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211. Add MS 6726

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Title:
Volume V. Selections from the papers of Lord Chief Baron Thomas Pengelly
Scope & Content:
Volume V. Large folio, ff. 152. 1. Draft of an indenture for admitting to a share in the Muselburgh Woollen Manufactory. Nov 1720. f. 1. Copy of report from Edward Northey and Robert Raymond. 2. Auditors of the Imprest’s to Robert, Earl of Oxford, Lord Treasurer, relating to the method of is...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1667-1725
Extent:
1 volume (152 folios)

212. Add MS 6796

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Title:
ROMAN DE MÉLUSINE: Coudrette, 'Le Roman de Mélusine', a verse romance composed circa 1400-1410; late 15th cent. French. Origin: France. Imperfect at the beginning, lacking the first four folios. Missing material is supplied with a title page in a late 17th cent. hand, ff. 1-7v. Beg. 'Le Philozophe fut moult saige'. First complete line of the original text, 'Le mieux enseigne de touz trois'. Printed in Le Roman de Mélusine ou Histoire de Lusignan par Coudrette, ed. E. Roach (1982),...
Scope & Content:
Watermarks: Bull: 15th cent. Poetry FRENCH: Coudrette: Coudrette, 'Le Roman de Mélusine': late 15th cent: Fr. includes: f. 8 Léonor de Rohan, wife of Louis, Prince de Guémené: Ex libris: mid 16th cent. ff. 308-308v Poetry FRENCH: Jehan Mansel: Acrostic verses spelling the name of J. Mansel: l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

213. Add MS 6797

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Title:
JEHAN MANSEL: 'La Fleur des Histoires', vol. 2, part 2; late 15th cent. French. Origin: France. The complete work is in four volumes, the second of which covers the history of Rome to the reign of Constantine. The present MS., the second of a two-part set, is of the second recension, which was completed in 1467. Beg. 'Les consules et les pretres comencerent' (f. 2). Ends (Epilogue): 'a tous leaulz crestiens le pere et le filz et le saint esperit. Amen.' (f. 275v). Followed: (a) by a treatise...
Scope & Content:
Art. Illuminations and Drawings FRENCH: J. Mansel, 'La Fleur des Histoires': miniatures, borders, initials: late 15th cent. History: Jehan Mansel: 'La Fleur des Histoires', vol. 2, part 2 by Jehan Mansel: late 15th cent: Fr. includes: ff. 2, 134v Heraldry: Mathefelon family: Painted arms inco...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

214. Add MS 6804-6872

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Title:
Dispatches and Correspondence, from and to Sir Andrew Mitchell KB, Envoy to the Court of Prussia
Scope & Content:
Dispatches and Correspondence, from and to Sir Andrew Mitchell KB, Envoy to the Court of Prussia
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1740-1771
Extent:
69 volumes

215. Add MS 6884

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Title:
Copies of letters from the Duchess of Parma and later the Duke of Alva to the Commisioners at Tournay about religious troubles in the Netherlands, with some copies of letters from others
Scope & Content:
Registre onquel sont registrees le lettres (on la pluspart) missives, escriptes tant par Madame la Duchesse de Parme, Regente & Gourvernante, que depuis par Monseigneur le Duc d’Alve, aux Commissionaires de Tournay, sur le fait des Troubles; avecque double d’aultres lettres, envoyée ausdits ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1566-1568
Extent:
1 volume (176 folios)

216. Add MS 6889

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Title:
Félix Cary: Dissertation sur les magistrats de Smyrne
Scope & Content:
Dissertation sur les magistrats de Smyrne. Par M. [Felix] Cary, correspondant del’Academie [de Marseilles], 11-15 May 1753. This is the original copy of the treatise, which does not appear to have been printed.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Mid 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (70 folios)

217. Add MS 6900

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Title:
Statistical memoir on Russia, particularly relevant to its commerce
Scope & Content:
Fair copy of a statistical memoir on Russia, written in French, more particularly relative to its commerce. It was apparently drawn up by direction of the French Government, and presented in August 1729, for the purpose of shewing the necessity of sending a French Minister to Russia. A full Table...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1729
Extent:
1 volume (292 pages)

218. Add MS 6902

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Title:
Historical and political papers (chiefly copies) of the 16th and 17th centuries, relating principally to the history of the Netherlands
Scope & Content:
Various historical and political papers (chiefly copies) of the 16th and 17th centuries, relating principally to the history of the Netherlands. 1. ‘Acuerdos del Emperador Carlos Quinto para su hijo Don Philippe, Rey de Castilla, hechos in Augusta, 18 de Enero, del año de 1548’ ff. 1-16v. 2....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume (238 folios)

219. Add MS 7058-7079

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Title:
Correspondence of English ministers at home and abroad with George Stepney, envoy to several European states
Scope & Content:
Correspondence of English ministers at home and abroad with George Stepney, envoy to several European states
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1690-1707
Extent:
22 volumes

220. Add MS 7103

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Title:
'CHRONICLE OF RHEIMS': chronicle from 1100 to circa 1260, conc. the reigns of Philip II and Louis IX of France, Richard I of England, and the Crusades; late 13th cent. French. Origin: France. Beg. 'Des puis celle heure que Gaudefrois'. Colophon: (f. 94v) 'Explicit li rommans de chou qui lauuit apres la mort gaudefroi de buillong'. Printed from a MS. now Paris BN Anciens Petits Fonds Français No. 24430 as follows: La Chronique de Rains, ed. L. Paris (Paris, 1837); Récits d'un ménestral de Rei...
Scope & Content:
Saints: Leaf from a hagiographical text used to cover binding: 14th cent: Lat. Bindings FRENCH: Leaf from a 14th cent. hagiographical text used to cover boards: 18th? cent. Rheims, Marne: France General: England General: Chronicle of Rheims: late 13th cent: Fr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:
1 item

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