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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4223
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Scope & Content:: Vol. III (ff. 283). M-S. includes: ff.1-5 Thomas Madox, d 1727 Historiographer Royal: Biographical notice: 18th cent. ff. 6-12 Sir John Marsham, 1st Baronet d 1685: Biographical notice: 18th cent.: Fr. ff. 13,16 John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough: Biographical notice: 18th cent. ff. 17-33...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1730-c 1766
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4224
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Scope & Content:: Vol. IV (ff. 312). T-W. Together with miscellaneous notes among which are: (a) extracts relating to Cambridge men, from Thomas Baker's collections in Harley MSS.7031-7037. ff. 178-201;- (b)'Alphabetical list of Lives' by Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford. ff. 202-204;- (c) 'Kalendarium Carlananu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1730-c 1766
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4225
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. V. (ff. 111). Miscellaneous, but chiefly prominent historical figures. In narrative form, in Birch's autograph. includes: f. 1 Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham d 1483: Biographical notice: 18th cent. f. 5 Henry VII of England: Biographical notice of Qu. Elizabeth: 18th cent. f. 9 He...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1730-c 1766
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4226
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Scope & Content:: PIERRE BAYLE LETTERS Collection of original letters (with some copies) chiefly of Pierre Bayle, author of La Dictionnaire Historique et Critique, to various French, Dutch and Swiss literary persons, among them being Pierre Des Maizeaux, Abbé Claude Nicaise, Bernard de la Monnoye, Jean LeClerc, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1670-c 1739
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4237
Title:
Scope & Content:: BIRCH'S NEWTON COLLECTIONS Collections for a life of Sir Isaac Newton, by Thomas Birch; 1682-1761. (1) The 'Life', as printed in Bayle's A General Dictionary, Historical and Critical, rev. ed., 1738. ff. 1-99. (2) Two letters of Sir Isaac Newton to William Briggs, M.D.; commending with some...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1682-1761
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4247
Title:
Scope & Content:: BIOGRAPHICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS, as follows:- (1) Key to the works of Jean Louis Guez de Balzac (d. 1654), being annotations of passages in his works; 18th cent. French. ff. 1-7. (2) Life of John Selden; 18th cent. French. The notes in the margin are by Pierre Des Maizeaux. ff. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4249
Title:
Scope & Content:: MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS; 18th cent. Four articles, artt. 3 & 4 being bound separately. Artt.1 and 2. Forbes papers: notes by Patrick Forbes, Scottish historian; 18th cent. For other Forbes papers see Add. MSS. 4126, 4133-4146, 4215A, B, 4248, 35833. (1) List of selected articles from var...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4251
Title:
Scope & Content:: NOTE-BOOKS OF THOMAS BIRCH containing various literary and biographical memoranda, principally from the Harley MSS; 18th cent. Included is a list of persons who received presentation copies of Birch's Life of Prince Henry, 1760 (f. 122). French and English. Paper; ff. 122. Duodecimo. XVIII cent....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4253-4255
Title:: Literary papers and correspondence of Thomas Birch, connected with his work as joint-editor of the revised edition of Bayle's General Dictionary, Historical and Critical, and as Secretary of the Royal Society; 18th cent. Many of the letters in the first volume, of which only a few are originals, are written by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford, to Edward, 2nd Earl of Oxford, and to Humfrey Wanley, librarian to both, and have reference to the Harley MSS., some of them containing offers from a...
Scope & Content:: Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Correspondence of: 1726-1766, n.d.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 3 items

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