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41. Sloane MS 1686

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1686
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-295v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, imperfect at the beginning. The Tales are arranged in the following order: ff. 1r-13r: The General Prologue, beginning imperfectly. ff. 13r-49v: The Knight's Tale. ff. 49v-51r: The Miller's Prologue. ff. 51r-61v: The Miller...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

42. Sloane MS 116

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 116
Title:
A small-size luxury prayerbook
Scope & Content:
This small-sized luxury prayerbook was produced in France around 1520, but apparently owned by an anonymous English woman in or before 1530. It features holograph inscriptions of King Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey addressed to her. The manuscript’s full-page illustrations are in the style of th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1520
Extent:
1 volume

43. Sloane MS 3983

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3983
Title:
Georgius Fendulus, Liber astrologiae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Liber astrologiae of Georgius Fendulus (12th century), an abbreviated Latin version of the astrological work of Abu Ma'shar (b. 787, d. 886). It is a close copy of Paris, BnF, MS Lat. 7330 (1220-40), and it may have served as the exemplar for New York, Morgan Library...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

44. Sloane MS 1774

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1774
Title:
Euripides, Hippolytus (TLG 0006.038) with marginal scholia in Greek and Latin
Scope & Content:
Euripides, Hippolytus (TLG 0006.038) with marginal scholia in Greek and Latin, ff 1r-45r, followed by a note on παιανισμός, f 45v. The Greek text of the Hippolytus is a copy of the Aldine edition.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

1 volume

45. Sloane MS 3188

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3188
Title:
John Dee's conferences with angels
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–169v: John Dee's conferences with angels, 22 December 1581–30 May 1583, in five books. It precedes the other conferences printed by Meric Casaubon in 1659. Elias Ashmole made a fair copy of this manuscript, which is now Sloane MS 3677. These are records of messages delivered by angels and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1581-1693
Extent:
1 volume

46. Sloane MS 324

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 324
Title:
Michael Apostolis, Oratio ad Discipulos Suos, autograph copy
Scope & Content:
Autograph copy of an invective by Michael Apostolis, Greek humanist, directed against his student Emmanuel Atramyttenos and another Emmanuel (possibly, Manuel Gregoropoulos, according to Barker p. 14). Tit. Μιχαήλου Ἀποστόλη τοῦ Βυζαντίου, Λόγος κατὰ Ἐμμανουηλοῖν μιαρωτάτοιν αὐτοῦ φοιτηταῖν, τοῦ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1460?
Extent:

1 volume

47. Sloane MS 4080

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 4080
Title:
'Camellus. Drawings from the Philippine Islands' Vol. I
Scope & Content:
Drawings and descriptions of plants from the Philippines by George Joseph Kamel. Volume 1 of 6. This volume contains 123 sheets of annotated drawings and 16 sheets containing descriptions of the plants. Many of the plants in this volume were described in an appendix to the third volume of John...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1686-1706
Extent:
1 volume. (135 folios)

48. Sloane MS 261

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 261
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', revised by Walter Stevins
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a revised version of Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', undertaken by an otherwise unknown editor called Walter Stevins, and dedicated by him to Edward Courtenay (b. c. 1527, d. 1556), 1st Earl of Devon. The volume can be dated between 1553, the year Courten...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1553-1556
Extent:
1 volume

49. Sloane MS 3651

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3651
Title:
William Bourne, mathematical manuscript dedicated to William Cecil
Scope & Content:
A treatise (untitled and undated) on gunnery, survey, surveying instruments, the measurement of surfaces and solids, and other mathematical practices. It was dedicated to William Cecil, first Baron Burghley in 1573, and includes several diagrams. The manuscript is divided into three parts and s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1572-1573
Extent:
1 volume

50. Sloane MS 3191

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3191
Title:
John Dee's notes on ceremonial magic
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–80v: The only book of ceremonial magic extant in John Dee's hand. ff. 1r–13r: The forty eight angelical keys, received at diverse times from 13 April to 13 July 1584 at Cracow, Poland. ['48 Claves Angelicae, anno 1584: Cracoviae, ab Aprilis 13o, ad Julii 13mi, (diuersis temporibus) Recep...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1584-1585
Extent:
1 volume

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