Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Grotesques in red and blue: 15th cent. includes: f. 1 Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans: Letter to the Lord Chancellor, touching the history of Britain: [1609]. f. 3 George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham: Letter to, from Sir F. Bacon: [1623]. f. 3 Fra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Alchemy: General collections and anonymous treatises and processes in prose and verse; in chronological order: 14th-18th centt. includes: f. 15 John Dastyn: Opus de elixir aquarum: 15th cent. f. 18 Petrus de Armenia: De Tartaro: 15th cent. f. 28 Arnaldus de Villa Nova: Recepta quam dedit pro a...
includes: ff. 1-82 b Medicine: Treatises on medicine: 15th cent.: Fr. and Lat. f. 38 Hunting: Directions how to take quails: 16th cent. ff. 83-86 Theodericus, Bishop of Cervia: De virtutibus aquae vitæ: 15th cent. ff. 83-86 Teodorico Borgognoni, Bishop of Cervia: Tractatus de aqua vitæ, extract...
includes: ff. 1-37, 40-44 b, 57-79 b, 102-113 b Medicine: Charms and Receipts. Orationes et receptæmedica.: 10th-18th centt. ff. 37b-39b John de Bordeaux, alias Burdegalia alias Burgundia; dit La Barbe, Physician at Liège: Treatise against the pestilence: 15th cent.: Lat. ff. 45-56 b Medicine: ...
includes: f. 1 Woman: Verses against: 16th cent.: Lat. f. 1 Poetry LATIN: Femina tota mala: 16th cent. ff. 2-37 Proverbs: Proverbia, sententiæ, etc., e variis auctoribus collectæ: 16th cent.
Owners of Manuscripts: Shelton (Robert). includes: ff. 2-128, 135-140 Medicine. Charms and Receipts: Orationes et receptæ medicæ.: 10th-18th centt.: Lat., Fr., Dutch, Engl., Germ., Ital., and Span. ff. 129-134 b Chemistry: Tables of the signs of metals, minerals and preparations used in chemis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
includes: f. 1 b Duston, Northamptonshire: Assignment of claim to a messuage in: 1578. ff. 2-24 b Petrus de Crescentiis, of Bologna: Opus ruralium commodorum: 15th cent. f. 25 Catalogues of Libraries, etc: Catalogues of books: 15th-17th cent.: Lat.: Imperf. f. 26 Falconry: Rules for the " order...
includes: f. 1 Treaty of Breda: Forms for comprehending certain states in the treaty of Charles II. with the kings of France and Denmark, and the United Provinces: 1667.: Lat. f. 3 Naturalization: Fòrm of warrant of a bill for naturalization: 17th cent.: Lat. f. 4 Abraham Jacques Gubay: Grant t...
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...