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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 11252

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Title:
Letters of King Charles I to Prince Charles and to the Speaker of the House of Lords, 1646-1648; letters on Scottish politics, 1681-1688; epitaph on Mary Digby (d. 1692); 17th-century cipher keys
Scope & Content:
A miscellaneous collection, including letters between King Charles I and Parliament preliminary to the negotiations at Newport in 1648. A note on the back of f. 15v noted the collection as 'Letters of King Charles I & others'. A not particulary legible note suggests that some of the papers w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher and English
Date Range:
1646-1681
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 15891

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Title:
Copies of letters received by Sir Christopher Hatton, along with miscellaneous 17th-century papers
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–248v: Letterbook of Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancellor, 1572–1607, probably copied by his secretary Samuel Cox, whose letters are also included. They are dated from 1572 to 1607, and the majority are printed in N. H. Nicolas, Memoirs of the Life and Times of Sir C. Hatton (1847). A ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Late 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 38823

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Title:
Sir Edward Hoby, Commonplace book
Scope & Content:
Commonplace book of Sir Edward Hoby, politician and diplomat (1560-1617), containing entries on various subjects including America, Parliament, the Isle of Sheppey, the siege of Calais (1346-1347), and Mary, Queen of Scots. ff. i-ii) Remains of two parchment fragments of a 13th-century manuscri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Turkish
Date Range:
c 1582-c 1596
Extent:

1 volume

5. Add MS 40732

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Title:
Gilbert the Hay, The Buike off King Allexander the Conqueroure
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Buike off King Allexander the Conqueroure, a translation of the Alexander Romance into Scots heroic couplets by the Scottish poet Gilbert the Hay (b. c. 1397, d. 1465). Gilbert's translation was likely influenced by earlier French sources of the Alexander romance. T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Scots
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

6. Egerton MS 616

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Egerton MS 616
Title:
Letters relating to England and Spain
Scope & Content:
Original letters illustrative of the history of England and Spain, with a modern transcription of some of the letters on ff. 80r–94r. ff. i–ii: Modern contents list. ff. 1r–v: Letter in Latin and on parchment from Richard II to the King of Aragon [Peter IV], 26 August [c. 1386], Westminster. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1386-1662
Extent:
1 volume

7. Egerton MS 2880

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Egerton MS 2880
Title:
The New Testament in Scots, translated by Murdoch Nisbet
Scope & Content:
Written during the first quarter of the 16th century, the volume contains the first translation of the New Testament into Scots, undertaken by Murdoch Nisbet (d. 1559), a Lollard and notary in the diocese of Glasgow. Contents: ff. 4r-6v: Martin Luther, Prologue to the New Testament, translate...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Scots
Date Range:
1515-1525
Extent:

1 volume

8. Harley MS 6101

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Harley MS 6101
Title:
A Scots heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A full-page coat of arms with crest (quarterly of nine): arms of Jermyn. f. 2r: The ‘Armes of the Balliam’. ff. 3r-17r: Royal arms, from King Malcolm III (‘Malcum Camoir’) to Mary I of Scotland [Mary, Queen of Scots] (r. 1542-1567). ff. 18r-71r: The arms of Scots peerage...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Scots
Date Range:
1567-1578
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 6149

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Harley MS 6149
Title:
A collection of Scots and Latin heraldic and chivalric treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v: An untitled Scots heraldic treatise on the different rights and privileges of the kings of arms and heralds, and the sergeants of arms in service of the king, beginning: ‘Arthour son to the duke of Bertaingnie erle of Richmont lord of partynay Counstable of ffrance Till all...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Scots
Date Range:
c 1494
Extent:
1 volume

10. Royal MS 18 B XV

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Royal MS 18 B XV
Title:
Basilikon Doron, or Book of the Institution of a Prince
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the autograph copy of the Basilikon Doron (The Royal Gift), a treatise on kingship and government written in the form of a private letter by James VI, King of Scotland (r. 1567–1625) and England (r. 1603–1625) for the instruction of his son Prince Henry (b. 1594, d. 1612...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1598
Extent:
1 volume