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Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 3651
Title:: William Bourne, mathematical manuscript dedicated to William Cecil
Scope & Content:: A treatise (untitled and undated) on gunnery, survey, surveying instruments, the measurement of surfaces and solids, and other mathematical practices. It was dedicated to William Cecil, first Baron Burghley in 1573, and includes several diagrams. The manuscript is divided into three parts and s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1572-1573
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 3809
Title:: Alchemical treatises and verses
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–56v: A volume of alchemical verses and treatises written in chronological order, including George Ripley's Compound of Alchemy. ff. 1v–2r: Poems in Latin about alchemy. ff. 2v–3v: The Boast of Mercury. Begins 'I am [Mercury] most mighty & flos florum', ends 'Seke forth folys as ye h...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 3983
Title:: Georgius Fendulus, Liber astrologiae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Liber astrologiae of Georgius Fendulus (12th century), an abbreviated Latin version of the astrological work of Abu Ma'shar (b. 787, d. 886). It is a close copy of Paris, BnF, MS Lat. 7330 (1220-40), and it may have served as the exemplar for New York, Morgan Library...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 4016
Title:: Herbal
Scope & Content:: An Italian Herbal, classified by Baumann as one of the 'North Italian group' and as a copy of Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, MS Masson 116 (see Baumann, Das Erbario Carrarese, 1974). Decoration: Full-page miniatures on each folio of plants in colours, mostly in greens and brown...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1440
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 4087
Title:: Fragments from Kalophonic Sticherarion with compositions mainly by Manuel Chrysaphes and John Kladas (the Lampadarios)
Scope & Content:: Fragments from Kalophonic Sticherarion with compositions mainly by Manuel Chrysaphes and John Kladas (the Lampadarios).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 16th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 4087/1
Title:: Detached binding from Sloane MS 4087
Scope & Content:: Detached binding from Sloane MS 4087. Typical Sloane binding, of brown and beige with a gold-stamped crest.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 detached binding

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 4098
Title:: [Trading permit from King Sandawizaya of Arakan]
Scope & Content:: A permit from King Sandawizaya of Arakan (r. 1710-1731 A.D.) to the Armenian merchant Khwajeh Georgin, giving him permission to trade. Dated 1090 (1728 A.D.). Longest and earliest dated palm leaf in the Burmese Collection. In Arakanese.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Burmese
Date Range:: 1728
Extent:: A single leaf

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