Archive Reference (shelfmark): Kings MS 1-446 / Level: [36] Series - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 244 A-B
Title:: KING'S 244 A and B PLAN AND 'EXPLANATION of the Roman Camp containing a consular army of 16,800 foot and 1,800 horse, collected from Polibius (sic) and others, antient and modern authors, by Anthony Gavin, chaplain of His Majesty's Regiment [31st Foot] commanded by the Honble Collonel [Charles] Cathcart lafterwards 8th Baron Cathcart in London anno Domini 1729'. The author, who states his indebtedness for help to Col. William Blakeney, is probably identical with the converted Spanish priest,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1729
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 245-246
Title:: 'PREMIER (-second) Tome de la Politique Militaire, traictant des guerres de Jules Cezar en France, Angleterre, Hollande Allemaigne et les pays voisins, auec les dernieres guerres de Kandie et d' Irlande, recueilly et composé par Monsieur Hugh de Mackay, Lieut..General des armées de sa Majesté Bretanique. A Bommel, païs de Gueldre en Hollande, 1702.' For the author see above, King's 227. Two volumes. The commentary on Caesar ends at f. 163 of vol. ii, and is followed (f. 164) by the remarks o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1702
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 247-248
Title:: 'THE MILITARY ANTIQUITIES of the Romans in North Britain', by William Roy, Deputy Quarter-Master- General of the Forces, 1773. Two volumes, vol. ii containing the maps and plans. The work was published in 1793 by the Society of Antiquaries from a MS. left by the author to the Society, collated with the present MS., which is dedicated to King George III. Paper; ff 150, 59. Folio. 21 in. x 141/2 in. A.D. 1773. Calligraphic title-page. Crimson leather binding.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1773
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 250-251
Title:: 'TRAITÉ DES SIEGES, sur lattaque et la deffense des places de Guerre, par feu Monsieur Sébastien Le Prestre, Seigneur] de Vauban, Marechal de France, Ingenieur General, decede le [30] Mars 1707, contenant ce qu'il a pû recueillir et imaginer de mieux pendant plus de cinquante ans qu'il a pratiqué la fortification ' : Vauban's two treatises on the attack and defence of fortified places. Two volumes, vol. ii containing the Défense. The MS. purports to contain the treatises as written, the form...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 252-253
Title:: 'TRAITTÉ de la Fortification', by F- E- Schenck, with dedicatory letter, dat. La Haye, 10 Dec. 1709, to Frederick Louis, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg, [afterwards Prince of Wales], then two years of age. Two volumes, the second volume containing the coloured plans. Paper; ff. 65, 32. Folio. 13 7/8 in. x 9 1/4 in. A. D. 1709. Sprinkled calf binding. Royal arms added later.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1709
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 257-258
Title:: TREATISE on fortification, described (vol. i, f. 1) as 'Mémoire où l'on examine de quelle manière il convient de disposer les ouvrages d'un Front de Fortification'. Two volumes, vol. ii. containing the forty-one coloured plans. The name of the author, [Louis] de Cormontaigne (d. 1752), appears at the head of two anonymous supplements (vol. i, ff. 110, 143), each of which is described as 'Continuation du premier mémoire de Cormontaigne', and in the title of vol. ii, 'Plans et tracez apartenan...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1760
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 266-267
Title:: 'GULIELMI Windæi Bergænsis ad Zomam Cursus Mathematicus', dated 'Londini, mdclxxxiix'. Two volumes. Each volume has numerous diagrams. Paper; ff. 322, 334. Folio. 16 in. x 10 in. XVIII cent. Crimson morocco binding with tooled panel. Book-plate of arms and signature of Edward Mathew, 1752, in each volume.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 330-337
Title:: 'RECUEIL de chansons choisies en vaudeviles pour seruir a l'Histoire Anecdote' [de France]; 1600-1749. To most of the songs the date and a brief explanation of the political allusions are given in the margin; and at the head of each (except in vol. viii, where the airs are placed together at the end) the music is added. An alphabetical index of the persons and places mentioned is appended to each volume. The same songs mostly appear also in Egerton MSS. 814-817, which are described in detail...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 8 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 340-345
Title:: 'RERUM BELGICARUM Scriptores-catalogus alphabeticus' : a bibliographical index, partly under authors, partly under subjects, including besides printed books some MSS. and many references to other bibliographies such as Sanderus's Bibliotheca Manuscripta (1641-1644), a MS. bibliography of Antwerp writers to 1750 by J B. Verdussen (vol. i, f 37), &c. The MS. annals of 'Antwerp by J. F. Verbruggen, mentioned at vol. vi, f. 47, appear to differ in title and number of volumes from King's 178-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 6 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 348-382
Title:: 'BIBLIOTHECA LAMONIANA ab illustrissimo Guillelmo [Guillaume de Lamoignon, Marquis de Basville, d. 1677] posita et instructa, ab illustrissimo Christiano Fr[ancisco, d. 1709] aucta et ornata; mdclxxxi, ab illustrissimo domino Adr[iano] Baillet' [librarian to the younger Lamoignon and tutor to his son]: a subject-catalogue of the library (which was not dispersed till 1789) in twenty-one tomi, each, as a rule, representing one letter of the alphabet. Bound in thirty-five volumes. The catalogue...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1681-1682
Extent:: 35 items

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