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1751. Stowe MS 1013

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Stowe MS 1013
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COMMONPLACE-BOOK belonging to, and for the most part in the hand of, Edward Vernon, D.D., of Trinity College, Cambridge, Rector of St. George's, Bloomsbury (ob. 1761). The contents are:-(1) "A brief account of the nature, end and use of chronology." f. 3;-(2) "De origine scribendi": a treatise i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

1752. Stowe MS 1014

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Stowe MS 1014
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COMMONPLACE-BOOK, containing extracts from various authors, by Thomas Astle. On f. 32 is a recipe "to make decay'd letters appear in an old MS." Paper; ff. 32. Circ. 1760. Sm. Quarto. Thomas Astle, ob. 1803: Commonplace-book: circ. 1760. includes: f. 32 Recipes: To revive decayed letters in o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 item

1753. Stowe MS 1015

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Stowe MS 1015
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COMMONPLACE-BOOK, containing extracts from Caesar's Commentaries and from Sir Clement Edmondes's "Observations" on the same, with shorter quotations from Ovid, Horace, Juvenal, and Persius. Paper; ff. 199. Early XVIIIth cent. The name "Madame Willten" appears on the inside cover. Folio. Madame ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

1754. Stowe MS 1016

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Stowe MS 1016
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Fra Giovanni Giocondo, Sylloge (in the third recension); Fabius Victor, De xiv urbis regionibus; Marcus Valerius Probus, De notis antiquis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: Roman Calendar; ff. 4r-245r: Fra Giovanni Giocondo, Sylloge, in the third recension; ff. 246r-253v: Fabius Victor (also known as Publius), De xiv urbis regionibus; ff. [254r-269v]: Marcus Valerius Probus, De notis antiquis; ff. [270r-271v]: Index of inscriptions. Deco...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Modern and Latin
Date Range:
c 1502
Extent:

1 volume

1755. Stowe MS 1016-1063

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 1016-1063
Title:
CLASS XXIII. ANTIQUITIES, WITH COLLECTIONS ON ANTIQUARIAN AND KINDRED SUBJECTS, CATALOGUES AND EXTRACTS OF MSS, ETC.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-18th century
Extent:
48 items

1756. Stowe MS 1017

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Stowe MS 1017
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ETRUSCAN ANTIQUITIES, including copies of several Etruscan inscriptions from J.C. Amaduzzi's Alphabetum veterum Etruscorum [1771], with translations in the hand of Thomas Astle; a list of Umbrian epithets of Jupiter; a hymn to Jupiter, with translations; and a description of a statue of Jupiter ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 item

1757. Stowe MS 1018

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Stowe MS 1018
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AN ACCOUNT Of the Antiquities in the collection of the Earl of Pembroke, at Wilton, copied from the "book of Antiquities at Wilton." The collection consists of ancient statues, busts, basreliefs, and inscriptions, and includes many specimens from the collections of the Earl of Arundel and Cardin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

1758. Stowe MS 1019

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Stowe MS 1019
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ACCOUNT by Gavin Hamilton in two letters to Charles Townley of the statues, busts, etc., found by him in excavations at Hadrian's Villa [Tivoli], Monte Cagnolo, Ostia, and other places round Rome, 1769-1779; with a catalogue of the objects found, and the names of their possessors. At the end (f....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1769-1779
Extent:
1 item

1759. Stowe MS 1020

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Stowe MS 1020
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Scope & Content:
1. NOTE by Thomas Astle of the collection of casts of antique statues, etc., in Italy made by the Abbate Fossatti; 23 July, 1774. f. 1. 2. Letter from Gavin Hamilton to -, on discoveries of statues, etc., at Gabio; Rome, 18 June, [l792]. f. 2. 3. "Ancient Marbles found by Mr. Gavin Hamilton ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

1760. Stowe MS 1021

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 1021
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Scope & Content:
"BREVIS DISCURSUS antiquitatis Puteolorum ac Baiarum": a short account of the antiquities of Pozzuoli and Baja, for the use of travellers. Latin. The author's name appears at the end, "Devotissimus servus Jacobus Sabbatinus, Cicero Puteolanus, notus curiosis ac virtuosis viris." Written after 17...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
after 1704
Extent:
1 item

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