LETTERS to General Haldimand and Major Mathews, his secretary, from officers of the King's Royal Regiment of New York; 1776-1783, viz.: Lieut.-Colonel Sir John Johnson, Bart., Major James Gray, and Captain Robert Leake; passim. Captain William Morison, f. 282. Captain P. Daly, ff. 292, 364, 385....
VOL. XII. Miscellaneous literary collections of Abbate Francesco Cancellieri. Included are: 1. Translation of St. John Chrysostom "della compunzione del Cuore a Demetrio Monaco." Ital. f. 9. This and the next two articles are apparently in the handwriting of Abbate Vito Maria Giovenazzi. 2. Th...
"THE Treasure of Pollicye: wherin ar conteyned Discourses, Relations and instructions of great importance for ye managing of negotiations, dependencies, affairs and deseignments of Princes." Apparently translated from the Italian. The author speaks of having served under the Duke of "Mania" in t...
MISCELLANEOUS notes and translations of oriental literature by Dr. Leyden:- 1. Historical notes on China and India, f. 2. 2. History of the Mapillas; from the Arabic, f. 4. 3. The coming of the Frinjis [Franks or Europeans] from Furtigal [Portugal] into Malabar; from the Arabic, f. 29. 4...
VOL. I. 1. Treatise on the funeral rites of the Chinese, the cult of the dead, etc., written upon the occasion of the burial of Antonio Provana, Jesuit missionary at Canton, in 1723. Lat. f. 5. b. see Vol. iii., f. 130. 2. "Testament de l'impératrice, mère de l'empereur chinois qui regne aujou...
VOL. II. 1. Letters of Pope Innocent XIII. to the Emperor of China; 1723. Lat. f. 1 b. 2. Observations by Charles [Maigrot], Bishop of Conon, upon the memorial of the General of the Jesuits to the Pope in the preceding volume. Lat. f. 4. 3. "Observationes in librum cui titulus Sinensis Imper...
VOL. III. 1. Copies and extracts of controversial correspondence of the Bishop of Eleutheropolis, on matters of Chinese doctrine 1723-1726. Fr. and Ital. ff. 1-65, passim. 2. "Editto dell' Imperadore della Cina vicino alla sua morte;" 1722, 76. 3. Rites observed at the burial of a Chinese em...
COPIES of papers relating to Portugal and its dependencies, in Span. and Portug. Among, them are the following:- 1. "Breue informação sobre alguas cousas das Ilhas da China;" followed by similar papers relating, to India, Malaca, and Paraiba [Brazil], f. 3. 2. "Relação das Grandes Batalhas q...