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Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 1009/1
Title:: Collection of miscellaneous papers, including the Memoriale Credencium; Reclusorium Anime; Three Workings on Man's Soul; Geoffrey Chaucer, Tale of Melibeus; Speculum sacerdotis; Computacio daniele prophete sive sompniale; Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus; Astrological tracts; Correspondence of Gédéon Bonnivert; Collection of puzzles with cards and dice in French; Gédéon Bonnivert, L'A. B. C. du Monde; De virtutibus herbarum; Marcus Tullius Cicero, De officiis
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the first part of a large collection of miscellaneous texts, tracts, and letters that may have been gathered by Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), and is now divided in two parts. The second part is Sloane MS 1009/2. The collection contains a large number of early modern it...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 1009/2
Title:: Collection of early modern literary papers in English and French
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the second part of a large collection of miscellaneous texts, tracts and letters that may have been gathered by Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), and is now divided in two parts. The first part is Sloane MS 1009/1. The manuscript contains a large number of early modern ite...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 1047
Title:: Medical recipes devised by King Henry VIII and his royal physicians
Scope & Content:: An important witness to the amateur interest in and practice of pharmaceutical medicine by King Henry VIII (b. 1491, d. 1547). Contains a collection of more than 100 medical recipes that have been organised into six sections: plasters; spasmadraps (dipped plasters); ointments; balms; waters, lot...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c. 1540-c. 1545
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 1156
Title:: Account of the journey of Henri Auguste de Loménie de Brienne, Seigneur de la Ville-aux-Clercs, to England as Ambassador Extraordinary, 1624
Scope & Content:: This is an account of the journey of Henri -Auguste, Seigneur de la Ville-aux-Clercs, later Comte de Brienne (1594-1666), to England, 20 Nov 1624-15 Jan 1625, as Ambassador Extraordinary to ratify the articles of marriage between Henrietta Maria and the Prince of Wales, afterwards Charles I. Alo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1624-1699
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 1685
Title:: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-222v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, beginning and ending imperfectly, with many leaves wanting throughout. The Tales are arranged in the following order: ff. 1r-3v: The General Prologue, beginning imperfectly. ff. 4r-33r: The Knight's Tale, imperfect. 1 folio is w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 1686
Title:: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-295v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, imperfect at the beginning. The Tales are arranged in the following order: ff. 1r-13r: The General Prologue, beginning imperfectly. ff. 13r-49v: The Knight's Tale. ff. 49v-51r: The Miller's Prologue. ff. 51r-61v: The Miller...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 1712
Title:: Ars Notoria texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: Two texts of the Ars Notoria, a set of prayers, holy and angelic names, diagrams and rituals used to gain knowledge and understanding by supernatural revelation, apparently as granted by God to Solomon: ff. 1r-22r: The Ars Notoria, with the rubric, 'Ars Notoria Salomonis, Machinei e...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 1774
Title:: Euripides, Hippolytus (TLG 0006.038) with marginal scholia in Greek and Latin
Scope & Content:: Euripides, Hippolytus (TLG 0006.038) with marginal scholia in Greek and Latin, ff 1r-45r, followed by a note on παιανισμός, f 45v. The Greek text of the Hippolytus is a copy of the Aldine edition.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 1835
Title:: Extracts from Evagrius Scholasticus, Historia Ecclesiastica (TLG 2733.001; CPG 7500), with Latin translations by Petrus Joannes Olivarius, preceded by his dedication to Henry VIII
Scope & Content:: Chalcedonian Definition (ACO II.i.2 126), in Latin (ff 3r-8r) and Greek (ff 13r-17r). Emperor Zeno, Henoticon (PG 862.2620), in Latin (ff 9r-12v) and Greek (ff 17v-22r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 1873
Title:: Thomas Norton, The Ordinal of Alchemy
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–85v: Sixteenth-century copy of Thomas Norton's The Ordinal of Alchemy, written in secretary hand, with a poem by Walter Haddon (f. 84v) in praise of Norton. At the beginning and end (ff. 1r–v, 85r–v) are fragments from Chapter 2 of Book 8 of the Interpretatio Topicorum Aristotelis by Boet...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 13th century-16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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