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8081. Add MS 64812

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SIEGE OF ACRE: 'Plan de la ville d'acre et travaux faits par les français lors du Siege du 25 ventose an an (sic) 7me de la Republique'; executed shortly after 15 March 1799. Scale circa 1:2500. Sketch plan showing the French trenches, etc., around Acre between March and May 1799. Interior of walled town of Acre left blank. Endorsed 'Plan of Town of Acre'. Map Library 48950 (1.) is a printed but unrelated plan of the siege. The map was owned circa 1980 by Stanley Crowe. Purchased from Renard...
Scope & Content:
Maps and Plans: Acre, Syria: France; Sovereigns of, and transactions in particular reigns. First Republic: Sketch plan of siege of Acre: 1799: Fr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1799
Extent:
1 item

8082. Add MS 64870-64924

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COKE PAPERS (SERIES I) Correspondence and papers of Sir John Coke, Secretary of State to King Charles I; 1551-1644. Partly drafts. Partly Latin, French and Italian. The papers cover all aspects of Coke's official career, as manager (1591-1593) of the estates of Sir Fulke Greville, Deputy-Treasurer (1599-1604) and later (1621-1636) Commissioner of the Navy, Master of Requests (1622-1625), Member of Parliament (1621-1629) and Secretary of State (1625-1639). Also included are letters and papers...
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Navy; England: Correspondence and papers rel. to the Navy: 1578-1644. Sir John Coke, Secretary of State: Correspondence and papers of Sir John Coke: 1551-1644: Partly Fr., Lat. and Ital: Partly drafts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1551-1644
Extent:
55 items

8083. Add MS 64925

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MOHAMED SELMI: poems of Mohamed Selmi, Tunisian poet and journalist (b.1939); 1982 (see f. 3, etc.). Autograph, with corrections. French. Presented by the author with his printed works and transferred from the French Section, Collection Development, in Jan. 1988. Paper; ff. 38. 210 x 163mm. Brown paper covers.
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Mohamed Selmi, Tunisian poet and journalist: Poems by Mohamed Selmi: 1982: Fr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1982
Extent:
1 item

8084. Add MS 64928

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HOPKINS PAPERS. Vol. I (ff. 142). Letters to Thomas Hopkins, chiefly as Under Secretary to Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, Secretary of State from 1706 to 1710; 1698-1710. Including a few 19th-cent. copies and a few drafts by Hopkins on Sunderland's behalf. Partly French. Including seve...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1698-1710
Extent:
1 item

8085. Add MS 64928-64929

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HOPKINS PAPERS
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Correspondence of Thomas Hopkins, Under Secretary of State, and his nephew, Edward Hopkins, M.P., with associated papers and engravings; 1644-1793Purchased at Phillips's, 10 Dec. 1987, lot 445. Paper. Two volumes. British Library arrangement.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1644-1793
Extent:
2 items

8086. Add MS 64930

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BELGRADE: 'Plan de Belgrad'; circa 1720. Scale circa 1:5400. Title and river names are in mixture of French and Latin. The plan shows proposed fortifications to the landward side of the city, and was probably drawn by a German military engineer in Austrian service; note German phonetic rendering of River Sava. Comparison with other maps eg. extent of town and state of fortifications suggests a date after 1717 and before 1781, but presumably before 1740, when Belgrade was evacuated by the Aus...
Scope & Content:
Maps and Plans: Belgrade, Serbia: Map of Belgrade: circa 1720: Fr. and Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1720
Extent:
1 item

8087. Add MS 64950

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BULSTRODE PAPERS: letters, chiefly to Sir Richard Bulstrode, Resident and later Envoy at Brussels; 1675-[1715?]. Partly signed and copies. Mostly French and Spanish. The collection is part of the Bulstrode archive originally owned by T. E. P. Lefroy, noticed in H.M.C. 1st Report (1870), p. 56, and dispersed at Sotheby's on 3-4 May 1889. It supplements other Bulstrode material acquired by the Department from this and other sources, now Add. 38847, ff. 122-139; 47899; 62585; 62586 and Egerton ...
Scope & Content:
Sir Richard Bulstrode, Envoy at Brussels: Letters to Sir Richard Bulstrode: 1675-1707: Mostly Fr. and Span. includes: ff. 1-21v Archinto, Conte d'Archinto; envoy of the Spanish Netherlands: Letters to Sir R. Bulstrode from — Archinto: 1680-1703: Fr: Partly signed.ff. 22-50v Johan Hulft, Du...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Spanish
Date Range:
1675-[1715?]
Extent:
1 item

8088. Add MS 64951

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JAMES PAPERS: papers of Major Charles James (b.1758, d.1821) author, military entrepreneur and spy; 1795, 1816-1818. Partly French. These papers do not appear to have been among the James Papers sold at Sotheby's, 18 Dec. 1986, lot 287. Purchased (ff. 1-54) from Stride & Son, Chichester, 4 Feb. 1988, lot 123 and (ff. 55-100v) from D. P. White of Rusper, Horsham, Cat. 1988, no. 167, 28 April 1988. Paper; ff. 100. British Library arrangement. 1. ff. 1-54. Miscellaneous papers as milita...
Scope & Content:
Major Charles James, military entrepreneur and spy: Papers and letters of Maj. Charles James: 1795-1818: Partly Fr: Partly printed. includes: ff. 1-54 France; Sovereigns of, and transactions in particular reigns. First Republic: Papers rel. to the Quibéron Bay Expedition, etc.,: 1795: Partly...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1795-1818
Extent:
1 item

8089. Add MS 65103

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JEAN RACINE: juvenile poems and letters written during his time at Port-Royal or shortly thereafter (1654-1660), together with the first eleven lines of Act III, scene 1 of 'Britannicus'; first half of 18th cent. Copies in the hand of his son Louis Racine. French and Latin. All the poems, both Latin and French, but not the two letters (ff. 6v, 11v), are printed in Oeuvres Complètes, ed. Gonzague Truc (Paris, 1936). This notebook may have formed part of Louis Racine's preliminary work for his...
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includes: ff. 1-18v Louis Racine, son of Jean Racine, poet: Copies of and commentary on his father's work by Louis Racine: first half of 18th cent: Fr.ff. 1-6, 12-18v Poetry FRENCH: Jean Racine, French poet: Juvenile poems, etc., by Jean Racine: 1654-1660: Fr. and Lat: Copies, first half of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of 18th century
Extent:
1 item

8090. Add MS 65104

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FRENCH MUSIC; 1916-1944, n.d. Presented by M. Bernard Peyrotte, May, Oct. and Nov. 1987. Paper; ff. 44. A. Gabriel Grovlez: 'Deux morceaux de difficulté transcendante', for viola and piano; 1916. Autograph ink score and viola part. Composed for Mademoiselle Jacqueline Rouche. ff. 1-6. 350 x 270mm. B. Alphonse Duvernoy: 'Chant d'Alsace' (words, Armand Silvestre), for solo voice and orchestra; n.d. Full score. Presumably autograph, with the title on the wrapper in another hand. ff. 7...
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-6 Gabriel Grovlez, composer: Jacqueline Rouche: 'Deux morceaux de difficulté transcendante' by Gabriel Grovlez, composed for Jacqueline Rouche: 1916.ff. 7-20 Victor Alphonse Duvernoy, pianist and composer: Armand Silvestre: 'Chant d'Alsace' by Victor Alphonse Duvernoy, words...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1916-1944
Extent:
1 item

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