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1371. Add MS 46452

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VENICE: list of offices with their emoluments in Venice and her territories ( ff. 2-76b ), followed by a list of noble families ( ff. 78 - 86b ); circ. 1608-1621 ? Italian Dedicated (f. 1) to 'Il Sigor D. Zuane di Medici Mio Sigor et Patron Collmo' [ ?Giovanni de' Medici (b. 1567, d. 1621), natural son of Grand Duke Cosimo I, who entered the Venetian service in 1608, see U. Dorini, I Medici e i loro tempì, Florence [ 1947], pp. 471- 476]. A volume in the same hand containing similar lists is...
Scope & Content:
Venice: List of offices and noble families in: [circ. 1608-1621?].: Ital. includes: f. iv Music: Fragments of one voice-part of an unidentified musical setting of the Latin text of Psalm cxi: late 16th cent.f. 1b Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, OM, GBE, FRS: Notes by: n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1608-1621 ?
Extent:
1 item

1372. Add MS 46454-46464

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SHREWSBURY (TALBOT) PAPERS Correspondence and family papers (together with copies and abstracts of some earlier documents ) of the second line of the Talbot Earls of Shrewsbury, dating from circ. 1400-1858. The collection opens with the papers of Sir Gilbert Talbot, K.G., Deputy Lieut. of Calais in the reigns of Henry VII and VIII. Before the succession of his great-great-grandson, George Talbot, as 9th Earl of Shrewsbury in 1618, Sir Gilbert's descendants lived at Grafton, co. Worc., and A...
Scope & Content:
Talbot family; Earls of Shrewsbury: Deeds and papers: 12th-19th centt.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1400-1858
Extent:
14 items

1373. Add MS 46467

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'DELLA FORTIFICAZIONE': an anonymous treatise on fortification; 17th-18th cent. Italian. The first of three books on fortification mentioned in the preface (f. 4b): 'Trattato in tre libri; nel primo de quali dimosterassi l'eccellenza dell' Architettura Militare e varij modi di fortificare qualsiuoglia sito in qualsiuoglia luogo e parte situato, e rendirlo sicuro da qualsiuoglia Nemico; Nel 20 della Difesa da qualunque potenza che mediante la prime s'ottiene; e nel 30 dell'Offesa, et espugnat...
Scope & Content:
Fortification: Treatise on: 17th-18th cent.: Ital.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

1374. Add MS 46493-46498

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CARYLL-DEMPSTER PAPERS
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Letters from John Caryll, titular Baron Caryll, and James Dempster, successive secretaries to Queen Mary of Modena, to Cardinals Alessandro Caprara and Filippo Antonio Gualterio, successive Protectors of the English Catholics at Rome; 1694-1720, together with other miscellaneous correspondence, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1660-1807
Extent:
8 items

1375. Add MS 46525-46559

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LEXINGTON PAPERS 46525 - 46559 B. Correspondence and papers of Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexington (b. 1661, d. 1725), mostly as Envoy at Vienna, 1694-1697, where he was concerned in the negotiations preceding the Treaty of Ryswick, and as Ambassador to Spain, 1712-1713, where he conducted negotiations in connection with the Peace of Utrecht. Also included are papers relating to his special mission to Denmark in 1693 ( Add. MS. 46557, ff. 1-49 ) and his membership of the Council of Trade and...
Scope & Content:
Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexington: Correspondence and papers: 1661-1717.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
[1560-1799]
Extent:
44 items

1376. Add MS 46560-46682

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BENTLEY PAPERS. Records of the publishing house known successively as Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley ( 1829- Aug. 1832 ), Richard Bentley ( Sept. 1832-Feb. 1871), and Richard Bentley and Son ( Feb. 1871- Aug. 1898 ). From 1871 to 1895 the firm was controlled by George Bentley, son of Richard Bentley I, and from 1895 to 1898 by George Bentley's son, Richard Bentley II, in whose hands the papers remained after the stock and assets were bought by Macmillan and Co. in 1898. Included also are:...
Scope & Content:
Bibliography: Records of R. Bentley, etc., publishers: 1823-1915. Richard Bentley and Son formerly Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley formerly Richard Bentley; publishers, London: Records: 1823-1915, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1823-1915
Extent:
125 items

1377. Add MS 46695-46699

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Title:
'ALI PASHA PAPERS
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Correspondence and papers of Mehmed Emin 'Ali Pasha. Turkish statesman ( b. 1815, d. 1871 ), who was Ambassador to Great Britain 1841 - 1846, and Grand Vizier and Minister of Foreign Affairs on various subsequent occasions; included also (Vol. V ) are papers of his son 'Ali Fuad Bey, Minister of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Turkish
Date Range:
1837-1883
Extent:
5 items

1378. Add MS 46822-46838

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Title:
DRAKE PAPERS
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers of Francis Drake (b. 1764, d. 1821), diplomatist, together with (Vols. XIII, ff. 1-40b, XVI, ff. 178-237) papers of members of his family; 1696-1861. Drake was Secretary of Legation, 1790-1793, and Chargé d'Affaires, 1790-1792, at Copenhagen; Minister Plenipotentiary to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1696-1861
Extent:
18 items

1379. Add MS 46844 A-B

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Title:
LETTERS TO THE REV. THOMAS HARTWELL HORNE, of the British Museum, bibliographer and biblical scholar (b. 1780, d. 1862), from peers, Anglican bishops and clergy, scholars (mostly biblical), authors, and historians, together with a few letters, etc., to his son-in-law and daughter, the Rev. and Mrs Thomas Kelly Cheyne, and a single letter of Horne's; 1822-1871, n.d. Album (46844 A) and supplementary letters (46844 B) arranged chronologically. One letter of the Marquis de La Fayette, 15 May 18...
Scope & Content:
Reverend Thomas Hartwell Horne, biblical scholar: Letters to: 1822-1861, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1822-1871
Extent:
2 items

1380. Add MS 46871-46882

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Title:
ZAMBELLI PAPERS Papers of Antonio Tommaso Lega Zambelli and his family; 1800-1888. Italian with minor exceptions. Zambelli (b. circ. 1770, d. 25 Apr. 1847), a native of Brisighella in the province of Ravenna, was for several years, 1819-1824, Secretary and 'Maestro di Casa' to Lord Byron in Italy and Greece, and upon Byron's death at Missolonghi, 19 Apr. 1824, attended the transport of the body to England and presented his accounts to Byron's executors. Remaining in London, Zambelli set up ...
Scope & Content:
Antonio Tommaso Lega Zambelli: Correspondence, etc.: 1800-1844.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, and Italian
Date Range:
1800-1888
Extent:
12 items

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