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1. Stowe MS 1025

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Stowe MS 1025
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NOTES on antiquities in Cambridgeshire and the adjoining counties; with 29 sketches in pen-and-ink and pencil, chiefly ground-plans of camps and other ancient works. At f. 25b is a list of the places in Cambridgeshire where "there are remains of antient workes." The last part (ff. 57-68) is fill...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Stowe MS 1052

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Stowe MS 1052
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"ANTIQUARIAN EXTRACTS," containing a facsimile of the signatures of the members of the Privy council of Henry VI. to an instrument dated 15 March, 1454/5; with a copy of a letter to the European Magazine for June, 1790, pp. 423, 424, signed A.T., with reference to the same. Paper; ff. 7. Small Q...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1455]-[1790]
Extent:
1 item

3. Stowe MS 1021

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Stowe MS 1021
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"BREVIS DISCURSUS antiquitatis Puteolorum ac Baiarum": a short account of the antiquities of Pozzuoli and Baja, for the use of travellers. Latin. The author's name appears at the end, "Devotissimus servus Jacobus Sabbatinus, Cicero Puteolanus, notus curiosis ac virtuosis viris." Written after 17...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
after 1704
Extent:
1 item

4. Stowe MS 1063

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Stowe MS 1063
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SPECIMENS of Latin and Greek type, with alphabets of various languages, numerals, abbreviations, etc. Written with printer's ink, in closest imitation of printed type, by J. Thomasen of Chester, 1726. Paper; ff. 8. Small Octavo. Typography: Specimens of Latin and Greek type, by J. Thomasen: 172...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1726
Extent:
1 item

5. Stowe MS 1018

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Stowe MS 1018
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AN ACCOUNT Of the Antiquities in the collection of the Earl of Pembroke, at Wilton, copied from the "book of Antiquities at Wilton." The collection consists of ancient statues, busts, basreliefs, and inscriptions, and includes many specimens from the collections of the Earl of Arundel and Cardin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Stowe MS 1017

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Stowe MS 1017
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ETRUSCAN ANTIQUITIES, including copies of several Etruscan inscriptions from J.C. Amaduzzi's Alphabetum veterum Etruscorum [1771], with translations in the hand of Thomas Astle; a list of Umbrian epithets of Jupiter; a hymn to Jupiter, with translations; and a description of a statue of Jupiter ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Stowe MS 1050

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Stowe MS 1050
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"THOMAE ASTLEI Excerpta ex Collectaneis Thomæ Madox, Arm., in Museo Britannico repositis ": notes by Astle from Madox's collections (Add. MSS. 4484-4572), relating to manorial rights, royal prerogative, inrollments of records, and other historical and legal antiquities. At the end is a note on t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Stowe MS 1022

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Stowe MS 1022
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"AN ESSAY on the ruins of Poesti, or Posidonia, with drawings taken on the spott, A.D. 1773"; by Sir William Young, Bart. The essay is the same as that in No. 791 above, and is preceded by the same dedication, in Latin elegiacs, to Lord Braybrooke. It is followed (ff. 15-26) by a letter to the s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1773
Extent:
1 item

9. Stowe MS 1061

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Stowe MS 1061
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FACSIMILES, executed by hand, of ancient writing and illuminations from manuscripts in the British Museum, Bodleian, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Lambeth, and other Libraries, apparently collected by Thomas Astle. Amongst them are a few single leaves, vellum, of original manuscripts, inclu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
Paper volume with parchment insertions

10. Stowe MS 1020

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Stowe MS 1020
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1. NOTE by Thomas Astle of the collection of casts of antique statues, etc., in Italy made by the Abbate Fossatti; 23 July, 1774. f. 1. 2. Letter from Gavin Hamilton to -, on discoveries of statues, etc., at Gabio; Rome, 18 June, [l792]. f. 2. 3. "Ancient Marbles found by Mr. Gavin Hamilton ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item