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281. Add MS 5104

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Title:
Letters of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz
Scope & Content:
A collection of original letters of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Comprises: 1. To Antoine Arnould. Dated Venice 23 March 1690 (Holograph) (folio 3) 2. To Pierre Varignon. Dated Hanover 12 February 1711 (folio 6) 3. To Pierre Des Bosses. Dated Hanover 19 August 1715 (folio 8) 4. To Unknown. Da...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1690-1716
Extent:
1 volume (69 folios)

282. Add MS 5106

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Title:
'Antiquitates Asiaticae' by Edmund Chishull
Scope & Content:
A folio volume of ‘Antiquitates Asiaticae’ by Edmund Chishull, a study of inscriptions. This copy was made in 1736 under the direction of Professor John Ward. Prefixed to this volume are: 1. A letter from Samuel Lisle on the Statue of Livia in the habit of Ceres. Dated Wadham College 1 April 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, and Latin
Date Range:
1736-1741
Extent:
1 volume

283. Add MS 5124-5136

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Title:
Extracts from the Journals of the States General of the Netherlands
Scope & Content:
A collection of extracts from the Journals of the States General of the Netherlands, with despatches to Marinus van Vrybergen, Dutch envoy in England.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1647-1709
Extent:
13 volumes

284. Add MS 5139

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Title:
Numismata Coenobii Carthusiani Romae, nuper jure emptionis S. Caes, Majestatis Peculium facta
Scope & Content:
‘Numismata Coenobii Carthusiani Romae, nuper jure emptionis S. Caes. Majestatis Peculium facta. 1780’
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1780
Extent:
1 volume (55 folios)

285. Add MS 5140

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; John Lydgate, Siege of Thebes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r–359v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, written in two different hands on alternate sheets of parchment and paper. The arms on the lower margin of f. 2r (three Cornish choughs sable, limbed and beaked gules, impaled with those of the See of Canterbury) are those attribute...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1485-c 1500
Extent:
1 volume

286. Add MS 5141

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Title:
Portrait and Life of Geoffrey Chaucer
Scope & Content:
This manuscript comprises a single leaf, which seems to have once belonged to a larger volume. The recto features a full-length portrait of the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, holding a penner and a rosary, alongside his arms (Party per pale argent and Gules a bend counter-changed), an English da...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

287. Add MS 5143-5144

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Title:
Letters of Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, John Potter, Bishop of Oxford, Brian Fairfax, Dr. Wall, and others, together with some few copies
Scope & Content:
A thin folio volume, containing original letters of Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, John Potter, Bishop of Oxford, Brian Fairfax, Dr. Wall, and others, together with some few copies. Later curatorial note: ‘This volume has been rearranged. The fourteen letters from Atterbury to Mr Will...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1721-1731
Extent:
1 volume

288. Add MS 5152

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Title:
CHANTRY RECORDS: foundation records of a chantry in the parish church of St Helen, North Wingfield, co. Derby; circa 1500 (aft. 1 July 1495). Origin: England. See J. C. Cox, Notes on the churches of Derbyshire, i (1875), pp. 418-420. Damage to f. 2 with loss of text. Contemporary marginalia. The manuscript was the property of Thomas Martin, the antiquary (d.1771), whose signature appears on f. 1v. It was very likely purchased by John Thane, the book and print seller, at a sale of Martin's ma...
Scope & Content:
Thomas Tue, priest: Documents rel. to his appointment as chantry priest at North Wingfield: 1489-1495: Partly Lat: Contemporary copies. John Babyngton, Knight: Rauf Savage: Founder of chantry at North Wingfield: 1489. Chartularies: North Wingfield, Derbyshire: Chantries: Foundation records of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

289. Add MS 5158

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Title:
Letters of Justus Lipsius, Johann Friedrich Gronovius, Isaac Vosius and others, many to Nikolaas Heinsius
Scope & Content:
Epistolae Justi Lipsii, J. F. Gronovii, Is Vossii, et aliorum, plerumque ad Nic. Heinsium. Omnes impressae in Tom I. et II Sylloges epistolarum a VV [viri] illustribus scriptorum [scriptarum], a Petr. Burmanno editae; 5 Tom. 4o. Leid. 1727 [Letters of Justus Lipsius, Johann Friedrich Gronovius, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume (442 folios)

290. Add MS 5160

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Title:
POCKET BIBLE: Vulgate version; mid 13th cent. Latin. Origin: England? With St Jerome's prefaces 'Frater Ambrosius' and 'Desiderii mei'. 3 Esdras follows Ezra-Nehemiah, and the Acts of the Apostles follows the Pauline Epistles. The volume ends (f. 630) with a copy of the dictionary of Hebrew names beg. 'Aaz apprehendens', incomplete at the end. Contemporary - 17th cent. marginalia. A contents list in the hand of John Douglas (b.1721, d. 1807) is inserted as f. 1*. Belonged, 1622, to Charles F...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ENGLISH: Brown calf, gilt-stamped: 17th cent. Bible LATIN: Pocket Bible: mid 13th cent. includes: f. 1 Charles Fairfax, of Menston; antiquary: Signature: 1622. f. 1* John Douglas, DD; Bishop of Salisbury: List of books of the Bible, written by: bef. 1787. ff. 630-672 Bible. Dictionar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item

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