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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6025
Title:: Manār al-anwār fī uṣūl al-fiqh
Scope & Content:: Author: Nasafī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, ?-1310 VIAF ID: 11200317 Subject: Islamic law--Interpretation and construction
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1044
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6026
Title:: Kitāb al-ḥikmah fī al-ṭibb كتاب الحكمة في الطب Qurashī, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh قرشي، علي بن عبد الله
Scope & Content:: Collection of prescriptions, notes on materia medica, anecdotes and poetry concerning medicine and related topics drawn from various sources. The author is said to be Abū al-Ḥasan ‘Alī ibn ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad al-Qurashī (أبو الحسن علي بن عبد الله محمد القرشي, see ff. 93v, line 13-94r, line 2). T...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. 111

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6027
Title:: An abstract of many different Manors, Lands, and Tenements granted to Prince Charles [later Charles I]
Scope & Content:: A folio volume (140 folios), containing ‘An abstract of divers Manors, Landes, and Tenements latelie granted unto Prince Charles, by our Soveraigne Lord James, his most loving father: Surveyde by vertue of a deputation of ye honorable Sir James Fullerton, Knighte, Surveyor Generall, made and per...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1617
Extent:: 1 volume (140 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6028
Title:: 'HISTORIA AUGUSTA': an Italian humanist manuscript, probably from Rome, of the 'Historia Augusta', lives of Roman emperors traditionally assigned to six different authors of the late third to early fourth centuries A.D.; mid 15th cent. Latin. Origin: Italy. The text is incomplete, ending in the life of Probus, ch. xix, 'effronduit misi deinde per omnes additus' (f. 180v): the scribe has added a colophon, with the word 'finis' at the foot of the page. The text was first printed in 1475. For a...
Scope & Content:: Art. Illuminations and Drawings ITALIAN: 'Historia Augusta': initials and borders: 15th cent. Rome; Emperors: 'Historia Augusta': 15th cent: Lat. includes: f. 1 Heraldry: Sacrati family; of Ferrara: Arms of the Sacrati family of Ferrara: 15th cent: Painted.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6029
Title:: A Syllabus of Abraham Gottlob Werner’s German Lectures on Oryktognosy [Mineralogy].
Scope & Content:: A thin folio volume (36 folios), in which are written in a neat modern hand, a Syllabus of Werners German Lectures on Oryktognosy [Mineralogy].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 1 volume (36 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6030
Title:: Tracts relating to the Alsace region
Scope & Content:: A volume in large folio (207 folios), in which are bound up the following tracts: 1. Memoires dresses en 1696, et 1697 par Mr. Colbert de Croissy, lors Intendant et President d’Alsace, De l’Etat on etoit cette Province, et de ce qui etoit a observer pour faire jouir le Roy de ce qui en avoit e...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1620-1765
Extent:: 1 volume (207 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 6031
Title:: History of the Townships of Cheshire, stated to have been compiled by Dr. Williamson
Scope & Content:: A folio volume (180 folios), in which are collections, alphabetically arranged, for the History of the Townships of Cheshire, stated to have been compiled by Dr. Williamson, a physician of Chester (in 1701), from the Manuscripts of Randal Holmes and others. It is often cited by Lysons in his ‘...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1701
Extent:: 1 volume (180 folios)

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