TABLES Of the strength and expense of the Sardinian army, circ. 1751. Three tables, in French. Small Quarto. Charles Emmanuel III; King of Sardinia: Statistics of the Sardinian army: circ. 1751.: Fr.
PAPERS relating to the House of Savoy and the kingdom of Sardinia, in Italian, viz.: — 1. Record of the Princes of the House of Savoy who have acquired territories for it, with a list of the territories thus acquired, and of the manner of acquisition, arranged geographically; 1755. ff. 1, 18. ...
Account of the political position in Malta and Sicily, with a description of the character and administration of Malta; [1806]. Perhaps by [George Annesley,] Lord Valentia, whose name is on the cover; but the contents are not in his hand. Paper; ff. 23. Small Folio. Island of Sicily: Account of...
1. "ABRÉGÉ de l'Estat present de l'Empire Ottoman": an accouut of the various officials of the Turkish government and army, with a list of the administrative divisions of each province, dated Paris, 1709. Fi.ench. ff. 1-37. 2. Privileges bestowed on English merchants, travellers, etc., by Sult...
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; Cuthbert, Epistola de Obitu Bede with Bede's Death Song; Folcard of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis (extracts); Aelred of Rielvaulx, Vita Sancti Edwardi Regis et Confessoris; Hugh of Saint-Victor, De Beate Marie Virginitate (extract)
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Contents: ff. 1r-112r: Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People), includes the last paragraph of the prologue at the end (f. 112r). ff. 112v-113v: Cuthbert (fl. 735), abbot of Wearmouth and Jarrow, Epistola de...
" HISTORIA ANGLIAE, maxime in iis quae ad ecclesiam spectant": the original MS. of part of the Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica of Nicholas Harpsfield, Fellow of New College, Oxford, Regius Professor of Greek 1546, Archdeacon of Canterbury 1554, imprisoned under Elizabeth for refusing the oath o...
" DE SAECULIS xiv. et xv., de Romanis pontificibus, de Regibus Angliæ ab Ed. 2 ad Hen. 8 " : the last two books of Harpsfield's Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica (cf. description of Stowe 105). This is a fair copy of the books containing the history of the 14th and l5th centuries. With the signat...
" ANNALS of Church affaires happening vnder the reigne of king Henry the second, king of England, and of the contemporary outlandish Princes, togither with other famous occurrents of that time, deliuered in the words of the ancient authors themselues who writ the seuerall passages. Wherein (amon...
" THE APOLOGY Of the Church of England " : a translation of the " Apologia pro Ecclesia Anglicana " by John Jewel, D.D., Bishop of Salisbury, first printed in 1562. Paper; ff. 65. A.D. 1727. Belonged to George Bridges. Quarto. John Jewel, DD, Bishop of Salisbury: Translation of his " Apologia p...