Map of the southern portion of 'Magindano' (i.e. the sultanate of Maguindanao, on the western side of the island of Mindanao, in the southern Philippines), drawn by Fakymolano, elder brother of the Sultan.
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This map was drawn by 'Fakymolano', i.e. Fakih Maulana Muhammad Amiruddin, former sultan of Maguindanao, for Captain Thomas Forrest, during a visit to Mindanao in 1775. The map and geographical namesin Malay in Jawi scrip are by Fakymolano, with romanized transliterations added by Forrest. It wa...
Autograph copy of part of an autobiographical work in dialogue form by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. According to a note by Brooke Boothby (7th Bart. 1789) on f. 1 'Ce manuscrit me fut mis entre les mains le 6 avril 1776 par M.J.J.R.'. Rousseau had written three autobiographical dialogues during the pe...
THORESBY PAPERS. Vol. I (ff. 198). 'Gleanings, Gathered after God's olde Reapers': a treatise in defence of the Papacy and the Roman Catholic church and religion, with numerous quotations from the Bible and the early Christian Fathers; 1614. The last part of the work (ff. 183-198b) is devoted to...
Collections of Ralph Thoresby, antiquary (d. 1725), consisting of miscellaneous treatises, etc., mainly theological. They were presented, 4 May 1781, by Sir Henry Charles Englefield, 7th Bart., into whose possession they had come after the sale of Thoresby's museum in 1764 (see sale catalogue, 5...
THORESBY PAPERS. Vol. II (ff. 171). Miscellaneous extracts (generally annotated), etc., in the hand of the Rev. Christopher Cartwright; circa 1629. The principal items are:- (1) Notes on Persius' Fourth Satire (11. 1-57). Latin. ff. 4-29b. (2) Sermon on Coloss. III, 1. ff. 31-39 (see also ff...
THORESBY PAPERS. Vol. III (ff. 34). 'Mr. Boyes principles Wherin he Catechised the poore people at Hallifax', followed (f. 2b) by the catechism, consisting of forty questions and answers, entitled 'The christians horne booke or A.B.C.', and divided into four headings, viz.:-The ten Commandments,...
THORESBY PAPERS. Vol. IV (ff. 177). Notes of sermons, by Richard Stretton and others, in the autograph of Thomas, 3rd Baron Fairfax (d. 1671), ff. 2-161 b, and his wife Anne (d. 1665), ff. 163-177b. Richard Stretton, d 1712 nonconformist minister: Notes of sermons by: 17th cent. Sermons: Notes...