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1. Add MS 5253

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Title:
'Collections of Costumes of various nations, Chiefly Indian; Chinese Buildings, &c.', from the Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, by different hands
Scope & Content:
Drawings of inhabitants of several parts of the world from a variety of sources. Drawings 1-2, 8-11, 14-17, 23-25 and 28-29 are associated with the traveller and artist, John White (fl. 1577-1593). Hans Sloane commissioned watercolour copies from an album now in the British Museum Prints &...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (78 drawings)

2. Add MS 5259

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Title:
Drawings and notes on human and animal anatomy
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains anatomical images and representations of pathological conditions affecting the human body. Some of the inscriptions on these drawings feature historic language. Where these inscriptions have been transcribed, they are enclosed in inverted commas. Drawings and manuscript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (231 items)

3. Add MS 5289

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Title:
‘Miscellaneous Drawings of various Plants, Flowers, and Fruits in Indian-Ink, and colours, by different hands’, from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane
Scope & Content:
Album of drawings of plants by miscellaneous hands and of differing origin and date. The first 99 drawings in this album are those of Philippine plants sent by the Jesuit Georg Joseph Kamel (1661-1706) to James Petiver (1665-1718), many of which were used as the basis for the engravings in Pet...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Sloane MS 745, ff 1r-21v

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Sloane MS 745, ff 1r-21v
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Scope & Content:
Table of contents, ff 2r-21v, preceded by later notes; 'Hypposophica Hieroclis f.(?) 39', f 1r, 'In hoc codice non modo longe alius ordo est sed et longe/ plura habentur, quam in editione Basilensi anni 1537', f 1*v, the latter identified as the hand of Jan de Witt by Humphrey Wanley in his catal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
22 folios

5. Sloane MS 745, ff 22r-245r

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Sloane MS 745, ff 22r-245r
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Scope & Content:
Hippiatrica divided into chapters, and citing various authors, ff 22r-244r. ff 206r-207v are inserted leaves (text similar to Dionysius Thrax, Ars Grammatica, f 206r; draft letter by an anonymous author, inc. ἐγὼ μὲν καὶ πρόσθεν, expl. mut. ὅπερ μοι τῶν δυνατῶν ἦν, f 207v). Followed by a verse co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
224 folios

6. Sloane MS 807

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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

7. 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

8. Sloane MS 1350

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Sloane MS 1350
Title:
ფსალმუნნი (A Psalter)
Scope & Content:
The Psalms, divided into 20 books.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Georgian
Date Range:
16th to 17th century
Extent:
1 manuscript

9. Sloane MS 2250

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Sloane MS 2250
Title:
Physician's folding almanac
Scope & Content:
Contents: A portable copy of the Kalendarium of John Somer (ff. 3r-10r), with a zodiac man diagram (f. 12r) and tables of eclipses of the sun and moon (ff. 13v-14r, 15r-16r). The calendar includes tables for 1482 to 1501 (f. 3r). One of 29 English folding almanacs, of which 10 are in the Bri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

8 parchment folios, each folded into six parts

10. Sloane MS 2376

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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