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Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1940
Title:: "OBSERVATIONS of the lights exhibited on Severndroog Castle [near Dartford, co. Kent] by order of the Honble Corporation of the Trinity House during the months of February, March and April, 1788, by James Fergusson, of Stepney;" addressed to the Corporation of the Trinity House, 6 June, 1788. With diagrams of the lights, etc. Paper. Folio.
Scope & Content:: Lighthouses: Observations of Lights at Severndroog Castle, by J. Ferguson: 1788. Severndroog Castle, Kent: Observations of the lights exhibited on, by J. Fergusson: 1788. James Fergusson, of Stepney: Observations of the lights exhibited on Severndroog Castle: 1788.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 6 Jun 1788
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1941
Title:: ORIGINAL letters and papers relating to various mechanical inventions, with drawings, etc. Included are:- 1. "Draught of a smelting-mill used by the Company of Mineadventurers of England and others in Yorkshire; 1735," f. 1. 2. "Perpetual oven, taken from a model sent by Mr. -, near Norwich," f. 3. 3. Sections of water-bellows invented by [John] Wilkinson, [of Willey, near Broseley, co. Salop?], f. 5. 4. John Cockshull, jun., to [Dr. William Lewis?], with drawings of a water-bellows ...
Scope & Content:: Mechanics: Letters and papers relating to various mechanical inventions: 18th cent. includes: f. 3 Oven: Plan of a perpetual oven: 18th cent.ff. 5, 20 John Wilkinson, of Willey, county Shropshire: Sections and account of water-bellows, invented by: 1766.f. 6 John Cockshull, junior: Lette...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1735-1766
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1942
Title:: CHRONICLE of Nuremberg to the year 1599, entitled, "Ein schöne vnnd wolgegründte Croniea von der löblichen Reichstat Nürinberg, viller alter ergangner verloffner Geschichten gern zuhören vnd mit sonderem hochstem vleisz vnd nachtrachten zusamen getragen vnnd zuwegen gebracht;" beginning, "Römischer Gewalt vnnd mechtigkait was in eines Raths-Senat vnnd gemeyner hanndt." Interspersed are several engraved portraits, etc., and a few printed documents. In the latter part of the work are sidenotes...
Scope & Content:: Johann Wilhelm Kress von Kressenstein: Collections relating to Nuremberg: 17th cent.: Germ. Nuremberg, Bavaria: Historical collections relating to, by J. W. Areas von Kressenstein: 17th cent.: Germ. and Lat. Nuremberg, Bavaria: Chronicles of: to 1612 ; 16th and 17th centt.: Germ. Bindings GER...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1943
Title:: PAPERS of Peregrine Bertie, Lord Willoughby d'Eresby:- 1. Original letters to Lord Willoughby, commanding the English forces in the Netherlands, from- [Sir] John Burgh; Brill, Friday [15 Mar. 1587]. Witli seal. f. 1. [Captain] Edmond Bannaster; op Zoom, 21 Mar.-15 Aug. 1588, ff. 3, 20, 35, 37, 75. Rowland Miners; Utrecht, 23 Mar. 1587[8], 29 Apr., 3 May, 1588, ff. 5, 16,18. [Captain] John Prise [or Price]; Breill [Brill], 31 Mar., 19 June, 1588, ff. 7, 22. Thomas [Burgh, Lord] Burgh [or B...
Scope & Content:: Netherlands, United Provinces: Letters to Lord Willoughby, commanding the English forces: 1587, 1588. Peregrine Bertie, Lord Willoughby d'Eresby: Papers and letters to: 1587-1596. includes: f. 1 Sir John Burgh: Letter to Lord Willoughby: 1587.ff. 3, 20, 35, 37, 75 Edmond Bannaster, Captai...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1596
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1944
Title:: 1. "CRONICA [Ottonis, episcopi] Frisingensis," scilicet, rerum gestarum ab initio mundi ad usque A.D. 1145; unit cum Ottonis de S. Blasio appendice ad A.D. 1209 et anonymi eujusdam continuatione ad A.D. 1274, f. 1. Prefixed is a summary of Universal history from the Creation to the Nativity, "ex cronica Orosii et Eusebii," beginning, "In principio erat verbum et verbum erat principium," and ending with the verses of the Sibyl on the coming of Chist. The chronicle, with the appendix of Otto o...
Scope & Content:: Otto de Sancto Blasio: Appendix and Chronicon Ottonis Frisingensis Episcopi: 1145-1209; 15th cent. Otto, Bishop of Freysingen: Chronicon: 15th cent. Paulus Orosius: Excerpta ex Chronicis ejus: 15th cent. History, Ancient and General: Summary of universal history from the Creation to the Nativ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1945
Title:: "EXPOSITIO domni Brunonis [Astensis], venerabilis espiscopi Signiensis, super psalterium." Vellum; written in Italy, in Lombardic characters of the xiiith cent. Quarto.
Scope & Content:: Saint Bruno,; Bishop of Segni: Expositio in Psalterium: 13th cent. Bible. Commentaries: S. Brunonis expositio in Psalterium: 13th cent.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1946
Title:
Scope & Content:: SIXTY-SEVEN original letters from Alexander Pope to William Warburton, afterwards Bishop of Gloucester; 2 Feb. 1738/9- 21 Feb. 1743/4, with many undated. Less than half the number have been printed, and those imperfectly. Included also are two letters from A. Pope to William Bowyer, the printer;...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1739-1744
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1946-1960
Title:: ORIGINAL letters and papers of Alexander Pope, William Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester, Richard Hurd, Bishop of Worcester, and others; 1713-1799. Fifteen volumes. The collection was used by Owen Ruffhead, who in the advertisement to the "Life of Pope," 1769, 4to., speaks of having been presented with MS. materials by Warburton.
Scope & Content:: Alexander Pope: Letters and papers of: 1713-1799.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1713-1799
Extent:: 15 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1947
Title:
Scope & Content:: EIGHTY-ONE original letters from Alexander Pope to Ralph Allen; 1736-1744, with many undated. Eight only have been printed entire. Paper. Quarto. Alexander Pope: Letters to R. Allen: 1736-1744. Ralph Allen: Letters to, from A. Pope: 1736-1744.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1736-1744
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1948
Title:
Scope & Content:: THIRTY-NINE original letters from Alexander Pope to Hugh Bethel ; 9 June, 1730-5 Oct. 1743, and n.d. A few only have been printed entire. Included is a letter from M[artha] B[lount] to H. Bethel, with a postscript by A. lope; [Bath, Oct. 1731 ?], f. 21. Paper. Quarto. Alexander Pope: Letters to...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 9 Jun 1730-5 Oct 1743
Extent:: 1 item

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