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1. Sloane MS 54

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Sloane MS 54
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Scope & Content:
Voyages and Travels: Journal of the voyage of W. A. Cowley from Cape Virginia to the Cape de Verd Isles, to China, Java, Cape of Good Hope, and Holland: 1683-1686. Island of Java: Journals of voyage to, by W. A. Cowley: 1683-1686. Holland: Journal of voyage to, from the Cape of Good Hope, by W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1683-1686
Extent:
1 item

2. Sloane MS 1293

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Sloane MS 1293
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Scope & Content:
Sloane 1293 Paper, in 8to, ff. 51, XVII century. 1. "Excerpta universalia" or a common-place book, containing anecdotes, jests, etc. ff. 1-24. 2." Costumbres de Hollanda", or observations relating to the manners, costume, etc. of the Dutch. ff. 25-51. Christopher Love Morley, MD: Notes of me...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Sloane MS 1435

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Sloane MS 1435
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Scope & Content:
Sloane 1435 Paper, in folio, ff. 203; beginning of XVIII century. 1. A letter in the handwriting of John Bagford upon the origin of the art of printing. n.d. ff. 1-4. 2. Another letter in the same handwriting upon "the book at Haarlem." etc. n.d. ff. 5-7. 3. "An account of printing at Harlem...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Sloane MS 1941

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Sloane MS 1941
Title:
Personal papers of Dr. Nehemiah Grew, including correspondence, inventories, poems, and musical compositions, observational writings and notes, relating to social, familial, professional, and artistic subjects
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1. Verses 'upon a sorry Privy-house belonging to a faire and full inhabited building.' f. 1.Begin: — 'And 'tis a pretty thing! If I could kenn' 2. Eight verses on Dryden. f. 2. Begin: — 'Traytor to God and Rebell to thy pen.' 3. Verses on the monument. f. 4. Begin: — 'When Hodge first spyed th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (85 folios)

5. Sloane MS 2764

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Sloane MS 2764
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Scope & Content:
Poetry DUTCH: Collection of short pieces: 16th-17th centt.: Flemish. Janus Dousa, junior: Epigrammata et epitaphia varia: 17th cent. Epigrams: Collection of epigrams in various languages: 16-17th cent. includes: f. 2 Heliodorus, Bishop of Tricca: Verses on his "Æthiopica Historia," by D. Lam...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Official Aramaic, and Spanish
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Sloane MS 2919

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Sloane MS 2919
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Scope & Content:
Persia: Collections of E. Kæmpfer relating to: late 17th cent. Holland: Persian and Dutch dictionary: 17th cent. Dictionaries: Persian-Dutch dictionary: 17th cent.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Sloane MS 4020

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Sloane MS 4020
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Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet: Collection of his loose papers and letters: 17th-18th centt. includes: f. 1 André Gundelsheimer: Catalogue des plantes observées par, en Candie: 1701. f. 1 Candia Island: Catalogue des plantes on, par MM. Tournefort et Gundelsheimer: 1701. f. 1 Sébastien Vaillant, Reg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item