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11. Sloane MS 446

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 446
Title:
Compilation of astronomical and astrological material, including excerpts from Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe'
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-104v: Compilation of astronomical and astrological material, entitled 'Astronomiae aphorismi', including excerpts from Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe' (ff. 50r, 56r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

12. Sloane MS 702

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 702
Title:
Collection of texts, excerpts and notes on astrology and astronomy, with accompanying tables and diagrams
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Added ownership inscriptions and former shelfmarks. ff. 1v-33v: A collection of texts, excerpts and brief notes on astrology and astronomy, using or citing authorities including Al-Qabisi (or Alcabitius), Mashallah ibn Athari (or Messahallah), Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (or Album...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

13. Sloane MS 718

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 718
Title:
John Clapham, 'Observations concerning the life and reign of Elizabeth Queen of England'
Scope & Content:
Digest of Elizabethan history, compiled by John Clapham (1566-1619), poet and historian. Containing an account of the life and death of Sir William Cecil (1520/21-1598), first Baron Burghley, Clapham’s former master. With corrections and deletions. f. 1r Title page: ‘Certain Observations concer...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1603
Extent:
1 volume

14. Sloane MS 745

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 745
Title:
Hippiatrica or Horse Medicine
Scope & Content:
Hippiatrica or Horse Medicine.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

1 volume

15. Sloane MS 809

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 809
Title:
Walter of Bibbesworth, Tretiz de langage
Scope & Content:
Contents: Walter of Bibbesworth ('Biblesworth'), Tretiz de langage, a poem in Anglo-Norman French verse with an English glossary, composed in the mid 13th century as a tool for teaching useful French vocabulary to English landowners. It exists in a long and a short version. This text resembles...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, and French
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:

1 roll

16. Sloane MS 814

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 814
Title:
Accounts of jewels presented to Queen Elizabeth I, 1572-1587
Scope & Content:
Account of jewels presented to Queen Elizabeth I between 1572-1587. f. 1r Title page: ‘In this booke are contained all siche Juells as are delyvered to Maistres Ktherine Howarde one of the gentlewomen of her Majesty’s privye chamber, from time to time to her highnes use as hereafter foloweth’....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1572-1587
Extent:
1 volume

17. Sloane MS 823

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 823
Title:
Michael Wallace, poem on the Gunpowder Plot
Scope & Content:
Latin poem on the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, by Michael Wallace, Professor of Philosophy at Glasgow. With marginal corrections and notes. Printed in 1606 by Richard Field, as Michael Valesius [Wallace], In serenissimi Regis Jacobi, Britanniae magnae, Galliarum, Hiberniae, &c monarchae. Ab imma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1605-1606
Extent:
1 volume

18. Sloane MS 1009/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1009/1
Title:
Collection of miscellaneous papers, including the Memoriale Credencium; Reclusorium Anime; Three Workings on Man's Soul; Geoffrey Chaucer, Tale of Melibeus; Speculum sacerdotis; Computacio daniele prophete sive sompniale; Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus; Astrological tracts; Correspondence of Gédéon Bonnivert; Collection of puzzles with cards and dice in French; Gédéon Bonnivert, L'A. B. C. du Monde; De virtutibus herbarum; Marcus Tullius Cicero, De officiis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the first part of a large collection of miscellaneous texts, tracts, and letters that may have been gathered by Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), and is now divided in two parts. The second part is Sloane MS 1009/2. The collection contains a large number of early modern it...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

19. Sloane MS 1009/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1009/2
Title:
Collection of early modern literary papers in English and French
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second part of a large collection of miscellaneous texts, tracts and letters that may have been gathered by Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), and is now divided in two parts. The first part is Sloane MS 1009/1. The manuscript contains a large number of early modern ite...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

20. Sloane MS 1047

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1047
Title:
Medical recipes devised by King Henry VIII and his royal physicians
Scope & Content:
An important witness to the amateur interest in and practice of pharmaceutical medicine by King Henry VIII (b. 1491, d. 1547). Contains a collection of more than 100 medical recipes that have been organised into six sections: plasters; spasmadraps (dipped plasters); ointments; balms; waters, lot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1540-c. 1545
Extent:
1 volume

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