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Reference (shelfmark):: Lansdowne MS 695
Title:
Scope & Content:: 8vo. The Commonplace book of the celebrated Dr. South when a student at Christ Church, Oxford, containing Latin and English poetry, some ludicrous orations; (see particularly fo. 18 b and fo. 22 b;) precepts on the celestial and terrestrial globes; problems in geometry and arithmetic; and vario...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Lansdowne MS 696
Title:
Scope & Content:: 4to. An alphabetical and very miscellaneous Commonplace book, written about the time of King Charles I.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [between 1625-1649]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Lansdowne MS 697
Title:
Scope & Content:: 4to. An Account-book belonging to Saint Edmund's Hall, Oxford, containing various entries, among which are, receipts for books borrowed; a register of the absence of the students; monies received for penalties; expenditures for books; entries in the Liber Niger; and receipts for plate lent out ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1665-1692
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Lansdowne MS 699
Title:: Collection of poems by John Lydgate and Geoffrey Chaucer
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 2r-v: John Lydgate, 'Life of St Giles', written in Middle English verse, imperfect comprising only the final six stanzas; the text beginning, '…Bi a spiryt oonly of prophecie...' (DIMEV 4129). ff. 3r-18r: John Lydgate, Fabula duorum mercatorum, written in Middle English verse, be...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Lansdowne MS 700
Title:
Scope & Content:: 8vo. A Common-place book containing sundry historical extracts chiefly from printed books. In fo. 47 b, there are some particulars relating to Sir Robert Walpole, and towards the end, a compendium of Civil Law in French and Latin.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Lansdowne MS 702
Title:
Scope & Content:: 4to. The Note or Common-place book of Thomas Rawlins of Pophills, containing numerous extracts historical, political, biographical, satirical, poetical, &c. from books, tombstones, newspapers, &c.; with some original matters, In fo. 101 is an account of the satirical portrait of Dr. Ken...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1724-1734
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Lansdowne MS 703
Title:
Scope & Content:: 4to. "A booke dedicated unto the Queenes Majestie, by Master Thomas Charnocke, studient in the most worthie sciencis of astronomie, phisicke, and philosophie contayneinge the woorke off naturall philosophie." This is the author's autograph. His dedication is dated from his house at Stockland Br...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 25 Nov 1565
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Lansdowne MS 704
Title:
Scope & Content:: 4to. A book, for the most part in the hand-writing of Signor Ludovico Petrucci, a Commoner of Baliol College, Oxford, containing the materials (in Latin and Italian for his Emblems, his apology against his calumniators, his own life, and other works, printed during his stay in England. On the b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20 Feb 1616
Extent:: 1 item

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