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1641. Stowe MS 1011-1012

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Stowe MS 1011-1012
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COMMONPLACE-BOOKS of John Fortescue Aland, Justice of the King's Bench (1727) and of the Common Pleas (1729), cr. Lord Fortescue of Credan in 1746 (ob. 1746), partly legal, partly general, including such subjects as Non-jurors, the doctrine of Resistance, Escheators, Mahomet, Philosophy, etc., the entries for the most part being very brief. Two volumes; with an index of subjects at the end of each. Paper; ff. 116, 45. Belonged to Thomas Astle. Small Quarto.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
2 items

1642. Stowe MS 1012

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Stowe MS 1012
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Vol. II. ff. 45. John Fortescue-Aland, Baron Fortescue; Baron of the Exchequer, Justice of the King's Bench and of Common Pleas: Commonplace books, legal and general: 18th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

1643. Stowe MS 1013

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Stowe MS 1013
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COMMONPLACE-BOOK belonging to, and for the most part in the hand of, Edward Vernon, D.D., of Trinity College, Cambridge, Rector of St. George's, Bloomsbury (ob. 1761). The contents are:-(1) "A brief account of the nature, end and use of chronology." f. 3;-(2) "De origine scribendi": a treatise i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

1644. Stowe MS 1014

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Stowe MS 1014
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COMMONPLACE-BOOK, containing extracts from various authors, by Thomas Astle. On f. 32 is a recipe "to make decay'd letters appear in an old MS." Paper; ff. 32. Circ. 1760. Sm. Quarto. Thomas Astle, ob. 1803: Commonplace-book: circ. 1760. includes: f. 32 Recipes: To revive decayed letters in o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 item

1645. Stowe MS 1015

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Stowe MS 1015
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COMMONPLACE-BOOK, containing extracts from Caesar's Commentaries and from Sir Clement Edmondes's "Observations" on the same, with shorter quotations from Ovid, Horace, Juvenal, and Persius. Paper; ff. 199. Early XVIIIth cent. The name "Madame Willten" appears on the inside cover. Folio. Madame ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

1646. Stowe MS 1016-1063

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Stowe MS 1016-1063
Title:
CLASS XXIII. ANTIQUITIES, WITH COLLECTIONS ON ANTIQUARIAN AND KINDRED SUBJECTS, CATALOGUES AND EXTRACTS OF MSS, ETC.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-18th century
Extent:
48 items

1647. Stowe MS 1017

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Stowe MS 1017
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ETRUSCAN ANTIQUITIES, including copies of several Etruscan inscriptions from J.C. Amaduzzi's Alphabetum veterum Etruscorum [1771], with translations in the hand of Thomas Astle; a list of Umbrian epithets of Jupiter; a hymn to Jupiter, with translations; and a description of a statue of Jupiter ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 item

1648. Stowe MS 1018

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Stowe MS 1018
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AN ACCOUNT Of the Antiquities in the collection of the Earl of Pembroke, at Wilton, copied from the "book of Antiquities at Wilton." The collection consists of ancient statues, busts, basreliefs, and inscriptions, and includes many specimens from the collections of the Earl of Arundel and Cardin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

1649. Stowe MS 1019

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Stowe MS 1019
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ACCOUNT by Gavin Hamilton in two letters to Charles Townley of the statues, busts, etc., found by him in excavations at Hadrian's Villa [Tivoli], Monte Cagnolo, Ostia, and other places round Rome, 1769-1779; with a catalogue of the objects found, and the names of their possessors. At the end (f....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1769-1779
Extent:
1 item

1650. Stowe MS 1020

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Stowe MS 1020
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1. NOTE by Thomas Astle of the collection of casts of antique statues, etc., in Italy made by the Abbate Fossatti; 23 July, 1774. f. 1. 2. Letter from Gavin Hamilton to -, on discoveries of statues, etc., at Gabio; Rome, 18 June, [l792]. f. 2. 3. "Ancient Marbles found by Mr. Gavin Hamilton ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item