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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4467
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Scope & Content:: COMMONPLACE-BOOK, etc., 17th- 18th cent.; as follows:- (1) Commonplace book, consisting of illustrations, drawn chiefly from the times of the Greeks and Romans, of the meanings of various abstract nouns, anonymous; 17th cent. With an index (f. 1b). ff. 1b-51, 52b-59b (rev.) and 131 b- 133b (re...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4468
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Scope & Content:: EXTRACTS FROM THE PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS OF FRANCIS BACON, as edited by Isaac Gruter, Francisci Baconi Scripta in naturali et universali philosophia . . ., Amsterdam, 1653. The title-page and pages 62-74 of the printed edition (containing Gruter's translation of Sir Thomas Bodley's letter (1607) to...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1653-1799
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4469
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Scope & Content:: 'SOME OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS ON FIRE, in order to discover Its Nature, and Laws of Motion', by William Hillary, M.D. Printed in 1760, with alterations and additions, as The Nature, Properties, and Laws of Motion of Fire. Paper; ff. 28. Small quarto. XVIII cent. William Hillary, MD: 'Some ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4470
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Scope & Content:: ST. ÉVREMOND COLLECTIONS Copies, in the autograph of Pierre Des Maizeaux, of letters and portions of longer works, etc., by Charles Marguetel de Saint-Denis, Seigneur de Saint Évremond, 1701-1703, being evidently taken chiefly from the author's own MSS. shortly before his death in 1703, when De...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1701-1703
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4471
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Scope & Content:: BIRCH'S ACCOMPT BOOKS. Private Accompt Books of Thomas Birch, 1727-1765, including household accompts and tithes of Debden, co. Essex, 1761-1765. Interspersed among them are:- (a) Notes for his Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, published in 1754. ff. 46b-62;- (b) Memorandum book and dia...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1727-1765
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4472
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Scope & Content:: BIRCH'S LITERARY DIARY Literary diary of Thomas Birch, 1754-1764, including, besides notes of various books and anecdotes of persons, the following:- (a) Reference to the death of Elizabeth Foster, Milton's grand-daughter and last descendant, 1754. f. 3;- (b) Extracts from Lord Burghley's MS. d...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1754-1764
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4473
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Scope & Content:: MAPS, ETC. Maps, Plans, Diagrams, etc. Artt. 2, 4-7, 9-11, 13-17 are printed or engraved. (1) 'An Everlasting Almanacke wherein ... to finde out the daies of Regard according to the ... church of England ... 1629'. In Pell's autograph. f. 1. (2) 'A New Al-mon-ac for Ever. . . (beginning with...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4474
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Scope & Content:: MISCELLANEOUS FRAGMENTS described by Birch as 'A Parcel of decayed Papers'. The principal contents are:- (1) 'Of some Improvements in Algebra made in [England]'; after 1663. ff. 1b-4. (2) Letter of Louis Henry, Count of Nassau, to Breda University, on the introduction of the Cartesian philos...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4475
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Scope & Content:: BIRCH CORRESPONDENCE Correspondence, etc., of Thomas Birch. The contents may be divided as follows:- (1) Rough drafts of letters (without names of addressees), notes and extracts from books, etc., in Birch's autograph. ff. 1-103 passim, 144, 159, 209-287 passim. Among these are (1) A short ac...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4476
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Scope & Content:: Vol. I (ff. 316). (1) Form of assignment of livings, etc., in the patronage of Lord Brereton; 1668. f. 1. (2) Three receipts for money paid by William Polden of Wakefield, as executor for Mrs. Mary Leake of York; 1633. ff. 2, 132, 277. (3) Acknowledgement of wrong-doing by Edward Carlton, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1625-1770
Extent:: 1 item

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