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2681. Add MS 63648

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SIR PETER THOMPSON (1698-1770), F.R.S., M.P.: commonplace book; circa 1725-1763, with some blank leaves (ff. 35v-96) containing newspaper cuttings of 1860s. Partly printed. Partly Latin and French. The contents comprise antiquarian items, including pedigrees, epitaphs, extracts and copies of treatises, letters, newspaper articles, etc., together with verse and prose on current political, satirical and religious, particularly dissenting, topics. At ff. 19-29 is a copy, 23 June 1734, of 'An Es...
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Commonplaces: Poetry ENGLISH: Sir Peter Thompson, MP: Political Tracts: Genealogies: George II of England: Printed Matter: Nonconformists: Commonplace book of Sir Peter Thompson: circa 1725-1860s: Partly Lat. and Fr: Partly printed. includes: f. 2 Joseph Ames, bibliographer: Robert West, of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1725-1763
Extent:
1 item

2682. Add MS 63651

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LITURGICAL FRAGMENT: part of a leaf from a liturgical manuscript containing prayers; late 10th-early 11th cent. Latin. Purchased from Quaritch, Cat. 1056, item 46, 3 Jan. 1986. Vellum; f. 1. 105 x 165mm. Each side of the fragment contains 11 lines of text. The script is closely related to that of Harley 2904 and to the original hand of Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College MS. 100 part ii (on which see T. A. M. Bishop, English Caroline Minuscule (Oxford 1971), no. 16), both probably the work of...
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Liturgies LATIN: Prayers and Devotions: Leaf from a collection of prayers written in England: 10th-11th cent: Lat: Fragm.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:
1 item

2683. Add MS 63729

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GASCOIGNE PAPERS: correspondence and papers of Sir Bernard Gascoigne alias Bernardo or Bernardino Guasconi (b.1614, d.1687); 1665-circa 1683. Partly autograph drafts and copies. Mostly Italian and Latin. The letters and papers relate principally to the abortive negotiations of 1672-1673 for the marriage of James, Duke of York, (later James II) to Archduchess Claudia Felicitas of Austria-Tyrol (later second wife of Emperor Leopold I), and contain sixteen letters (1665-1676) from the Archduche...
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Sir Bernard Gascoigne, alias Gascoyne formerly Guasconi; diplomatist: Correspondence and papers of Sir Bernard Gascoigne: 1665-circa 1683: Mostly Ital. and Lat: Partly drafts and copies. includes: ff. 1-10v, 15-24, 68-73v, 79-81, 85-87 FERDINAND CHARLES, COUNTS OF Tyrol; Anna de Medici, wife...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1665-c 1683
Extent:
1 item

2684. Add MS 63752-63781

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PRESTON PAPERS Correspondence and papers of Sir Richard Graham, 3rd Bart., of Eske and Netherby, 1st Viscount Preston, Envoy Extraordinary in Paris (1682-1685), Master of the Great Wardrobe (1685-1688), Lord Lieutenant of Cumberland and Westmorland (1687-1688) and Secretary of State (1688); 1629-1760, n.d., but chiefly of the 1680s. Extensively calendared in H.M.C. 7th Report, pp. 261-428, to which detailed references are given below. Individual documents are stamped 'Netherby Library'. Purc...
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Charles II of England: James II of England: Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston: Correspondence and papers of Lord Preston, chiefly as Ambassador in Paris and Sec. of State: 1629-1760, n.d.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1629-1760
Extent:
30 items

2685. Add MS 63786

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BINDING FRAGMENTS: manuscript fragments found in the binding of a copy of S. Serlio, De Architectura libri quinque (Venice, 1569, 1568), British Library press-mark 1266. g. 18.; 15th cent. and 1513-1514. Transferred from the Preservation Service, 1986. Paper; ff. 22. 307 x 210mm. 1. ff. 1-16v. Commentary on canon law with particular reference to book v of the Decretals of Gregory IX, tituli xxxviii (De Poenitentiis et Remissionibus) and xxxix (De Sententia Excommunicationis); 15th cent. ...
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includes: ff. 1-16v Law CANON: Fragments of a commentary on the Decretals of Gregory IX: 15th cent: Lat.ff. 17-22v Accounts: Medicine and Surgery: Accounts rel. to medicines dispensed: 1513-1514: Fr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1400-1514
Extent:
1 item

2686. Add MS 63787

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SPECULUM AUREUM DECEM PRECEPTORUM DEI: sermons on the Ten Commandments by Henricus Harpius (al. Citharoedus, de Herpf, van Erp), Dutch Franciscan mystic; 1474-1492. Latin. Copied from the text printed by Scheffer, (Mainz 1474): the MS. text concludes with Scheffer's colophon, '. . . in nobili urbe Maguncia quam imprimendi arte ingeniosa . . . per . . . Petrum schoyffer de Gernsheym feliciter est consummatum . . . millesimo quadringentesimo septuagesimo quarto. Mensis Septembris idus quinto',...
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Bindings: Continental leather binding, blind stamped: 17th cent(?). Sermons: Henricus Harpius, alias de Herpf; OFM; d.1478: `Speculum aureum decem preceptorum Dei' by Henricus Harpius: 1474-1492: Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1474-1492
Extent:
1 item

2687. Add MS 63841 A-E

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THE ASLAKE WORLD MAP
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63841. Fragments of an anonymous world map with related items; probably of the third quarter of the 14th cent. From the late 15th cent. until after acquisition by the British Library, the fragments served as binding for a rental relating to the lands of Walter Aslake, primarily in Holme next the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
5 items

2688. Add MS 64064

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SIR HENRY CAPELL: accounts of John Elcock, receiver-general of Sir Henry Capell of Ubley, co. Som., M.P., (d.1558); 1550-1557. Mostly Latin. Includes (f. 9) a letter from Capell to Elcock, circa 1551. Purchased from J. L. M. Gulley, Esq., 30 Nov. 1986. Paper; ff. ii+67. 310 x 210mm. The binding consists of a vellum bifolium from a [14th cent?] English missal in Latin.
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Accounts: John Elcock, receiver-general of Sir H Capell: Sir Henry Capell, of Ubley, county Somerset; MP: Accounts of John Elcock on behalf of Sir Henry Capell: 1550-1557: Mostly Lat. includes: ff. i, ii Liturgies LATIN: Missal, written in England: [14th cent?]: Fragm.ff. i, ii Bindings EN...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1550-1557
Extent:
1 item

2689. Add MS 64065-64071

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Add MS 64065-64071
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ELLIS COLLECTION: printed works on Domesday Book annotated by Sir Henry Ellis (b.1777, d.1869), successively Keeper of Printed Books, Keeper of Manuscripts and Principal Librarian of the British Museum; 1797-1860. Partly Latin and French. For other collections by Ellis concerning Domesday Book, see Add. 38514, 38515. All except Add. 64069 purchased from Miss C. E. King, 26 March 1909. Transferred from Departmental Reference Library, 1986. Paper. Seven volumes. Original half bindings of cal...
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Henry John Ellis, Senior Assistant, département of Manuscripts, British Museum: Annotations by Henry John Ellis: late 19th cent. William I of England: Domesday Book: Records, Public: Sir Henry Ellis, KH; Principal Librarian, British Museum: Collections rel. to Domesday Book by Sir Henry Ellis: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1797-1860
Extent:
7 items

2690. Add MS 64078

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: anonymous extracts from 'Henry IV, Part 1', in a manuscript containing notes, attributed to Thomas Harriot, on metaphysics and theology; circa 1594-circa 1603. Copies. The extracts in English, the notes mostly Latin. The Shakespeare extracts, transcribed, volume reversed, on the final flyleaf and paste-down (ff. 47v, 48 and 47 respectively), correspond to approximately sixty-two lines of the Oxford Standard Authors text, edited by W. J. Craig, (1891), as follows: Act I, ...
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includes: ff. 3-11 Thomas Harriot, mathematician and astronomer: Theology: Paris; University of. Sorbonne: Theological and metaphysical notes from discussions at the Sorbonne attributed to Thomas Harriot: circa 1594: Lat: Copies.ff. 47v, 48, 47 (vol. rev.) William Shakespeare, dramatist and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1594
Extent:
1 item

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