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21. Add MS 4454

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KATHERINE AUSTEN COLLECTANEA Essays, meditations, memoranda, etc., in prose and verse by Katherine Austen, 'Book M'; 1664-1668. A note (f. 1) states that her husband was born 11 Aug. 1622 and died 31 Oct. 1658 (? Thomas Austen of London, matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford, 24 Apr. 1640). B...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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1664-1668
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22. Add MS 4469

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'SOME OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS ON FIRE, in order to discover Its Nature, and Laws of Motion', by William Hillary, M.D. Printed in 1760, with alterations and additions, as The Nature, Properties, and Laws of Motion of Fire. Paper; ff. 28. Small quarto. XVIII cent. William Hillary, MD: 'Some ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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18th century
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23. Add MS 4246

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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES BY THOMAS BIRCH, relating to British and foreign persons, arranged alphabetically, with references to printed works concerning their lives and works; 18th cent. The MS. was originally a 17th-cent. commonplace book with ethical headings and some entries, which was utilised by B...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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17th century-18th century
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'TWO DISSERTATIONS concerning the Etymology and Scripturemeaning of the Hebrew words, Elohim and Berith ... By Tho. Sharp, D. D., Archdeacon of Northumberland and Prebendary of Durham'. Autograph. The dedicatory letter to Robert Spearman (f. 2) is dated 'Rothbury, Sept. 22. 1750'. 'ne work was...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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1750
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25. Add MS 4386

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TREATISE on 'The Practical Part of Printing', being probably the projected second volume of The General History of Printing by Samuel Palmer, 1732. Palmer circulated a prospectus in 1729 for 'The Practical Part of Printing', but this was never published (cf. E. C. Bigmore and C. W. H. Wyman, A B...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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c 1729
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1 item

26. Add MS 4251

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NOTE-BOOKS OF THOMAS BIRCH containing various literary and biographical memoranda, principally from the Harley MSS; 18th cent. Included is a list of persons who received presentation copies of Birch's Life of Prince Henry, 1760 (f. 122). French and English. Paper; ff. 122. Duodecimo. XVIII cent....
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Western Manuscripts
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English and French
Date Range:
18th century
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1 item

27. Add MS 4296

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EDWARD FRANKLIN LETTER-BOOK Letter-Book of Edward Franklin, Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge (1610-1623), Rector of St. Lawrence, co. Essex (1621), and of Great and Little Cressingham, co. Norf. (1622), ejected circ. 1644, chaplain to Lord Chancellor Bacon (cf. note by Birch, f. 180, and A...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1601-1630
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1 item

28. Add MS 4368

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'JOHANNIS MÜLLERI, V.D.M. et Hist. Eccles. apud Tig. Prof., Compendii Historiae Ecclesiasticae Pars Prima, descripta ac excepta a Johanne Rodolpho Wetstenio, Basiliensi. Tiguri. MDCLXII'. This first part, comprising the first six centuries, is followed (f. 46) by the 'Liber Secundus' which inclu...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
1662
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1 item

29. Add MS 4405

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ARITHMETICAL EXERCISE BOOK of Thomas Massey; 1720. Paper; ff. 70. Quarto. A.D. 1720. Thomas Massey: Arithmetical exercise book: 1720. Mathematics: Arithmetical exercise book of Thomas Massey: 1720.
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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1720
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30. Add MS 4467

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COMMONPLACE-BOOK, etc., 17th- 18th cent.; as follows:- (1) Commonplace book, consisting of illustrations, drawn chiefly from the times of the Greeks and Romans, of the meanings of various abstract nouns, anonymous; 17th cent. With an index (f. 1b). ff. 1b-51, 52b-59b (rev.) and 131 b- 133b (re...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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17th century-18th century
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1 item