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501. Add MS 6185

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Title:
‘Memoirs of the Society for the Incouragement of Learning, taken from the Register of their Meetings, and Minute Books of the Committee,’ with an ‘Appendix of Letters,’ chiefly relating to the works published by the society
Scope & Content:
A quarto volume, pp. 245, containing, in Professor Ward’s handwriting, ‘Memoirs of the Society for the Incouragement of Learning, taken from the Register of their Meetings, and Minute Books of the Committee,’ from its constitution in 1736 to its dissolution in 1749, pp. 1-191, with an ‘Appendix ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1736-1749
Extent:
1 volume (245 pages)

502. Add MS 6190

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Title:
Original letters to and from the Society for the Encouragement of Learning, chiefly relating to the publication of works undertaken at the society’s expense, some of the signatures to which are fictitious
Scope & Content:
A folio volume of original letters to and from the Society for the Encouragement of Learning, chiefly relating to the publication of works undertaken at the society’s expense, some of the signatures to which are fictitious. ff. 106. 1. From A. B. to the society. On the subject of an essay to a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1736-1745
Extent:
1 volume (106 folios)

503. Add MS 6193

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Title:
Volume I. ‘Miscellaneous Collections relating to Gresham College. By J. W.’ (John Ward)
Scope & Content:
Volume I 1. Draft of Sir Thomas Gresham’s picture in Mr. Thruston’s Hall at Hoxne Abbey in Suffolk. p. 1. 2. Extracts from a book of accounts formerly belonging to Sir Thomas Gresham, 1546-1549, and now in the custody of John Thruston, esquire, of Hoxne Abbey, 1726. p. 2. 3. Inventory of Si...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume

504. Add MS 6194

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Title:
Volume II. ‘Miscellaneous Collections relating to Gresham College. By J. W.’ (John Ward)
Scope & Content:
Volume II 1. Letter from Dr. John Woodward to the Abbé Bignon. In general terms. On literary and scientific pursuits. Jun 1711. (Latin). p. *165. 2. Reply from the Abbé Bignon to Dr. Woodward. Paris, 8 Jul 1712. (Latin). p. *167. 3. From Dr. Woodward to Ezech. Spanheim. Requesting him to wri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume

505. Add MS 6195

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Title:
Book I. ‘Memoirs relating to Gresham College, from its first Institution to Michaelmas 1750. In Eight Books. By J(ohn) W(ard)’
Scope & Content:
(6195-6203: Nine small quarto volumes, to which the following title is prefixed: ‘Memoirs relating to Gresham College, from its first Institution to Michaelmas 1750. In Eight Books. By J(ohn) W(ard).’ In reality there are nine books (the last subsequently added) of which the eight first extend...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (177 pages)

506. Add MS 6208

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Title:
‘Oratio Inaugualis habita in Collegio Greshamensi, Octobris vicesimo sexton, anno Dñi 1704,’ and three other lectures, in consecutive order, on the mathematical sciences
Scope & Content:
A small quarto volume, ff. 49, containing Oratio Inaugualis habita in Collegio Greshamensi, Octobris vicesimo sexton, anno Di 1704, and three other lectures, in consecutive order, on the mathematical sciences. A note prefixed by Mr. Loveday designates this as the autograph manuscript of Mr. Andr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1704
Extent:
1 volume (49 folios)

507. Add MS 6209

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Title:
Correspondence, and papers, chiefly addressed to Dr. John Ward, when compiling The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College, together with papers of a later date containing the materials from which his work was in great measure formed
Scope & Content:
A folio volume, ff. 293, of correspondence, and papers, chiefly addressed to Dr. John Ward, when compiling his ‘Lives of the Professors of Gresham College,’ together with some of a later date containing the materials and vouchers from which his work was in great measure formed, viz. 1. Letter ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1732-1749
Extent:
1 volume (293 folios)

508. Add MS 6211

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Title:
One of three volumes [with 6210 and 6212] containing letters and manuscripts of Learned Men to Professor Ward, chiefly on subjects of Antiquity
Scope & Content:
Volume in folio of 192 folios; containing original letters of Learned Men to Professor Ward, chiefly on subjects of Antiquity, viz. 1. From Daniel Neal on the subject of Professor Ward’s reply to Coniers Middleton. Dated 7 March, 1726/7. f.1. 2. From Robert New; Inclosing a copy of Mr. North’s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1720-1757
Extent:
1 volume (192 folios)

509. Add MS 6217

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Title:
Volume consisting a Copy of Latin edition of [William] Camden’s Annals of Queen Elizabeth I, comprising the History of her Reign from 1583 to 1587. Also a prefixed letter from Sir Robert Cecyll.
Scope & Content:
Thin Volume in folio of 59 and 189 folios; Containing an exact and literal copy of that part of the Latin edition of [William] Camden’s Annals of Queen Elizabeth which comprises the History of her Reign from the year 1583, to the year 1587, inclusive from the original autograph ‘À prima manu’ in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English. and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume (59 and 189 folios)

510. Add MS 6228

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Title:
Volume of 'Popular selections' of 18th Century articles of Professor [John] Ward, written chiefly in Latin and on subjects including Grammar and Orthography; theological passages; and Fables of Phaedrus and Romulus.
Scope & Content:
A Volume in Quarto of 172 pages. Intitled: “Excerpta Miscellanea”, containing, in Professor Ward’s handwriting, the following articles:- 1. De Imitatione, ex Stephani Doleti Commentaries linguae Latinae, sub vocabulo Eloquentia, tom.i. page.1227 - page.1. 2. Equisdem de Erasmo scriptisque qqui...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (172 pages)

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