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Container Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 4101-4478 Name Middleton, Conyers, DD; of Add MS 4250 Level [40] File

1. Add MS 4250

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INDEX to Dr. Conyers Middleton's Free Inquiry into the Miraculous Powers ... in the Christian Church, 1749, made by Thomas Birch; 1748. The entries between 'cave' and 'jewell' are missing. Middleton refers to the index in a letter to Birch dated 15 Dec. 1748 (see Add. MS. 4314, f. 27). Paper; ff...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1748
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1 item

2. Add MS 4478 A

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CATALOGUE OF BIRCH'S MSS. Catalogue of Birch's MSS. bequeathed by him in 1766 to the British Museum, compiled by the Rev. Westley Hall in 1771, by order of the Trustees. It is preceded by an account of the bequest, etc., in the hand of Sir Frederic Madden (ff. i, iii); and four leaves (ff. iv-v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1771
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 4478 B

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BIRCH MISCELLANEA. Miscellaneous papers, mainly copies of letters and other writings (in Birch's autograph with the exception of artt. 1-3, and 12), viz.:- (1) A preface in defence of Moses being the first to use alphabetical characters in writing; in a very shaky hand, attributed in the tabl...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
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1 item

4. Add MS 4478 C

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BIRCH DIARY Diary of Thomas Birch; 1735-1764. Latin and English. The diary proper begins at f. 11, the preceding leaves consisting chiefly of extracts from note-books, etc., bearing on Birch's early life, down to 1733, arranged more or less in chronological order; with (ff. 7, 9) a record of wo...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1735-1764
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1 item

5. Add MS 4478 D

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BIRCH COMMONPLACE-BOOK Commonplace-book of Thomas Birch, written in his student days, 1725 and 1726, and consisting chiefly of extracts in Latin, Greek, and English, from classical and modern writers on abstract subjects. There are also some poems written by Birch, including (f. 56) a Latin poe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1721-c 1732
Extent:
1 item