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41. Sloane MS 2376

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2376
Title:
James Cuninghame [Cunningham]: notes on botany and zoology in East Asia and the Canary Islands, plus correspondence with Juan Baptista Poggio and Isidorus Arteaga de la Guerra
Scope & Content:
Public Domain in most countries other than the UK. Includes: 1. Plantae in Insula Palma Collectae Mense Januario 1697/1698, ff 5-9. 2. Copy correspondence between Cuninghame and Juan Baptista Poggio, 1698, ff 10-21; and copy correspondence between Cuninghame and Isidorus Arteaga de la Guerra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1706
Extent:
1 volume

42. Sloane MS 2393

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2393
Title:
Undang-undang
Scope & Content:
In Malay in Jawi script. Undang-undang, legal text focusing on criminal law (hukum jenayah). Begins, Inilah bab takzir, ‘This is the section on punishment’, and presents definitions of and punishments for murder, injury, adultery, slander, theft and banditry, concluding with a final section on...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Malay
Date Range:
before 1753
Extent:
21 folios

43. Sloane MS 2435

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2435
Title:
Aldobrandino of Siena, Le Régime du corps; Gautier of Metz, L'Image du monde
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-76v: Aldobrandino da Siena, Le Régime du corps, a handbook on health, composed for Beatrice de Savoie (b. 1220, d. 1266), according to the prologue; the contents are based mainly on Latin translations of Arabic medical texts. There are 68 manuscripts surviving in two textual f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1265-1270
Extent:

1 volume

44. Sloane MS 2462

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2462
Title:
Scope & Content:
Lucius Cælius Firmianus Lactantius: Institutiones divinæ: 15th cent.: Imperf.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

45. Sloane MS 2560

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2560
Title:
Alchemical compilation
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-18r: Donum Dei (also known as the Pretiosissimum donum Dei). The beginning of this copy has the same initial paragraphs as found in another popular alchemical treatise, the Rosarium (according to the 1550 printed edition). Decoration: Eleven painted miniatures, the first acc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

46. Sloane MS 2645

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2645
Title:
Mukhtasar Ba Fadl or Muqaddimat al-Hadrami, here going under the title Masa'il al-ta'lim
Scope & Content:
Dated Hadha ashkala (i.e. sengkala) al-jawi min faraghihi 1545 (AD 1623/4). Arabic text with interlinear translation in Javanese in Arabic (pegon) script.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Javanese
Date Range:
1623
Extent:
120 folios

47. Sloane MS 2683

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2683
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, use of Sarum, made in Bruges for the English market. The manuscript includes: ff. 3r-8v: Calendar, including English saints: octave of St Thomas, Milburga, Edward, Cuthbert, Richard, Bishop of Chichester, Alphege, Dunstan, Augustine of Canterbury ('Augustini anglorum'), Translati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-1400
Extent:

1 volume

48. Sloane MS 2732 A

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2732 A
Title:
Genealogical roll chronicle from Noah to Henry VI of England
Scope & Content:
A genealogical roll chronicle beginning with Noah and tracing the lineage of the Kings of England through Brutus to Henry VI (r. 1422-1461, 1470-1471), consisting of a genealogical diagram with a series of roundels accompanied by brief biographical entries. The roll is believed to have been mad...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1438-1441
Extent:
1 roll

49. Sloane MS 3115

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3115
Title:
Hymns, rhymed psalms, services for marriage and baptism, etc., in Malay.
Scope & Content:
A collection of hymns, psalms and Christian services, in Malay in romanised script. With notes in Dutch in a 17th-century hand. This manuscript was probably written in the Moluccas. The flyleaf mentions the name Cornelius van der Sluijs, and a note in Dutch stating that in the year 1672 he sai...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Malay
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
73 folios

50. Sloane MS 3188

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3188
Title:
John Dee's conferences with angels
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–169v: John Dee's conferences with angels, 22 December 1581–30 May 1583, in five books. It precedes the other conferences printed by Meric Casaubon in 1659. Elias Ashmole made a fair copy of this manuscript, which is now Sloane MS 3677. These are records of messages delivered by angels and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1581-1693
Extent:
1 volume

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