Personal collection of traveller Engelbert Kæmpfer relating to late 17th-century Persia, including dance music, and Russian travel diaries
Scope & Content:
Includes: ff. 3b-36, 101b-115. Compositions for Lute. The initials J. A. K. (appended to nos. 1, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 19, 28, 47, 50, 62 and 63) are supposed to be those of J. A. Kämpfer, no doubt a relation of Engelbert Kämpfer, the traveller, in whose hand most of the rest of the MS is. Detai...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Latin, and Russian
Persia: Collections of E. Kæmpfer relating to: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 1-43 Dictionaries: Persian-German vocabulary: 17th cent. ff. 44-47 b Grammars PERSIAN: Phrases in Persian and French.: 17th cent. ff. 44-53 LITERATURE OF France: French-Turkish and French-German phrases and vocabulary...
India: Catalogue of some rarer plants in the Royal gardens at Hampton: 1690.: Lat. Hampton Court, Middlesex: Catalogue of plants from the East and West Indies growing in the winter-houses at: 1690.: Lat.
includes: ff. 2-7 b Kalendars: : 15th-17th cent.: Dutch and Fr. ff. 10-208 Petrus de Crescentiis, of Bologna: Opus ruralium commodorum: 15th cent. ff. 200-207 T- Graunt, Magister: Tabula in P. de Crescentiis Ruralia commoda: 15th cent. f. 208 Charles II; King of Sicily: Letter to, from P. de' C...
Guillaume Postel: Collectanea theologica: 16th cent.: Hologr. includes: ff. 253-266 Saint James,; the Less: Sermo historicus de Nativitate Deiparæ: 17th cent.: Gr and Lat. ff. 267-270 Cornelius, Centurion: Actus et consummatio, per G. Postellum: 18th cent. ff. 271-275 b Saint John,; Apostle an...
Guillaume Postel: Collectanea et epistolæ: 16th cent.: Hologr. includes: ff. 23-54 Francis I; King of France: Vita, a G. Postello: 16th cent. ff. 55-81 Turkey: De rebus Turcicis liber primus O. Postelli: 17th cent. f. 82 Wolffgangus Wissenburgus, Mathematician, of Basle: Letter to J. Oporinus:...
includes: ff. 1, 2, 5-51 Ludovicus Rodriguez de Pedrosa: De pulsuum differentiis: 17th cent. f. 3 Sir Francis Prujean, physician: Medical receipt: n.d.: Lat. f. 4 Charles V; Emperor of Germany: Arms, cut from titlepage of a Spanish printed book: 16th cent. ff. 52-163 Abú 'Ali Husain ibn 'Abd Al...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish