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Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 986
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Scope & Content:: "COLLECTANEA ex Dictionario Theologico Thomæ Gascoynge," from MSS. 117, 118 of Lincoln College, Oxford. Preceded (in the hand of John Anstis, Garter) by the preamble to the patent of Thomas Parker, as Baron Parker of Macclesfield, [1716]. f. 3;- and followed in the same hand by extracts from a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 987
Title:
Scope & Content:: ANAGRAM On the words "Charles the Second by the Grace of God King of England, Scotland, Fraunce, and Irelande, Defender of the Faith," by P[aul] Lorrain; with explanatory treatise, and dedicatory letter to Samuel Pepys, Secretary of the Admiralty, dated 1 Jan. 1684/5. The writer speaks of himsel...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1 Jan 1685]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 988
Title:
Scope & Content:: "RECUEIL HISTORIQUE, tiré de plusieurs autheurs": a collection of abstracts of histories and travels, compiled, according to a note on the first page, by James Le Fanu. The chief contents are:- (1) Abstract of Bussy Rabutin's -History of Louis XIV. [1662- 1693]. ff. 2 b-5 b;-(2) Notes on Peru ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: Early 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 989
Title:
Scope & Content:: "NOUVEAU DIALOGUE des Morts, ou Entretiens aux Champs Elisez entre Messire Fr. de Fénelon, Arch-duc (sic) de Cambray, et Mre T.B. Bossuet, évêque de Meaux. L'on y fait intervenir Madame Guyon [the Quietist authoress, befriended by Fénelon, but condemned by Bossuet, ob. 1717], femme d'une rare pi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1724
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 990
Title:
Scope & Content:: "DIALECTICA UNIVERSA: tradita a Reverendo D. Domino Vigore de Briois, Religioso Monasterii Sti Vedasti Ordinis Sti Benedicti, Artium Doctore ac Dialecticæ Professore, recepta vero a Richardo Moore, Anglo, 1732"; notes of lectures on Dialectic by Dr. Vigor de Briois, Professor of Dialectic at Dou...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1732
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 991
Title:
Scope & Content:: "IDÆÆ ORATIONUM desumptæ ex disquisitionum politicarum materiis": outlines of speeches and addresses suitable for various occasions in political affairs. Latin. There are 90 in all, the subjects of some being stated in general terms, e.g. "Idæa orationis qua nova vectigalia necessitatis Reipubli...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 992
Title:
Scope & Content:: "ORIGINAL MEMOIRS of Apparitions and Spirits in Wales": a collection of stories of apparitions of spirits and fairies in various places in Wales, especially in and near the parish of Blaenau Gwent [Aberustryth, al. Aberystwith, co. Monmouth], to which the narrator, who relates several supernatur...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1738
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 993
Title:
Scope & Content:: ESSAY on the dignity of Trade, showing the high opinion in which it has been held in all ages, and that it is as honourable a pursuit, and as likely to lead to advancement, as any of the learned professions. There are two versions of the essay, in different hands, one having been crossed through...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1747
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 994
Title:
Scope & Content:: SPECIMENS of the signatures and handwriting produced (according to the title-page) "by me William Henry Ireland during my fabrication of the manuscripts which I wrote and attributed to Shakespeare," with Ireland's explanatory notes. Paper; ff. 9. XVIIIth-XIXth cent. Quarto. William Henry Irelan...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century-19th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 994-1009
Title:: SPECIMENS of the signatures and handwriting produced (according to the title-page) "by me William Henry Ireland during my fabrication of the manuscripts which I wrote and attributed to Shakespeare," with Ireland's explanatory notes. Paper; ff. 9. XVIIIth-XIXth cent. Quarto. Accompanying this volume are sixteen printed tracts, containing Ireland's forged signatures and marginal notes of Shakespeare, most of them having on the titlepage the inscription "S[amuel] Ireland from his dear Son." The...
Scope & Content:: William Shakespeare: Signatures and marginal notes forged by W. H. Ireland: 18th-19th centt.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century-19th century
Extent:: 16 items

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