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1471. Add MS 61101-61710, Add Ch 76069-76142, Seal CCV.8

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Add MS 61101-61710, Add Ch 76069-76142, Seal CCV.8
Title:
BLENHEIM PAPERS
Scope & Content:
The archive, formerly housed at Blenheim Palace, co. Oxon, consists chiefly of the correspondence and papers of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, his wife Sarah, née Jenyns, and their son-in-law Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, whose descendants by his second wife, Anne Churchill,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Catalan, Cipher, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish
Date Range:
16th century-20th century
Extent:
610 items

1472. Add MS 61726 A-B

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Add MS 61726 A-B
Title:
PETRUCCIO UBALDINI: 'Un brieve racconto delle cose più notevoli del reame d'Inghilterra'; late 16th cent., 20th cent.
Scope & Content:
Partly imperfect and autograph. Italian. This unpublished and hitherto unrecorded work is here dated London 1576 and dedicated to 'cavalier Cortese'. Some passages already appear in Ubaldini's 'Relazione d'Inghilterra' of 1551, a copy of which is Add. 10169 and an edition G. Pellegrini, Un fiore...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1560-1999
Extent:

2 items

1473. Add MS 61737-61740

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Add MS 61737-61740
Title:
ALVERSTONE PAPERS. Letters to Richard Webster, Viscount Alverstone, Lord Chief Justice of England, together with some miscellaneous family papers; 1795-1926, n.d.
Scope & Content:
For other Alverstone letters see Bristow's catalogue 264 (1980) and Paul C. Richards, of Templeton, Mass., catalogue 205 (April 1986), lot 284. Purchased at Lawrence of Crewkerne's, 14 Feb. 1980, lots 434, 437, 450, 461. Paper. Four volumes. British Library arrangement.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1795-1926
Extent:
4 items

1474. Add MS 61746

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Add MS 61746
Title:
NICCOLO TARTAGLIA: arithmetical problems and puzzles, mostly taken from his Trattato di numeri e misure (Venice, 1556-1560); 2nd half 16th cent. Italian. Copy. At the end of the volume (f. 49) is added one unpaginated leaf (old fol. 293) bearing a challenge by 'Florimonte delle Spine' to dispute at Treviso on the virtues of Lorenzo Giustiniano and Giustiniana Moceniga, 12 Feb. 1641/2. The main text was originally paginated in the upper margin pp. 1-77. Later foliation in the lower margin run...
Scope & Content:
Mathematics: Niccolo Tartaglia: Arithmetical problems and puzzles by Niccolo Tartaglia: 2nd half of 16th cent.: Ital.: Copy. includes: f. iii Bookplates and Book-stamps: Sneyd (Rev. Walter): 19th cent.f. 3 Art. Portraits: Niccolo Tartaglia: Portrait, in pen and ink, of Niccolo Tartaglia: 2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
2nd half 16th century
Extent:
1 item

1475. Add MS 61830

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Add MS 61830
Title:
EARLY PAGET (UXBRIDGE) PAPERS: letters to William Paget, 7th Baron Paget, and Henry Paget, 8th Baron Paget and 1st Earl of Uxbridge, together with letters and papers mostly relating to Spark Molesworth, third son of Sir John Molesworth, Bart., of Pencarrow, co. Cornw.; 1690-1739. Partly Italian. At the front of the volume (ff. 1, 2) are a prefatory note dated 10 Jan. 1786 and signed 'R.R.' and an incomplete list of contents by the same hand. The preface and seven of the letters to the 7th Ba...
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-2v R. R: Preface and list of contents by R. R.: 1786. ff. 3-3v Venice: Captain John Ely, RN: Papers rel. to the judgement of the Court of Strangers at Venice, on Capt. John Ely: 1691: Partly Ital.: Copies. ff. 4, 9, 16, 24, 26, 28, 33 Sir Paul Rycaut, diplomatist: Letters to Lor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1690-1739
Extent:
1 item

1476. Add MS 61860-61876

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Add MS 61860-61876
Title:
NORTH (SHEFFIELD PARK) PAPERS Correspondence and papers of Frederick, 2nd Earl of Guilford, together with miscellaneous earlier and later family papers; 1600-1814, n.d. Purchased of Mrs K. F. King, of Fletching, 12 Sept. 1980. Paper. Seventeen volumes. British Library arrangement.
Scope & Content:
Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford; Lord North; Prime Minister: Correspondence and papers of Frederick North: mostly 1760-1792.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1600-1814
Extent:
17 items

1477. Add MS 61894-61896

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Add MS 61894-61896
Title:
SUPPLEMENTARY MACMILLAN PAPERS: business and private correspondence of George Lillie Craik (d. 1905), partner in the publishing house of Macmillan; 1845-1905, n.d. Some letters are addressed to Alexander Macmillan, co-founder of the firm, and to other partners. The private correspondence reflects Craik's interest in the visual arts. Also included is some private correspondence of Craik's first wife, Dinah Maria, née Mulock, the novelist. Supplementing the Macmillan Papers, Add. 54786-56035 (...
Scope & Content:
Macmillan and Co; publishers: Literary History: Publishing: Correspondence of Macmillan and Co. (publishers): 1853-1905, n.d. George Lillie Craik, author; of Macmillan and Co., publishers: Correspondence of George Lillie Craik: 1853-1905. Alexander Macmillan, of Macmillan and Co., publishers: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, and Italian
Date Range:
1845-1905
Extent:
3 items

1478. Add MS 61910

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Add MS 61910
Title:
CHARLES (BRAGGE) BATHURST, M.P.: verse and translations; circa 1771-1804. Autograph. Partly Latin, Italian and French. Including occasional verse, epitaphs, verses on the English Lakes and the Wye valley, translations from Italian poetry, and a set of verses contributed anonymously to the Anti-Jacobin (ff. 41-43). Purchased at Sotheby's, 24 March 1981, lot 664. Paper; ff. 82. Notebook covered in red leather. 206 x 168mm.
Scope & Content:
Charles Bragge Bathurst, PC; MP: Poetry ENGLISH: Notebook of verses and translations by Charles Bragge Bathurst: circa 1771-1804: Partly Lat., Ital. and Fr: Autogr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1771-1804
Extent:
1 item

1479. Add MS 61979-61987

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Add MS 61979-61987
Title:
Private and political correspondence and papers of John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield, and of his wife's family, the Norths, including Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford, Prime Minister, his daughter, Lady Charlotte Lindsay, Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Caroline, and his son, Frederick, 5th Earl of Guilford; 1753-1849, n.d.
Scope & Content:
For further papers of Lord Sheffield and the 2nd Earl of Guilford, see Add. 61860-61876, and 62139. Purchased at Phillips', 2 July 1981 (the Sheffield Park sale), lots 263, 271, 272, 276, 284, 288, 298, 300, 303. Paper. Nine volumes. Mostly British Library arrangement.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1753-1849
Extent:
9 items

1480. Add MS 62087

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Add MS 62087
Title:
TRAVEL JOURNAL: journal of an unidentified member of the embassy of Tommaso Contarini on behalf of the Venetian republic to the United Provinces, describing their journey and reception at The Hague; 14 March-20 July 1610. Italian. The embassy travelled by way of the Rhineland and returned by way of Paris, Lyons, Piedmont, and Lombardy. There are some gaps in the journal, the principal one being 9 May-2 June. Including (ff. 84-142v) miscellaneous notes and arithmetical calculations. Purchased...
Scope & Content:
Voyages and Travels: Tommaso Contarini, Venetian diplomatist; Archbishop of Candia 1597: Venice: Netherlands, United Provinces: Diaries and Memoranda: Anon. journal rel. to embassy of Tommaso Contarini to Holland: 1610: Ital.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
14 Mar 1610-20 Jul 1610
Extent:
1 item

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