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641. Add MS 72426

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Title:
Diplomatic correspondence, primarily English, 1614-1636
Scope & Content:
This is a file of the Trumbull papers, which came to the family through Georg Rudolph Weckherlin (1584-1653), government official and poet. Wekherlin came to England with experience of government in Württemberg and active support for Frederick V, Elector Palatine and his wife Elizabeth. He was c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Swedish
Date Range:
24 Mar 1614-26 May 1636
Extent:
1 file

642. Add MS 72438

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Title:
Cipher-keys and intercepted royalist correspondence from the papers of Georg Rudolph Weckherlin, government official, 1625-1647
Scope & Content:
Trumbull Papers. Vol. 197. Cipher-keys, c. 1625-1645, and intercepted royalist correspondence, 1645-47, from the papers of Georg Rudolph Weckherlin. Weckherlin, a German immigrant, began his career as a government official, as a diplomatic secretary and cryptographer to various secretaries of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1625-1647
Extent:
1 folder

643. Add MS 74234

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Title:
Petrus Appolonius Collatius, Epistolarum liber ad Pium secundum Pontificem Maximum de exhortatione in Turchos
Scope & Content:
The main text in this volume is a poem by the Italian poet Petrus Appollonius Collatius (b. c. 1435, d. after 1500), also known as Pietro Apollonio Collazio (see https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/pietro-apollonio-massimo-collazio_(Dizionario-Biografico, accessed 2 September 2021). The work is...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

644. Add MS 78176

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Title:
Inventory of goods at Leicester House and Kenilworth Castle
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–45v: Volume IX of the Evelyn Papers. An imperfect, possibly draft inventory of goods at Leicester House and Kenilworth Castle, c. January–May 1582. The inventory of Leicester House (ff. 1r–26v), which incorporates (ff. 2r–6v passim) some notes of valuation, concludes with ‘A note of a new...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c Jan 1582-May 1582
Extent:
1 volume

645. Add MS 78177

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Title:
Earl of Leicester's inventory book
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–84r: Volume X of the Evelyn Papers. ‘An Inventory Booke aswell of Plate Asalso of Hanginges...and other furniture of Houshold of...Therle of Leicesters...as remayneth in the chardge of Dyvers Persons in sundrye his Lordshippes Places Maii 1582...’, c. January–June 1582. Included are list...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c Jan 1582-Jun 1582
Extent:
1 volume

646. Add MS 78178

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Title:
Earl of Leicester's disbursement book, 1584–1586
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–81v: Volume XI of the Evelyn Papers. Imperfect disbursement book of the Earl of Leicester, 1584–1586. The entries, dated 10 and 17 April 1584, 2 October–13 December 1585, 21–31 March and 26 May–30 June 1586, record payments made on Leicester’s warrant to household servants, tradesmen and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1584-1586
Extent:
1 volume

647. Add MS 81592

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Title:
An original letter of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, addressed to an unnamed nobleman, probably the Earl of Rutland
Scope & Content:
This item is an autograph letter, written by Robert Devereux (b. 1565, d. 1601), 2nd Earl of Essex, and addressed to an unnamed nobleman, most likely the Earl of Rutland, offering advice on military service and the pursuit of honour in war. The letter takes the form of a brief discourse and wa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 May [1596]
Extent:
1 bifolium

648. Add MS 82370

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Title:
An Elizabethan anthology ('The Household Book of John Hanson')
Scope & Content:
This provincial household book, compiled around 1590, was originally believed to be the production of one John Stanhope, a 16th-century family patriarch, whose name appears in red ink on the first folio of the manuscript. However, it was subsequently discovered that the dominant hand throughout ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1590
Extent:
1 volume

649. Add MS 82955

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Title:
Historia Animalium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-245r: Liber Animalium, consisting of 245 pen-and-ink drawings of different species of animals and mythical creatures, each accompanied by a description, beginning 'Cui rei data est fabula ut hoc ita accidat aquile quonia cu[m] olim homo esset sospiti iniuria'. The descriptions ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1595
Extent:

Paper codex

650. Add MS 88965

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Title:
Letter of King Henry VII concerning Perkin Warbeck's rebellion
Scope & Content:
Letter from King Henry VII to Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devon, concerning Perkin Warbeck's rebellion in the West Country and the defence of Exeter, 16 September, no year, Woodstock. Signed 'H[enricus] R[ex]' at the head of letter. In September 1497, Perkin Warbeck sailed from Cork to Cornwall,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1497
Extent:
1 folio

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