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2731. Add MS 71118 A-F

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Title:
Six leaves from a Book of Hours
Scope & Content:
Contents: Six leaves from a Book of Hours, comprising two full-page miniatures (A and B rectos) and four folios with text (C-F). Decoration: 2 full page framed miniatures in colours on gold grounds (A and B recto). 4 historiated initials and full borders with foliate and geometric decoration ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

6 parchment folios, unbound

2732. Add MS 71159

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Add MS 71159
Title:
ISAAC WATTS THE ELDER: copybook of commercial exercises; 1664. Containing mathematical exercises in European currencies, in weights and measures for various commodities, and other commercial matters, including merchants' partnerships and barter and exchange, many relating to the clothing trade. Signed and dated on f. 37v: 'Isaac Watts 1664'. Watts, father of the hymnist, was a clothier and proprietor of a boarding-school in Southampton, and died in 1737 at the age of 85 (DNB); the present ex...
Scope & Content:
Education: Trade and Commerce: Isaac Watts, father of the hymnist: Nonconformists: Copybook of commercial exercises by Isaac Watts: 1664: Partly Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1664
Extent:
1 item

2733. Add MS 71164

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Title:
WILLIAM HOLWAY: Poems and verse-translations, in English and Latin, etc.; circa 1633-1657. Mostly autograph fair-copies. Holway, who was born in Dorset in 1614, matriculated from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1632 and took the M.A. in 1637, serving as Vicar of Milton Abbas from circa 1650-1657. The thirty-eight pieces of his own composition preserved here are signed either with his initials or with 'Holw:' or 'Holway'. They are arranged apparently in chronological order, beginning with an elegy ...
Scope & Content:
William Holway, alias Holloway; Rector of Milton Abbas: Poems and verse-translations, etc.,: circa 1633-1657: Partly Lat.: Autogr. includes: ff. 12-13 William Cartwright, poet and playwright: Transl. of his verses `On the great Frost. 1634', by Rev. W. Holway: circa 1635: Lat.f. 13v Willia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1633-1657
Extent:
1 item

2734. Add MS 71171

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Title:
STEPNEY LETTERS: letters, etc., mostly addressed to George Stepney (b.1663, d.1707), envoy to various German courts; 1691-1706. Partly French and Latin. Chiefly from diplomatic representatives and other officials, whose letters also appear in Stepney's main archive cited below, but including (f. 4) one letter of domestic news from Andrew Newport, M.P., to his nephew, Richard Newport, 1693, a stray from the sequence of letters in Add. 7080. Supplementing Add. 7058-7080, 21551 and 37155-37156....
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 1 John Robinson, Bishop of Bristol and (1713) of London: Letter to G. Stepney from John Robinson: 1691.ff. 1-36v George Stepney, diplomatist: Letters to George Stepney: 1691-1706.f. 3 Sir Paul Rycaut, diplomatist: Letter to G. Stepney from Sir Paul Rycaut: 1692.f. 4 Andrew Newport,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1691-1706
Extent:
1 item

2735. Add MS 71177

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Add MS 71177
Title:
MEDICAL TREATISE: version in French of part of a treatise on medical care, supposedly addressed to Caesar and attributed to Hippocrates; 2nd half of 13th cent. Written in England. Presented by Christopher Walker, Esq., Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities, British Museum, July 1993.
Scope & Content:
Prayers and Devotions: Hippocrates: Medicine and Surgery: Treatise, supposedly addressed to Caesar and attributed to Hippocrates, together with some prayers etc.,: 1220-1240: Fr. and Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 item

2736. Add MS 71245 A-O

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Add MS 71245 A-O
Title:
MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS
Scope & Content:
Paper; ff. British Library arrangement.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
[1655-1908]
Extent:
1 item

2737. Add MS 71252-71445

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Title:
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Music manuscripts of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (b. 1934); [1942?]-1992. Autograph, except where stated. Dates not derived from the manuscripts are taken principally from the work-list in Stanley Sadie (ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980), vol. 5, and Colin Bayliss, The ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
[1942?]-1992
Extent:
194 volumes

2738. Add MS 71474

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Add MS 71474
Title:
Sir William Dugdale''s ''Book of Monuments''
Scope & Content:
Also called ''Book of Draughts''. Partly autograph, with drawings and paintings by William Sedgwick, heraldic draughtsman. Containing records of ecclesiatical monuments which Dugdale saw in some thirty-seven cities, towns and villages during two separate expeditions to London, the Midlands and Y...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1640-1641
Extent:
1 item

2739. Add MS 71494-71495

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Add MS 71494-71495
Title:
Thomas Hood, Astrological diagrams with volvelles
Scope & Content:
'Astrological diagrams on four sheets of vellum, enclosed in oak cases.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1597
Extent:

Two parchment diptychs

2740. Add MS 71538

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Add MS 71538
Title:
HUGHES-HUGHES FAMILY ALBUM: compiled by Augustus Hughes-Hughes (b.1857, d.1942), Assistant Keeper, Department of Manuscripts, British Museum; 1831-1942. A scrapbook containing photographs, newspaper cuttings, concert programmes, correspondence, school reports and other miscellaneous documents relating to members of the Hughes-Hughes family. The album is especially concerned with the lives of Augustus Hughes-Hughes, his first wife Ilona Carolina Augusta de Bajza, daughter of Gustav and Hélène...
Scope & Content:
Hughes-Hughes family: Album of Hughes-Hughes, family: n.d. includes: f. 2 Hughes-Hughes family: Photograph of family tombstone, in the churchyard of St Paul's, Clapham: circa 1890.f. 10 William Hughes-Hughes, formerly Hewitt; MP for Oxford: C. Jecks, clerk: William Hughes, of Clapham: Cert...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Hungarian, and Latin
Date Range:
1831-1942
Extent:
1 item

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