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1721. Stowe MS 1066

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 1066
Title:
Calendar and almanac
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A set of religious devotions in English, written by Edward Seymour (b. c. 1500, d. 1552), duke of Somerset, from the Tower of London, on the day before his execution, 22 January 1522. f. 2r-v: Table of contents. f. 3r-v: Calendar. ff. 4r-31v: An almanac, containing a ser...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1540-1550
Extent:
1 volume

1722. Stowe MS 1067

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 1067
Title:
Bestiary
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of the 'First Family' of bestiaries, with a text derived from the Physiologus with additions from Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636)'s Etymologies (Etymologies) (see McCulloch, Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries (1962) p. 31; Payne, Medieval Beasts (1990) p. 12). ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

1723. Stowe MS 1068

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 1068
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Scope & Content:
NOTES on John Hunter's classification of the Animal Kingdom, taken (according to a statement at the end) "from a slight view of Mr. Hunter's experiments and preparations. They are, in the first place, imperfect; in the next, they way be erroneous in many particulars." Paper; ff. 11. Belonged to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

1724. Stowe MS 1069

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 1069
Title:
Scope & Content:
"MATTHIÆ DE LOBEL [L'Obel], M.D., Botanographi Regii eximii, Stirpium Illustrationes." Printed (somewhat more fully) under the editorship of William How, London, 1655. At the end (f. 72) is added, in the same hand, "Theatri Botanici Joannis Parkinsoni (pr. 1640) ['A a."] This is also printed, as...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

1725. Stowe MS 1070

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 1070
Title:
Scope & Content:
COLLECTION of tracts on alchemy, the philosopher's stone, etc., as follows:- 1. "Tractatus Nicholai Comitis" de lapide Philosophorum, beg. "ut ad perfectam scientiam pervenire." f.2. For another copy see Sloane MS. 692, f. 20. 2. "Summa Platonis": an alchemical treatise, beg. "Cum res ex eod...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

1726. Stowe MS 1071

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 1071
Title:
Scope & Content:
"THE GOULDEN ARTE, or The Jewell House of Gemes . . . with divers other things devided into tow severall bookes for the better understandinge therof. Collected and gathered together out of divers and sundry authors by William Heth, Clarke of his Majesties Store for the navy at Portesmouth, for t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1603
Extent:
1 item

1727. Stowe MS 1072

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 1072
Title:
Scope & Content:
ACCOUNT of a new volcano which rose from the sea between Sicily and the island of Pantellaria, in July, 1831: a translation of a paper read by Dr. Carlo Gemmellaro, Professor of Natural History in the Royal University at Catania, on 28 Aug. 1831, in the hall of that University, and published the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

1728. Stowe MS 1073

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 1073
Title:
Scope & Content:
HIPPOCRATES and Galen, in Greek, viz.:-(1) Hippocrates' [ ] f 2;-(2) Hippocrates' [ ]. f. 3 b;-(3) Hippocrates' [ ]. Titles are occasionally given, in red ink, but irregularly and sometimes wrongly. The concluding aphorisms, rejected by Littré and Ermerins, are here present. f 6;-(4) Hippocrates...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

1729. Stowe MS 1074

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 1074
Title:
Scope & Content:
"ANATOMIÆ Compendium." Paper; ff. 53. XVIIth cent. Sm. Quarto. Anatomy: Anatomiæ compendium: 17th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

1730. Stowe MS 1075

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 1075
Title:
Scope & Content:
"PRIMERA PARTE de Medicina y Cirugia": a treatise on medicine by the Licentiate Juan de Vidos y Miro, "Beneficiado" of the church of St. Paul, Saragossa. Spanish. A fac-simile copy made por los Indios Guaranis de las antiquas Misiones del Paraguay" from the printed edition, Saragossa, 1699, begi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Spanish
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

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