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1. Sloane MS 72

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Sloane MS 72
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Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-118b, 181-204b, 217-232b Medicine. Charms and Receipts: Orationes et receptæ medicæ.: 10th-18th centt.: Lat., Fr., Dutch, Engl., Germ., Ital., and Span. ff. 86-118 b Commonplace Books: : 17th cent. ff. 119-162 b Household, Royal: General collection of all the offices in England ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
10th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Sloane MS 116

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Sloane MS 116
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A small-size luxury prayerbook
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This small-sized luxury prayerbook was produced in France around 1520, but apparently owned by an anonymous English woman in or before 1530. It features holograph inscriptions of King Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey addressed to her. The manuscript’s full-page illustrations are in the style of th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1520
Extent:
1 volume

3. Sloane MS 203

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Sloane MS 203
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John Downes, MD, Physician to St. Bartholomew's and Christ's Hospitals: Medical collections: 1640-1695. includes: f. 1 Thomas Croyden, MD of Padua; Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge: Letter to J. Abdy: circ. 1647. ff. 1, 4, 5 Sir John Abdy: Correspondence, as Joseph Kent, with Dr. Croyden: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1640-1695
Extent:
1 item

4. Sloane MS 648

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Sloane MS 648
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includes: f. 1 Theology: A preface to the businesse of a man of Germanie, who desireth aide for the destruction of the oppressors, and the deliverance of the oppressed Christians, by a well wisher of the wellfare of mankinde: 17th cent. ff. 2-9 Nicholas Gibbon, DD, Rector of Sevenoaks and Corfe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Sloane MS 1008

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Sloane MS 1008
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Ireland: Letters and papers of Dr. E. Borlase, relating chiefly to the Rebellion of 1641.: 1608-1682. Edmund Borlase, MD, of Chester: Letters and papers, chiefly rel. to the Rebellion in Ireland: in 1641, late 17th cent. includes: f. 1 London PARISHES AND LOCALITIES: Royal letter to the Bisho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1608-1682
Extent:
1 item

6. Sloane MS 1009/1

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Sloane MS 1009/1
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Collection of miscellaneous papers, including the Memoriale Credencium; Reclusorium Anime; Three Workings on Man's Soul; Geoffrey Chaucer, Tale of Melibeus; Speculum sacerdotis; Computacio daniele prophete sive sompniale; Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus; Astrological tracts; Correspondence of Gédéon Bonnivert; Collection of puzzles with cards and dice in French; Gédéon Bonnivert, L'A. B. C. du Monde; De virtutibus herbarum; Marcus Tullius Cicero, De officiis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the first part of a large collection of miscellaneous texts, tracts, and letters that may have been gathered by Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), and is now divided in two parts. The second part is Sloane MS 1009/2. The collection contains a large number of early modern it...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Sloane MS 1047

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Sloane MS 1047
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Medical recipes devised by King Henry VIII and his royal physicians
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An important witness to the amateur interest in and practice of pharmaceutical medicine by King Henry VIII (b. 1491, d. 1547). Contains a collection of more than 100 medical recipes that have been organised into six sections: plasters; spasmadraps (dipped plasters); ointments; balms; waters, lot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1540-c. 1545
Extent:
1 volume

8. Sloane MS 1301

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Sloane MS 1301
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Sloane 1301 Paper, in folio, ff. 424, end of XVII century. 1. Note of the contents of the volume. f. 1. 2. Excerpta ex evidentiis libri de Thetford ff. 2-23, 78, 413, 414. 3. Catalogus eorum, qui fuerunt Admiralli Angliae, f. 24. 4. Catalogus Seneschallorum Angliae, f. 24. b. 5. Excerpta e...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Sloane MS 1378

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Sloane MS 1378
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Sloane 1378 Chartaceus, in folio, ff. 355, sec XVII. Papers and letters of Dr James Pragestus. 1. Chemical receipts; in French. f. 1. 2. Chemical and medical receipts; in German. ff. 2-4.b., 7, 12. 3. A letter from Peter Langmaak, to a Royal Prince of Denmark asking of him some pecuniary ass...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Latin, and Russian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Sloane MS 1435

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Sloane MS 1435
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Sloane 1435 Paper, in folio, ff. 203; beginning of XVIII century. 1. A letter in the handwriting of John Bagford upon the origin of the art of printing. n.d. ff. 1-4. 2. Another letter in the same handwriting upon "the book at Haarlem." etc. n.d. ff. 5-7. 3. "An account of printing at Harlem...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item