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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4439
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Scope & Content:: ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS. Vol. VIII (ff. 330). (1) Raimond Cap to the Royal Society, on the squaring of the circle; Château Thierry sur Marne, 20 Feb. 1749. French. ff. 1-3. (2) Fulgence Depourier, 'de l'ordre des Augustins,' to the Secretary of the Royal Society, with problems on 'La Trissection...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1749-1757
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4440
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Scope & Content:: ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS. Vol. IX (ff. 302). (1) An answer by John Ellis, F.R.S., to remarks by Philip Miller, F.R.S., on the toxicodendron or varnish tree of Carolina; 19 Jan. 1758. Cf. Phil. Trans., 1, pp. 430, 44 1. ff. 1-11. (2) Henry Eeles to T. Birch on electricity and magnetism; Lismore, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1716-1761
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4443
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Scope & Content:: Vol. XII (ff. 253). 1663-1765. Francis Hauksbee, the younger; scientific writer: Letters to T. Birch: 1736-1761. includes: ff. 1-3 Theodore Haak, d 1690 FRS; translator: Correspondence with J. Pell: 1643-1664.: Germ. and Engl.ff. 1-3 John Pell, d 1685 DD; mathematician and diplomatist: Co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1663-1765
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4444
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Scope & Content:: Vol. XIII (ff. 295). 1663-1765. includes: f. 1 Charles Mason, astronomer: Letter to Lord Macclesfield: 1762.f. 4 Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande, French astronomer: Letter to J. Bevis: 1762.: Fr., with Engl. transl.f. 6 George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield: Letter to the Duke of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1663-1765
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4448
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Scope & Content:: ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS. Vol. XVII (ff. 174). Miscellaneous papers relating to the Royal Society consisting of memoranda and notes by Birch and others, printed tracts, and engraved drawings, illustrating papers in Philosophical Transactions, etc. includes: f. 5 James Petiver, FRS, Apothecary to t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 1653-18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4453
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Scope & Content:: 'SICELIDES: a Piscatorie made by Phinees Fletcher and acted in Kings Colledge in Cambridge'. Copy. This pastoral play was written at Cambridge in 1614 to be acted before James I on a visit there, but not being ready it was acted at King's College on a later occasion. It was printed in 1631. Pape...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4455
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Scope & Content:: COMMONPLACE-BOOK OF JOHN BENNET, of Hart Hall, Oxford (see note on f. 3 'Sum e libris Johannis Bennet ex aula Cervina, Sept. 29, 1672, pret. 6 [d]'). The parts of the MS. left blank by Bennet were later used as a commonplace book by the Rev. John King (1652-1732), of Exeter College, Oxford, D.D....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1672-1725
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4456
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Scope & Content:: Vol. I (ff. 215). (1) Verses, etc., almost entirely by Birch, or addressed to him, some of them apparently written as exercises. They are:— (a) 'Jam tibi perfectum jactare, Britannia, carmen': a version (100 lines) of the Rev. John Nixon's poem on Sir R. Blackmore's Creation, 1712; 1725; follo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4457
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Scope & Content:: Vol. II. (ff. 231). (1) 'Ere You Read this now You'll Suppose'; song (8 x 5 lines). f. 1. (2) Epitaph on Mrs. Mary Wynn, beg. 'Stay, reader, and with deep concern'. Two versions. ff. 2-3. (3) The Epilogue to Don Carlos, by T. Otway; 1676. f. 4. (4) 'These smiles bestow'd, these genrous H...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1595-18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4459
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Scope & Content:: Vol. II (ff. 212). (1) Sermon preached by an Aberdeen M.A. in 1666, 'When the Whiggamores, alias Covenanters, were in Arms'; apparently in Birch's early hand. ff. 1-2b. (2) Extract from Domesday-book, relating to the lands of Ilbert de Lacy in the West Riding of Yorkshire; from a copy made b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1638-1755
Extent:: 1 item

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