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31. Add MS 5233

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Add MS 5233
Title:
Drawings, notes and letters collected by Dr Edward Browne during his travels across Europe
Scope & Content:
Sketches, notes and letters collected and / or made by Dr Edward Browne during his travels across Europe (1664-65 and 1668-69) and later assembled by his father, Dr Thomas Browne. The drawings and inscriptions are made on paper and pasted on the folios of the albums. Several items bear an additi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

1 volume (89 items)

32. Add MS 5234

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Add MS 5234
Title:
Drawings by Gerard Hofstede van Essen, Dr Edward Browne and others
Scope & Content:
This album contains many drawings with inscriptions that include outdated terms. Where these inscriptions have been transcribed, the text is always in between inverted commas. This is an album of drawings executed by G. Hofstede van Essen, Edward Browne and other draughtsmen. These are primaril...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:

1 volume (105 items)

33. Add MS 5238

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Add MS 5238
Title:
Miscellaneous figure drawings and architectural drawings by Christopher Wren, Robert Hooke and others
Scope & Content:
Architectural and figure drawings by various draughtsmen. Among them are architectural drawings by Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke relating to the design of the Monument to the Great Fire of London. The drawings are executed on paper and pasted on the folios of the album. Summary description o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:

1 volume (94 items)

34. Add MS 5240

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Add MS 5240
Title:
A treatise in French about horse tack, with drawings
Scope & Content:
A treatise about horse tack, with manuscript text in French providing instruction about the appropriate manner of equipping a horse. In between the pages of text are watercolour drawings of horses and of bridles, stirrups and bits. Drawings and text are executed directly onto the pages of the ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1659
Extent:
1 volume (56 folios)

35. Add MS 5240-5241

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Add MS 5240-5241
Title:
"Cavesson Francois ou Traicté de l’ambouchure des chevaux". A treatise about horse tack accompanied by drawings of bridles and bits
Scope & Content:
The volume contains two separate manuscripts that have been bound together: Add MS 5240 and Add MS 5241.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1659
Extent:

1 volume (158 folios)

36. Add MS 5241

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Add MS 5241
Title:
Drawings of horse bridles and bits
Scope & Content:
Watercolours and pen and ink drawings of horse bridles and bits, executed directly onto the pages of the manuscript. The drawings seem to be a continuation of the drawings and text in Add MS 5240, with which Add MS 5241 is bound.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume (102 folios)

37. Add MS 5243

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Add MS 5243
Title:
"Regum Daniae effigies ex Aulaeis Croneburgicis maxima ex parte depictae". An album of drawings of Danish kings.
Scope & Content:
Pen and ink drawings of Danish Kings, starting with King Dan. I and concluding with King Christian IV. The volume formerly belonged to Olaus Wormius, whose autograph ('sum Olai Wormii') it bears on f. 1. The drawings are executed directly on the folios of the manuscript, mostly on both recto and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume (62 folios)

38. Add MS 5244

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Add MS 5244
Title:
John Dunstall, manuscript version of his manual "The Art of Delineation, or Drawing. In 6 Books"
Scope & Content:
This is the only known surviving version in manuscript form of the unpublished treatise "The art of delineation, or drawing", written and illustrated by John Dunstall, schoolmaster at Blackfriars in London, active as printmaker and art teacher between 1653 and 1693. The manuscript includes a com...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume (113 folios)

39. Add MS 5245

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Add MS 5245
Title:
“Cabala Mineralis Rabbi Simeon Ben Cantara”. Watercolour drawings of alchemical figures and experiments
Scope & Content:
Watercolour drawings of some alchemical figures and chemical reactions with descriptions inscribed in Latin and in English.The drawings and inscriptions have been made directly onto the folios of the albums. On the verso of f.1 there is an inscription in Latin: 'Cabala mineralis Rabbi Simeon Ben ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
late 17th century - early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (30 folios)

40. Add MS 5246

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Add MS 5246
Title:
"A short History of Human Prodigious and Monstrous Births, of Dwarfs, Sleepers, Giants, Strong men, Hermaphrodites, Numerous Births, and Extream old age". Medical observations collected by James Paris Du Plessis, and others
Scope & Content:
Please note this manuscript contains anatomical images and descriptions of the human body that include terminology nowadays regarded as outdated. Where inscriptions on the manuscripts have been transcribed, the excerpt of text is indicated between inverted commas. The manuscript contains a seri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
late 17th century - early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (166 folios)

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