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31. Stowe MS 241-242

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Stowe MS 241-242
Title:
STATE PAPERS and Correspondence, originals and copies, 1688 - 1744; collected by Thomas Astle, Keeper of the Records in the Tower, and intended to serve as an appendix to the Hanover Papers (Hargrave MS 222-232). Two volumes. Paper. Large Octavo.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1688-1744
Extent:
2 items

32. Stowe MS 479

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Stowe MS 479
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Scope & Content:
RICHARDS COLLECTIONS. Vol. XXXIII. (ff. 14). "Devis des ouvrages . . . . à l'embouchure du havre de Dunkerque." At the end, " Signé Vauban." With four plans. See above, vol. vii. Dunkirk, Nord: Papers relating to works at: late 17th cent.: Fr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

33. Stowe MS 92-93

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Stowe MS 92-93
Title:
"INVENTAIRE chronologique et detail1é de toutes les chartes qui se trouvent dans les archives des Comtes de Flandre, deposées dans l'ancienne chambre des comptes du Roi à Lille." Compiled by Denis Joseph Godefroy, Keeper of the Archives de la Chambre des Comptes at Lille. In two volumes, comprising respectively the periods 706-1240 and 1241-1270. The title-pages are dated 1784 and 1785; and in the preface to vol. i. (f. 7) the compiler states that the work, a great part of the expense of whi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1782-1785
Extent:
2 items

34. Stowe MS 948

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 948
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Scope & Content:
HYMN to the Virgin, in French, preceded by a calendar in a different hand. Imperfect at the beginning, the first line being, "Durement fu trauaile" (f. 8 b), and wanting leaves after ff. 9, 10. The several divisions remaining begin, "Deu te salt uirgine honore" (f. 9 b), "Virge mere preciouse" (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
1 item

35. Stowe MS 386

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Stowe MS 386
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Scope & Content:
STATUTES of the Realm, Law tracts, etc., as follows:- 1. "Carta de Libertatibus Anglie": Magna Carta, as re-issued by Henry III., 11 Feb. 1225. Lat. f. 2. 2. " Carta de Foresta " ; as re-issued in Feb. 1225. Lat. f. 4. 3. Statute of Merton, 1235. Fr. f. 5. 4. " Provisa Oxonie, edita anno...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-15th century
Extent:
1 item

36. Stowe MS 1081

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Stowe MS 1081
Title:
Twelve ink drawings of persons and groups, elaborately executed by a French artist, generally without removing the pen from the surface. Opposite each drawing are one or more anonymous French songs for voice with a bass for harpsichord, in score. On the covers are two similar figures cut out of the upper vellum skin with a penknife.
Scope & Content:
The first six songs are described as 'Airs,' the others as 'Chansons à boire, à dancer,' etc. 'Philis, quel destin dois-ie suiure.' f. 4. 'Me veux tu voir mourir ' (cf. Add MS 17991, f. 47b, the date of which is about 1620-1621). f. 5b. 'Source des plus aymables charmes.' f. 8. 'Puisque ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 volume (32 folios)

37. Stowe MS 90

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Stowe MS 90
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PAPERS relating to the French army in 1790-92, consisting of several statements and estimates for establishment and maintenance of the various branches. They chiefly form portions of several plans formed by, or submitted to, the "Comte de Latour du Pin" [Jean Frédéric de la Tour du Pin, Comte du...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1790-1792
Extent:
1 item

38. Stowe MS 902

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 902
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Vol. XVII. (ff. 91). GENERALITÉ de Limoges; "par M. de la Bourdonnaye, Intendant, Année 1698." This ascription is clearly a blunder; for in Boulainvilliers, as in other MS. copies, the article is ascribed to De Bernages, who was Intendant at Limoges in 1698, while De La Bourdonnaye was at Rouen ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

39. Stowe MS 198

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 198
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Scope & Content:
LETTERS of Sir William Temple, Bart., written during his embassy at Brussels in 1665-1666, translated into French in 1730 by James Newsham, being the first sixteen letters (excepting those written originally in French) in Swift's edition of Sir W. Temple's Correspondence, 1700. The last letter i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1730
Extent:
1 item

40. Stowe MS 132-137

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 132-137
Title:
TRANSCRIPTS Of despatches, instructions to ambassadors, negotiations, treaties, etc., chiefly relating to the general history of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Six volumes. Vol. II. has on f. 2 an engraved portrait, " W. Delff sculpsit," of Sir Dudley Carleton, Ambassador at Venice and the Hague, etc. (ob. 1632), and on f. 1 the book-plate of Richard, lst Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. All the volumes bear the book-plate, dated 1701, of Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex. Paper; xviith ...
Scope & Content:
Treaties: Negotiations, treaties, etc., relating to European history: 14th-17th centt. Records, Public: Transcripts of State papers on the general history of Europe: 16th. -17th centt. Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex: Book-plates. Bookplates: Capell (Algernon), Earl of Essex: 1701.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
14th century-17th century
Extent:
6 items