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1. Add MS 5238

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Add MS 5238
Title:
Miscellaneous figure drawings and architectural drawings by Christopher Wren, Robert Hooke and others
Scope & Content:
Architectural and figure drawings by various draughtsmen. Among them are architectural drawings by Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke relating to the design of the Monument to the Great Fire of London. The drawings are executed on paper and pasted on the folios of the album. Summary description o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:

1 volume (94 items)

2. Sloane MS 3452

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Sloane MS 3452
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Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-51 Robert Scott, bookseller, of London: Catalogus librorum ex ejus impresso catalogo extractus opera J. Hooke: 1676. ff. 1-51 Moses Pitt, bookseller and publisher, of London: Catalogus librorum ex impressis catalogis ejus bibliothecæ collectus opera J. Hooke: 1676. ff. 1-51 Oxfo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1667-1677
Extent:
1 item

3. Sloane MS 643

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Sloane MS 643
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Scope & Content:
Samuel Bellingham, MD: Extracts from S. Boulton's "Medicina magica tamen physica," and from R. Hooke's "Micrographia": late 17th cent. includes: ff. 1-17 b Samuel Boulton, 'Salop': Extracts from his "Medicina magica, tamen physica 1665 " [1656] by Dr. S. Bellingham: late 17th cent. ff. 18-21 R...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Sloane MS 1039

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Sloane MS 1039
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Scope & Content:
Robert Hooke, FRS: Collection of scientific papers and letters: 17th cent. includes: ff. 1-25 b Geography: Papers of Dr. R. Hooke rel. to the "English Atlas," printed at Oxford: 1680-1683. ff. 1-25 b Moses Pitt, bookseller and publisher, of London: Papers relating to "the English Atlas": 1680-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Sloane MS 917

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Sloane MS 917
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Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-65 b George Hough, of St. John's Coll., Cambr: Diagrammata ad B. Varenii Geographiam Generalem: 1671.: Autogr. ff.1-65b Bernardus Varenius: Diagrammata ad ejus geographiam generalem, per G. Hough: 1671. f. 2 Robert Hooke, FRS: Letter to, from J. Hough: [1671]. ff. 66-77 b Henry ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Sloane MS 698

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Sloane MS 698
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Scope & Content:
London; SOCIETIES, SCIENTIFIC. ROYAL SOCIETY: Papers read before, 10 June,1663-27 July,1664.: circ. 1700.: Transcribed. includes: f. 1 Colonel Robert Long: Observations on smut in corn, read before the Royal Society,: 10 June, 1663. ff. 9-17 b Sir Paul Neile, Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamb...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1700
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 5272

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Add MS 5272
Title:
Drawings of amphibians and reptiles by Eleazar Albin and others
Scope & Content:
Drawings of reptiles and amphibians executed in a variety of techniques, primarily watercolour, pencil, ink and chalk. The only exceptions are items 21 and 60, which are etchings. Various drawings bear inscriptions in English, some of which are abbreviated cross-references to James Petiver's Gaz...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (60 items)

8. Sloane MS 3828

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Sloane MS 3828
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Scope & Content:
Owners of Manuscripts: Sommers (John), Lord Chancellor. includes: ff. 1-46 b James I of England: Narrative of the divorce between Lord Essex and his wife in 1613, written by Archbishop Abbot.: 17th cent.: Copy. ff. 1-47 Lady Frances Howard, daughter of Thomas, 1st Earl of Suffolk, and wife (1)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1599-17th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Sloane MS 1048

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Sloane MS 1048
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Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-57 Publius Cornelius Tacitus: Translation by Sir E. Sherburne, of Sieur N. Amelot de la Houssaye's Moralia of Tacitus: late 17th cent. ff. 1-58 Sir Edward Sherburne, Clerk of the Ordnance: P. [C.] C. Tacitus, his morals, of flattery particularly towards princes, with remarks the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Sloane MS 1942

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Sloane MS 1942
Title:
Scope & Content:
Sloane 1942 Paper, in folio, ff. 36, XVII Century; Papers of Dr. Nehemiah Grew one of the Secretaries of the Royal Society. 1. Three copies of the circular letter sent by Dr. N. Grew and Dr. Robert Hook, Secretaries of the Royal Society, to their Foreign Correspondents to inform them of the el...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item