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751. Add MS 15732

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Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a Latin copy of the Historia Regum Brittaniae ('The History of the Kings of Britain') by Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154/55), bishop of St Asaph and historian. The work presents a pseudo-historical account of the kings of Britain; it opens with a legend that tells of how B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
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A parchment codex

752. Add MS 15736

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Friendship album of George Andrew, Freiherr von Herberstein
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Friendship album or ‘Stammbuch’ of George Andrew, Freiherr von Herberstein. Containing autographs and coloured arms, collected principally at Strasbourg and Steir, in the years 1612-1623. With an alphabetical index of writers (ff. 96v-104r). f. 1r Parhcment fragment with ownership inscription, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
1612-1623
Extent:
1 volume

753. Add MS 15856

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COPIES of various diplomatic instruments in the reigns of Charles I. and Charles II., in the writing, for the most part, of John Nicholas, son of Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State, and apparently intended for the use of the latter, as a Book of Precedents. The contents are :- " Inscriptions des lettres aux Princes de l'Empire," f 1 ;-" Inscriptiones literarum usitatæ in Anglia," with the subscriptions used by Charles I., f 2; -"De modo scribendi epistolas apud Italos," f 5;-Credential...
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Forms: Of Commissions. John Nicholas, son of Sir Edward: Wrote the greater part of Add. Ms. Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Hatton of Kirby: Passes to him: 1647, 1648. Sir William Curtius: Letters to Sir R. Browne: 1643-1647, 1670. History of England: Diplomatic Instruments: temp. Car. 1. Car. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 item

754. Add MS 15857

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VOL. I.-George Abbott (brother of the Archbp. of Canterbury), to Sir Richard Browne, 1 Apr. 1629 (written on a back of a Latin letter from Francis Wright to himself), f 5 ;-Sir Richard Anderson, Bart., to John Evelyn, 21 May, 1684, f. 8;-Sir Allen Apsley, Knt., to the same, 26 Apr. 1669, f 10;-J...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1624-1712
Extent:
1 item

755. Add MS 15857-15858

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ORIGINAL LETTERS, Official and Private, forming part of the correspondence of Sir Richard Browne, Knt. and Bart. (Ambassador to France, and one of the Clerks of the Privy Council), and his son-in-law, John Evelyn, Esq., of Wotton, from the year 1624 to 1712; with some other letters and papers interspersed
Scope & Content:
Short biographical notices and portraits have been prefixed to some of the letters by Wm. Upcott, the former possessor ; with an alphabetical index of the writers. In two Volumes. Folio. [15,857, 15,858.]
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1624-1712
Extent:
2 items

756. Add MS 15866

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VOL. I.-Office Letters from Robert Harley (afterwards Earl of Oxford) Secretary of State, to Alexander Stanhope (Envoy at the Hague), 27 Aug.- 17 Sept. 1706, ff. 2-7, 9, and to James Dayrolle, 17 Sept. 1706-6 Feb. 170 7/8, ff. 8, 10-13, 15-57, 59-74, 78-93, 96;-Letters from Erasmus Lewis, Under-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1706-1716
Extent:
1 item

757. Add MS 15866-15875

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THE OFFICIAL DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE of James Dayrolle, English Resident at the Hague, from Sept. 1706 to Nov. 1712 ; then at Geneva, from Sept. 1715 to Oct. 1717; and again at the Hague, from Nov. 1717 to Oct. 1738 ; as also of his nephew, Solomon Dayrolle, Resident at the Hague and Brussels, from May, 1747 to August, 1757 ; with some Letters and Papers of later date. In ten Volumes. Folio. Prefixed to the first volume is a biographical notice of the Dayrolles, written by William Upcott, ...
Scope & Content:
Thomas Pelham Holles, Duke of Newcastle: Correspondence as minister, with James and Solomon Dayrolle: 1735-1755.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1706-1786
Extent:
10 items

758. Add MS 15868

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VOL. III.-Letter from Thomas Robinson (afterwards Lord Grantham), Envoy at Vienna, to J. Dayrolle, 30 Apr. 1730, f. 1 ;-Drafts of Letters from Solomon Dayrolle to his uncle, J. Dayrolle, dated "au camp de Muhlberg, en Saxe," 8, 28 June, 1730, Fr., ff. 2, 4;-Office Letters from [William Stanhope,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1730-1735
Extent:
1 item

759. Add MS 15892

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VOL. I.-Correspondence and ]Papers from 1675 to 1685 inclusive, in the following order:-Meditations on the anniversary of Lord Chancellor Clarendon's death, by the Hon. Lawrence Hyde, in his own handwriting, 9 Dec. 1675 (unfinished), f. 1 ;-Portion of the Autograph Journal of Hon. L. Hyde, when ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1675-1685
Extent:
1 item

760. Add MS 15892-15898

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Title:
The ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE and Official Papers of Lawrence Hyde, Viscount Hyde and Earl of Rochester, and Henry Hyde (his brother), second Earl of Clarendon, between the years 1675 and 1709. In seven Volumes. Large Folio. [15,892-15,898.] The greater part of these Letters and Papers is printed in the " Hyde Correspondence," edited by S. W. Singer, 2 vols. 4to., 1828. Another portion of the Hyde Papers will be found in Add. Mss. 17,016-17,019]
Scope & Content:
Lawrence Hyde, Viscount Hyde; Earl of Rochester: Official correspondence: 1675-1709. Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon: Official correspondence: 1675-1709.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1675-1709
Extent:
7 items

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