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11. Add MS 28153-28157

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Title:
ORIGINAL letters to Admiral Sir John Norris from secretaries of state, lords of the admiralty, English ambassadors and agents abroad, foreign ministers and others, with numerous diplomatic papers, instructions, etc. ,enclosed; 1707-1744. Five volumes. Vol. i., 2 Jan. 1707-25 May, 1711;-Vol. ii., 21 Jan. 171½ 1 Sept. 1716;-Vol. iii., 24 Apr. 1717--12 Aug. 1719;-Vol. iv., 1 Sept. 1719-23 Dec. 1735;-Vol. v., 20 Jan. 173.5/6 29 Mar. 1744. Included are letters of :-Charles III., titular King of S...
Scope & Content:
Admiralty; Commissioners of the: Correspondence with Sir J. Norris: 1711 - 1744. Navy; England: Papers of Admiral Sir John Norris: 1690-1746.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish
Date Range:
1707-1744
Extent:
5 items

12. Add MS 28509-28512

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ORIGINAL, letters, with corrected proofs of memoirs, etc., addressed to charles Griffin, publisher of the "Handbook of contemporary Biography," (London, 1861) by persons whose biographies appear in that work; 1860. With alphabetical and classified indexes. The names of the writers will appear in the Index. Four volumes. Papers.. Folio.
Scope & Content:
Charles Griffin, Publisher: Letters and biographical memoirs addressed to: 1860. Biography: Notices of persons included in Griffin's "Contemporary Biography,": 1860.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish
Date Range:
1860
Extent:
4 items

13. Add MS 30061

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Add MS 30061
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Landslag, or Code of Common Law, of Magnus Ericsson, King of Sweden [1319-1362]; with additions of ecclesiastical and other laws. Swedish. At the beginning is a calendar, March and April missing (f. 1), and a table of the signs of the zodiac, with notes of their influences on man (f. 6). On the fly-leaves are memoranda, in various hands, including a recipe, against pestilence (f. 125) and notes on King Sigismund, 1594-1598 (f. 128). Vellum; ff. 129. xvth cent. Belonged to Gostaff Ollzsson (f...
Scope & Content:
Law: Landslag and stadslag of King Magnus Ericson of Sweden: 15th cent. Bindings Sweden: Leather, stamped with scriptural subjects and figures (German style): 1549. Magnus Ericson of Sweden: Landslag and Stadslag: 15th cent.: Swed. includes: f. 1 Calendars: Calendar: 15th cent.: Swed. f. 6 A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Swedish
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:
1 item

14. Add MS 30338

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Add MS 30338
Title:
MEDICAL Treatises, etc., in English and Latin:- 1. Recipes. English. f. 1. 2. A description of weights. English. f. 11. 3. On diseases of the different parts of the body; beginning " A mon bat woll helpe men in here sykenesses " (See Add. 25,589). f.1lb. 4. On Urines. English. (See Sloane 374, f. 5 b.) f. 151 b. 5. To forecast the destiny of a child; in tables. Lat. f. 160 b. 6. Charms and recipes, etc. Eng. and Lat. f. 168 b. 7. Regimen Sanitatis of Salerno, in verse; beginning, ...
Scope & Content:
Poetry: Medical treatises: 15th cent.: Engl. and Lat. Medicine: Treatises: 15th cent.: Lat. and Eng. includes: ff. 1, 168 b Recipes: Medical: 15th cent. 17th cent. f. 11 Weights: Description of: 15th cent. ff. 151 b, 198 Urine: Treatises on: 15th cent.: Engl. and Lat. f. 160 b Prognostication...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Swedish
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

15. Add MS 32323-32339

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Add MS 32323-32339
Title:
Percy Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Add MSS 32,323-32,339, formed part of the collection of Thomas Percy, D.D. [1728-1811], sometime Dean of Carlisle, and Bishop of Dromore, and author of the "Reliques of Ancient English Poetry."
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Swedish
Date Range:
[1440]-Late 18th century
Extent:
17 items

16. Add MS 32439-32441

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Add MS 32439-32441
Title:
CORRESPONDENCE and papers of Robert Brown, Secretary to the Linnæan Society, and Keeper of the Botanical Department in the British Museum; 1760-1858. The earlier portion relates chiefly to his expedition to New Holland, accompanied by Ferdinand Bauer, the botanical draughtsman, in H.M.S. Investigator, under command of Capt. Matthew Flinders, from 1800 to 1806. The rest of the collection comprises his correspondence with distinguished botanists and scientific men during his keepership of Sir ...
Scope & Content:
Dr Robert Brown, of the British Museum: Letters and papers: 1760 - 1858. Botany: Correspondence and papers of botanists: 1760-1858.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish, and Swedish
Date Range:
1760-1858
Extent:
3 items

17. Add MS 33964

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ORIGINAL LETTERS of sovereigns and noblemen, actors, artists, and authors; arranged in each class, according to the nationalities of the writers, under the beads of England, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States of America; 16th-19th centt. The names of writers are given in the Index. Among them are:- Qu. Elizabeth. William III. John, Duke of Marlborough. Francis I. of France. Catharine de'Medici. Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia. Mary...
Scope & Content:
George Colman, senior: Letters to, conc. C. Macklin's acting at Covent Garden: 1774. John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough: Letter, when Envoy at the Hague, conc. treaty with Sweden: 1701. includes: f. 1 Elizabeth I of England: Letter to Lord North: 1593. f. 1 Roger North, 2nd Baron North: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Swedish
Date Range:
16th century-19th century
Extent:

2 files

18. Add MS 33965

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Add MS 33965
Title:
Original letters of musicians, arranged as in the preceding volume. Among them are letters of:- Dr. Thomas Augustus Arne, Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, Dr. William Boyce, Orlando Gibbons, Henry Lawes, Matthew Locke, André Ernest Modeste Grétry, Hector Berlioz, François Adrien Boieldieu, François Gounod, Étienne Henri Méhul, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, George Frederic Handel, Joseph Haydn, Franz Liszt, Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Robert Alexander Schumann, Louis Spoh...
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includes: f. 1 E- T- Allan, husband of Mad. Caradori-Allan: Letter to P. F. Laporte: 1834. ff. 1, 372 Pierre François Laporte, actor and impresario: Letters to him: 1832-1841.: Fr. f. 3 Thomas Augustine Arne, composer: Letter to G. Woodfall: n.d. f. 3 George Woodfall, Printer: Letter to, from D...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Polish, and Swedish
Date Range:
16th century-19th century
Extent:

1 volume (418 folios)

19. Add MS 35229

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Add MS 35229
Title:
"CORONA CATHOLICA," by Charles Kent: an epigram in English founded on St. Malachy's prophecy applied to the accession of Leo XIII., with versions in fifty languages, ancient and modern, by various scholars, mostly in the autograph of the translators. The original collection of these versions, published in 1880, is amplified, by the addition of alternative renderings, to almost one hundred. An account of St. Malachy (Archbishop of Armagh, 1134-1148) is prefixed. Paper; ff. 196. About A.D. 188...
Scope & Content:
Charles Kent: Corona Catholica: 1880. Saint Malachy,; Archbishop of Armagh (1134-1148): Epigram based on the prophecy of, etc.: 1880. Leo XIII; Pope: Epigram on his accession, with polyglot versions: circ. 1880. includes: f. 19 Count V- Ferrero: Latin version of epigram: 1880. f. 20 Edward W...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, English, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, Persian, Russian, Sanskrit, Swedish, and Urdu
Date Range:
1880
Extent:
1 item

20. Add MS 37539-37628

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Title:
ROMILLY ALLEN COLLECTION: scrap-books of notes and illustrations, photographs, sketches and printed matter, with rubbings from sculptures and inscriptions, illustrative of archaeology and the history of art, but including also materials collected towards a projected extensive work on the "History of Appliances," by John Romilly Allen, F.S.A., editor of Archeologia Cambrensis, 1887-1907, and of the Reliquary, 1895-1907, author of Early Christian Symbolism, Rhind Lectures, 1887, The Early Chri...
Scope & Content:
ART. ILLUMINATIONS AND DRAWINGS MISCELLANEOUS: Collections relating to archaeology and the history of art, by J. Romilly Allen: 19th-20th centt. Antiquities: Collections relating to archaeology and the history of art, by J. Romilly Allen: 19th-20th centt. John Romilly Allen, FSA: Archaeologica...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Swedish
Date Range:
[1876-1896]
Extent:
90 items