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2691. Add MS 64080

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RICHARD MULCASTER: letter to Abraham Ortelius, with verses; 24 April 1581. Latin. The text of the whole is printed in J. H. Hessels (ed.) Abrahami Ortelii . . . et virorum eruditorum ad eundem . . . Epistulae (Cambridge, 1887), pp. 249-252, no. 104, a copy of which is bound with the manuscript at ff. i-v. The eighteen Latin elegiac couplets 'Ad librum suum Autor ipse', beg. 'Insita naturae nostrae sitis illa iuuandi', were first printed in Mulcaster's Positions wherin those primitive circvms...
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Abraham Ortelius, cartographer and publisher: Richard Mulcaster, schoolmaster and author: Letter, etc., to Abraham Ortelius from Richard Mulcaster: 1581: Lat. includes: f. 2 Poetry LATIN: Richard Mulcaster, schoolmaster and author: Verses, Ad librum suum Autor ipse by Richard Mulcaster: 1581...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
24 Apr 1581
Extent:
1 item

2692. Add MS 64125

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HENRY BRYDGES, ARCHDEACON OF ROCHESTER: notebook of academic themes and exercises, etc., in prose and verse, attributed to him; circa 1691-1695. Mostly autograph fair-copies: cf. Add. 61999. Latin. While consisting largely of set-pieces composed during an undergraduate course of study at Christ Church, Oxford, between 1691 and 1695, the notebook includes transcripts of eighty-six carmina quadragesimalia (ff. 40v-57) or Act Verses, apparently written by the collector's contemporaries, possibl...
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Hon Henry Brydges, DD; Archdeacon of Rochester: University of Oxford: Notebook of academic exercises attributed to Hon. H. Brydges at Oxford: circa 1691-1695: Lat. includes: ff. 18v-20, 23v-24, 57 Hon Henry Brydges, DD; Archdeacon of Rochester: John Montagu, DD; Master of Trinity College, Ca...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1691-1695
Extent:
1 item

2693. Add MS 64819

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BINDING FRAGMENTS: fragments found in the binding of a copy of P. Vitruvius, Architectura (Perugia, 1536), British Library press-mark 1265. f. 29.; 15th cent. Imperfect. Latin. Italian origin. Transferred from the Preservation Section, 1987. Folios 1-5 vellum, the rest paper; ff. 30. Various sizes. 1. ff. 1-5. Fragments from a medical text. 2. ff. 6-19v. Seven folios from a text entitled 'De re Iudicata'. Used as board-stiffener in the Vitruvius binding. 3. ff. 20-30v. End-papers, t...
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includes: ff. 1-5 Medicine and Surgery: Medical treatise: 15th cent: Lat: Fragm.ff. 6-19 LAW CIVIL: 'De re Iudicata': 15th cent: Lat: Fragm.ff. 20, 22 End-papers: Fragments from binding of an Italian printed book: 1536.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

2694. Add MS 64870-64924

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Title:
COKE PAPERS (SERIES I) Correspondence and papers of Sir John Coke, Secretary of State to King Charles I; 1551-1644. Partly drafts. Partly Latin, French and Italian. The papers cover all aspects of Coke's official career, as manager (1591-1593) of the estates of Sir Fulke Greville, Deputy-Treasurer (1599-1604) and later (1621-1636) Commissioner of the Navy, Master of Requests (1622-1625), Member of Parliament (1621-1629) and Secretary of State (1625-1639). Also included are letters and papers...
Scope & Content:
Navy; England: Correspondence and papers rel. to the Navy: 1578-1644. Sir John Coke, Secretary of State: Correspondence and papers of Sir John Coke: 1551-1644: Partly Fr., Lat. and Ital: Partly drafts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1551-1644
Extent:
55 items

2695. Add MS 64930

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BELGRADE: 'Plan de Belgrad'; circa 1720. Scale circa 1:5400. Title and river names are in mixture of French and Latin. The plan shows proposed fortifications to the landward side of the city, and was probably drawn by a German military engineer in Austrian service; note German phonetic rendering of River Sava. Comparison with other maps eg. extent of town and state of fortifications suggests a date after 1717 and before 1781, but presumably before 1740, when Belgrade was evacuated by the Aus...
Scope & Content:
Maps and Plans: Belgrade, Serbia: Map of Belgrade: circa 1720: Fr. and Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1720
Extent:
1 item

2696. Add MS 64952

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PSALTER OF JOHN TAUNTON: psalter in Latin, made for use at Glastonbury Abbey, co. Som.; circa 1400. The calendar (ff. 1-6v) includes feasts and gradings appropriate to Glastonbury (see F. Wormald 'The Liturgical Calendar of Glastonbury Abbey', in Festschrift Bernhard Bischoff (Stuttgart, 1971) pp. 325-345), and Sts Indractus, Dunstan, Aidan, Patrick and Benignus are invoked in the litany, ff. 221-226. The Office of the Dead, with (ff. 245v-249) associated noted versicles and responds, occurs...
Scope & Content:
Liturgies LATIN: John Taunton, [monk of Glastonbury?]: Psalter written and owned by John Taunton: circa 1400: Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1400
Extent:
1 item

2697. Add MS 65100

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HOURS OF CATHERINE DE VALOIS: Book of Hours, use of Paris, written and illuminated in England for Catherine, daughter of Charles VI of France and wife (1420-1422) of Henry V of England, probably about the time of her marriage; circa 1420. Latin. Catherine's arms as Queen of England occur at ff. 27v, 113v, 133v, and 193v. Inscribed in an 18th-cent. hand 'Bib. Cap. de Black Brooke', f. i, and 'Black-Brooke Chapel', f. 1, probably with reference to the Roman Catholic Chapel of Blackbrook, Ore...
Scope & Content:
Liturgies LATIN: Henry V of England; Catherine de Valois: Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Book of Hours of Catherine of Valois: circa 1420: Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1420
Extent:
1 item

2698. Add MS 65103

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Add MS 65103
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JEAN RACINE: juvenile poems and letters written during his time at Port-Royal or shortly thereafter (1654-1660), together with the first eleven lines of Act III, scene 1 of 'Britannicus'; first half of 18th cent. Copies in the hand of his son Louis Racine. French and Latin. All the poems, both Latin and French, but not the two letters (ff. 6v, 11v), are printed in Oeuvres Complètes, ed. Gonzague Truc (Paris, 1936). This notebook may have formed part of Louis Racine's preliminary work for his...
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-18v Louis Racine, son of Jean Racine, poet: Copies of and commentary on his father's work by Louis Racine: first half of 18th cent: Fr.ff. 1-6, 12-18v Poetry FRENCH: Jean Racine, French poet: Juvenile poems, etc., by Jean Racine: 1654-1660: Fr. and Lat: Copies, first half of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of 18th century
Extent:
1 item

2699. Add MS 65162-65177

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Add MS 65162-65177
Title:
CHARLES BURNEY COLLECTION: materials gathered by Charles Burney D.D., classical scholar (b.1757, d.1817), for a projected history of Greek drama; late 18th-early 19th cent. Mostly Latin, Greek and Italian. Mostly printed, with some MS. annotations. Supplementing Add. 59902-60165. Transferred from the British Library's Woolwich Repository, Oct. 1987. Paper. Sixteen volumes.
Scope & Content:
Charles Burney, DD; classical scholar: Literature GREEK: Printed Matter: Academic collections and notes of Charles Burney: 16th-19th cent.: Partly Gr: Partly printed. Charles Burney, DD; classical scholar: Materials for a history of Greek drama: late 18th-early 19th cent: Partly printed.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
16 items

2700. Add MS 65382-65525

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Title:
NOVELLO COLLECTION Music manuscripts written or collected by the publisher and editor, Vincent Novello (b.1781, d.1861), with related items, some added to the collection after his death; 1750-1960, n.d. The collection is made up of autograph manuscripts of various composers, copies or arrangements in the hand of Vincent Novello, and copies in other hands. Some of the manuscripts were already bound when they entered Novello's possession, others were grouped together and bound into volumes for...
Scope & Content:
Vincent Novello, organist, composer and publisher: Music manuscripts collected by V. Novello, with later additions to the collection: 1750-1960, n.d: Partly autogr. copies and arrangements.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1750-1960
Extent:
162 items

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