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2261. Add MS 5956

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Title:
A miscellany of prose and poetry, 1598-1641
Scope & Content:
A folio volume, much injured by damp, containing a miscellany of prose and verse. The items are in a number of different hands. They include dramatic political events (especially relating to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Lady Frances Howard); verses (including by John Donne, Sir Walter...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1598-1641
Extent:
1 volume

2262. Add MS 5957

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Title:
Tracts concerning travels in England, Holland, Flanders and parts of France
Scope & Content:
A small quarto volume, (89 folios), in which are the following tracts. 1. Journal of a tour through England in 1735, by J.D. [John Dodd], F.S. [Francis Shipheard], G.R. [George Riste], and J.W. [John Whaley, Fellow of King’s College Cambridge and Tutor to John Dodd], written by the latter. (fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1719-c 1735
Extent:
1 volume (89 folios)

2263. Add MS 5958

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Title:
A Treatise on Heraldry
Scope & Content:
small quarto volume (56 folios), containing a Treatise of Heraldry, written about the middle of the 16th Century, with a few Coats rudely emblazoned. A folio is wanting at the commencement. On the first page is a large shield (probably of the compiler), viz. Az. A cheveron gul. between 3 cr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (56 folios)

2264. Add MS 5959

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Title:
Extracts from Records and printed works relating to English History and Topography, Civil and Ecclesiastical.
Scope & Content:
A small quarto volume (243 folios), which originally consisted of three parts, now bound up together, containing Extracts from Records and printed works relating to English History and Topography, Civil and Ecclesiastical. They were given to Mr. Cole in 1780 by the widow of Dr. Charles Mason, an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (243 folios)

2265. Add MS 5960

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Title:
Several tracts, mostly relating to the University of Cambridge
Scope & Content:
A thin quarto volume (87 folios), in which are bound together several separate Tracts, viz. 1. Biographical lists of the Provosts of King’s College Cambridge, from 1443 to 1689, (folios 1-4) 2. ‘Episcopi ex Academia Cantabrigiensi qui ab AD 1500 usque ad ann. 1572. Ecclesiæ inservierunt per ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (87 folios)

2266. Add MS 5961

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Title:
Short notes of an excursion in England and Wales, chiefly relating to Noblemen’s and Gentlemen’s seats
Scope & Content:
A thin duodecimo (21 folios), formerly serving as a Pocket Book, and containing short notes of an excursion in England and Wales, chiefly relating to Noblemens and Gentlemens seats. The date of the year is not given, but it was subsequent to the erection of Mr. Beckfords mansion at Fonthill.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (21 folios)

2267. Add MS 5962

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Title:
Miscellaneous tracts
Scope & Content:
A duodecimo volume (135 folios), containing these separate tracts bound together, viz. 1. ‘A reply to Sir Peter Leicester’s answer to Sir Thomas Mainwaring’s admonition to the Reader of Sir Peter Leicester’s book, written by the said Sir Thomas Mainwaring, bur never yet printed’. (folios 1-45)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (135 folios)

2268. Add MS 5965

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Title:
Sharḥ abyāt kalīlah
Scope & Content:
Author: al-Istiqbārī, Faḍl Allāh ibn Muḥammad Subject: Arabic prose literature
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
0626
Extent:
1 item

2269. Add MS 5968

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Title:
Hikayet-i arba'in subh u mesa - حكايت اربعين صبح و مسا
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish translation of the well-known tale entitled in Arabic Ḥikāyat arbaᶜīn ṣubḥ wa masāᵓ,by Aḥmad Maṣrī. The story is also commonly known as The Story of the Forty Viziers (Hikayet-i Kırk Vezir or Kırk Vezir Hikayesi). It is an expansion of an old Indian tale, ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1143
Extent:
1 text, 152 ff

2270. Add MS 5969

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Title:
[Chronicle of the Ottoman Dynasty]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a chronicle of the Ottoman dynasty from its origins to 956 AH (1549-50 CE) and is slightly imperfect at both the beginning and end. The author's name does not appear in either this copy or in the printed versions; nor is it mentioned in catalogues of other copies elsewhere. ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 text, 104 ff

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