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1. Stowe MS 789

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Stowe MS 789
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1. "ABREGÉ de la Geographie"; apparently compiled between 1742 and 1763 (see ff. 136, 137). Not the same work as No. 788, and much less full. 2. "Principes de la langue françoise": a short treatise on French grammar. f. 186. Paper; ff. 197. XVIIIth cent. Quarto. includes: f. 1 Geography: Abr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Stowe MS 915

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Stowe MS 915
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DESCRIPTIVE REMARKS, in French and English, on Amsterdam, Brussels, and other towns in the Low Countries. Preceded (f. 2) by the beginning of a journal, in the same hand, of a tour in the Netherlands, starting from London, in 1710. At f. 1 is an engraved map of Holland, by Pieter Schenk, 1705. P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1710
Extent:
1 item

3. Stowe MS 115

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Stowe MS 115
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" ABREGÉ du Traité du Docteur George Rye contre les Non- Jurans Non-conformistes." Dr. Rye's work, in two vols., in defence of the position of the Church of England, was publiished in 1719. Paper; ff. 73. xviiith cent. Small Quarto. George Rye: Treatise against the nonconforming Non-jurors, abr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Stowe MS 479

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Stowe MS 479
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RICHARDS COLLECTIONS. Vol. XXXIII. (ff. 14). "Devis des ouvrages . . . . à l'embouchure du havre de Dunkerque." At the end, " Signé Vauban." With four plans. See above, vol. vii. Dunkirk, Nord: Papers relating to works at: late 17th cent.: Fr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Stowe MS 948

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Stowe MS 948
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HYMN to the Virgin, in French, preceded by a calendar in a different hand. Imperfect at the beginning, the first line being, "Durement fu trauaile" (f. 8 b), and wanting leaves after ff. 9, 10. The several divisions remaining begin, "Deu te salt uirgine honore" (f. 9 b), "Virge mere preciouse" (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Stowe MS 386

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Stowe MS 386
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STATUTES of the Realm, Law tracts, etc., as follows:- 1. "Carta de Libertatibus Anglie": Magna Carta, as re-issued by Henry III., 11 Feb. 1225. Lat. f. 2. 2. " Carta de Foresta " ; as re-issued in Feb. 1225. Lat. f. 4. 3. Statute of Merton, 1235. Fr. f. 5. 4. " Provisa Oxonie, edita anno...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-15th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Stowe MS 1081

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Stowe MS 1081
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Twelve ink drawings of persons and groups, elaborately executed by a French artist, generally without removing the pen from the surface. Opposite each drawing are one or more anonymous French songs for voice with a bass for harpsichord, in score. On the covers are two similar figures cut out of the upper vellum skin with a penknife.
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The first six songs are described as 'Airs,' the others as 'Chansons à boire, à dancer,' etc. 'Philis, quel destin dois-ie suiure.' f. 4. 'Me veux tu voir mourir ' (cf. Add MS 17991, f. 47b, the date of which is about 1620-1621). f. 5b. 'Source des plus aymables charmes.' f. 8. 'Puisque ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 volume (32 folios)

8. Stowe MS 90

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Stowe MS 90
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PAPERS relating to the French army in 1790-92, consisting of several statements and estimates for establishment and maintenance of the various branches. They chiefly form portions of several plans formed by, or submitted to, the "Comte de Latour du Pin" [Jean Frédéric de la Tour du Pin, Comte du...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1790-1792
Extent:
1 item

9. Stowe MS 902

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Stowe MS 902
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Vol. XVII. (ff. 91). GENERALITÉ de Limoges; "par M. de la Bourdonnaye, Intendant, Année 1698." This ascription is clearly a blunder; for in Boulainvilliers, as in other MS. copies, the article is ascribed to De Bernages, who was Intendant at Limoges in 1698, while De La Bourdonnaye was at Rouen ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Stowe MS 198

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Stowe MS 198
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LETTERS of Sir William Temple, Bart., written during his embassy at Brussels in 1665-1666, translated into French in 1730 by James Newsham, being the first sixteen letters (excepting those written originally in French) in Swift's edition of Sir W. Temple's Correspondence, 1700. The last letter i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1730
Extent:
1 item