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1. Sloane MS 261

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 261
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', revised by Walter Stevins
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a revised version of Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', undertaken by an otherwise unknown editor called Walter Stevins, and dedicated by him to Edward Courtenay (b. c. 1527, d. 1556), 1st Earl of Devon. The volume can be dated between 1553, the year Courten...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1553-1556
Extent:
1 volume

2. Sloane MS 320

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 320
Title:
Scope & Content:
Ramón Lull, of Majorca: Theorica, capp. 49-67: 16th cent.: Engl. Henry Clitherow, Merchant of London: Trading accompts: 1578-1580. Nicolaus de Comitibus, of Padua and Florence: Epistle on alchemy: 16th cent. William Blomefield, MB: Compendiary of alchemy, or the Camp of Philosophy, or Blossom...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Sloane MS 1009/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1009/1
Title:
Collection of miscellaneous papers, including the Memoriale Credencium; Reclusorium Anime; Three Workings on Man's Soul; Geoffrey Chaucer, Tale of Melibeus; Speculum sacerdotis; Computacio daniele prophete sive sompniale; Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus; Astrological tracts; Correspondence of Gédéon Bonnivert; Collection of puzzles with cards and dice in French; Gédéon Bonnivert, L'A. B. C. du Monde; De virtutibus herbarum; Marcus Tullius Cicero, De officiis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the first part of a large collection of miscellaneous texts, tracts, and letters that may have been gathered by Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), and is now divided in two parts. The second part is Sloane MS 1009/2. The collection contains a large number of early modern it...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Sloane MS 1098

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1098
Title:
Scope & Content:
Sloane 1098 Paper, in small quarto, ff. 50; XVI century; written by the same hand as the last described; bound with no. 1099. Collections on Alchemy; among which the following may be noticed:- 1. Various excerpts in English and Latin. f. 2. 2. Abbreviated copy of George Ripley’s "Mystery of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Sloane MS 1723

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1723
Title:
Scope & Content:
Sloane 1723 Paper, in 4to., ff. 122, xvii Century; formerly belonging to Stephen Williams. Various Alchymical Treatises and Processes; among which are the following: — 1. 'Isaac his worke upon head.' ff. 3-17. 2. A treatise intitled 'Theophrastis Paracelsis of simple fire', with a poem in 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Sloane MS 3580 A

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3580 A
Title:
Scope & Content:
Thomas Potter: Collection of chemical aud alchemical treatises: 1580.: Partly Autogr. and Printed. Writers of Manuscripts: Potter (Thomas): 1580. includes: ff. 140-166 b George Ripley, Canon of Bridlington: Compound of Alchemy, in verse: 16th-17th centt. f. 184 b Geoffrey Chaucer: The conclus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1580
Extent:
1 item

7. Sloane MS 3580 B

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3580 B
Title:
Scope & Content:
Thomas Potter: Collection of chemical aud alchemical treatises: 1580.: Partly Autogr. and Printed. Writers of Manuscripts: Potter (Thomas): 1580. includes: ff. 140-166 b George Ripley, Canon of Bridlington: Compound of Alchemy, in verse: 16th-17th centt. f. 184 b Geoffrey Chaucer: The conclus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1580
Extent:
1 item