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1. Add MS 4101-4478

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Add MS 4101-4478
Title:
Manuscripts collected by Thomas Birch (b. 1705, d. 1766), D.D., and bequeathed by him to the British Museum, of which he was a Trustee from 1753 until his death
Scope & Content:
They comprise not only original documents (including some of Birch's own private papers) but also a number of transcripts, many of which were made by Birch himself, from originals preserved in public and private collections. Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Collections of, bequeathed to the Britis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish
Date Range:
[1200-1799]
Extent:
378 items

2. Add MS 5244

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Title:
John Dunstall, manuscript version of his manual "The Art of Delineation, or Drawing. In 6 Books"
Scope & Content:
This is the only known surviving version in manuscript form of the unpublished treatise "The art of delineation, or drawing", written and illustrated by John Dunstall, schoolmaster at Blackfriars in London, active as printmaker and art teacher between 1653 and 1693. The manuscript includes a com...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume (113 folios)

3. Add MS 5663

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Title:
Phrases from the New Testament
Scope & Content:
‘Locutiones seu Phrases quæ reperiuntur in Novo Testamento, et primo apud Mattheum, quæ videntur secundum proprietates (quæ Idiomata Græcè vocantur) lingua Hebrææ sive sacræ, ad Serenissimum inclitissimumque Angliæ Regem, [Henricum VIII] collecta à Thoma Wakefeld, Cantabrigiense’ A dedication is...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew
Date Range:
1544
Extent:
1 volume (61 folios)

4. Add MS 10966

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Add MS 10966
Title:
TABULÆ Astronomicæ; Hebraice. Codex membranaceus, sec. xv. Folio. [10,966.]
Scope & Content:
Astronomy: Tabulae astronomicae.: Hebr.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 11038

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Title:
A COLLECTION Of philological papers, consisting of copies of inscriptions in different parts of India;-Specimens of writing in European characters by Taddesee or Saganee Indians, in North America, with translations;-Specimen of writing by the native Indians of Newfoundland; -Impressions from two brasen tablets supposed to have been engraved in Egypt, and probably talismanic [See MS. Add. 10,608] ; - Alphabetum Judaico-Teutonicum ; - Charm, written in Hebrew on a strip of parchment ;-Bardic...
Scope & Content:
Writing: Specimens of writing, by different Indian tribes. Newfoundland: Specimeti of writing by the native Indians of. Inscriptions: Inscriptions in various parts of India. Indians of N. America and Newfoundland: Specimens of their writing. India: Copies of inscriptions, in different parts ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Hebrew
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 17083

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Title:
Friendship album of Sir Thomas Cuming of Scotland
Scope & Content:
Friendship album or ‘Stammbuch’ of Sir Thomas Cuming of Scotland, during his time at the University of Heidelberg. Containing autographs and coloured arms, collected principally at Basle, Heidelberg, Leiden, London, Prague and Vienna, in the years 1612-1623. ff. 1r-2v Copy of letters from Fred...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1612-1623
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 18635

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Title:
TRACTATUS de immortalitate animæ, auctore Bartholomæo Tato [of Delapree, co. Northt]; præmissa dedicatione ad patrem suum. Paper; XVIth cent. Small Quarto. [Add. 18,635.]
Scope & Content:
Bartholomæus Tatus, of Delapree, county Northamptonshire: De immortalitate animæ. Isaac, of Duren: Shaare Dura.: Hebr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Hebrew
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 22878-23125

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Title:
Turner Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts purchased at the sale of Dawson Turner's Collection.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, English, Old, French, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, and Welsh
Date Range:
16th century-19th century
Extent:
261 items

9. Add MS 26555-26621

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Add MS 26555-26621
Title:
The papers of Dr. John Leyden [ob. 1811] and William Erskine were presented by C. J. Erskine, Esq.
Scope & Content:
Philology: Collections on Oriental philology, by Dr. Leyden and W. Erskine: 18th and 19th centt. India: Translations of historical and other works, and philological and other collections relating to India, by Dr. John Leyden and William Erskine: 18th and 19th centt.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, and Portuguese
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
65 items

10. Add MS 27231

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Title:
1. "DIALOGO dos Montes, composto pelo doctissimo e clarissimo sr Hacham a-salem, morenu arab, Saul Levi Morteira, em Amsterdam, Anno 5406 [A.D. 1645];" a poem in the form of a dialogue between the mountains of the Holy Land and Jehoshaphat, King of Judah, with a pen-and-ink drawing. Portuguese and Hebrew. f 4. 2. "Repuesta a las objeciones con que el Sinense injustamente calumnia al Talmud. Compuesta por el muy docto señor Haham Saul Levi Mortera, en Amsterdam, Anno 5406" [A.D. 1645]. Span...
Scope & Content:
Lemuel de Casseres: Wrote: in the 18th cent. includes: f. 4 Saul Levi Mortera, Rabbi, of Amsterdam: Dialogo dos Montes,: 1645.: Portug. and Hebrew. f. 55 Talmud: Reply to Chinese objections to the Talmud, by Haham S. L. Mortera: 1645.: Span. f. 55 Saul Levi Mortera, Rabbi, of Amsterdam: Reply ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Hebrew, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item