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11. Add MS 5304

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Title:
Chinese drawings of plants, with their Chinese names
Scope & Content:
In 6 parts, bound in traditional Chinese reading order, from right to left. Part 1: 96 drawings. Part 2: 103 drawings. Part 3: 102 drawings. Part 4: 101 drawings. Part 5: 101 drawings. Part 6: 97 drawings. Public Domain in most countries other than the UK. Digitised with support from the Oak S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

12. Add MS 6940

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Title:
Ardā vīrāf nāmah اردا ویراف نامه by Zartusht Bahrām
Scope & Content:
The Ardā vīrāf nāmah (اردا ویراف نامه), a poetical version in Persian by Zartusht Bahrām ibn Pazhdū of the book of Ardā Vīrāf, based on a Pahlavi original of the 9th/10th century describing Arda Viraf's journey through heaven and hell and his return home afterwards. Copied by the Rev. John Hadd...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+64+i

13. Add MS 9690

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Title:
Kitāb al-ishārāt fī ʿilm al-ʿibārāt كتاب الإشارات في علم العبارات Ibn Shāhīn, Khalīl ابن شاهين، خليل
Scope & Content:
Manual of dream interpretation in eighty chapters (أبواب) by the mamluk historian Ghars al-Dīn Khalīl ibn Shāhīn al-Ẓāhirī (غرس الدين خليل بن شاهين الظاهري, d. 1468). A list of the chapters with their title and the folio on which they begin is given on ff. 4v-6v On the title page (f. 2r) and on...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+278+ii

14. Add MS 10037

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Title:
Jane Segar, The Divine Prophecies of the Ten Sibills
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Divine Prophecies of the Ten Sibills, written and illuminated by Jane Segar, sister of the Elizabethan herald and officer of arms Sir William Segar (b. c. 1554, d. 1633) and the courtier and painter Francis Segar (b. 1563, d. 1615). Jane presented the volume to Eliza...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1589
Extent:
1 volume

15. Add MS 12219

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Title:
Incidental music to Macbeth, which has been attributed to John Eccles
Scope & Content:
Incidental music to Macbeth, with symphonies and accompaniments for serpent and other instruments, in score, in the same hand as the Ode by John Eccles in Add MS 31456, and apparently autograph. In Add MS 29378, consisting almost entirely of works by Eccles, the composition of this music (ff. 57-...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 volume (42 folios)

16. Add MS 12340

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Title:
Facsimile of a Kawi inscription
Scope & Content:
‘Fac-simile, in pencil, of an ancient manuscript in the Kawi character, found at Tagala, in the province of Cheribon [Cirĕbon].’ Crawfurd, 1820, vol. ii‚ pp. 216-17 says, ‘from the figures, signs of the zodiac, and other characters painted upon it, it is conjectured to be a treatise on astrolo...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Javanese, and Old Javanese
Date Range:
1814
Extent:
1 item

17. Add MS 14399

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Title:
A collection of mostly English songs, as well as some lute music, cantatas and duets
Scope & Content:
passim. Songs for a treble voice, with a bass figured for harpsichord; except in no. 13, which is unaccompanied. Nos. 1-7 are in the hand of Matthew Lock. 1. 'Cupid once, when weary grown.' By Pelham Humfrey. [In , 1679.] f. 4b. 2. 'Cloris, qui domptetout le nionde.' Anonymous. f. 5b. 3. 'Hark, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

18. Add MS 15117

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Title:
A collection, mostly comprising compositions for the lute, as well as songs, anthems, madrigals, duets, and an extract from an opera, all with lute accompaniment. This volume also contains a quartet, and an index to 'The Psalmes of David in Meter'.
Scope & Content:
ff. 2, 2b, 8b. Compositions for Lute; after 1614. 1. 'Almaine.' 'Candishe' (? = M. Cavendish). f. 2. 2, 3. Two pieces, without names. Anonymous. f. 2. 4. 'Curranto.' f. 2b. 5. 'Ut re my fa sol la.' 'Dyomedes' [of Venice, lutenist to Sigismund II, of Poland]. f. 8b. f. 3. 'Awake, ye wofull weig...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1599
Extent:
1 volume

19. Add MS 15166

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Title:
The treble part of a collection of psalms, as well as the treble part of three madrigals
Scope & Content:
passim. The treble part of a collection of Psalms, etc., apparently written for 4 voices. The following forty-eight, which are set as Hymns, are by [John] Sheperd; and the words are taken, with slight variations, from the Sternhold and Hopkins version. 1. ‘The man is blest that hath not gone.’ f...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1567
Extent:
1 volume

20. Add MS 15535

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Title:
PLANS of military operations, in North America, etc. ; namely, of Fort Edward, 1755;-of Fort William Henry, and Camp at Lake George; -of the battle fought on the plains of Abraham, 13 Sept. 1759 ;-of Fort Niagara, and the attack made thereupon, July, 1759 ;-of Boston and its environs ;-of the attack of the French upon York, in Virginia, June, 1782 ;-of Pondicherry, drawn by Lieut. John Hoyman, 1770;-Bowles's engraved map of the United States, 1783, with a continuation of the boundary line, i...
Scope & Content:
Niagara: Plan of the fort and the attack made thereupon: 1759. York, Virginia: Plan of the attack of the French upon: 1782. Fort William Henry, North America: Plan of. Pondicherry, India: Plan of, by J. Hoyman: 1770. Lieutenant John Hoyman: Plan of Pondicherry: 1770. George, Lake, New York ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1716-1783
Extent:
1 item

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