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1. Add MS 5266

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Add MS 5266
Title:
Drawings of birds with inscriptions in Hans Sloane's and Thomas Browne's hand
Scope & Content:
Drawings of birds executed in a variety of techniques and by different draughtsmen. The only exceptions are items 82, 91 and 93, which are prints of birds. The drawings are executed on paper and pasted onto the folios of the manuscript. Many drawings bear inscriptions in Hans Sloane's and / or S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (164 items)

2. Sloane MS 93

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 93
Title:
Gabriel Harvey's letters and poems
Scope & Content:
ff. 1*r–104r: Volume of holograph transcripts of letters and poems by Gabriel Harvey, of Saffron Walden, Fellow of Pembroke and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1573–1578. It includes his poems upon the death of the poet George Gascoigne (1534–1577), an account (either fictional or truthful) of the sedu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1573-1578
Extent:
1 volume

3. Sloane MS 226

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 226
Title:
Roger Marbeck, An account of the taking of Cadiz, 1596
Scope & Content:
Roger Marbeck, "A breefe and a true discourse of the late honorable voyage unto Spayne and the wynning, sacking and burning of the famous Towne of Cadiz there, and of the miraculous overthrowe of the Spanishe Navie at that tyme, with a reporte of all other Accidents thereunto appertayning, by Do...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1596-1597
Extent:
1 volume

4. 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

5. Sloane MS 359

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 359
Title:
Chemical recipes
Scope & Content:
Collection of chemical recipes, in the hand of Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618), courtier, military and naval commander and author. Including accounts of experiments, and details of Raleigh’s ‘great Cordiall’. f. 1v: Table of contents. f. 2r-2v: Chemical notes, with a table of symbols. ff. 3a, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 16th century-early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Sloane MS 718

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 718
Title:
John Clapham, 'Observations concerning the life and reign of Elizabeth Queen of England'
Scope & Content:
Digest of Elizabethan history, compiled by John Clapham (1566-1619), poet and historian. Containing an account of the life and death of Sir William Cecil (1520/21-1598), first Baron Burghley, Clapham’s former master. With corrections and deletions. f. 1r Title page: ‘Certain Observations concer...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1603
Extent:
1 volume

7. Sloane MS 809

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 809
Title:
Walter of Bibbesworth, Tretiz de langage
Scope & Content:
Contents: Walter of Bibbesworth ('Biblesworth'), Tretiz de langage, a poem in Anglo-Norman French verse with an English glossary, composed in the mid 13th century as a tool for teaching useful French vocabulary to English landowners. It exists in a long and a short version. This text resembles...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, and French
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:

1 roll

8. Sloane MS 814

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Sloane MS 814
Title:
Accounts of jewels presented to Queen Elizabeth I, 1572-1587
Scope & Content:
Account of jewels presented to Queen Elizabeth I between 1572-1587. f. 1r Title page: ‘In this booke are contained all siche Juells as are delyvered to Maistres Ktherine Howarde one of the gentlewomen of her Majesty’s privye chamber, from time to time to her highnes use as hereafter foloweth’....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1572-1587
Extent:
1 volume

9. Sloane MS 823

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 823
Title:
Michael Wallace, poem on the Gunpowder Plot
Scope & Content:
Latin poem on the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, by Michael Wallace, Professor of Philosophy at Glasgow. With marginal corrections and notes. Printed in 1606 by Richard Field, as Michael Valesius [Wallace], In serenissimi Regis Jacobi, Britanniae magnae, Galliarum, Hiberniae, &c monarchae. Ab imma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1605-1606
Extent:
1 volume

10. 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