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121. Add MS 4804-4806

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Add MS 4804-4806
Title:
Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin; 1708-1740
Scope & Content:
Three volumes. Published from these originals by Dr. John Hawkesworth in Letters written by the late Jonathan Swift ... and Several of his Friends, 1766, vols. i and ii. The letters are numbered as in this edition. The dating of some of the letters has been corrected in The Correspondence of Jon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1708-1740
Extent:
3 items

122. Add MS 4836

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Add MS 4836
Title:
HOURS, etc., chiefly in Latin
Scope & Content:
Contents:- (1) Calendar, copiously illuminated, with a saint's feast for every day of the year indicated in blue, red or gold. The saints' names in gold include the following:- Geneviève (3 Jan.), Vincent (22 Jan.), Pris (i.e. Praejectus, 25 Jan.), Charles (i.e. Charlemagne, 28 Jan.), Leu (i.e. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

123. Add MS 4848

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Add MS 4848
Title:
'LA DISCIPLINE ECCLESIASTIQUE des Eglises reformées de France. C'est à dire L'ordre par lequel elles sont conduittes et gouvernées'; 1609
Scope & Content:
The main work (ff. 3-44b) consists of fourteen chapters, at the end of which is a list of the National Synods 1559-1609, with those of 1612 and 1614 added in a later hand. For a similar MS, carrying the list of Synods down to 1637, see Harley MS. 3980. The second part contains accounts of the tr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1609
Extent:
1 item

124. Add MS 4857-4900

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Title:
BANKS COLLECTION
Scope & Content:
Collections, mostly in Icelandic and relating to Iceland, presented by Sir Joseph Banks, 1767-1781. Banks visited Iceland in 1772 and brought back a collection of printed books and MSS. which he presented to the British Museum on 3 December 1772. The MSS. may be identified from a 'Catalogue of B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, English, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, and Low German
Date Range:
[1160-1799]
Extent:
44 items

125. Add MS 4903

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Add MS 4903
Title:
LETTERS TO QUEEN ANNE, from the Elector of Hanover, the Duke of Savoy, etc.; 1701-1714
Scope & Content:
French. The names of the writers are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. Paper. ff. 141. Folio. 1701-1714. Presented by Dr. Charles Morton, 2 July 1774. Anne of England: Letters to: 1700-1714. includes: ff. 2, 20, 28, 42, 61-134 passim Hanover, Electors of. George Louis (afte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1701-1714
Extent:
1 item

126. Add MS 4948 A-B

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Add MS 4948 A-B
Title:
BOLINGBROKE PAPERS
Scope & Content:
'The Works of ... Viscount Bolingbroke. In five volumes, complete. Published by David Mallet ... MDCCLIV'; MS. copy as corrected for the press by the editor, or the author. Incomplete. Paper; ff. 463, 403. Folio. Circ. A.D. 1754. Presented, circ. 1776, by Mrs. Lucy Mallet, widow of the editor.Tw...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1754
Extent:
2 items

127. Add MS 5036-5062

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Add MS 5036-5062
Title:
A collection of pieces, including motets, madrigals, masses, anthems, duets and other works
Scope & Content:
A collection of pieces, including motets, madrigals, masses, anthems, duets and other works. Prefixed to Add MS 5036 is a letter from Gabriel Mathias to the trustees of the British Museum, containing an extract from the will of James Mathias esq, from which it appears that these volumes are all...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1760
Extent:
27 volumes

128. Add MS 5104

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Add MS 5104
Title:
Letters of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz
Scope & Content:
A collection of original letters of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Comprises: 1. To Antoine Arnould. Dated Venice 23 March 1690 (Holograph) (folio 3) 2. To Pierre Varignon. Dated Hanover 12 February 1711 (folio 6) 3. To Pierre Des Bosses. Dated Hanover 19 August 1715 (folio 8) 4. To Unknown. Da...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1690-1716
Extent:
1 volume (69 folios)

129. Add MS 5124-5136

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Add MS 5124-5136
Title:
Extracts from the Journals of the States General of the Netherlands
Scope & Content:
A collection of extracts from the Journals of the States General of the Netherlands, with despatches to Marinus van Vrybergen, Dutch envoy in England.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1647-1709
Extent:
13 volumes

130. Add MS 5234

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Add MS 5234
Title:
Drawings by Gerard Hofstede van Essen, Dr Edward Browne and others
Scope & Content:
This album contains many drawings with inscriptions that include outdated terms. Where these inscriptions have been transcribed, the text is always in between inverted commas. This is an album of drawings executed by G. Hofstede van Essen, Edward Browne and other draughtsmen. These are primaril...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:

1 volume (105 items)

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