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341. Add MS 5232

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Title:
Maps, drawings and notes collected by Engelbert Kaempfer and relating to his travels
Scope & Content:
Maps and drawings of views, antiquities and plants relating to Engelbert Kaempfer's (1651-1716) travels through Russia, the Persian Empire and Japan. Kaempfer was a German doctor, naturalist and physician who travelled to the Persian Empire as part of a Swedish embassy and was subsequently appoi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, German, Greek, Japanese, Latin, and Russian
Date Range:
late 17th century-early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (243 items)

342. Add MS 5233

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Title:
Drawings, notes and letters collected by Dr Edward Browne during his travels across Europe
Scope & Content:
Sketches, notes and letters collected and / or made by Dr Edward Browne during his travels across Europe (1664-65 and 1668-69) and later assembled by his father, Dr Thomas Browne. The drawings and inscriptions are made on paper and pasted on the folios of the albums. Several items bear an additi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

1 volume (89 items)

343. Add MS 5234

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Title:
Drawings by Gerard Hofstede van Essen, Dr Edward Browne and others
Scope & Content:
This album contains many drawings with inscriptions that include outdated terms. Where these inscriptions have been transcribed, the text is always in between inverted commas. This is an album of drawings executed by G. Hofstede van Essen, Edward Browne and other draughtsmen. These are primaril...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:

1 volume (105 items)

344. Add MS 5238

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Title:
Miscellaneous figure drawings and architectural drawings by Christopher Wren, Robert Hooke and others
Scope & Content:
Architectural and figure drawings by various draughtsmen. Among them are architectural drawings by Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke relating to the design of the Monument to the Great Fire of London. The drawings are executed on paper and pasted on the folios of the album. Summary description o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:

1 volume (94 items)

345. Add MS 5243

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Title:
"Regum Daniae effigies ex Aulaeis Croneburgicis maxima ex parte depictae". An album of drawings of Danish kings.
Scope & Content:
Pen and ink drawings of Danish Kings, starting with King Dan. I and concluding with King Christian IV. The volume formerly belonged to Olaus Wormius, whose autograph ('sum Olai Wormii') it bears on f. 1. The drawings are executed directly on the folios of the manuscript, mostly on both recto and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume (62 folios)

346. Add MS 5244

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Title:
John Dunstall, manuscript version of his manual "The Art of Delineation, or Drawing. In 6 Books"
Scope & Content:
This is the only known surviving version in manuscript form of the unpublished treatise "The art of delineation, or drawing", written and illustrated by John Dunstall, schoolmaster at Blackfriars in London, active as printmaker and art teacher between 1653 and 1693. The manuscript includes a com...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume (113 folios)

347. Add MS 5245

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Title:
“Cabala Mineralis Rabbi Simeon Ben Cantara”. Watercolour drawings of alchemical figures and experiments
Scope & Content:
Watercolour drawings of some alchemical figures and chemical reactions with descriptions inscribed in Latin and in English.The drawings and inscriptions have been made directly onto the folios of the albums. On the verso of f.1 there is an inscription in Latin: 'Cabala mineralis Rabbi Simeon Ben ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
late 17th century - early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (30 folios)

348. Add MS 5246

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Title:
"A short History of Human Prodigious and Monstrous Births, of Dwarfs, Sleepers, Giants, Strong men, Hermaphrodites, Numerous Births, and Extream old age". Medical observations collected by James Paris Du Plessis, and others
Scope & Content:
Please note this manuscript contains anatomical images and descriptions of the human body that include terminology nowadays regarded as outdated. Where inscriptions on the manuscripts have been transcribed, the excerpt of text is indicated between inverted commas. The manuscript contains a seri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
late 17th century - early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (166 folios)

349. Add MS 5247

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Title:
Standards, flags and arms of the companies of Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex's army
Scope & Content:
Watercolour drawings of the flags and arms of the companies of Robert Devereux (1591-1646), 3rd Earl of Essex's Parliamentary army, as well as of the Scottish and Irish forces, from the time of the English Civil War and the resulting Commonwealth. The drawings are executed directly on the folios ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume (164 folios)

350. Add MS 5257

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Title:
“Habitus variarum Nationum in Regno Transylvaniae occurrentium utriusque sexus humani patent". Album of costumes from Transylvania, in watercolour
Scope & Content:
Watercolours of the costumes of peoples from different regions of the early modern Transylvanian Principality. A description of each figure in costume is inscribed in ink in Latin below most watercolours. The drawings are executed directly onto the folios of the manuscript, both recto and verso.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
17th century - 18th century
Extent:

1 volume (76 folios)

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