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1. Add MS 4101-4478

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Title:
Manuscripts collected by Thomas Birch (b. 1705, d. 1766), D.D., and bequeathed by him to the British Museum, of which he was a Trustee from 1753 until his death
Scope & Content:
They comprise not only original documents (including some of Birch's own private papers) but also a number of transcripts, many of which were made by Birch himself, from originals preserved in public and private collections. Thomas Birch, d 1766 DD, FRS: Collections of, bequeathed to the Britis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish
Date Range:
[1200-1799]
Extent:
378 items

2. Add MS 5027 A

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Title:
Maps, charts, notes and draft material mostly from Joan Blaeu's workshop in Amsterdam
Scope & Content:
Maps, nautical charts and related draft material mostly from the Amsterdam mapmaking office of Joan Blaeu, official cartographer for the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Some of the maps, charts and notes are signed by assistants of Blaeu, namely Dionysius Paulusz. van Husum and Jan Alberts. All ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, German, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume (133 items)

3. Add MS 5234

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Title:
Drawings by Gerard Hofstede van Essen, Dr Edward Browne and others
Scope & Content:
This album contains many drawings with inscriptions that include outdated terms. Where these inscriptions have been transcribed, the text is always in between inverted commas. This is an album of drawings executed by G. Hofstede van Essen, Edward Browne and other draughtsmen. These are primaril...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:

1 volume (105 items)

4. Add MS 5831

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Title:
Volume XXX of Rev. William Cole’s Collections, consisting of miscellaneous topographical and literary articles, copies of correspondence, etc.
Scope & Content:
Volume XXX of Cole’s [Reverend William Cole] Collections, folio, ff. 234, consisting of miscellaneous topographical and literary articles, copies of correspondence, etc. 1. Copy of a roll in the possession of John Arderme, of Torporley, esquire, containing the procession of the Lords Spiritual ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (234 folios)

5. Add MS 5888

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Title:
José Francisco de Isla, under the pseudonym Francisco Lobón de Salazar 'Historia del famosa [famoso] Predicador Fray Gerundio de Campazas alias Zotes. Parte Segunda’
Scope & Content:
‘Historia del famosa [famoso] Predicador Fray Gerundio de Campazas alias Zotes. Parte Segunda’ Small Quarto in folio. [Written by José Francisco de Isla, under the pseudonym Francisco Lobón de Salazar. First published in 1768]. Proposals for the publication of this Romance were circulated in 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
c 1768
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 6395

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Title:
Letters, chiefly from John de Laet to Sir William Boswell, Knight, Resident at the Hague, on literary and political topics
Scope & Content:
A folio volume (213 folios), of original letters, chiefly in Latin, from John de Laet to Sir William Boswell, Knight, Resident at the Hague, from 1632 to 1649, on literary and political topics. With drafts of a dew letters from Sir William Boswell in reply. 1. Letter from Joannes de Laet [John ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1632-1649
Extent:
1 volume (213 folios)

7. Add MS 6886

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Title:
Manuel Alvarez de los Reies: Govierno y Mesa de Vastimentos
Scope & Content:
‘Govierno y mesa de Vastimentos para el establesimiento dell’aquitando dan̄os, sin resultar dan̄os, con lo qual se evitan muchos peccados y offensas, q[ue] a Dios se hazen, y engan̄os q[ue] a v. Md. [Philip II] cō las fraude se hazen, de que resulta gran bien universal. Compuesto por Manuel Alv...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume (37 folios)

8. Add MS 6893

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Title:
Papers by Don Bernardo Yriarte relative to the Spanish Expedition to South America under the command of Don Pedro Ceballos in 1776.
Scope & Content:
Collection of papers by Don Bernardo Yriarte, in various hands, relative to the Spanish Expedition to South America, under the command of Don Pedro Ceballos in 1776. On the first page in written by Yriarte the following title and note: ‘Conquesta de la Isla de Sta. Catalina y de la Colonia del...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
1776-1777
Extent:
1 volume (148 folios)

9. Add MS 6902

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Title:
Historical and political papers (chiefly copies) of the 16th and 17th centuries, relating principally to the history of the Netherlands
Scope & Content:
Various historical and political papers (chiefly copies) of the 16th and 17th centuries, relating principally to the history of the Netherlands. 1. ‘Acuerdos del Emperador Carlos Quinto para su hijo Don Philippe, Rey de Castilla, hechos in Augusta, 18 de Enero, del año de 1548’ ff. 1-16v. 2....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume (238 folios)

10. Add MS 8263

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Title:
MISCELLANEOUS TRACTS on European and Italian history; circa 1577-1677. Italian, Latin and Spanish. Partly printed. Relates mostly to the rights of the Church to Italian states such as Ferrara, Modena, Comacchio, the investiture and the rights of the Boschetti family to the lands of S. Cesario on Panaro (Modena), their dispute with the Monastery of S. Pietro in Modena, and claims of France to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Including 17th-cent. transcripts (arts. 7-13) of charters and papal ...
Scope & Content:
Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Miscellany, mostly rel. to the rights of the Holy See to Italian territories: circa 1577-1677: Ital., Lat., and Span: Partly printed. Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna Library: 18th cent. includes: ff. 1, 31, 277v, 475v, 560v Bookplates and Bo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1577-1677
Extent:
1 item