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1. Add MS 4434

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Add MS 4434
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Scope & Content:
ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS. Vol. III (ff. 327). (1) An account by Dr. Thomas Stack of a tract entitled 'Johannis Matthaei Barthii ... de Culice Dissertatio'; 1737. ff. 1-2b. (2) Accounts by Mark Catesby, F.R.S., of René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur's 'Memoires pour servir à l'histoire des Insectes'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1736-1738
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 35840

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Add MS 35840
Title:
Roger Ascham's letterbook
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The letterbook of Roger Ascham as Latin Secretary to Queen Mary I (1553–1558). Volume CCCCXCII of the Hardwicke Papers. It contains copies of letters in Latin from Mary to foreign sovereigns, princes and others, 1554–1558, and is largely holograph. Royal MS 13 B I is the continuation of Ascham’s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1554-1558
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 42069

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Add MS 42069
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HAMILTON AND GREVILLE PAPERS. Vol. I (ff. 247). Contents:- (1) Correspondence and papers of Sir William Hamilton, Envoy to Naples; 2 Sept. 1754-24 June 1802, n.d. A few original letters (ff. 103, 148-150) and autograph drafts by Hamilton are included. ff. 1-219. (2) Letters addressed to the Re...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
2 Sep 1754-24 Jun 1802
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 48080

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Add MS 48080
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RELAZIONI, documents relative to France, etc.; 1494-1589. Latin, French and Italian. Copies, late 16th cent. 1. ff. 11-15b. Instructions from Pope Alexander VI (1492-1503) to Georgio Buzardo as nuncio to the Grand Turk, Sultan Baiazet, requesting Turkish assistance against France in the contes...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1553-1599
Extent:
1 item

5. Egerton MS 1090

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Egerton MS 1090
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VOL. II.- Concio inter Missarum solemnia a Patre Egidio Brunotio ad Ant. Alar. Gratianum, Episcopum Amerinum, Amerinamque Synodum habita, p. 1 -Dissertation, " Utrum qui pro inveniendis furtis faciunt pueros vel pucllas virgines inspicere in phialas vitreas, invocando demonem, manifeste suspecti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Harley MS 2675

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Harley MS 2675
Title:
Sallust, De Coniuratione Catilinae and De Bello Jugurthino
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Contents: ff. 1r-15r: Sallust, De Coniuratione Catilinae (On the Catiline Conspiracy); ff. 16r-44r: Sallust, De Bello Jugurthino (On the Jugurthine War). The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 15v: an unidentified text (possibly a commentary on Sallust's history). [f. 44v is blan...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1400
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 2694

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Harley MS 2694
Title:
Titus Lucretius Carus, De Natura rerum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of De Natura rerum (On the Nature of Things), a poem concerning the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, written by the Roman poet Titus Lucretius Carus (b. c. 99, d. c. 55 BC). Contents: ff. 1r-137v: Titus Lucretius Carus, De Natura rerum. Decoration: 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 5221

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Harley MS 5221
Title:
Sextus Julius Frontinus, Strategemata
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This manuscript contains the Strategemata (Stratagems) by Sextus Julius Frontinus (b. c. 30, d. 104), a collection of examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history. The text is preceded by a Latin epitaph for a Roman woman called Claudia, composed between c. 135 and 120 BC. Cont...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Last quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

9. Harley MS 5342

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Harley MS 5342
Title:
Suetonius, De vita Caesarum
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This manuscript contains a copy of De vita Caesarum (On the Lives of the Caesars), a set of biographies of twelve successive Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (b. c. 69, d. after 122). Contents: ff. 1r-231v: Suetonius, De vita Caesarum. [[f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Sloane MS 2103

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Sloane MS 2103
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Sloane 2103 Paper, in folio, ff. 265, XVI Century. 1. 'An inventary made the xi day of Janyver 1547, in presence of the wurshipfull Mr. Emanuel Lucas, marchanttaillour, deputie unto the right wurshipfull fellawshipp of marchauntes adventurers in the citie of London, of me Thomas Nycolls and of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item