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Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 390
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'CATALOGUE d'une bibliotheque choisie d'auteurs Portugais dans toutes les classes des sciences et des arts.' The title is followed by a note, dated 5 Sept. 1782, explaining the marks made against certain books and editions in the list, to indicate their relative importance, and, in another hand,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1782
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 391
Title:
Scope & Content:: LISTS of pictures in the collection of King Charles I, in the hand of George Vertue, F.S.A. (d. 1756), viz. :- 1. 'A catalogue or table of the pictures or paintings of the several masters that were in the collection of King Charles 1st anno 1639' : historical subjects, very briefly described, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Mid 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 392
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'CATALOGUE des Pierres gravées antiques en Creux et en Relief de la Collection de Monseigneur le Duc de Dévonshire [William Cavendish, 4th Duke, d. 1764] dresse par L[aurent] Natter, graveur en pierres fines et médailleur ... à Londres 1761.' It does not appear to have been printed, though an ex...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1761
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 393
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'EXTRAIT des Pierres gravées du feu [Philip,] Baron de Stosch, avec la description faite par M. l'Abbé [Johann Joachim] Winckelmann, Bibliothecaire de son Eminence Monseigneur le Cardinal Alexandre Albani', with preface, bibliography (f.. 14 b), and table of subjects (f. 222), and (ff. 93, 135 b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1760
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 394
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'CATALOGUS des academischen Musei zu Goettingen', by Professor [Johann Friedrich] Blumenbach. In German. The collection, mainly geological, includes shorter sections of botany (f. 174), Zoology (f. 179), materia medica (f. 211), and works of art (f. 212). Prefixed (f. 1) is a dedicatory letter t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1779
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 395
Title:: Biblical and Genealogical Chronicle from Creation to King Henry VII of England, continued to Edward VI
Scope & Content:: A genealogical chronicle in codex format, consisting of a series of roundels accompanied by brief biographical entries. The codex must be turned sideways to follow the succession Contents: ff. 1v-24r: Biblical genealogy: a translation into English of the Latin chronicle attributed to Peter of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: First half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 396
Title:
Scope & Content:: GENEALOGICAL TREE, showing descent of Queen Elizabeth from-, Rollo, Duke of Normandy. Geoffrey, Count of Anjou. William, Duke of Aquitaine. Robert, Count of Mortain. Sancho, King of Spain. Arnold IV, Count of Angoulême. Charles the Great. Luderic, Forester of Flanders. Theoderic, Count of Hollan...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1558-1603]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 397
Title:
Scope & Content:: THE STATUTES and Ordinances of the most noble Order of St. George, named the Garter, reformed, explained, declared and renewed by the most high, most excellent and most puissant prince Henry the 8th', &c. Preceded (f 2) by the names of the first founders' in 1348, and followed (f. 22b) by th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

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