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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4220
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Scope & Content:: 'Traitté ou dissertation sur le Dragon ou dragoneau, Draco sive Dracunculus Persarum, veine de Medine des Arabes, vena Medinensis Arabum, ver lutonie ver soye des miodernes vulgairement appellé dans les lles de l'Amerique, ver de Guinée'. by Jean André de Peyssonnel, F.R.S.; circ. 1758. For an E...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1758
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4221
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Scope & Content:: Vol. I (ff. 348). A-C. includes: ff. 1-14 Lancelot Addison, Dean of Lichfield: Biographical notice: 18th cent.: Fr. ff. 9b, 15 Joseph Addison, dramatist and essayist: Biographical notices: 18th cent.: Fr. and Engl. f. 17 Reverend Michael Ainsworth, Master of Cornhampton School: Biographical no...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1730-c 1766
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4222
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Scope & Content:: Vol. II (ff. 274). D-L. includes: f. 1 Sir Robert Dallington, Master of the Charterhouse: Biographical notice: 18th cent. f. 2 Edmund Dickenson, d 1707 MD: Biographical notices: 18th cent. f. 3 Publius Cornelius DolabeIla, Roman general; d. 44 BC: Biographical notice: 18th cent. f. 4 Horatius ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1730-c 1766
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4223
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Scope & Content:: Vol. III (ff. 283). M-S. includes: ff.1-5 Thomas Madox, d 1727 Historiographer Royal: Biographical notice: 18th cent. ff. 6-12 Sir John Marsham, 1st Baronet d 1685: Biographical notice: 18th cent.: Fr. ff. 13,16 John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough: Biographical notice: 18th cent. ff. 17-33...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1730-c 1766
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4224
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Scope & Content:: Vol. IV (ff. 312). T-W. Together with miscellaneous notes among which are: (a) extracts relating to Cambridge men, from Thomas Baker's collections in Harley MSS.7031-7037. ff. 178-201;- (b)'Alphabetical list of Lives' by Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford. ff. 202-204;- (c) 'Kalendarium Carlananu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1730-c 1766
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4225
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Scope & Content:: Vol. V. (ff. 111). Miscellaneous, but chiefly prominent historical figures. In narrative form, in Birch's autograph. includes: f. 1 Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham d 1483: Biographical notice: 18th cent. f. 5 Henry VII of England: Biographical notice of Qu. Elizabeth: 18th cent. f. 9 He...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1730-c 1766
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4226
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Scope & Content:: PIERRE BAYLE LETTERS Collection of original letters (with some copies) chiefly of Pierre Bayle, author of La Dictionnaire Historique et Critique, to various French, Dutch and Swiss literary persons, among them being Pierre Des Maizeaux, Abbé Claude Nicaise, Bernard de la Monnoye, Jean LeClerc, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1670-c 1739
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4227
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Scope & Content:: MORRICE'S LIFE OF ROGER BOYLE The Life of Roger Boyle, Lord Broghill and 1st Earl of Orrery, by Thomas Morrice, his chaplain; circa 1679. With preface, notes and additions by John Boyle, 5th Earl of Orrery; circa 1742, and followed by a copy of letters and papers; 1641-1660. Cf. a note by Lord ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1679-1744
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4228
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Scope & Content:: BIRCH'S LIFE OF ROBERT BOYLE The Life of Robert Boyle, seventh son of Richard, 1st Earl of Cork, by Birch, as prepared for the press; 1743. Autograph. It was printed at the beginning of The Works of the honourable Robert Boyle, 5 vols., Dublin, 1744. Included (f. 98) is an original letter from ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1743
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4229
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Scope & Content:: ROBERT BOYLE PAPERS Letters and Papers relating to the life and works of the Hon. Robert Boyle (d. 1691) and especially to the edition of his Works of 1744 (see Add. MS. 4228); 1657-1744. (1) 'An Account of Mr Boile's first Physico-Mechanical Experiments concerning ye weight and Spring of ye ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1657-1744
Extent:: 1 item

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