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711. 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

712. 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

713. Sloane MS 1009/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1009/2
Title:
Collection of early modern literary papers in English and French
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second 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 first part is Sloane MS 1009/1. The manuscript contains a large number of early modern ite...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

714. Sloane MS 1047

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1047
Title:
Medical recipes devised by King Henry VIII and his royal physicians
Scope & Content:
An important witness to the amateur interest in and practice of pharmaceutical medicine by King Henry VIII (b. 1491, d. 1547). Contains a collection of more than 100 medical recipes that have been organised into six sections: plasters; spasmadraps (dipped plasters); ointments; balms; waters, lot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1540-c. 1545
Extent:
1 volume

715. Sloane MS 1873

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1873
Title:
Thomas Norton, The Ordinal of Alchemy
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–85v: Sixteenth-century copy of Thomas Norton's The Ordinal of Alchemy, written in secretary hand, with a poem by Walter Haddon (f. 84v) in praise of Norton. At the beginning and end (ff. 1r–v, 85r–v) are fragments from Chapter 2 of Book 8 of the Interpretatio Topicorum Aristotelis by Boet...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-16th century
Extent:
1 volume

716. Sloane MS 2683

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2683
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, use of Sarum, made in Bruges for the English market. The manuscript includes: ff. 3r-8v: Calendar, including English saints: octave of St Thomas, Milburga, Edward, Cuthbert, Richard, Bishop of Chichester, Alphege, Dunstan, Augustine of Canterbury ('Augustini anglorum'), Translati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-1400
Extent:

1 volume

717. Sloane MS 3188

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3188
Title:
John Dee's conferences with angels
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–169v: John Dee's conferences with angels, 22 December 1581–30 May 1583, in five books. It precedes the other conferences printed by Meric Casaubon in 1659. Elias Ashmole made a fair copy of this manuscript, which is now Sloane MS 3677. These are records of messages delivered by angels and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1581-1693
Extent:
1 volume

718. Sloane MS 3189

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3189
Title:
The Book of Enoch
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–65r: Liber Mysteriorum Sextus et Sanctus or The Book of Enoch or Liber Logaeth, transcribed by Sir Edward Kelley in 1583. These angelic conversations and visions largely (from f. 10r onwards) take the form of letters and numbers which fill grids of 49 rows by 49 columns. The manuscript ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1583
Extent:
1 volume

719. Sloane MS 3191

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3191
Title:
John Dee's notes on ceremonial magic
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–80v: The only book of ceremonial magic extant in John Dee's hand. ff. 1r–13r: The forty eight angelical keys, received at diverse times from 13 April to 13 July 1584 at Cracow, Poland. ['48 Claves Angelicae, anno 1584: Cracoviae, ab Aprilis 13o, ad Julii 13mi, (diuersis temporibus) Recep...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1584-1585
Extent:
1 volume

720. Sloane MS 3651

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3651
Title:
William Bourne, mathematical manuscript dedicated to William Cecil
Scope & Content:
A treatise (untitled and undated) on gunnery, survey, surveying instruments, the measurement of surfaces and solids, and other mathematical practices. It was dedicated to William Cecil, first Baron Burghley in 1573, and includes several diagrams. The manuscript is divided into three parts and s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1572-1573
Extent:
1 volume

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