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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 61726 A
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Scope & Content:: PETRUCCIO UBALDINI. Vol. I A. A contemporary version, probably autograph. Imperfect, lacking 13 folios at the end of the volume. The title-page, index and first folio of the text (ff. 1v-6v) are written in a more formal hand than the rest of the text. ff. iii+129. 215 x 155mm. 20th cent. bindi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: Late 16th century-20th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 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 This unpublished and hitherto unrecorded work is here dated London 1576 and dedicated to 'cavalier Cortese'.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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 61726 B
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Scope & Content:: PETRUCCIO UBALDINI. Vol. I B. A modern transcript of the entire work made by Professor Enóizi before the loss of the last 13 folios. ff. 69. 305 x 205mm. Petruccio Ubaldini, Italian illuminator, calligrapher and scholar: England General: Chronicles: `Un brieve racconto delle cose più notevoli...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: Late 16th century-20th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 61740 B
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Scope & Content:: ALVERSTONE PAPERS. Vol. IV B. Thomas Shaw; 1839. ff. iii+27. 145 x 95mm. Binding of tooled black leather, with the sale label of Cookes and Ollivier, of Pall Mall, London, inside the upper cover. Passports: Thomas Shaw: Two passports to Thomas Shaw: 1839, 1840, 1860: Fr. and Ital.: Partly print...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1839
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 61740 C
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Scope & Content:: ALVERSTONE PAPERS. Vol. IV C. Thomas Shaw; 1860. ff. 5. 120 x 75mm. Binding of black leather with retaining flap by W. & A. Webster, of Piccadilly, of London. John Russell, 1st Earl Russell; Prime Minister: Passport to T. Shaw , signed by Lord Russell: 1860. Passports: Thomas Shaw: Two pas...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1860
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

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