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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4723
Title:: MAP showing the position of the Indian tribes to the north-west of South Carolina copied from a painting on deer-skin by an Indian chief, and presented to Sir Francis Nicholson, the Governor (1719-1728; knt. 1720), by whom it was dedicated to George, Prince of Wales (afterwards George II)
Scope & Content:: Paper, mounted on linen. 1155 mm. x 815 mm. Circa 1719-1720. Presented by Dr. Matthew Maty, 24 Dec. 1762. Maps and Plans: Plan showing position of Indian tribes north-west of S. Carolina: 1719-1720. South Carolina, America: Map of Indian tribes to the north-west of: 1719-1720.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1719-1720
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4724
Title:: Orationes, or declamations, in Latin and Greek by King Edward VI, 1548–1552
Scope & Content:: ff. 2r–222v: Autograph manuscript of King Edward VI's declamations. The declamation 'Non sumus sponte mali' (ff. 66r–67v) is in a different hand and evidently by a different writer, as the king refutes his arguments in the declamation beginning at f. 112r. The dots in the margin of f. 66v, for...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:: 1548-1552
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4725
Title:: 'DOMINIUM MARIS BRITANNICI assertum ex archivis historiis et municipalibus Regni legibus per D. loannem de Burgo equitem auratum et archivorum regni in Turri Londinensi custodem', dedicated to Charles I; 17th cent.
Scope & Content:: For other copies, see Harley MS. 4314 and Stowe MS. 287. The work was first published in English in 1651, as The Soveraignty of the British Seas ... written in ... 1633 ... by Sir John Borough (Garter King-at-Arms, 1634); later editions appeared in 1686, 1729, and 1739. Paper; ff. 37. Small foli...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4727
Title:: BOOK OF PRAYERS
Scope & Content:: For the following occasions:- (a) 'Ante quamvis orationem'. f. 3;- (b) 'In Die Dominico'. f. 3b- ( c) 'Generalis confessio'. f. 4b;- (d) 'Invocatio ad Trinitatem, Augustini'. f. 6;- (e) 'Pro Mittendis Ministris Verbi'. f. 7;- (f) 'Vt quis in semine bono existat'. f. 7b;- (g) 'Sacram concionem au...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4728
Title:: RUSSELL TRANSCRIPTS
Scope & Content:: Transcripts of the papers of Sir William Russell, Lord Deputy of Ireland (1594-1597), Baron Russell of Thornhaugh (1603); preceded (f. 2) by a table of contents. Viz.:- (1) Journal, while Lord Deputy, interspersed with copies of letters and papers relating to his office. The contents of Russel...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4729
Title:: 'CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF KING HENRY THE EIGHTH [at Westminster], made in the 34th year of his Reign', transcribed by Thomas Astle from a Book (No. 160) in the Augmentation Office; divided into 2 parts, or alphabets; 18th cent.
Scope & Content:: The volume is misbound; ff. 7-12 should follow f. 18. For a later copy of the catalogue (1839) see Add. MS. 25469, at the beginning of which an account is given of the large folio volume (of 280 leaves) describing the whole of the royal goods and chattels in the charge of Sir Anthony Denny, Keep...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4730
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. I (ff. 270). Temporale: pars hiemalis; with a few responses for Lent, etc., at the end (ff. 267b-268b) in a 16th cent. hand; and two printed leaves from a Gradual, of about the same date (ff. 269, 270).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1481-16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4731
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. II (ff. 131). Temporale: pars aestivalis; preceded by a table of contents, in a 17th cent. hand. Single leaves are missing after ff. 1, 48, 70, 128 and 130; 8 (?) leaves after f. 110; 6 after f. 127; and 4 after f. 129. f. 131 is in a 17th cent. hand.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1481-17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4732
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. III (ff. 162). Sanctorale, containing, among other commemorations, those of St. Elzear and St. Ives. Single leaves are missing at the beginning and after f. 72 (for which another has been substituted in a later hand), and at least 8 leaves at the end.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1481-1484
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4733
Title:: REGISTER AND SURVEY OF CRABHOUSE NUNNERY, etc., co. Norf.
Scope & Content:: See G. R. C. Davis, Medieval Cartularies of Great Britain, 1958, p. 33. Two volumes, with continuous foliation. Presented, 29 June 1765, by Henry Robinson, Rector of Watlington, co. Norf. Vol. I (ff. i-ii, 1-54). Register of Crabhouse Nunnery, as follows:- (a) Legend of the foundation of the N...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century-15th century
Extent:: 1 item

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