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1. Sloane MS 807

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 807
Title:
Physician's folding almanac
Scope & Content:
Contents: Physician's portable almanac, including a calendar (ff. 1-8) and tables of eclipses of the sun and moon. The tables include dates from 1444 to 1519. One of 29 English folding almanacs, of which 10 are in the British Library: see Carey, Folded Almanac (2003). Decoration: Calendar ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1444
Extent:

6 parchment folios, each folded into 8 parts

2. Sloane MS 1338

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1338
Title:
ლოცვანი (Book of prayers)
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains 2 acathistic works in honour of Christ and the Most Holy Mother of God. There are also insertions by later hands - prayers and momentos. Most of the prayers are headed as being from the Liturgy.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Georgian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 manuscript

3. Sloane MS 1350

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1350
Title:
ფსალმუნნი (A Psalter)
Scope & Content:
The Psalms, divided into 20 books.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Georgian
Date Range:
16th to 17th century
Extent:
1 manuscript

4. Sloane MS 2250

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2250
Title:
Physician's folding almanac
Scope & Content:
Contents: A portable copy of the Kalendarium of John Somer (ff. 3r-10r), with a zodiac man diagram (f. 12r) and tables of eclipses of the sun and moon (ff. 13v-14r, 15r-16r). The calendar includes tables for 1482 to 1501 (f. 3r). One of 29 English folding almanacs, of which 10 are in the Bri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

8 parchment folios, each folded into six parts

5. Sloane MS 2376

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2376
Title:
James Cuninghame [Cunningham]: notes on botany and zoology in East Asia and the Canary Islands, plus correspondence with Juan Baptista Poggio and Isidorus Arteaga de la Guerra
Scope & Content:
Public Domain in most countries other than the UK. Includes: 1. Plantae in Insula Palma Collectae Mense Januario 1697/1698, ff 5-9. 2. Copy correspondence between Cuninghame and Juan Baptista Poggio, 1698, ff 10-21; and copy correspondence between Cuninghame and Isidorus Arteaga de la Guerra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1706
Extent:
1 volume

6. Sloane MS 2393

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2393
Title:
Undang-undang
Scope & Content:
In Malay in Jawi script. Undang-undang, legal text focusing on criminal law (hukum jenayah). Begins, Inilah bab takzir, ‘This is the section on punishment’, and presents definitions of and punishments for murder, injury, adultery, slander, theft and banditry, concluding with a final section on...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Malay
Date Range:
before 1753
Extent:
21 folios

7. Sloane MS 2462

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2462
Title:
Scope & Content:
Lucius Cælius Firmianus Lactantius: Institutiones divinæ: 15th cent.: Imperf.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Sloane MS 2645

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2645
Title:
Mukhtasar Ba Fadl or Muqaddimat al-Hadrami, here going under the title Masa'il al-ta'lim
Scope & Content:
Dated Hadha ashkala (i.e. sengkala) al-jawi min faraghihi 1545 (AD 1623/4). Arabic text with interlinear translation in Javanese in Arabic (pegon) script.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Javanese
Date Range:
1623
Extent:
120 folios

9. Sloane MS 3115

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3115
Title:
Hymns, rhymed psalms, services for marriage and baptism, etc., in Malay.
Scope & Content:
A collection of hymns, psalms and Christian services, in Malay in romanised script. With notes in Dutch in a 17th-century hand. This manuscript was probably written in the Moluccas. The flyleaf mentions the name Cornelius van der Sluijs, and a note in Dutch stating that in the year 1672 he sai...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Malay
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
73 folios

10. Sloane MS 3460

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3460
Title:
Letter from the Trinh Lord to the English East India Company
Scope & Content:
Content: Letter from Trịnh Tac, the ruler of Tonkin (r. 1657-1682) in the form of an illuminated scroll written in the Vietnamese language in Chinese (Han Nom) characters, probably despatched in 1673). In 1672 the first English East India Company ship arrived in Tonkin in North Vietnam, and in ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Vietnamese
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 scroll