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1. Sloane MS 79

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Sloane MS 79
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Mint: Observations on the Bill intitled, A Bill to prevent the exportation of bullion and to encourage the bringing in of foreign silver: [1691]. Medicine: Treatises on urines: 11th-17th cent.: Lat., Engl., and Dutch: Imperf. includes: ff. 1-23 Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakaríyá, Al-Rázi: Lection...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:
11th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Sloane MS 203

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Sloane MS 203
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John Downes, MD, Physician to St. Bartholomew's and Christ's Hospitals: Medical collections: 1640-1695. includes: f. 1 Thomas Croyden, MD of Padua; Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge: Letter to J. Abdy: circ. 1647. ff. 1, 4, 5 Sir John Abdy: Correspondence, as Joseph Kent, with Dr. Croyden: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1640-1695
Extent:
1 item

3. Sloane MS 629

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Sloane MS 629
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includes: ff. 1-7 b Sermons: On 1 Pet. v. 6 ; preached on a fast day,: 1 June, 1672.: Imperf. ff. 8-179 b Daniel Foote, MD, of Cambridge: The inward Christian, in 8 books, translated by: 1686. ff. 180-195 b Turkey, Sultans of. Mahomet IV: Abridgment of the design of the Turks on Christendom: 16...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Sloane MS 972

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Sloane MS 972
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Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Grotesques in red and blue: 15th cent. includes: f. 1 Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans: Letter to the Lord Chancellor, touching the history of Britain: [1609]. f. 3 George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham: Letter to, from Sir F. Bacon: [1623]. f. 3 Fra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Sloane MS 1009/1

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Sloane MS 1009/1
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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
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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

6. Sloane MS 1519

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Sloane MS 1519
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Sloane 1519 Paper, in folio, ff. 243, XVII century. A collection of letters illustrative of English History, addressed for the most part to Thomas third Lord Fairfax. Index of contents. ff. 1-11. 1. Letter of Philip II, King of Spain, to Queen Elizabeth, concerning his fleet sent to suppres...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Sloane MS 1707

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Sloane MS 1707
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Sloane 1707 Paper, in small folio, ff. 63, XVII Century; bound with the preceding. Astrological schemes of the nativities of various persons, with calculations, and at the end some historical and biographical memoranda; in the handwriting of Dr. Francis Bernard. ff. 1-63. Among those nativiti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Sloane MS 1731 A

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Sloane MS 1731 A
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Sloane 1731 A Paper, in folio, ff. 171; bound with 1691 and 1710. Dr. W. Wall's Miscellaneous Papers. 1. 'The Doctrine of Sphericall Triangles'. ff. 1-10 2. A humorous play-bill. f. 38. 3. Method of boreing guns. f. 11. 4. Letter from Lord Suffolk to Dr. Wall, requesting him to send some m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Sloane MS 1786

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Sloane MS 1786
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Sloane 1786 Paper, in folio, ff. 191, XVII Century. 1. A table of the contents of the first part of the MS. as far as fol. 99. f. 1. 2. Account of the death of Queen Elizabeth with her declaration of her successor. ff. 3b-5. 3. The manner of the sickness and death of Prince Henry, son of Kin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Sloane MS 1983 B

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Sloane MS 1983 B
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Sloane 1983 B Chartaceus, in folio, ff. 99, Sec. XVII. 1. 'The names of the Gresham Committee.' f. 1. 2. 'Generall accompt of the Receipts and Issues of the Public Revenue, Taxes, etc., from Michaelmas 1691 to Michaelmas 1692.' f. 2. 3. Stanzas upon Law, Physic and Divinity. f. 4. Begin: — ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item