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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4212
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Scope & Content:: 'CERTAINE SELECTED CHAPTERS TRANSLATED OUT OF NICHOLAS MACHIAUELL his 3 bookes of discourses'; 17th cent. The chapters chosen are from N. Machiavelli's Discorsi. . . 'sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio', Bk. I. 11-16, 26, 27, 41, 55, 59. Bk. II. 3, 5, 10, 12, 13, 17, 18, 20, 23-27, 29, 30. Bk. II...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4213
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Scope & Content:: BILLS OF MORTALITY 'A Collection of the yearly Bills of Mortality from 1657-1757 inclusive: together with several other Bills of an earlier Date', being collections, drafts, etc., prepared by Thomas Birch for his printed edition of the above work in 1759; circa 1757. The four treatises on the s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1757
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4214
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Scope & Content:: MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL TRACTS; 16th-18th centt. Viz.:- (1) On the government of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, beginning 'The government of the United provinces considered as one republick is called the Government of the Generality', with additional matter by another ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4215 A
Title:
Scope & Content:: FORBES PAPERS. Vol. XVI (ff. 126). 'The History of Scotland, written in Latin by ... George Buchanan, Now Done unto English'; 18th cent. The passages translated are Books IV. ch. i-xxv, ff. 2-5 1;-VIII, i-xii, ff. 52-76;-XII, i-xvi, ff. 82-115. An inserted passage (ff. 116, 117) in another hand ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4215 A-B
Title:: Papers of Dr. Patrick Forbes. Cf'. also Add. MSS. 4126, 4133-4146, 4248, 4249, 35833.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: [1700-1799]
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4215 B
Title:
Scope & Content:: FORBES PAPERS. Vol. XVII (ff. 55). Scottish historical collections; 18th cent. (1) "Re Constitution of Scotland with respect to the Regal Power', being a translation of the beginning of G. Buchanan's 'De Jure Regni apud Scotos'. ff. 1-4. (2) 'Refutatio libri Buchanani De jure Regni apud Scot...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4216
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Scope & Content:: FREINSHEIM'S LIVY EPITOMES The Epitomes and Supplements to certain lost books of Livy's 'Historia Romana' (viz. Bks. XII-XX, XLVI-XLVIII, XLIX, ch. i-xxxv), by Johann Freinsheim (d. 1660), the classical scholar, translated into English; 18th cent. Book XII, ch. i-xv, have been corrected by Birc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4217
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Scope & Content:: THE LADY CATHERINE WHETENALL JOURNAL 'The Voyage of the Lady Catherine Whetenall from Brussells into Italy in the holy yeare with the cheif accidents that hath happened therin written in Padua a little before her ladyship fell sick by other of her trayne'; 1650. Written at her request by Richar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1650
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4218
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Scope & Content:: 'PILATUS MONS SPECIMINE HISTORIAE NATURALIS Illustrissimae Societatis Regiae Anglicanae subjectus ab ejusdem socio', by Mauritius Antonius Cappeler, M.D.; 1728. With four tables of drawings (ff. 2-5). The autograph portions of the work are the title-page, the heading (f. 6), chapter VI and part ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1728
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4219
Title:
Scope & Content:: Treatises on Natural History; circ. 1751-1758. Viz.:- (1) 'Traité du Corail ... Pour servir a l'histoire naturelle de la mer', by Jean André de Peyssonnel, F.R.S., 'Médecin botaniste entretenu par sa majesté dans l'isle de Gaudeloupe', etc. ff. 1-1 13. For an account of this, and other treatis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1751-1758
Extent:: 1 item

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