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41. Add MS 5242

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Title:
Polyglot Bible
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Coptic, French, Geez, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Italian, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, Latin, Persian, Spanish, and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
1665
Extent:
20 folios

42. Add MS 5259

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Title:
Drawings and notes on human and animal anatomy
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains anatomical images and representations of pathological conditions affecting the human body. Some of the inscriptions on these drawings feature historic language. Where these inscriptions have been transcribed, they are enclosed in inverted commas. Drawings and manuscript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (231 items)

43. Add MS 5266

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Title:
Drawings of birds with inscriptions in Hans Sloane's and Thomas Browne's hand
Scope & Content:
Drawings of birds executed in a variety of techniques and by different draughtsmen. The only exceptions are items 82, 91 and 93, which are prints of birds. The drawings are executed on paper and pasted onto the folios of the manuscript. Many drawings bear inscriptions in Hans Sloane's and / or S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (164 items)

44. Add MS 5289

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Title:
‘Miscellaneous Drawings of various Plants, Flowers, and Fruits in Indian-Ink, and colours, by different hands’, from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane
Scope & Content:
Album of drawings of plants by miscellaneous hands and of differing origin and date. The first 99 drawings in this album are those of Philippine plants sent by the Jesuit Georg Joseph Kamel (1661-1706) to James Petiver (1665-1718), many of which were used as the basis for the engravings in Pet...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume

45. Add MS 5411

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Title:
Lombard Laws
Scope & Content:
A collection of the laws of the kings of Lombardy, from Rothar to Emperor Henry III, 643-1052. A composite manuscript in two sections: ff. 1r-179v, and ff. 180r-192r, containing: ff. 1r-51r: Edict of Rothar, 643. Prologue 'In nomine Domini' (f. 1), beginning 'Si quis contra animam' (f. 1v) and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 11th century-12th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

46. Add MS 5415 A

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Title:
The Queen Mary Atlas
Scope & Content:
This portolan or atlas consists of three tables and nine large ornamented maps, executed by the Portuguese cartographer Diogo Homem (b. 1521, d. 1576) between 1555 and 1559. The manuscript is thought to have been made for King Philip II of Spain (r. 1556–98), possibly as a gift from Queen Mary I...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1555-1559
Extent:

1 volume

47. Add MS 5463

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Title:
The Four Gospels (the 'Codex Beneventanus')
Scope & Content:
The name 'Codex Beneventanus' has long been attached to this manuscript, mainly because of the connection to that region in the colophon of the scribe, Lupus. There are also marginal annotations (ff. 5v, 88v, 222r, 229r), as well as liturgical notes (marking the pericopes for the masses) in lead...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
739-760
Extent:
A parchment codex

48. Add MS 5956

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Title:
A miscellany of prose and poetry, 1598-1641
Scope & Content:
A folio volume, much injured by damp, containing a miscellany of prose and verse. The items are in a number of different hands. They include dramatic political events (especially relating to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Lady Frances Howard); verses (including by John Donne, Sir Walter...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1598-1641
Extent:
1 volume

49. Add MS 6131

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Title:
Willem Canter, Epitome Cassandrae Graecolatina versibus Anacreontis conscripta
Scope & Content:
Extract from Canter's 1596 printed edition of Lycophron (Canter, Willem: Lycophronis Chalcidensis Alexandra, sive Cassandra, [Heidelberg], 1596 [VD16 L 7725])
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

50. Add MS 6222, f 38v

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Title:
inc. Ὦ Ἐμμανιῆλε, λέοντα, with a Latin translation in the second column.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1674
Extent:
1 item

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