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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4991 A-B
Title:: WHITELOCKE PAPERS. 'The History of Whitelockes Ambassy from England to Sweden'; a 17th cent. copy of the chiefly autograph MS. of this work contained in Add. MSS. 37346, 37347. Cf. also Add. MS. 4902. 4991 B is imperfect, but the majority of the missing leaves are bound in 4995, ff. 31-53b. 4991 B (rev.) formed originally the second part of a Latin vocabulary, of which very little besides the headings was completed. There is an index to this vocabulary at ff. 212-215b.
Scope & Content:: Christina of Sweden: Journals, etc., of B. Whitelocke, as Ambassador to Sweden: 1653-1654.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4991 B
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. II (ff. i + 215). includes: f. 211b George Whitelocke, great-grandson of B Whitelocke: Note of his birth: [? 1750].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century-1750?
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4993
Title:
Scope & Content:: WHITELOCKE PAPERS. Vol. IV (ff. i + 138). Treatises on government, chiefly written by amanuenses. Viz.:- (1) 'History of the Parlement of England with the History of our Nation'. Imperfect. Only the first few lines are autograph. For another incomplete version, cf. Stowe MS. 333. ff. 1-83b. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4994
Title:
Scope & Content:: WHITELOCKE PAPERS. Vol. V (ff. i + 95). 'Passages in November 1653', being a journal of Whitelocke's voyage to Sweden; 1-12 Nov. 1653. Autograph. The entry for each day is followed by 'Notes', being commentaries on various biblical texts. Cf. also Add. MS. 31984 and Egerton MS. 997. The diary po...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1 1653-12 Nov 1653
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4995
Title:
Scope & Content:: WHITELOCKE PAPERS. Vol. VI (ff. 53). Material intended for the Appendix to Morton's edition of the Journal; 17th-18th centt. Viz.:- (1) Proposed lists of contents for the edition by Morton and others. ff. 1-2. (2) Part of the treatise on the Laws of the Swedes and Goths. Autograph. Printed i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4996
Title:: CATALOGUE OF MSS. in the Cotton Library, compiled by William Hanbury, Keeper of the Library; 1 Nov. 1706
Scope & Content:: Latin. Bound into the volume at ff. 79-81 is a list on paper of unplaced MSS. Vellum with paper (3 leaves); ff. 81. Large folio. A.D. 1706. William Hanbury, Keeper of the Cotton Library: Catalogue of Cotton MSS. compiled by: 1706. Cotton Library: Catalogue of MSS. in, by W. Hanbury: 1706.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1706
Extent:: 1 item

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