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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8642
Title:: PAPERS RELATING TO THE WAR OF CANDIA; 1667-1669. Italian. Copy. Imperfect. A collection of diaries reporting the Venetian military actions in Crete from 22 May 1667 to 14 April 1669. The MS. is described (with incorrect shelfmark 8652) by Foligno, anno 6, t. xi (1906), pt. i, no. xlviii, p. 176. It is also mentioned by Hasluck, p. 203, n. 4. Armorial bookplate of 5th Earl of Guilford with shelfmark 'L/20/C' (front pastedown). '360' in pencil in top right corner of armorial bookplate. Purchas...
Scope & Content:: Bindings: Full vellum on pasteboards with decorated paper pastedowns and flyleaves: late 17th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford: bef. 1828. Military Tactics: War: Venice: Mohammad IV; Sultan of Turkey: Ibrahim; Sultan of Turkey: Greece: Island of Crete: Papers rel. to war ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1667-1669
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8643
Title:: RELAZIONE OF THE ISLAND OF CHIOS; 1810. Italian. Account of the island with geographical description of it and information on finances and trade. Apparently complited by Domenico Luigi Santi, priest of Chios (see Kanellakē, op. cit. below, p. 488). The MS. is entitled (f. 1) 'Breve Relazione dell'Isola di Scio / 1810'. Inc. (f. 2) 'Colla maggior brevità a dar m'accingo le più esate notizie', expl. (f. 14) 'e stimerò ben pagati i miei sudori'. It is mentioned by Hasluck, p. 202. The text was ...
Scope & Content:: Domenico Luigi Santi, of Chios; priest: Relazione of Chios, complited by: 1810: Ital. Bookplates and Book-stamps: Frederick North, later 5th Earl of Guilford (L/7/D): bef. 1817. Trade and Commerce: Island of Chios: Geography: Greece: Relazione of Chios: 1810: Ital.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1810
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15326
Title:: A VOLUME Of maps and plans of Greece and the Archipelago, viz. Teatro della Guerra di Monte Negro, 1769;-Coast of Macedonia and Rumelia;-Southern part of Rumelia;-Achaia vetus et Nova;-Greece (three maps) ;-Golfe de la Previsa ;-Thermopyles (three maps) ;-Passage de l'Isle Longue ou Macro-Nisi;-Temple de Céres à Eleusis;-Golfe de Naples de Romanie (two plans);-Nemée ;-Olimpie ;-Le Port Pirée, par Sidney Smith;-Golfe d'Egine, par le Marquis de Chabert, 1776;-Isle de Corfou (two plans) ;-Lac e...
Scope & Content:: Macro-Nisi Island: Passage de l'isla Longue, on Macro- Nisi. Ægina: Map of the gulf of, by Marqtiis de Chabert: 1776. Comte de Bonneval: Plan de la ville et fort de Tenedos: 1784. Joseph Bernard de Chabert, Marquis; Admiral: Map of the gulph of Ægina: 1776. Château Rouge, Port of France: Mou...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1769-1784
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22914
Title:
Scope & Content:: AUTOGRAPH journals of Dr. John Covel during his travels in Asia Minor, Greece, Switzerland, Italy, and France; 16 Feb. 1676/7 12 Feb. 1679/80 . Appended are 1. Notes on the laws and customs of the Turks. Ital. and Eng. ff. 100, 103-143. 2. "A Narrative of ye present state of Transilvania out o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: [16 Feb 1677-12 Feb 1680]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 29513
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. I. FOUR sheets of the original manuscript of the "History of Greece," as sent to the press, containing part of the account of the siege of Halikarnassus [Vol. XII. pp. 128-133; ed. 1856], with numerous erasures and corrections. Folio. George Grote: Four sheets of his History of Greece: 19t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 29514
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. II. NOTES relating chiefly to Grecian History, but also to the Italian Republics, the German Imperial cities, and kindred subjects; with extracts from Machiavelli, Sismondi, Gibbon, d'Alembert, Robertson, and other authors. The notes date from 1818 to about 1831, and are written on detached...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1818-c 1831
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 29515
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. III. COMMON PLACES relatng to Grecian History, collected between the years 1818-1824; arranged under various heads, such as Archons, Religion, Finances, etc., with an index of subjects. Folio. George Grote: Notes and essays on Greek history: 1815-1867. Greece: Notes and essays on Greek hi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1818-1824
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 29516
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. IV. Notes relating to Grecian History, made in 1828; together with others treating more especially of Greek Philosophy, made between 1840-1850; the whole written on slips and pasted in at various times, the collection being finally completed in the winter of 1867. Folio. George Grote: Note...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1840-1867
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 29517
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. V. NOTES relating to Grecian History and subjects bearing upon it, written on slips between the years 1826-1832, and pasted into the volume at intervals during 1864-1867. At the end are newspaper cuttings from the "Times" and "Morning Chronicle," Dec. 1832-Jan. 1833, on the subject of the B...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1826-1867
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 29518
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. VI. NOTES relating to Grecian History, written on slips between the years 1824-1840, and pasted upon cloth. Folio. George Grote: Notes and essays on Greek history: 1815-1867. Greece: Notes and essays on Greek history, by G. Grote: 1815-1867.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1824-1840
Extent:: 1 item

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