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22. Sloane MS 807
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 807
- Title:
- Physician's folding almanac
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: Physician's portable almanac, including a calendar (ff. 1-8) and tables of eclipses of the sun and moon. The tables include dates from 1444 to 1519. One of 29 English folding almanacs, of which 10 are in the British Library: see Carey, Folded Almanac (2003). Decoration: Calendar ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- c. 1444
- Extent:
-
6 parchment folios, each folded into 8 parts
23. Sloane MS 809
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 809
- Title:
- Walter of Bibbesworth, Tretiz de langage
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: Walter of Bibbesworth ('Biblesworth'), Tretiz de langage, a poem in Anglo-Norman French verse with an English glossary, composed in the mid 13th century as a tool for teaching useful French vocabulary to English landowners. It exists in a long and a short version. This text resembles...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman, English, and French
- Date Range:
- c 1300
- Extent:
-
1 roll
24. Sloane MS 814
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 814
- Title:
- Accounts of jewels presented to Queen Elizabeth I, 1572-1587
- Scope & Content:
- Account of jewels presented to Queen Elizabeth I between 1572-1587. f. 1r Title page: ‘In this booke are contained all siche Juells as are delyvered to Maistres Ktherine Howarde one of the gentlewomen of her Majesty’s privye chamber, from time to time to her highnes use as hereafter foloweth’....
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1572-1587
- Extent:
- 1 volume
25. Sloane MS 823
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 823
- Title:
- Michael Wallace, poem on the Gunpowder Plot
- Scope & Content:
- Latin poem on the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, by Michael Wallace, Professor of Philosophy at Glasgow. With marginal corrections and notes. Printed in 1606 by Richard Field, as Michael Valesius [Wallace], In serenissimi Regis Jacobi, Britanniae magnae, Galliarum, Hiberniae, &c monarchae. Ab imma...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1605-1606
- Extent:
- 1 volume
26. Sloane MS 1009/1
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 1009/1
- Title:
- Collection of miscellaneous papers, including the Memoriale Credencium; Reclusorium Anime; Three Workings on Man's Soul; Geoffrey Chaucer, Tale of Melibeus; Speculum sacerdotis; Computacio daniele prophete sive sompniale; Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus; Astrological tracts; Correspondence of Gédéon Bonnivert; Collection of puzzles with cards and dice in French; Gédéon Bonnivert, L'A. B. C. du Monde; De virtutibus herbarum; Marcus Tullius Cicero, De officiis
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript is the first part of a large collection of miscellaneous texts, tracts, and letters that may have been gathered by Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), and is now divided in two parts. The second part is Sloane MS 1009/2. The collection contains a large number of early modern it...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
27. Sloane MS 1009/2
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 1009/2
- Title:
- Collection of early modern literary papers in English and French
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript is the second part of a large collection of miscellaneous texts, tracts and letters that may have been gathered by Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), and is now divided in two parts. The first part is Sloane MS 1009/1. The manuscript contains a large number of early modern ite...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
28. Sloane MS 1047
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 1047
- Title:
- Medical recipes devised by King Henry VIII and his royal physicians
- Scope & Content:
- An important witness to the amateur interest in and practice of pharmaceutical medicine by King Henry VIII (b. 1491, d. 1547). Contains a collection of more than 100 medical recipes that have been organised into six sections: plasters; spasmadraps (dipped plasters); ointments; balms; waters, lot...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- c. 1540-c. 1545
- Extent:
- 1 volume
29. Sloane MS 1156
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 1156
- Title:
- Account of the journey of Henri Auguste de Loménie de Brienne, Seigneur de la Ville-aux-Clercs, to England as Ambassador Extraordinary, 1624
- Scope & Content:
- This is an account of the journey of Henri -Auguste, Seigneur de la Ville-aux-Clercs, later Comte de Brienne (1594-1666), to England, 20 Nov 1624-15 Jan 1625, as Ambassador Extraordinary to ratify the articles of marriage between Henrietta Maria and the Prince of Wales, afterwards Charles I. Alo...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French
- Date Range:
- 1624-1699
- Extent:
- 1 volume
30. Sloane MS 1338
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Sloane MS 1338
- Title:
- ლოცვანი (Book of prayers)
- Scope & Content:
- The manuscript contains 2 acathistic works in honour of Christ and the Most Holy Mother of God. There are also insertions by later hands - prayers and momentos. Most of the prayers are headed as being from the Liturgy.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Georgian
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 manuscript