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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 4101-4478 Language Latin Name Morland, Samuel, 1st Baronet, diplomatist and mathematician

1. Add MS 4279

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Vol. II (ff. 324). D-Z; circ. 1624-1683. Included are letters of Samuel Hartlib, Marin Mersenne, Sir Samuel Morland, Johann Jacob Stockar, etc. includes: ff. 1, 3, 6, 7 John Davis, of Horndon-on-the-Hill: Correspondence with J. Pell: 1662.f. 5 Elizabeth Pell, daughter of J Pell, DD: Letter...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1624-1683
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1 item

2. Add MS 4292

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Collection of letters and papers made by Thomas Birch, chiefly transcripts in his autograph but including a few original letters; 17th-18th centt. Included are: (a) copies of the correspondence of Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury, made from the originals among Bishop Gibson's MSS. in Lam...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 4364

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Vol. I (ff. 170). (1) Instructions to George Downing, Extraordinary Ambassador to Geneva, Basle, etc., John Pell, Resident with the Evangelical Cantons of Switzerland, and Samuel Morland, Envoy to the Duke of Savoy; 28 July 1655. Draft, partly in Secretary Thurloe's hand. ff. 1-6b. (2) Instr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1653-1661
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 4365

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Vol. II (ff. 399). (1) Johann Heinrich Rahn to J. Pell; Kyburg, near Zurich, 3 March 1658. Latin. ff. 5-6b. (2) John Pell to Theodore Hank, on scientific subjects; 1663, 1664. ff. 13-17b. (3) Ezerel Tonge, D.D., to J. Pell; 8 Oct. 1662. ff. 23-24. (4) John Aubrey, F.R.S., to J. Pell; cir...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1654-1714
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 4393

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TREATISES, etc., relating to methods of finding the longitude, as follows:- (1) 'Demonstratio longitudinum maris et terrae' by H. E. Knoodt, 'Satrapa ... Electoris Trevirensis', etc; 18th cent. ff. 1-6. (2) 'The Use of the Inclynatorie Magneticall Needle to find the Longitude by the use of t...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 4403

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. VII (ff. 169). Included are:- (1) Logarithmo-Technia, by Nicolaus Mercator, 1668, to which is joined Exercitatio Geometrica de Maximis et Minimis by Michele Angelo Ricci, 1668. Printed, with a few MS. additions and notes by Pell. ff. 1-40. (2) Treatises in shorthand (Ridpat...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 4409

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Vol. III (ff. i + 392). includes: f. 18 Johann Heinrich Rahn, the elder; Swiss mathematician: Letter to: 1654: Lat. f. 20 Jacobus a Wassanaer: Mathematical problems: 17th cent.: Dutch. f. 21 Sir Samuel Morland, 1st Baronet; diplomatist and mathematician: Note by J. Pell on the cyclometrical pa...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 4417

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PELL PAPERS. Vol. Xl (ff. 459). Problems, exercises and extracts from the works of Diophantus Alexandrinus, Franciscus Vieta, Alexander Anderson of Aberdeen, etc. Among them are:- (a) Definitions, etc. of astronomical anomalies. ff. 26-37;- (b) Canons of arithmetical progression. ff. 43b-46;- (c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item