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2541. Add MS 57773

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HERMANN GROSHERMANN: De controversis disputandi legibus; [1639?]. Incomplete. Latin and Greek. Dissertation presented by Hermann Groshermann of Verden, to a board of the Gymnasium of Hamburg, presided by the German philosopher and mathematician Joachim Junge (b.1587, d.1657), Dean of the Gymnasium between 1629 and 1657. The dissertation is divided into numbered paragraphs (1-53, lacks 34-43) and is followed by a short corollary. Transferred from the Department of Printed Books (formerly 501....
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Printing and Typography: Dissertation, 'De controversis disputandi legibus', used as printer's model: 1639. Education: Philosophy: Hermann Groshermann, of Verden: Joachim Junge, German philosopher and mathematician: Hamburg; Gymnasium: Dissertation 'De controversis disputandi legibus', presente...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
[1639?]
Extent:
1 item

2542. Add MS 57804-57837

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SUPPLEMENTARY GRENVILLE PAPERS. Correspondence and papers of George Grenville (b.1712, d.1770), Treasurer of the Navy 1754-1756 and 1757-1762, First Lord of the Admiralty 1762-1763, and First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer 1763-1765, and of his brother Richard Temple-Grenville (b. 1711, d. 1779), Earl Temple 1752, First Lord of the Admiralty 1756-1757 and Lord Privy Seal 1757-1761; 1716-circa 1801, n.d. Supplementing Add. 42083-42088. Purchased from Sotheby's 7 Nov. 197...
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George Grenville, Prime Minister: Correspondence and papers of George Grenville: 1716-circa 1801, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1716-c 1801
Extent:
35 items

2543. Add MS 57848

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GREGORY THE GREAT: Dialogorum Libri IV; Italy, mid-15th cent. Latin. Imperfect at end in Dialogue IV. See J. P. Migne, Patrologiæ Cursus Completus vol. 77, cols 149-430. Purchased from Maggs Bros., cat. 948, no. 1, 30 Jan. 1973. Vellum; ff. iii+48. 285 x 200mm. Gatherings (6) of 8, lacuna, perhaps of a quire, after f. 32. Ruled (single bounding lines) in hard-point for double columns of 41 lines. Written space 190 x 127mm. Script is a humanistic book script by one hand. Spaces left for maj...
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Theology LATIN: Gregory I; Pope; the Great: Art. Illuminations and Drawings ITALIAN: Dialogorum Libri IV by Gregory I: mid-15th cent.: Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2544. Add MS 57849

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AENEAS SYLVIUS: De Duobus Amantibus (ff. 1-35v), composed in Vienna by Aeneas Sylvius (Pope Pius II, 1458-1464) as Imperial Secretary (1444-1446), with other texts including Epistola de Amoris Remedio (ff. 36-41) and L. Bruni, De Amore Giustardi et Sigismunde (ff. 42-49v), followed by verses, including De Bonis Prelatis Gallo Appropriatis (f. 51); Italy, circa 1460-1465. Latin. This MS. precedes, by a few years, the first printed edition of De Duobus Amantibus (Cologne, circa 1470). Purchase...
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Poetry LATIN: Miscellaneous verses: circa 1460-1465. includes: ff. 1-35v Pius II; Pope: Romances: De Duobus Amantibus, etc., by Pius II: circa 1460-1465: Lat: Copy.ff. 42-49v Romances: Leonardo Bruni, author, of Arezzo: De Amore Giustardi et Sigismunde by Leonardo Bruni: circa 1460-1465: L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1460-1465
Extent:
1 item

2545. Add MS 57911

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GAIUS SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS: 'De vita duodecim Caesarum'; Italy, late 15th cent. Latin. 16th-cent. note inside the upper board 'Emptus.xxxv.B.'. Near contemporary Italian paper title pasted in (f. iv). Owned by Benoit Le Court, a 16th-cent. jurist and humanist from Lyons, whose coat of arms is stamped at the centre of each cover panel. The 16th-cent. purchase note inside the upper board is similar to notes in other manuscripts from his library. See D. Gid, Catalogue des reliures françoises e...
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Bindings FRENCH: Lyons, France: Blind-tooled binding for Benoit Le Court bound in Lyons: mid 16th cent.: Lat. History: Art. Illuminations and Drawings ITALIAN: Biography: Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, historian: De vita duodecim Caesarum by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus: late 15th cent.: Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2546. Add MS 57917

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ANTHOLOGY OF VERSE AND PROSE BY FRENCH WRITERS; circa 1653-1751. Mostly French. Partly Latin, and printed. This collection of one hundred and four pieces, mostly in verse, was initially compiled circa 1743-1747 as a series of separate pamphlets, each with its own title-page, copied in a single hand. Authors represented include Philippe Habert, Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Noel Bosquillon, François Joseph de la Grange-Chancel and Pierre de Villiers. Two pieces...
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Poetry FRENCH: Anthology of verse and prose by French writers, circa 1653-1751: circa 1653-1751: Fr: Copies, circa 1743-1751. includes: ff. 9-11v, 148v-151v Poetry FRENCH: François Marie Arouet de Voltaire: Poems by and addressed to François Marie Arouet de Voltaire: circa 1740-1751: Fr: Cop...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1648-1751
Extent:
1 item

2547. Add MS 57945

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JOHN STOW (d.1605): list of English and Welsh parish livings and religious establishments; circa 1541. Autograph. This work, which was compiled late 16th cent., is based on an unidentified source to which Stowe appears to allude in a note (f. 14v), appended to the list of Somersetshire parishes, of 'diverse cap in com[m] sumess omisse in libro'. The original may be roughly dated by the inclusion of Henry VIII's newly-created sees of Westminster (f. 15), 1540, and Gloucester (f. 13), Sept. 15...
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Wales: Henry VIII of England: England, Ecclesiastical History: John Stow, chronicler: Index of religious houses, etc., in England and Wales circa 1541 compiled by John Stow: late 16th cent.-1605: Partly Lat: Autogr. includes: f. 24v Edward IV of England: Numbers of parishes by county circa 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1541
Extent:
1 item

2548. Add MS 57946

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FORGERIES: miscellaneous collection of forged letters and papers of famous persons from 11th to 19th centuries; 19th-20th cent. Partly Latin and German. Many of the forgeries bear the stamp of the Forgery Collection of James Tregaskis. Purchased from T. & L. Hannas, of Bromley, 26 June 1973. Paper and parchment; ff. 47. Various sizes. Arranged in chronological order. 1. f. 1. Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury (1070-1089): Latin document on parchment, with the remains of seal ties, b...
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James Tregaskis, bookseller: Forgeries: Forged letters and papers , collected by James Tregaskis: 19th-20th cent.: Partly Lat. and Germ. includes: f. 1 Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury: Charter signed by Lanfranc: circa 1930: Lat.: Forgery.ff. 2-17 Martin Luther, reformer: Letter and rel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1524-1999
Extent:
1 item

2549. Add MS 57950

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Collection of English polyphonic mass settings and motets ('The Old Hall Manuscript')
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Contents: An important collection of English sacred music of the late 14th to early 15th centuries, including works by the named composers (with scrolls and inscriptions in contemporary hands) Leonel Power, Pycard, Typp, Byttering, Oliver, Chirbury, Excetre, Cooke, Roy Henry (Henry IV or Henry ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1410-1420
Extent:

A parchment codex, 112 folios

2550. Add MS 57971

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ST. ANSELM, Archbishop of Canterbury: De Concordia praescientiae et praedestinationis; England, 2nd quarter of the 12th cent. Imperfect, inc. [investi]gandum hoc arbitrium, expl. et ideo sola culpa hominis, see Patrologia Latina, CLVIII (1853), cols 516 (line 2) - 540 (line 27). Latin. Purchased from Quaritch, 25 July 1973. Vellum; ff. 35. Sec. fol. : 'quae quando'. 197 x 126mm. Gatherings (3) of 12, except iii12 (lacks 12); first gathering with the beginning of text missing. Pricked and r...
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Theology LATIN: Saint Anselm,; Archbishop of Canterbury: De concordia praescientiae et praedestinationis by St Anselm: 2nd quarter 12th cent.: Lat: Imperf.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 item

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