriptions of plants (also to 1839), probably referring to the lists of plants in the fi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1826-1839
Extent:
1 notebook (68 folios, 79 pages of text)

7. Add MS 88942/1/223

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('The Garden')
Scope & Content:
The earliest entry in this notebook, which takes the form of a Lacock garden diary, is at the back (17 December 1828). At the front of the notebook, the first page (f. 2) has been removed. The notebook begins (f. 3) with an entry dated 4 April 1829: 'Put an edging of saxifrage & thrift 3 inc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-1829
Extent:
1 notebook (16 ff.)