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Container Reference (shelfmark) Stowe MS 1064-1080

1. Stowe MS 1064

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Stowe MS 1064
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COLLECTION Of philosophical and scientific treatises, in Latin, in one hand, accompanied at the end by a few neatly-drawn and coloured illustrative figures. The MS. was probably written for use at the Jesuit College of Clermont-Ferrand. The contents are:-(1) "Tractatus ad quatuor libros Aristote...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Stowe MS 1065

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Stowe MS 1065
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Physician's folding almanac
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Contents: A physician's portable almanac consisting of: ff. 1r-4v: Calendar, with tables of cycles calculated from 1482 to 1520; f. 5r-v: Indictiones, Festa Mobilia, Tabula planetarum; f. 5v: Tabula lunæ, and Homo Signorum (the influence of the signs of the Zodiac on man); f. 6r: Homo ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1482
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6 parchment folios, each folded into eight parts

3. Stowe MS 1066

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Stowe MS 1066
Title:
Calendar and almanac
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Contents: f. 1r: A set of religious devotions in English, written by Edward Seymour (b. c. 1500, d. 1552), duke of Somerset, from the Tower of London, on the day before his execution, 22 January 1522. f. 2r-v: Table of contents. f. 3r-v: Calendar. ff. 4r-31v: An almanac, containing a ser...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1540-1550
Extent:
1 volume

4. Stowe MS 1067

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Stowe MS 1067
Title:
Bestiary
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This manuscript consists of the 'First Family' of bestiaries, with a text derived from the Physiologus with additions from Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636)'s Etymologies (Etymologies) (see McCulloch, Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries (1962) p. 31; Payne, Medieval Beasts (1990) p. 12). ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

5. Stowe MS 1068

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Stowe MS 1068
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NOTES on John Hunter's classification of the Animal Kingdom, taken (according to a statement at the end) "from a slight view of Mr. Hunter's experiments and preparations. They are, in the first place, imperfect; in the next, they way be erroneous in many particulars." Paper; ff. 11. Belonged to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Stowe MS 1069

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Stowe MS 1069
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"MATTHIÆ DE LOBEL [L'Obel], M.D., Botanographi Regii eximii, Stirpium Illustrationes." Printed (somewhat more fully) under the editorship of William How, London, 1655. At the end (f. 72) is added, in the same hand, "Theatri Botanici Joannis Parkinsoni (pr. 1640) ['A a."] This is also printed, as...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Stowe MS 1070

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Stowe MS 1070
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COLLECTION of tracts on alchemy, the philosopher's stone, etc., as follows:- 1. "Tractatus Nicholai Comitis" de lapide Philosophorum, beg. "ut ad perfectam scientiam pervenire." f.2. For another copy see Sloane MS. 692, f. 20. 2. "Summa Platonis": an alchemical treatise, beg. "Cum res ex eod...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Stowe MS 1071

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Stowe MS 1071
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"THE GOULDEN ARTE, or The Jewell House of Gemes . . . with divers other things devided into tow severall bookes for the better understandinge therof. Collected and gathered together out of divers and sundry authors by William Heth, Clarke of his Majesties Store for the navy at Portesmouth, for t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1603
Extent:
1 item

9. Stowe MS 1072

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Stowe MS 1072
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ACCOUNT of a new volcano which rose from the sea between Sicily and the island of Pantellaria, in July, 1831: a translation of a paper read by Dr. Carlo Gemmellaro, Professor of Natural History in the Royal University at Catania, on 28 Aug. 1831, in the hall of that University, and published the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Stowe MS 1073

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Stowe MS 1073
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HIPPOCRATES and Galen, in Greek, viz.:-(1) Hippocrates' [ ] f 2;-(2) Hippocrates' [ ]. f. 3 b;-(3) Hippocrates' [ ]. Titles are occasionally given, in red ink, but irregularly and sometimes wrongly. The concluding aphorisms, rejected by Littré and Ermerins, are here present. f 6;-(4) Hippocrates...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item