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1. Add MS 5253

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Title:
'Collections of Costumes of various nations, Chiefly Indian; Chinese Buildings, &c.', from the Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, by different hands
Scope & Content:
Drawings of inhabitants of several parts of the world from a variety of sources. Drawings 1-2, 8-11, 14-17, 23-25 and 28-29 are associated with the traveller and artist, John White (fl. 1577-1593). Hans Sloane commissioned watercolour copies from an album now in the British Museum Prints &...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (78 drawings)

2. Add MS 5259

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Title:
Drawings and notes on human and animal anatomy
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains anatomical images and representations of pathological conditions affecting the human body. Some of the inscriptions on these drawings feature historic language. Where these inscriptions have been transcribed, they are enclosed in inverted commas. Drawings and manuscript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (231 items)

3. Add MS 5266

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Title:
Drawings of birds with inscriptions in Hans Sloane's and Thomas Browne's hand
Scope & Content:
Drawings of birds executed in a variety of techniques and by different draughtsmen. The only exceptions are items 82, 91 and 93, which are prints of birds. The drawings are executed on paper and pasted onto the folios of the manuscript. Many drawings bear inscriptions in Hans Sloane's and / or S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (164 items)

4. Add MS 5289

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Title:
‘Miscellaneous Drawings of various Plants, Flowers, and Fruits in Indian-Ink, and colours, by different hands’, from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane
Scope & Content:
Album of drawings of plants by miscellaneous hands and of differing origin and date. The first 99 drawings in this album are those of Philippine plants sent by the Jesuit Georg Joseph Kamel (1661-1706) to James Petiver (1665-1718), many of which were used as the basis for the engravings in Pet...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Sloane Ch XXXII 1

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Sloane Ch XXXII 1
Title:
Marriage licence from Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, for Edward Griffith and Elizabeth Palmer
Scope & Content:
Licence from Thomas Cranmer (r. 1532-53), archbishop of Canterbury, for Edward Griffith of Braybrooke and Elizabeth Palmer to marry; given at Lambeth, 27 September 1535. Endorsed: in a 17th-century hand, ‘Licence for marriage to / Thomas Griffyn / Elizabeth Palmer’. Affixed with a fragmentary ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1535
Extent:
1 leaf

6. Sloane MS 93

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Sloane MS 93
Title:
Gabriel Harvey's letters and poems
Scope & Content:
ff. 1*r–104r: Volume of holograph transcripts of letters and poems by Gabriel Harvey, of Saffron Walden, Fellow of Pembroke and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1573–1578. It includes his poems upon the death of the poet George Gascoigne (1534–1577), an account (either fictional or truthful) of the sedu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1573-1578
Extent:
1 volume

7. Sloane MS 116

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Sloane MS 116
Title:
A small-size luxury prayerbook
Scope & Content:
This small-sized luxury prayerbook was produced in France around 1520, but apparently owned by an anonymous English woman in or before 1530. It features holograph inscriptions of King Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey addressed to her. The manuscript’s full-page illustrations are in the style of th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1520
Extent:
1 volume

8. Sloane MS 226

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Sloane MS 226
Title:
Roger Marbeck, An account of the taking of Cadiz, 1596
Scope & Content:
Roger Marbeck, "A breefe and a true discourse of the late honorable voyage unto Spayne and the wynning, sacking and burning of the famous Towne of Cadiz there, and of the miraculous overthrowe of the Spanishe Navie at that tyme, with a reporte of all other Accidents thereunto appertayning, by Do...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1596-1597
Extent:
1 volume

9. Sloane MS 261

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Sloane MS 261
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', revised by Walter Stevins
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a revised version of Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', undertaken by an otherwise unknown editor called Walter Stevins, and dedicated by him to Edward Courtenay (b. c. 1527, d. 1556), 1st Earl of Devon. The volume can be dated between 1553, the year Courten...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1553-1556
Extent:
1 volume

10. Sloane MS 278

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Sloane MS 278
Title:
Hugh of Fouilloy, Aviarium; a Bestiary
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-43v: Hugh of Fouilloy or Hugo de Folieto (b. c. 1100, d. c. 1172), prior of St.-Nicholas-de-Regny, Aviarium, or De avibus, consisting of 60 chapters in two sections: 37 chapters of mostly scriptural exegesis, drawing on the Bible and the Greek Physiologus. The first 11 chapt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

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