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Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9896/2
Title:
Scope & Content:: SCOTT, Robert Falcon. Autograph letter signed to Mrs Evans. Creation dates: Oct 1911
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 6 Mar 2012
Extent:: 3 colour prints

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9896/3
Title:
Scope & Content:: THOMAS, Dylan. 2 printed documents, filled in in ink by Thomas, being forms sent out to authors by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd requesting biographical and other information 'for use by our Publicity and Sales Departments'. Creation dates: Circa 1936-1939
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 6 Mar 2012
Extent:: 5 colour prints

Reference (shelfmark):: RP 9896/4
Title:
Scope & Content:: CHURCHILL, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer. Autograph letter signed to 'My dear Blakeney'. Creation dates: Nov 1928
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 6 Mar 2012
Extent:: 2 colour prints

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 475, ff 1r-124v
Title:: Medical texts, prognostics, recipes and charms divided into 5 books, including Marcellus, De Medicamentis; Remus Favinus, Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris; Oxiepate; Pseudo-Galen, Liber de dinamidiis; Bede, De Temporum Ratione (excerpt)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Medical recipe, imperfect. ff. 4v-6r: Observatio mensium secundum Bedam (Observation of Each Month according to Bede), dietary and health advice for each month, including verses on Egyptian days, followed by a caution against the dies caniculares and the three critical Mo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Sloane MS 475

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 475, ff 125r-231v
Title:: Medical texts; prognostics and charms including extracts from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae; Pseudo-Galen, De febribus; recipes and a treatise on uroscopy
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 125r-130v: Extracts from Isidore of Seville (d. 636)'s Etymologiae (Etymologies), book 4, chapters 5-7. ff. 131rv-v: Pseudo-Galen, De febribus (On Fevers). ff. 131v-132r: A text on purgation, beginning: 'Hec est purgatio Ypocratis'. ff. 133r-v: A version of the Sphere of Apul...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: Part of Sloane MS 475

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 745, ff 1r-21v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Table of contents, ff 2r-21v, preceded by later notes; 'Hypposophica Hieroclis f.(?) 39', f 1r, 'In hoc codice non modo longe alius ordo est sed et longe/ plura habentur, quam in editione Basilensi anni 1537', f 1*v, the latter identified as the hand of Jan de Witt by Humphrey Wanley in his catal...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 22 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 745, ff 22r-245r
Title:
Scope & Content:: Hippiatrica divided into chapters, and citing various authors, ff 22r-244r. ff 206r-207v are inserted leaves (text similar to Dionysius Thrax, Ars Grammatica, f 206r; draft letter by an anonymous author, inc. ἐγὼ μὲν καὶ πρόσθεν, expl. mut. ὅπερ μοι τῶν δυνατῶν ἦν, f 207v). Followed by a verse co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 224 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 1144, ff 1r-13v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Procopius, Anecdota (TLG 4029.002), fragments (57.19-58.2, and 58.18-60.22).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 13 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 1144, ff 14r-49r
Title:
Scope & Content:: Philogelos (TLG 2404.001), here attributed to Hierocles, fragments.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 36 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 2030, ff 3-30, 95-135
Title:: Bede the Venerable, De Natura Rerum; Divisio Scientiarum; Pseudo-Ptolemy, Centiloquium; Pseudo-Aristotle, Physiognomia; Abu `Ali al-Husain ibn `Abdallah Ibn Sina, Physiognomia; C. Plinius Secundus, Historia Naturalis; Pseudo-Aristotle, De Conductibus Aquarum; Solinus, De Mirabilibus Mundi; Pseudo-Aristotle, Chiromantia; De Quatuor Partibus Animi Qualiter Cavende Sit Infirmitates; various scientific tracts, some in epistolary form.
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-9r: Bede the Venerable (b. 672, d. 735), De Natura Rerum (On the Nature of Things). ff. 9v-10r: Divisio Scientiarum (The Division of the Sciences), beginning: ‘Ut dicit Boecius in commento super Por[phyrio]’. ff. 11r-30r: Pseudo-Ptolemy (fl. 10th century), Centiloquium (One H...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: Part of Sloane MS 2030

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