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271. Add MS 4958-4977

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Add MS 4958-4977
Title:
STUART COLLECTION
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts formerly belonging to Sir Simeon Stuart, 3rd Bart., of Hartley Mauduit, co. Southt. (d. 1779), sold at the sale of his library in 1777 and purchased by the Museum from a book seller in 1778 (cf. John Nichols, Literary Anecdotes, viii, 1814, p. 645). Paper, except where otherwise sta...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
[1500-1714]
Extent:
20 items

272. Add MS 4992

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Add MS 4992
Title:
Hebrew-Latin dictionary
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew and Latin
Date Range:
1600-1699
Extent:
55 folios (fols. 228r-174v - this section is going from right to left)

273. Add MS 5018

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Add MS 5018
Title:
Watercolours of plants of Japan, with their name in Japanese and Dutch, followed by a description in Dutch
Scope & Content:
84 watercolours of plants from Japan with their name inscribed in Japanese and in Dutch, or Latin (ff. 1-82). The drawings are followed by a description of the plants handwritten in Dutch (ff. 83-157). Exceptions are the text on f. 148 and f. 155, where there are notes on the plants handwritten ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, German, Japanese, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (159 items)

274. Add MS 5019

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Add MS 5019
Title:
Charts by Joan Martines of Messina
Scope & Content:
Seven charts drawn in ink and watercolours, heightened in gold, made by Joanes Martines, a chart maker from Messina, possibly intended as a presentation piece. Each map is drawn on parchment on a double page opening. The first map is signed and dated: 'Joan martines en messina Añy 1582'. Several...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

1 volume (9 folios)

275. Add MS 5023

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Add MS 5023
Title:
Miscellaneous drawings of the human body, ships and geometrical figures
Scope & Content:
15 loose drawings, 11 of which are stored together in one folder, catalogued as Add MS 5023. Items 1, 2, 6 and 14 from Add MS 5023 are rolls and are stored separately and catalogued as Add MS 5023/1, Add MS 5023/2, Add MS 5023/6 and Add MS 5023/14. The drawings in this folder all differ in siz...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 folder (11 drawings)

276. Add MS 5025

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Add MS 5025
Title:
Alchemical rolls (The Ripley Scrolls)
Scope & Content:
This is one of the twenty-one so-called Ripley Scrolls, a scroll that contains alchemical illustrations and a series of poems of the ‘Verses upon the Elixer’ that was produced for English owners from the fifteenth until the seventeenth centuries. The Ripley Scroll takes its name name from George...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:
Four paper rolls, framed in four parts

277. Add MS 5027 A

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Add MS 5027 A
Title:
Maps, charts, notes and draft material mostly from Joan Blaeu's workshop in Amsterdam
Scope & Content:
Maps, nautical charts and related draft material mostly from the Amsterdam mapmaking office of Joan Blaeu, official cartographer for the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Some of the maps, charts and notes are signed by assistants of Blaeu, namely Dionysius Paulusz. van Husum and Jan Alberts. All ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, German, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume (133 items)

278. Add MS 5027 C

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Add MS 5027 C
Title:
"De Rebus Indicis…in museo D.ni Andreae Vendrameno repositis". A manuscript catalogue illustrated with pen drawings of objects once in the museum of Andrea Vendramin in Venice
Scope & Content:
Pen drawings of objects collected by Andrea Vendramin in his museum in Venice and whose provenance is described by Vendramin as 'from the Indies and various other parts of the world'. Objects include plants and animal specimens, weapons, playing cards, porcelain, coins and medals. The drawings ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1627
Extent:
1 volume (58 folios)

279. Add MS 5027 F

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Add MS 5027 F
Title:
Drawings of shells, fossils and corallines
Scope & Content:
Drawings of shells, fossils and corallines accompanied by manuscript notes in English and their names inscribed in Latin or English next to the specimen or on the verso of the folio. The drawings are executed directly on the folios of the manuscript, framed by a washline. Some unfinished drawings...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (52 folios)

280. Add MS 5036-5062

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Add MS 5036-5062
Title:
A collection of pieces, including motets, madrigals, masses, anthems, duets and other works
Scope & Content:
A collection of pieces, including motets, madrigals, masses, anthems, duets and other works. Prefixed to Add MS 5036 is a letter from Gabriel Mathias to the trustees of the British Museum, containing an extract from the will of James Mathias esq, from which it appears that these volumes are all...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1760
Extent:
27 volumes

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