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131. Add MS 70949

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Title:
Charnwood Autographs
Scope & Content:
CHARNWOOD AUTOGRAPHS. Vol. II. English literary autographs; circa 16th-20th cent. Included are Edmund Waller, Andrew Marvell, John Evelyn, John Locke, John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, William Congreve, Sir Richard Steele, John Gay, Samuel Richardson, Thomas Gray, Laur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 16th century-20th century
Extent:

3 items

132. Add MS 72426

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Title:
Diplomatic correspondence, primarily English, 1614-1636
Scope & Content:
This is a file of the Trumbull papers, which came to the family through Georg Rudolph Weckherlin (1584-1653), government official and poet. Wekherlin came to England with experience of government in Württemberg and active support for Frederick V, Elector Palatine and his wife Elizabeth. He was c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Swedish
Date Range:
24 Mar 1614-26 May 1636
Extent:
1 file

133. Add MS 72438

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Title:
Cipher-keys and intercepted royalist correspondence from the papers of Georg Rudolph Weckherlin, government official, 1625-1647
Scope & Content:
Trumbull Papers. Vol. 197. Cipher-keys, c. 1625-1645, and intercepted royalist correspondence, 1645-47, from the papers of Georg Rudolph Weckherlin. Weckherlin, a German immigrant, began his career as a government official, as a diplomatic secretary and cryptographer to various secretaries of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1625-1647
Extent:
1 folder

134. Add MS 82506 D

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Title:
Keyes Papers. Vol. cxxxiv d. Printed material relating to Operations ZO and VS. ‘Trois Actions de Guerre de la Marine britannique’, by G. Lacour-Gayet, offprint from La Revue Politique et Littéraire, no. 11, 1918.
Scope & Content:
Vol. cxxxiv d. ‘Trois Actions de Guerre de la Marine britannique’, by G. Lacour-Gayet, offprint from La Revue Politique et Littéraire, no. 11, 1918.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1918
Extent:
1 item

135. Add MS 82948

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Title:
Fragments of treatises on hunting ('The 'Kerdeston Hunting Book')
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a collection of fragments from hunting treatises, belonging to Sir Thomas Kerdeston of Claxton, Norfolk (b. c. 1395, d. 1446) and his second wife, Phillippa Trussell (b. after 1396, d. 1452). The first folio may originate from another of Kerdeston's manuscripts, as the scrip...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1420-1430
Extent:

1 volume

136. Add MS 89166

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Title:
Grant of arms of Sir Gilbert Dethick (d. 1584) to Jean Belmaine
Scope & Content:
A presentation copy of a grant of arms from Sir Gilbert Dethick (b. c. 1510, d. 1584), Garter Principal King of Arms, to Jean Belmaine (fl. 1546–1559), French tutor to King Edward VI (r. 1547–1553) and Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558–1603), dated 20 November 1552. The blazon of Belmaine's Arms is a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
20 Nov 1552
Extent:

1 leaf

137. Add MS 89309

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Paris (‘The Southwark Hours’)
Scope & Content:
A Book of Hours in Latin with some French, made in Paris for an unknown female patron. The illumination is attributed to the ‘Ravenelle Master’, active in Paris between c. 1390 and c. 1410. Ker dates it to ‘probably not long after 1387’ as it contains a memoria of Peter of Luxembourg (b. 1369, d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

138. Add MS 89542

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Title:
Giovanni Battista Gargha, Orationes
Scope & Content:
A presentation copy of the Orationes of Giovanni Battista Gargha of Siena, envoy of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (Hospitallers), made for Fabrizio del Carretto (b. 1455, d. 1521), Italian nobleman and the 43rd Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller from 1513 to 1521. Followed by the c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1514-c 1522
Extent:
1 volume

139. Burney MS 86

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Burney MS 86
Title:
Townley Homer
Scope & Content:
Iliad of Homer, with extensive marginal and interlinear scholia (ff 1r-281v). Later added inscriptions and ownership marks, including: Engraved portrait of Charles Townley, 1812 (f iv recto). Partly erased 15th-century Italian accounts in Latin (f v recto). Engraving of a bust of Homer found...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
?1059
Extent:

281 folios

140. Burney MS 95, f 1v

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Burney MS 95, f 1v
Title:
Scope & Content:
Biographical notes on Andocides and Isaeus in French, late 18th-early 19th century. For the sources of these notes and an identification of the copyist as Prince Alexander Bano Hantzerli see Wyse 1904 pp. xiii-xiv.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Late 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:

1 folio

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