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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6878
Title:: Ecclesiastical documents, chiefly originals brought from the archives of the College of the Order of Jesuits at Goa
Scope & Content:: Ecclesiastical documents, chiefly originals brought from the archives of the College of the Order of Jesuits at Goa
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Portuguese
Date Range:: 1592-1616
Extent:: 2 cases

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6879
Title:: Commission to the Archbishop of Goa to further proceedings in the canonisation of Francis Xavier
Scope & Content:: Commission to the Archbishop of Goa to further proceedings in the canonisation of Francis Xavier
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1613
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6882
Title:: Transcript of De Pluvia Lapidea anni MDCCLIII ad Strkow, et ejus Causis Meditatio, by Joseph Stepling
Scope & Content:: ‘De Pluvia Lapidea anni MDCCLIII ad Strkow, et ejus Causis Meditatio; per Josephum Stepling, Soc. Jes. Sacerdotem, Cæsareo-Regium Studii Philosophici Pragensis et Artium Directorem; lecta in consessu Philosophico mense augusto, anno eodem, et approbata’. Transcribed (in a recent hand [i.e. 18th ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 18th century-Early 19th century
Extent:: 1 volume (21 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6885
Title:: ARISTOTLE, 'OECONOMICORUM': translated from the Greek by Leonardo Bruni; mid 15th cent. Latin. Origin: Italy. With Bruni's preface (ff. 1-1v) and his commentary on the text (ff. 9-25v). Beg.: (Preface) 'Preciosa sunt inter'. f. 1;- (Text) 'Res familiaris et res publica'. f. 2. For other copies of this text see: Add. 26784, ff. 48-59;- Add. 27491, ff. 17v-24v and Arundel 373, ff. 40-51, which both lack the commentary. Printed, for example, in 1496, see BL IB 21111. See also H. Baron, L.B.A....
Scope & Content:: Leonardo Bruni, author, of Arezzo: Translation, with preface and commentary, of Aristotle's 'Oeconomicorum': mid 15th cent: Lat. Aristotle: 'Oeconomicorum', translated by L. Bruni with preface and commentary: mid 15th cent: Lat.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6887
Title:: Exposition on Aristotle on sleep and waking. Treatise on dreams, with contributions by Aristotle and others, including modern writers
Scope & Content:: 1. Cæsaris Cremonini, Centensis Philosophi, Primarii in Patavino Gymnasio Expositio in [Aristotelis] Librum de Somno et Vigilia. fol. 1.Incl. Argmentum hujus operis, quod vocant subjectum. Des. cur simus hic prolixiores in illis repetendis, sine utilitate. 2. Tractatus de Somniis . fol. 90. Inc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume (150 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6890
Title:: Breviarium Ordinationum Apostolicarum ad Indias pertinentium, cum annotationibus
Scope & Content:: Breviarium Ordinationum Apostolicarum ad India s pertinentium, cum annotationibus [ab anno 1423 ad annum 1760]. Præfigitur compilatoris Prologus, et ad calcem legitur Index Materiarum, alphabetico ordine dispositus.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume (556 pages)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6891
Title:: Dante Alighieri, De Monarchia
Scope & Content:: The manuscript contains: ff. 1r-17v: Dante Alighieri, De Monarchia. Begins: 'Omnium hominem quos ad amorem'. Ends: 'spiritualium et temporalium gubernator. Explicit Monarchia Dantis Aldigerii de Florencia cuius anima requescat in pace. Amen'. For another copy, see Add MS 28804. ff. 18r-20v: Bu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 14th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6894
Title:: PSALTER: with preface of St Jerome, Canticles and Athanasian Creed, written and illuminated probably in London; 2nd quarter of the 15th cent. Latin. Origin: England. See A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles. Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490, ed. K. L. Scott, I, p. 72, n. 17, II, pp. 180, 201, Table I (p. 379). The MS. was given in a mutilated state by Mr Joseph Parker of Exmouth to Miss Eliza Dennis Denyer of Chelsea, in July 1792. All but two of the original historiate...
Scope & Content:: Bindings ENGLISH: Black leather, gilt-stamped: early 19th cent. Calligraphy: Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Eliza Dennis Denyer, of Chelsea: William Jones, artist?: Pages with illumination added to a 15th cent. Psalter by Miss E. D. Denyer and W. Jones: circa 1792. Art. Illuminations...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6895
Title:: Butterfly and Moth Paintings by Elizabeth Dennis Denyer ('Drawings of Lepidopterous Insects')
Scope & Content:: Book of butterfly and moth paintings by Elizabeth Dennis Denyer (1765/6-1824), based on specimens collected mostly in the environs of London and housed in the collection of William Jones of Chelsea (1745-1818). The paintings are preceded by notes and an index (ff. 1r-7r) that lists the specimen...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1800
Extent:: 66 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6901
Title:: Tracts on Papal conclaves
Scope & Content:: Tracts on the Papal Conclaves. 1. Il Conclavista de M. Felice Hualtiero, et M. Cipriano Sarcinello. ff. 1-12.Inc. Se gli huomini fossero sempre piu riservati. A review of the ‘Discorso’ of Lottini [see art. 12) and detailing the election of Julius III in 1550. 2. Conclave Clementis VII [1523...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume (114 folios)

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