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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

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 810
Title:
Scope & Content:: Nathanael Hodges, MD: Medical observations, receipts, and cases: 17th cent. includes: f. 1 Sir Abraham Dawes, of Putney; Farmer of the Customs: Note of his standing godfather to Dr. Hodges at Richmond: 1629. ff. 1, 2 Nathanael Hodges, MD: Entries of births and baptisms of him, his brothers and...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 811
Title:
Scope & Content:: includes: ff. 2-17 India: Travels of R. Bell in the Mogul's country, and residence in the Courts of Shah Jehan and Aurangzib: 1654-1668. ff. 2-17 Jo- Campbell: Account of his residence in the Mogul's country in India: circ. 1660. ff. 2-17 Richard Bell, Gunfounder to the Great Mogul: Account of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1654-1668
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 812
Title:
Scope & Content:: Medicine: Notes and observations, chiefly medical: 17th cent. Chemistry: Observationes chymicæ: 17th cent.: Lat., Fr. and Engl.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 813
Title:
Scope & Content:: Sir Andrew Henley, 1st Baronet; of Bramshill, county Hampshire, and Henley, county Somerset: Correspondence chiefly rel. to his private affairs: 1659-1669. includes: f. 12 Paul, Cornwall: Bond for the lease of the Rectory from A. Henley to H. King: 1659. f. 12 Henry King, of Truro, county Corn...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1659-1669
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 816
Title:
Scope & Content:: John Conyers, Apothecary of London: Meteorological journals: 17 Dec. 1673-17 Aug. 1680. includes: f. 219 Francis Glisson, MD, Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge: Note of his death at about 83 years of age: 1677.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17 Dec 1673-17 Aug 1680
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 817
Title:
Scope & Content:: includes: ff. 1 b, 20 b, 21 b Thomas Sackville, 1st Baron Buckhurst; 1st Earl of Dorset: Orders and warrants rel. to the Customs: 1602, 1604, 1605/6. ff. 1 b-31 London; COMPANIES, LIVERY. CUSTOM OFFICE: Papers rel. to the Customs of the port of London: 1559-1611.: copies. ff. 4, 21-31 Robert Ce...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 16th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 818
Title:
Scope & Content:: Province of Friesland: Treatise on the encouragement of English trade with East Friesland: 1564, 1572.: Transl.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1564-1572
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 819
Title:
Scope & Content:: Voyages and Travels: Journal of voyage to Valdivia and back, by Lieut. N. Peckett: 1669-1671. Nathanael Peckett, Lieutenant RN: Journal of the voyage of the Sweepstakes to Magellan's Straits and the South Seas and Valdivia and back to England: 1669-1671.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1669-1671
Extent:: 1 item

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