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1. Add MS 5253

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Add MS 5253
Title:
'Collections of Costumes of various nations, Chiefly Indian; Chinese Buildings, &c.', from the Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, by different hands
Scope & Content:
Drawings of inhabitants of several parts of the world from a variety of sources. Drawings 1-2, 8-11, 14-17, 23-25 and 28-29 are associated with the traveller and artist, John White (fl. 1577-1593). Hans Sloane commissioned watercolour copies from an album now in the British Museum Prints &...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (78 drawings)

2. Add MS 5289

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Add MS 5289
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‘Miscellaneous Drawings of various Plants, Flowers, and Fruits in Indian-Ink, and colours, by different hands’, from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane
Scope & Content:
Album of drawings of plants by miscellaneous hands and of differing origin and date. The first 99 drawings in this album are those of Philippine plants sent by the Jesuit Georg Joseph Kamel (1661-1706) to James Petiver (1665-1718), many of which were used as the basis for the engravings in Pet...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Sloane MS 173

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Sloane MS 173
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Scope & Content:
includes: f. 1 Louis XIII of France: Letter from the Queen Mother, as Regent, to James I.: 1610.: Transl. f. 1 James I of England: Letter to, from the Queen Regent of France: 1610. f. 2 Henry IV of France: Letters patent for the planting of Guiana: 1602.: Transl. ff. 2-6 René Marét, Seigneur de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1602-1610
Extent:
1 item

4. Sloane MS 608

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Sloane MS 608
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Scope & Content:
Samuel Bellingham, MD: Wrote MSS. Writers of Manuscripts: Bellingham (Samuel), M.D. includes: ff. 1-30 b Sect of Independents: Confession of Faith drawn up at the Savoy: 1658. ff. 31-108 Westminster Assembly of Divines: Catechism digested into the form of Theses: 17th cent.: Engl. and Lat. ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Sloane MS 1289

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Sloane MS 1289
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Scope & Content:
Sloane 1289 Paper, in 4to, ff. 312, XVII century 1. Medical receipts. ff. 1-64. 2. "Severall [Medical] receipts copied out of the booke of Mad. Jones, 1681." ff. 65-75. 3. Severall receipts copied out of the books of Madam Porter 1681. ff. 76-79. 4. Severall receipts of my mother’s which sh...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Sloane MS 1554

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Sloane MS 1554
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Scope & Content:
Sloane 1554 Chartaceus, in folio, ff.81. sec XVII. Excerpta, ut testatur in Catalogo MS. veteri Johannes Ward, L.L.D., ex Georgii Marggravii seu Maargravii, Brasiliae Historia Naturali, Johannis de Laet, qui opus istud primum edidit manu descripta; cum figuris hic illic illustrata. ff.1-81. G...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Sloane MS 2026

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Sloane MS 2026
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Scope & Content:
Sloane 2026 Paper, in Quarto, ff. 48, XVII Century. 'Tractado da provincia do Brasil no qual se contem a informacao das cousas que ha na terra, assi das capitanias l'fazendas dos moradores que rivem pella costa, e doutras particullaridades que a qui se cotam, como tam be da condicao e bestiaes...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Sloane MS 2292

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Sloane MS 2292
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Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-15 Brazil: Sailing course from Cape Verde to, and along its coast: 17th cent. ff. 1-15 Cape Verde: Sailing course from, to Brazil: 17th cent. ff. 15-27 Island of San Domingo: Account of: 17th cent. ff. 16-27 West Inches: Rutter with notes and particulars of the Islands: 17th cen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item