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8621. Add MS 74231

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Add MS 74231
Title:
MATTHIAS LYNEN: Album amicorum, etc.; 1618-1669. Partly Greek, Latin, Hebrew, French, Italian, German and Dutch. The album proper (ff. 16-52, 119-214v, passim) belongs almost entirely to the period between Sept. 1618 and May 1624, while the compiler was a student at Heidelberg and other universities in Germany and Switzerland. The sole exception is the final entry (f. 214v), which is dated 1638. Interspersed throughout the volume are miscellaneous notes and extracts, partly from printed sour...
Scope & Content:
Cologne, Germany: Art. Illuminations and Drawings GERMAN: Figures of citizens, etc., in album amicorum of M. Lynen: 1618-1624. Genealogies: Notes of births and deaths in Cullen, Wessell, Hochepied and Beck families: 1649-1669: Partly French and Dutch. Heidelberg, Germany: Art. Illuminations an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1618-1669
Extent:
1 item

8622. Add MS 74237 A-ZZ

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Add MS 74237 A-ZZ
Title:
Miscellaneous Letters and Papers
Scope & Content:
74237. . Paper and vellum; ff. 161. British Library arrangement.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
[1560-1966]
Extent:
1 item

8623. Add MS 74237 FF

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FF. Letter from Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, engineer and [1768] a director of the Société de la Carte de France, to [a member of the Society Treasurer's staff] rel. to payments etc. due for the Cassini Survey of France; Montigny-Lencoup, 21 April 1766. French. For another letter (of 1788) by Perr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
21 Apr 1766
Extent:
1 item

8624. Add MS 74237 R

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R. Order from the Directors of the Carte Generale de France to the Treasurer, Jean Haran, sieur de Borda, for payment of 200 livres to be made on account to Jean-Nicolas Dupain-Triel the Younger for engraving the reduced map of the Generalité de Paris; 15 Aug. 1777. French. Partly printed. Si...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
15 Aug 1777
Extent:
1 item

8625. Add MS 74237 U

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Add MS 74237 U
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Scope & Content:
U. F. Vavasour: Letter to [Brian Fairfax the younger]; 1 Sept. n.y. Partly French. The letter, which is addressed to his house in the Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, from Weston, near Otley, and postmarked 4 Sept., mentions the death of 'pauvre Melle Asheton'. Two further letters of the same write...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

8626. Add MS 74251 A

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Add MS 74251 A
Title:
ILLUMINATED GENEALOGY of the family of Weston of Weston-under-Lizard, co. Staff., etc.; 1632-circa 1633. Partly Latin and French. The title (f. 2) reads in part ‘Westonorum (ab antiquo loco qui dicebatur Weston subtus Luzers in Agro Staffordiensi denominatorum) antiquissimae, et equestris familiae genealogia, et prosapia è quâ (regnante Henrico secundo Anglorum Rege) floruit vir perillustris Hamo de Weston. Miles...Anno incarnationis Dominicae m.dc.xxxii’. Underneath occurs the subscription ...
Scope & Content:
Heraldry: Genealogies: William Sedgwick, heraldic draughtsman: Sir William Segar, Garter King of Arms: Henry Lilly, alias Lily; Rouge Dragon pursuivant: Weston family; of Staffordshire: Illuminated pedigree, etc., of the family of Weston of co. Staff., etc., by Henry Lilly of Weston, family, att...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1632-c 1633
Extent:
1 item

8627. Add MS 74251 B

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Add MS 74251 B
Title:
FAMILY OF WESTON: Correspondence and notes relating to the genealogy, etc.; circa late 18th cent.-1903, n.d. Partly printed. Paper: ff. 58. Included are:- 1. f. 1-4v. Letter of Thomas Stratton of Lincoln’s Inn to his nephew, ‘G. J.’, rel. to the Weston and Stratton families;10 Sept. 1862. 2. ff. 5-12v. Three letters, etc., of Lieut.-Col. Gould Weston of Annanhill House, co. Kilmarnock, to the Rev. Heathfield Weston Hickes at Cranford, co. Midd., owner of Add. MS. 74251 A; 25, 30 Apr.,...
Scope & Content:
Heraldry: Genealogies: William Sedgwick, heraldic draughtsman: Sir William Segar, Garter King of Arms: Henry Lilly, alias Lily; Rouge Dragon pursuivant: Weston family; of Staffordshire: Illuminated pedigree, etc., of the family of Weston of co. Staff., etc., by Henry Lilly of Weston, family, att...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 18th century-1903
Extent:
1 item

8628. Add MS 74253

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Add MS 74253
Title:
ROBERT GLOVER (d.1588), SOMERSET HERALD: miscellaneous genealogical and heraldic collections; circa 1556-1581. Mostly autograph. Partly Latin and Norman French. This composite manuscript consists mostly of British and foreign genealogies, many accompanied by drawings of arms in trick. It includes a pedigree (f. 3v), circa 1556-1565, of the descendants of James II of Scotland down to the two sons of Matthew Stuart, 4th Earl of Lennox, who is described as 'modo existens in Anglia', annotat...
Scope & Content:
Heraldry: Genealogies: Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Robert Glover, Somerset herald: Wrest Park, Bedfordshire: Miscellaneous genealogical and heraldic collections of Robert Glover: circa 1566-1581: Partly Latin and Norman French: Mostly autograph. includes: f. 3v James II of Scotl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1556-1581
Extent:
1 item

8629. Add MS 74269

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Add MS 74269
Title:
Stefan Zweig: unpublished letters (41) to the Paris manuscript dealer Simon Kra; 1923-1935. Partly autograph, partly signed, with annotations passim by the recipient. French and German. Relating chiefly to the acquisition and disposal of manuscripts, these letters contain details of Zweig’s motives and methods in building up his collection of autographs and include information regarding the general state of the market for manuscripts at the time. Some letters refer to items now in the Br...
Scope & Content:
Stefan Zweig, writer and collector: Simon Kra, editor, of Paris: Letters to Simon Kra from Stefan Zweig: 1923-1935: Partly Fr., partly Germ: Partly signed.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and German
Date Range:
1923-1935
Extent:
1 item

8630. Add MS 74288-74524

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Add MS 74288-74524
Title:
A. Dramatic Works of Terence Rattigan, with Related Correspondence.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
[1927-1978]
Extent:
237 items

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