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2. Add MS 4101
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- Add MS 4101
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- WRIOTHESLEY HERALDIC COLLECTIONS. Collections relating to heraldry, etc. Supplementary to Add. MSS. 5530, 45131-45133, 46354. The contents are as follows:- (1) 'Le xviiie livre de Bethelemy des proprietes lequel parle de la proprite des bestes', being a French translation by Jean Corbichon of ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and French
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
3. Add MS 4101-4478
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- Add MS 4101-4478
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- Manuscripts collected by Thomas Birch (b. 1705, d. 1766), D.D., and bequeathed by him to the British Museum, of which he was a Trustee from 1753 until his death
- Scope & Content:
- They comprise not only original documents (including some of Birch's own private papers) but also a number of transcripts, many of which were made by Birch himself, from originals preserved in public and private collections. Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Collections of, bequeathed to the Britis...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish
- Date Range:
- [1200-1799]
- Extent:
- 378 items
4. Add MS 4106
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- Add MS 4106
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- Vol. I (ff. 276). Viz:- (1) Appointment by Edward IV of John Russell, Bishop of Rochester, and Anthony Wydville, Earl Rivers, to be Governors of Edward, Prince of Wales; 28 Sept. 1473. Copy. ff. 1-5b. (2) Sir Richard Morison to the Council; Spires, 7 Oct. 1552. Transcribed from Cotton MS. Ga...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Dutch, English, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1473-1657
- Extent:
- 1 item
5. Add MS 4106-4107
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- Add MS 4106-4107
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- TRANSCRIPTS OF STATE PAPERS and letters from public and private collections, made by or for Birch, together with some original documents. In two volumes not chronologically arranged: Vol. I, 1473- 1657; Vol. II, 1598-1745. The names of the writers of letters, etc. are to be found in the Index of the present Catalogue. Among the documents are:-
- Scope & Content:
- Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Transcripts and abstracts of MSS., etc., made for and by: 18th cent.: Partly autogr.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Dutch, English, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1473-1745
- Extent:
- 2 items
6. Add MS 4109
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- Add MS 4109
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- Vol. I, ff. 203, 1750, 1751. includes: f. 8 City of Geneva: Letter from the Senate to O. Cromwell: circ. 1655.: Fr.: Copy.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French
- Date Range:
- 1750-1751
- Extent:
- 1 item
7. Add MS 4109-4124
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- Add MS 4109-4124
- Title:
- ANTHONY BACON TRANSCRIPTS. Transcripts and extracts of the correspondence of Anthony Bacon (d. 1601), chiefly in his capacity as Private Secretary to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex; 1580-1598, with a few of earlier date. They were made by Birch in 1750, 1751 from the originals in the Lambeth Palace Library (Nos. 647-662) for the purpose of, and incorporation in, his Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth ... in which the secret intrigues of her court and the conduct of her Favourite Ro...
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- Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Transcripts and abstracts of MSS., etc., made for and by: 18th cent.: Partly autogr. Anthony Bacon, diplomatist: Copies, by T. Birch, of his correspondence (1558-1598) in Lambeth Library: 1750, 1751.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and French
- Date Range:
- 1750-1751
- Extent:
- 16 items
8. Add MS 4125
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- Add MS 4125
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- ANTHONY BACON PAPERS Collection of letters and papers on state affairs, chiefly originals, from the papers of Anthony Bacon and addressed to him, used by Birch in his Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, 2 vols., 1754, and his Historical View of the Negotiations between England, France and B...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, Italian, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1584-1657
- Extent:
- 1 item
9. Add MS 4150
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- Add MS 4150
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- Vol. I, ff. 328, XVIII cent. Tanneguy Le Veneur, Comte de Tillières; French Ambassador to England: Negotiations respecting the marriage between Charles I and Henrietta Maria: 1624-1625.: Fr.: Copies. Antoine Coeffier Ruzé, Marquis d'Effiat; French Ambassador to England: Negotiations respecting...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
10. Add MS 4150-4154
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- Add MS 4150-4154
- Title:
- 'LES LETTRES, memoires, actes, instructions, contractz faicts au Traitté de Mariage d'entre Madame Henriette Marie, Soeur du Roy, et Charles premier, Roy de la Grande Bretagne'; 1624, 1625. Five volumes. Vols. I, III-V are consecutive and contain the negotiations of Tannequy le Veneur, Comte de Tillières, Antoine Coeffier Ruzé, Marquis d'Effiat, successive French Ambassadors to England, and others, whereas Vol. II concerns the 'Suitte du marriage d'Angleterre avec L'Ambassade de Mons' [Jean ...
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- Charles I of England: Letters and state papers rel. to his marriage with Henrietta Maria: 1624-1626.: Fr.: Copies. Louis XIII of France: Papers rel. to the marriage of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, his daughter: 1624-1626.: Fr.: Copies.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Extent:
- 5 items