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Project / Collection Additional Manuscripts Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 4101-4478 Name Forbes, Patrick, historian and physician, d 1743

1. Add MS 4126

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Add MS 4126
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FORBES PAPERS. Forbes Papers. Vol. I. Transcripts of State letters and papers (of which the originals are now in the Public Record Office and are calendared in Calendars of State Papers, Foreign, under their dates) made by, or for, Dr. Patrick Forbes and evidently intended for a continuation of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 4133-4146

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FORBES PAPERS. Vols. II-XV. 4133-4146. Collections of Dr. Patrick Forbes, consisting of lists, copies, etc., of state papers in the 'Paper Office', the British Museum, and other public and private libraries, used or intended for use, in his Full View of the Public Transactions in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, 2 vols., London, 1740, 1741. Cf. Add. MSS. 4126, 4215 A, B, 4248, 4249, 35833. Fourteen volumes. Various sizes.
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Patrick Forbes, d 1743 (?) MD; Scottish historian: Collections for his 'A full view of ... the reign of Q. Elizabeth': 1740, 1741. Elizabeth I of England: Historical collections of P. Forbes rel. to her reign: 18th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1558-1687]
Extent:
14 items

3. Add MS 4215 A

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FORBES PAPERS. Vol. XVI (ff. 126). 'The History of Scotland, written in Latin by ... George Buchanan, Now Done unto English'; 18th cent. The passages translated are Books IV. ch. i-xxv, ff. 2-5 1;-VIII, i-xii, ff. 52-76;-XII, i-xvi, ff. 82-115. An inserted passage (ff. 116, 117) in another hand ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 4215 B

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FORBES PAPERS. Vol. XVII (ff. 55). Scottish historical collections; 18th cent. (1) "Re Constitution of Scotland with respect to the Regal Power', being a translation of the beginning of G. Buchanan's 'De Jure Regni apud Scotos'. ff. 1-4. (2) 'Refutatio libri Buchanani De jure Regni apud Scot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 4248

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LISTS OF STATE PAPERS, etc., relating to affairs between England and Scotland, tempp. Henry VIII-James I, contained in various MSS. now in the British Library; 18th cent. (1) Lists of part of the contents of Harley MSS. 4644-4653; 18th cent. ff. 2-26. (2) Similar lists, in the hand of Patric...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 4249

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS; 18th cent. Four articles, artt. 3 & 4 being bound separately. Artt.1 and 2. Forbes papers: notes by Patrick Forbes, Scottish historian; 18th cent. For other Forbes papers see Add. MSS. 4126, 4133-4146, 4215A, B, 4248, 35833. (1) List of selected articles from var...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 4252

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COLLECTION BY BIRCH AND PATRICK FORBES OF CATA- LOGUES OF BOOKS AND MSS, viz.: (1) Catalogue in Birch's autograph, perhaps of his own books, arranged in sizes, etc., under heads: viz.:- (a) Biography, ff. 1-4, 149, 153;- (b) Letters, ff. 5-14;- (c) Poets, ff. 15-22;- (d) Law, ff. 13-25;- (e) Pol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 4257

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Literary collections of Thomas Birch; 18th cent. The contents are as follows;- (1) Review, partly in Birch's autograph, of Dr. Conyers Middleton's History of the Life of M. T. Cicero; 1741. ff. 1-28. (2) 'Variae Lectiones in Caesaribus Juliani Imperatoris septem codicibus manuscriptis ... cum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item