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1. Add MS 5220

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 5220
Title:
‘Drawings of animals, monsters, skeletons, etc.’ from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, by different hands
Scope & Content:
Album of drawings by miscellaneous hands and of differing origin and date. The pages are not numbered. The drawings are listed as numbered items in pencil (1928). Folio number refers to the digital foliation. [f. 1] 1. Drawings of fish; pen, ink and wash; signed bottom right ‘HG fecit’; Insc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (42 drawings)

2. Sloane MS 361

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 361
Title:
Speculum humanae salvationis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-50: Speculum humanæ salvationis, consisting of the Prologue and Prohemium (ff. 1r-3v), 42 chapters consisting of 4 text columns each, with 4 miniatures above (ff. 4v-46r) and 3 final chapters without illustrations, consisting of the Seven Stations of the Passion, the Seven Sorr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

3. Sloane MS 652

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 652
Title:
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-43 b Franciscus Vieta, d 1603 French geometrician: Zetetica, libb. i.-v.: 16th cent.: Hologr. ff. 44-151 b Geometry: Diagrams for measuring heights and distances, with short notes: 17th cent.: Germ. f. 152 Germany, General: Schematismus universæ Germaniæ confectus anno: 1615. ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Sloane MS 1898

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1898
Title:
Scope & Content:
Sloane 1898 Paper, in small Octavo, ff. 81, XVII Century. 1. Series Regum West Saxonum, ex veteri rotulo manuscripto. f. 2. 2. Nonnulla quaedam theologica. f. 4b. 3. Pauca quaedam ex Vegetio, Modesto, de Romanorum exercitibus. f. 6. 4. Quaedam de Constantinis Imperatoribus ex Eutropio, &...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Sloane MS 2560

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2560
Title:
Alchemical compilation
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-18r: Donum Dei (also known as the Pretiosissimum donum Dei). The beginning of this copy has the same initial paragraphs as found in another popular alchemical treatise, the Rosarium (according to the 1550 printed edition). Decoration: Eleven painted miniatures, the first acc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume