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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4217
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Scope & Content:: THE LADY CATHERINE WHETENALL JOURNAL 'The Voyage of the Lady Catherine Whetenall from Brussells into Italy in the holy yeare with the cheif accidents that hath happened therin written in Padua a little before her ladyship fell sick by other of her trayne'; 1650. Written at her request by Richar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1650
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4218
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Scope & Content:: 'PILATUS MONS SPECIMINE HISTORIAE NATURALIS Illustrissimae Societatis Regiae Anglicanae subjectus ab ejusdem socio', by Mauritius Antonius Cappeler, M.D.; 1728. With four tables of drawings (ff. 2-5). The autograph portions of the work are the title-page, the heading (f. 6), chapter VI and part ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1728
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4219
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Scope & Content:: Treatises on Natural History; circ. 1751-1758. Viz.:- (1) 'Traité du Corail ... Pour servir a l'histoire naturelle de la mer', by Jean André de Peyssonnel, F.R.S., 'Médecin botaniste entretenu par sa majesté dans l'isle de Gaudeloupe', etc. ff. 1-1 13. For an account of this, and other treatis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1751-1758
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4221
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Scope & Content:: Vol. I (ff. 348). A-C. includes: ff. 1-14 Lancelot Addison, Dean of Lichfield: Biographical notice: 18th cent.: Fr. ff. 9b, 15 Joseph Addison, dramatist and essayist: Biographical notices: 18th cent.: Fr. and Engl. f. 17 Reverend Michael Ainsworth, Master of Cornhampton School: Biographical no...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1730-c 1766
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4221-4225
Title:: BIRCH'S BIOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS Collection of biographical notices and memoranda of literary, scientific and other illustrious persons, made by or for Thomas Birch; circa 1730-1766. The names of the subjects, as well as of the writers of the few original letters in the volumes, are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. The substance of some of these articles is to be found in A General Dictionary Historical and Critical translated from Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire Historique et...
Scope & Content:: Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Biographical works and memoranda by: circ. 1730-1760, n.d.: Partly autogr. Biography: Collection of biographical notices by T. Birch: circ. 1730-1740.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1730-c 1766
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4222
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Scope & Content:: Vol. II (ff. 274). D-L. includes: f. 1 Sir Robert Dallington, Master of the Charterhouse: Biographical notice: 18th cent. f. 2 Edmund Dickenson, d 1707 MD: Biographical notices: 18th cent. f. 3 Publius Cornelius DolabeIla, Roman general; d. 44 BC: Biographical notice: 18th cent. f. 4 Horatius ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1730-c 1766
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4223
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Scope & Content:: Vol. III (ff. 283). M-S. includes: ff.1-5 Thomas Madox, d 1727 Historiographer Royal: Biographical notice: 18th cent. ff. 6-12 Sir John Marsham, 1st Baronet d 1685: Biographical notice: 18th cent.: Fr. ff. 13,16 John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough: Biographical notice: 18th cent. ff. 17-33...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1730-c 1766
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4224
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Scope & Content:: Vol. IV (ff. 312). T-W. Together with miscellaneous notes among which are: (a) extracts relating to Cambridge men, from Thomas Baker's collections in Harley MSS.7031-7037. ff. 178-201;- (b)'Alphabetical list of Lives' by Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford. ff. 202-204;- (c) 'Kalendarium Carlananu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1730-c 1766
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4225
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Scope & Content:: Vol. V. (ff. 111). Miscellaneous, but chiefly prominent historical figures. In narrative form, in Birch's autograph. includes: f. 1 Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham d 1483: Biographical notice: 18th cent. f. 5 Henry VII of England: Biographical notice of Qu. Elizabeth: 18th cent. f. 9 He...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1730-c 1766
Extent:: 1 item

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