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1. Add MS 4857-4900

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Add MS 4857-4900
Title:
BANKS COLLECTION
Scope & Content:
Collections, mostly in Icelandic and relating to Iceland, presented by Sir Joseph Banks, 1767-1781. Banks visited Iceland in 1772 and brought back a collection of printed books and MSS. which he presented to the British Museum on 3 December 1772. The MSS. may be identified from a 'Catalogue of B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, English, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, and Low German
Date Range:
[1160-1799]
Extent:
44 items

2. Add MS 4897

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Add MS 4897
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Scope & Content:
BANKS COLLECTION. Vol. XLI (ff. 271). Medical treatises, receipts, etc., mostly by writers of the 14th century, transcribed by several hands, probably in the Netherlands, mainly in 1494-1496. Latin and Low German. The principal items are:- (1) A short treatise in four parts on the plague by J...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Low German
Date Range:
1460-1499
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 22873

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Add MS 22873
Title:
CRONYCK van Cleve, 1000-1450; by Gerit van der Schüyren [Gerhardus ab Horreo], secretary to John [ I. "le Belliqueux"], Duke of Cleves and Count von der. Mark, to whom the work is dedicated. Low-German. At f. 64 b is reference to the year 1478, about which time the chronicle was written. Paper; XVth cent. Folio.
Scope & Content:
Gerhit van der Schüyren, Secretary to John I, Duke of Cleves: Chronicle of Cleves: 1478.: Low German. Cleves, Germany: Cronyck van Cleve, by G. van der Schüyren: 1478.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Low German
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Cotton MS

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Cotton MS
Title:
Cotton Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
The Cotton Manuscripts contains a variety of material, much of it relating to the history, literature and culture of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the 17th century. It is particularly rich in: (a) manuscripts written in Old English; (b) monastic cartularies; (c) saints’ Liv...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, Arabic, Cipher, Coast Miwok, Cornish, Danish, Dutch, Dutch, Middle, English, English, Middle, English, Old, Flemish, French, French, Old, German, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Inuit, Irish, Irish, Middle, Italian, Javanese, Latin, Low German, Occitan, Old, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Saxon, Old, Scots, Scots, Spanish, Temne, and Welsh
Date Range:
5th century-19th century
Extent:
1,429 manuscripts

5. Cotton MS Nero B IX

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Cotton MS Nero B IX
Title:
Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England, Germany and Hungary, temp. Edward I (1272–1307) to temp. James I (1603–1625), including a letter of Elizabeth I, queen of England (1558–1603), addressed to Rudolph II, Holy Roman emperor (1576–1612), 8 November 1595 (ff. 176–177: STC 9201.5, printed paper)
Scope & Content:
Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans foliis 215. [B. IX. See Rymer, vol. XVI. 212, 219, 252, 284, 289, 301.] 1. A table of the princes of Germany at the latter end of the 16th century. (Lat.) 1. 2. Notes concerning the declaring in, and absolving from the ban of the empire. (Lat. collected by ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Low German, and Spanish
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Sloane MS 1-4100

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Sloane MS 1-4100
Title:
Sloane Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts collected by Sir Hans Sloane (d 1753). c 1100-c 1750. 4100 manuscripts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Breton, Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Modern, Greenlandic, Hebrew, Irish, Italian, Latin, Low German, Malayalam, Official Aramaic, Polish, Portuguese, Romance languages, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Venetian
Date Range:
c 1000-c 1750
Extent:
4153 items

7. Sloane MS 565

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Sloane MS 565
Title:
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-20 Sir Charles Scarburgh, MD: Lecture on the anatomy of the head and brain: 17th cent. ff. 22-61 Hymns: A book of ecclesiastical hymns: 15th cent.: Low Germ. ff. 62-69 Medicine: Charms and Receipts. Orationes et receptæmedica.: 10th-18th centt. ff. 70-105 b Geography: General tr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Low German
Date Range:
10th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Sloane MS 1255

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Sloane MS 1255
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Scope & Content:
Sloane 1255 Chartaceus, in folio, ff. 279, sec. XVII. A collection of treatises and poems on alchemy, the Philosopher’s stone, etc. viz:- 1. Anonymi cujusdam libellus de lapide philosophico, cum figuris. ff. 6-11 Incip. "Si vis bene intelligere totum opus." 2. Cujusdam Georgii Eckhart, Germ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Latin, and Low German
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Sloane MS 3614

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Sloane MS 3614
Title:
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-120 Giovanni Bracesco: Lignum vitæ: 1585. ff. 1-120 b Gulielmus Gratarolus, MD: J. Braceschi Lignum vitæ in Latinum versus per: 1585. ff. 121-155 Ricardus Anglicus, Magister: Correctorium Alchymiæ: 1572.: Engl. and Low Germ. ff. 156-170 b Ramón Lull, of Majorca: Vade mecum: 17th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Low German
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item