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151. Add MS 4383

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THESES ON LOGIC, and, on the back, a collection of scholastic exercises in prose and verse, to some of which the following names are attached: John Edsawe, Thomas Barker, Edward Burton, Thomas Sherley, Thomas ? Bristowe and Thomas Pollard. From Venn's Alumni Cantabrigienses it appears that these...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

152. Add MS 4384

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SPECIMENS of handwriting, notes and tables of mnemonics, etc., as follows:- (1) 'A Coppie booke of the vsuall hands written: sett foorth by Richard Gething, Master in Writinge: ... Anno 1616'. Engraved. It formed the foundation of his Calligraphotechnia, 1652. ff. 3-29. (2) 'The Penmans daily...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

153. Add MS 4385

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COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPHS, consisting of notes, superscriptions and subscriptions to letters, signatures, etc., on scraps of paper. Some were the property of James Petiver, apothecary and botanist, in whose correspondence (Sloane MSS. 4062-4067) letters will be found from all the persons whose au...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1584-1755
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1 item

154. Add MS 4386

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TREATISE on 'The Practical Part of Printing', being probably the projected second volume of The General History of Printing by Samuel Palmer, 1732. Palmer circulated a prospectus in 1729 for 'The Practical Part of Printing', but this was never published (cf. E. C. Bigmore and C. W. H. Wyman, A B...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1729
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1 item

155. Add MS 4387

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TREATISES, notes, tables, etc., relating to the Art of Dialling. Artt. 1 and 2 are in the hand of Dr. John Pell. They include:- (1) 'Horologiographia. The Art of Dialling', being a MS. copy of the first few chapters of Thomas Fale's work first printed in 1593 'newly corrected and amended ... b...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

156. Add MS 4388

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John Pell: notes on logic, geometry and music.
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Collections relating to music, mainly in the hand of John Pell, mathematician and diplomatist. Preceded by some notes on logic and geometry also in Pell's hand (ff. 1-13). Includes notes, tables, exercises and papers relating to the studies of John Birchensha on music from a mathematical basis a...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish and English
Date Range:
17th century
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1 volume (109 folios)

157. Add MS 4389

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'THE HISTORY of the Trade and Navigation of the Ancients, address'd to Monsr. [Jean Baptistel Colbert, Minister and Secretary of State to Lewis 14th of France, by Peter [Daniel] Huet, Bishop of Avranches, Sub-Preceptor to the Dauphin'. A translation from the original French work first printed in...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1730
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1 item

158. Add MS 4390

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PAPERS relating to a report to be drawn up in London for the use of some Italian state (? Venice) as to the conditions, privileges and laws affecting the supply of provisions and manufactures into the London markets; circ. 1700. Italian and English. Paper; ff. 20. Folio. Circ. A.D 1700. Trade a...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1700
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1 item

159. Add MS 4391

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PAPERS RELATING TO COINAGE AND MINTING, among them being:- (a) Treatise on the Roman coinage and weights of metals, by Thomas Birch. Autograph. ff. 1-23b;- (b) Printed sale catalogue of the collection of coins and medals of the late Thomas Selbye; 18, 19 Dec. 1755. ff. 33-38b;- (c) Analogies and...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
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1 item

160. Add MS 4392

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TREATISES ON NAVIGATION, as follows:- (1) 'The Art of Navigation, Book 1st', and (f. 23) 'Book 3d the latter containing only the first two of the eight chapters described on the title-page (f. 23). Leaves have been cut out (prior to the old foliation) after ff. 6, 11, 17, 22, 27. At the foot of...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
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1 item