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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4109
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Scope & Content:: Vol. I, ff. 203, 1750, 1751. includes: f. 8 City of Geneva: Letter from the Senate to O. Cromwell: circ. 1655.: Fr.: Copy.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1750-1751
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4238
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Scope & Content:: BIRCH'S BURNET COLLECTIONS Collections by Thomas Birch on the life and works of Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, supplemental to the article in Bayle's A General Dictionary; 1702-circ. 1735. The contents are as follows:- (1) Notes on Bishop Burnet, in Birch's hand; circa 1735. ff. 1-35. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1702-c 1735
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4289
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Scope & Content:: Vol. IX (ff. 368). W-Z, misc. includes: f. 1 Robert Whatley, Rector of Toft, county Lincolnshire: Letter to P. Desmaizeaux: 1744. f. 4 Woodrow: Letter to Dr. Fraser: 1726.: Copy. ff. 5, 7 Hugh Wrottesley, of Lincoln's Inn; son of Sir W Wrottesley: Letters to P. Desmaizeaux: 18th cent. f. 8 Edw...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1661-1744
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4365
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Scope & Content:: Vol. II (ff. 399). (1) Johann Heinrich Rahn to J. Pell; Kyburg, near Zurich, 3 March 1658. Latin. ff. 5-6b. (2) John Pell to Theodore Hank, on scientific subjects; 1663, 1664. ff. 13-17b. (3) Ezerel Tonge, D.D., to J. Pell; 8 Oct. 1662. ff. 23-24. (4) John Aubrey, F.R.S., to J. Pell; cir...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1654-1714
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8341
Title:: MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, treatises and other historical papers relating to Rome and its territories, Venice, Spain, France, Savoy, Geneva and Colombia; circa 1558-1724. Italian and Latin. Copies and drafts. The volume was possibly compiled around 1722 during the papacy of Innocent XIII (1721-1724). With several contemporary corrections and additions throughout. Old shelfmark in ink 'XLIX' in lower spine: possibly identifiable with Marefoschi MS. 49 in Guilford's catalogue Add. ...
Scope & Content:: Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 18th cent. France General: Spain, General: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Papers rel. to: circa 1558-1724: Ital. and Lat.: Copies and drafts. includes: ff. 51-71v Bernardo Navagero, Venetian Ambassador at Venice, Rome and Constantinople; afterwa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1558-1724
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8571
Title:: LUDOVICO LUDOVISI: Instructions to Orazio Ludovisi and Matteo Baglioni relating to Valtelline, and to Father Tobia Corona relating to Geneva; 1623, 1621. Italian. Copies. Four instructions drawn up by Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi (1595-1632), Cardinal Nephew and vice-chancellor of Pope Gregory XV. The first three instructions (arts. 1-3) relate to the replacement of Spanish troops in Valtelline by a papal garrison until a resolution on the ruling of the region was reached between Spain, suppor...
Scope & Content:: Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum over pasteboards: late 17th cent. Ludovico Ludovisi, Cardinal: Gregory XV; Pope: Instructions rel. to Valtelline and Geneva by Ludovico Ludovisi: 1623, 1621: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 2-57v Ludovisi, (Orazio), Duke of Fiano: Instructions rel. to Valtelline from...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1621-1623
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8572
Title:: HISTORY OF GENEVA AND ITS CHURCH; 1744. Italian. Copy. A summary history of Geneva composed by an anonymous, possibly a Venetian citizen, identified by the initials 'D. G. M. V. Ven.o' (f. 1). The history is composed of excerpts from the work of the Italian Calvinist historian Gregorio Leti (1630-1701), Historia Genevrina osia Historia della citta e republica di Geneva, pts. i-iii (Amsterdam: Pietro & Abramo van Someren, 1686; B.L. copy 157.b.18). The summary focuses on the religious his...
Scope & Content:: Bindings ITALIAN: Full mottled brown leather over pasteboards with gilt-tooled spine: circa 1744. Bookplates and Book-stamps: Frederick North, later 5th Earl of Guilford (L/21/C): bef. 1817. Gregorio Leti, Italian Calvinist and historian: History of Geneva by D. G. M. V. Ven.o based on his His...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1744
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12124
Title:: VIANI GENAVENSES, seu Geneva Sextanorum Colonia; Prolusio ad Urbis Antiquitates;-Réponses aux Questions de Mr. T. sur l'histoire et le gouvernement de Génève;-Spanhemius de raris numismatibus, ex autograho J. Sharp, Archiepiscopi Eboracensis;-Instructions for using the Sector. xviiith cent. Small Quarto. [12,124]
Scope & Content:: Ezechiel Spanhemius: De raris numismatibus. John Sharp, Archbishop of York 1691: Spanhemius de raris numismatibus, ex ejus autographo. Sector: Instructions for using it. City of Geneva: Geneva Sextanorum colonia. City of Geneva: sur I'hisfoire et le gouvernement de Génève. City of Geneva: R...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15866
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Scope & Content:: VOL. I.-Office Letters from Robert Harley (afterwards Earl of Oxford) Secretary of State, to Alexander Stanhope (Envoy at the Hague), 27 Aug.- 17 Sept. 1706, ff. 2-7, 9, and to James Dayrolle, 17 Sept. 1706-6 Feb. 170 7/8, ff. 8, 10-13, 15-57, 59-74, 78-93, 96;-Letters from Erasmus Lewis, Under-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1706-1716
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15867
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Scope & Content:: VOL. II.-Office Letters to James Dayrolle at Geneva, from Mr. (afterwards Sir Paul) Methuen, Secretary of State, 9 July, 1716-4 Apr. 1717, fr. 1, 4, 7, 10-14, l9;-Letters to the same, from Robert Pringle, Under-Secretary, 16 July, 15 Nov. 1716, 7 Jan.-17 Jan. 171 6/7, If. 2, 6, 8, 9;-Copy of S...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1716-1729
Extent:: 1 item

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