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51. Sloane MS 3189

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3189
Title:
The Book of Enoch
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–65r: Liber Mysteriorum Sextus et Sanctus or The Book of Enoch or Liber Logaeth, transcribed by Sir Edward Kelley in 1583. These angelic conversations and visions largely (from f. 10r onwards) take the form of letters and numbers which fill grids of 49 rows by 49 columns. The manuscript ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1583
Extent:
1 volume

52. Sloane MS 3191

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3191
Title:
John Dee's notes on ceremonial magic
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–80v: The only book of ceremonial magic extant in John Dee's hand. ff. 1r–13r: The forty eight angelical keys, received at diverse times from 13 April to 13 July 1584 at Cracow, Poland. ['48 Claves Angelicae, anno 1584: Cracoviae, ab Aprilis 13o, ad Julii 13mi, (diuersis temporibus) Recep...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1584-1585
Extent:
1 volume

53. Sloane MS 3259

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3259
Title:
Trading permit from the king of Mrauk U in Arakan
Scope & Content:
Trading permit in Persian issued by King Chandrawizaya (r. 1710-1731) of the kingdom of Mrauk U in Arakan in Myanmar (Burma), to the Armenian merchant Khwajeh Georgin in Chennaipattana (Madras), granting permission to trade in elephants and ivory, dated in the Burmese era 14 Sha‘bān sanat 1090 Ma...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
1728
Extent:
1 item

54. Sloane MS 3460

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3460
Title:
Letter from the Trinh Lord to the English East India Company
Scope & Content:
Content: Letter from Trịnh Tac, the ruler of Tonkin (r. 1657-1682) in the form of an illuminated scroll written in the Vietnamese language in Chinese (Han Nom) characters, probably despatched in 1673). In 1672 the first English East India Company ship arrived in Tonkin in North Vietnam, and in ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Vietnamese
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 scroll

55. Sloane MS 3651

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3651
Title:
William Bourne, mathematical manuscript dedicated to William Cecil
Scope & Content:
A treatise (untitled and undated) on gunnery, survey, surveying instruments, the measurement of surfaces and solids, and other mathematical practices. It was dedicated to William Cecil, first Baron Burghley in 1573, and includes several diagrams. The manuscript is divided into three parts and s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1572-1573
Extent:
1 volume

56. Sloane MS 3809

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3809
Title:
Alchemical treatises and verses
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–56v: A volume of alchemical verses and treatises written in chronological order, including George Ripley's Compound of Alchemy. ff. 1v–2r: Poems in Latin about alchemy. ff. 2v–3v: The Boast of Mercury. Begins 'I am [Mercury] most mighty & flos florum', ends 'Seke forth folys as ye h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

57. Sloane MS 3972 B

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3972 B
Title:
Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Sir Hans Sloane
Scope & Content:
Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet: Catalogues of his MSS.: 18th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1758-1764
Extent:
1 volume

58. Sloane MS 3972 C/6

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3972 C/6
Title:
Catalogue of Sir Hans Sloane's Library, Volume VI
Scope & Content:
pp 1971-2524
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1692-1964
Extent:
1 volume

59. Sloane MS 3983

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3983
Title:
Georgius Fendulus, Liber astrologiae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Liber astrologiae of Georgius Fendulus (12th century), an abbreviated Latin version of the astrological work of Abu Ma'shar (b. 787, d. 886). It is a close copy of Paris, BnF, MS Lat. 7330 (1220-40), and it may have served as the exemplar for New York, Morgan Library...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

60. Sloane MS 4016

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 4016
Title:
Herbal
Scope & Content:
An Italian Herbal, classified by Baumann as one of the 'North Italian group' and as a copy of Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, MS Masson 116 (see Baumann, Das Erbario Carrarese, 1974). Decoration: Full-page miniatures on each folio of plants in colours, mostly in greens and brown...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1440
Extent:

1 volume

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