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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4159
Title:: State papers of John Thurloe, Secretary of State, 1652-1660, with other state papers, c. 1578-1629 and 1661-1692.
Scope & Content:: Many of the documents here formed part of the original collection of John Thurloe (d. 1668), Secretary to the Council of State and subsequently to the two Cromwells, Lord Protectors. They illuminate both the domestic and international politics of the period, as also the scope of Thurloe's intell...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cipher, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1578-1700
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4166
Title:: Letters of John Thurloe. Secretary of State, to Henry Cromwell, Major-General of the Forces in Ireland, 1655-1657; other state papers and cipher-keys from the 1650s; letter of Anne Thurloe, widow of John Thurloe, 1668
Scope & Content:: The bulk of this collection is made up of two main series. There are forty letters from John Thurloe, Secretary of State, to Henry Cromwell, Major-General of the Forces in Ireland, between June 1655 and July 1657. There are about thirty cipher-codes which were evidently in Thurloe's office ('abo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cipher and English
Date Range:: 1655-1668
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4167
Title:: Chronological index compiled by the antiquary Thomas Birch of the first sixty-one volumes of the main series of the papers and letters of John Thurloe, Secretary of State, 1652-1658
Scope & Content:: This volume largely contains the chronological index compiled by the antiquary Thomas Birch of the first sixty-one volumes of the main series of the papers and letters of John Thurloe, Secretary of State, 1652-1658. These volumes cover the period from October 1638 (a powerful letter from Oliver ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cipher and English
Date Range:: 1655-1668
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4377
Title:
Scope & Content:: GRAMMATICAL MISCELLANEA Collection of notes and treatises on grammatical subjects, the more important being: (1) Extracts, etc., from works on Arabic and Hebrew Grammar, by John Pell. ff. 1-24. (2) Fragment of the Koran. Arabic. f. 27. (3) Guide to the Hebrew language, 'Invented by Moses Ma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Folio. 17th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4382, ff 61-64r
Title:: Notes on the 1544 Basle edition of Archimedes’s works and on mathematical problems, by John Pell.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4710
Title:: The Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts and printed books (presented by Solomon da Costa to the BM)
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:: 1759
Extent:: 17 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4724
Title:: Orationes, or declamations, in Latin and Greek by King Edward VI, 1548–1552
Scope & Content:: ff. 2r–222v: Autograph manuscript of King Edward VI's declamations. The declamation 'Non sumus sponte mali' (ff. 66r–67v) is in a different hand and evidently by a different writer, as the king refutes his arguments in the declamation beginning at f. 112r. The dots in the margin of f. 66v, for...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:: 1548-1552
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4808
Title:: Vol. II. (ff. 233). Alexander Pope, The 'Iliad'. Contains the following books: XVI (ff. 1-35b), including (ff. 19-23) further copy from Poetical Miscellanies, 1709 (see 4707), XVII (ff. 37-55b), XVIII (ff. 57-73b), XIX (ff. 75-85b), XX (ff. 87-97b), XXI (ff. 99-121b), XXII (ff. 123-144b), XXIII (ff. 146-177), XXIV (ff. 179-205).
Scope & Content:: Followed by drafts of (a) the Poetical Index. ff. 207-214b;- (b) Index of Arts and Sciences. ff.215-222;- (c) an index of antiquities, not published. ff. 223-232. Also included are (a) Plans for a house, perhaps one that Pope proposed to build in London, circ. 1717-1718. f. 30b;- (b) Plans for...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1712-1724
Extent:: 1 item

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