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Container Reference (shelfmark) Stowe MS 787-923 Language French Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Stowe MS 789

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Stowe MS 789
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Scope & Content:
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 798

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Stowe MS 798
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PERAMBULATIONS of Royal Forests in cos. Huntingdon and Gloucester and several other counties, made tempp. Hen. III.- Edw. I. Lat. and Fr. At the end are copies of :-(a) Charter of Edward the Confessor concerning the endowment of Westminster Abbey, 5 Kal. Jan. 1066, [28 Dec. 1065]. Lat. f. 39. Pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Stowe MS 882

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Stowe MS 882
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"REGISTRUM Magistri Johannis Blauncharde, Archidiaconi Wvgornie, de cartis, literis et aliis evidenciis concernentibus manerium suum de Bereforde Sci. Martini juxta Wyltoun in comit. Wiltes." Latin and French. Blaunchard, who was Archdeacon of Worcester 1371-1383, obtained the manor of Barford S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Stowe MS 886-914

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Stowe MS 886-914
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MEMOIRS on the provinces of France, drawn up by their several Intendants in accordance with instructions issued by Louis XIV. in 1697 (see below, Vol. l.). French. In 29 volumes. A full analysis is in Boulainvilliers' État de la France, London, 1727, Vols. I. and II. The series originally contained two more volumes, in which were memoirs on Alsace and Bretagne (see O'Conor's Bibl. MS. Stowensis, ii. p. 245). Another copy of the complete series is in Lansdowne MSS. 175-186, in a hand of the s...
Scope & Content:
France General Chronicles and History, etc: Memoirs, by the intendants, on the several provinces: 1697-1700.: Fr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
29 items

5. 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