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2741. Add MS 71576-71578

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Title:
JEAN-BAPTISTE PORTA: a revision, prepared circa 1816, and apparently unpublished, of the French naturalist Henri Gabriel Duchesne's Notice Historique sur la Vie et les Ouvrages de J.-B. Porta (1801); together with a French translation of Porta's Magiae Naturalis. Purchased by the Patent Office Library in 1906, and transferred to the Department of Manuscripts in July 1994. Three bound volumes, in the first of which the 1801 printed text of the Notice is inlaid, with many manuscript addition...
Scope & Content:
Giovanni Battista della Porta, of Naples: Henri Gabriel Duchesne, French naturalist: 'Magiae Naturalis'and other works of Giovanni Battista della Porta, translated by Henri Gabriel Duchesne: circa 1816: Fr.: Partly printed.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
[1811-1821]
Extent:
3 items

2742. Add MS 71638

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BOOK OF HOURS: of Sarum Use, England (London); circa 1380-1400. Latin. See G. Warner, Descriptive Catalogue of Illuminated MSS in the Library of C. W. Dyson Perrins (1920), no. 16. Illustrated in C. de Hamel, Medieval Craftsmen: Scribes and Illumination (1992), p. 6. Illuminated in the 'Bohun' style with border decoration reminiscent of that of London workshops responsible for manuscripts such as the Carmelite Missal, Bodleian, Laud. Misc. 188, Keble College MS. 47 and the Pamplona MS of the...
Scope & Content:
Liturgies LATIN: Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Book of Hours of Sarum Use: circa 1380-1400: Lat. Bindings ENGLISH: Thomas Uffington, binder at Oxford: Blind-stamped binding: circa 1479-1496.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1380-1400
Extent:
1 item

2743. Add MS 71639

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BOOK OF HOURS: Rome Use, England; circa 1425. Latin. Purchased of Sam Fogg Rare Books and Manuscripts (see catalogue 16, 1995, lot 81). Vellum; ff. iv + 119. Sec. fol.: '-nes deos...'. 118 x 87mm. Paper endpapers (ff. i-iv). Gatherings (16) of 8, except 110 (wants 1, blank), 28 (wants 4), 46, 614 (wants 1, 5, 9, 11 and 12, all except 5 blank; 3 and 4 are blank leaves), 78 (wants 2 and 7), 88 (wants 3 and 6), 912 (wants 3, and 11 blank; 2 a blank leaf), 108 (wants 1), 148 (wants 3), 154. Ru...
Scope & Content:
Liturgies LATIN: Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Book of Hours of Rome Use: circa 1425: Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1425
Extent:
1 item

2744. Add MS 71687

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Title:
Aldhelm of Sherborne, De virginitate (prose), with added glosses in Old English
Scope & Content:
This bifolium once belonged to one of the earliest known surviving copies of the prose version of the De virginitate (On Virginity), a treatise on virginity addressed to the nuns of the double monastery at Barking, written by Aldhelm (b. c. 639, d. 709), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey and Bishop of S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
1 bifolium

2745. Add MS 71688

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Title:
CHRONOGRAMS: mostly of German origin; circa 1654-circa 1702. Collected and partly transcribed by James Hilton, F.S.A., 1899. Mostly Latin, with French and German; Hilton's transcriptions in Latin and English. A note by Hilton on f. 1 gives the origin of the 17th and 18th century leaves in the volume as 'apparently from note books broken up by the bookseller at Munich who sold them to me from time to time in 1899.' He bequeathed his collection of books of or relating to, chronograms, to the B...
Scope & Content:
James Hilton, FSA: Chronograms: Chronograms and chronogrammatic verses, etc., collected, and with notes by James Hilton: circa 1654 - circa 1702, 1899: Mostly Lat.; partly Fr. and Germ. includes: ff. 2, 4 Ferdinand III; Emperor of Germany: Chronograms rel. to his eldest son, Ferdinand, King of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1654-c 1702
Extent:
1 item

2746. Add MS 71713

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Title:
STATUTES OF ENGLAND ; early 14th cent. Latin and French. Imperfect, comprising only the first eleven gatherings. A contemporary list of contents (f. 7v) gives details of the statutes and tracts contained in the lost portion of the MS. 19th cent.(?) ownership inscriptions of Thomas Hucknell Lee and M. Lee, f. ii. Another ownership inscription has been obliterated on f. i. Formerly Phillipps MS. 4334 (ff. i, ii, 1). Owned by Ronald Coates in 1921 and given by him to J. Collins, 1924 (f. i). Pr...
Scope & Content:
Law OF ENGLAND: Statutes of England: early 14th cent.: Lat. and Fr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
1 item

2747. Add MS 71716

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Title:
CONYBEARE'S COLLATION OF 'BEOWULF': Interleaved copy of Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin, De Danorum Rebus Gestis (Copenhagen, 1815), the first edition of 'Beowulf', annotated by Reverend John Josias Conybeare, geologist and Rawlinson Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford; 1817-1820. Partly Latin. Partly printed. Conybeare's annotations include a detailed collation of Thorkelin's edition with the original MS. of 'Beowulf', Cotton MS. Vitellius A. xv, ff. 132-201, which provides, in th...
Scope & Content:
John Josias Conybeare, geologist and scholar: Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin, Danish antiquary: William Daniel Conybeare, geologist; Dean of Llandaff: Collation of Thorkelin's edition of `Beowulf' by John Josias Conybeare, with additional notes by William Daniel Conybeare: 1817-1820: Partly Lat.: Part...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1817-1820
Extent:
1 item

2748. Add MS 72242-72621

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Title:
TRUMBULL PAPERS
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers of the Trumbull family, consisting chiefly of the archives of the diplomat William Trumbull (circa 1579-1635), his eldest son, William Trumbull (1603-1678), the latter's father-in-law, Georg Rudolph Weckherlin (1584-1653) and son Sir William Trumbull (1639-1716). These ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
[1438-1840]
Extent:
380 items

2749. Add MS 72707

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Title:
A leaf from a Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hungerford Hours')
Scope & Content:
Content: A single leaf containing part of the Litany of Saints (Confessors and Virgins) from the Hungerford Hours. The British Library holds additional leaves from the original Book of Hours: Additional MS 61887 (six folios from the Calendar) and Additional MS 62106 (a single leaf from the h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1330
Extent:
Parchment leaf.

2750. Add MS 72850-72908

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Title:
Correspondence and papers of Sir William Petty (1623-1687)
Scope & Content:
F.R.S., political economist, demographer and virtuoso; 1646-1698, with some 18th-20th century notes and transcripts relating to the archive. Fifty-nine volumes. Purchased, with the aid of a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, through Quaritch's from Lord Shelburne, Jan. 1993. Arran...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1646-1698
Extent:
59 items

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