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41. Sloane MS 1975

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1975
Title:
Medical and herbal miscellany
Scope & Content:
ff. 1v–7r: Table of contents. Preface, ‘In hoc continentur libri quatuor medicine ypocratis. platonis. apoliensis urbis. de diversis herbis. Sexti papiri. placiti. ex animalibus. et ex diversis avibus. Idem ex libris dioscoridis. ex herbis semininis. ut quis voluerit. si pro qua fuerit querere c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

42. 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

43. Sloane MS 226

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 226
Title:
Roger Marbeck, An account of the taking of Cadiz, 1596
Scope & Content:
Roger Marbeck, "A breefe and a true discourse of the late honorable voyage unto Spayne and the wynning, sacking and burning of the famous Towne of Cadiz there, and of the miraculous overthrowe of the Spanishe Navie at that tyme, with a reporte of all other Accidents thereunto appertayning, by Do...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1596-1597
Extent:
1 volume

44. Sloane MS 1156

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1156
Title:
Account of the journey of Henri Auguste de Loménie de Brienne, Seigneur de la Ville-aux-Clercs, to England as Ambassador Extraordinary, 1624
Scope & Content:
This is an account of the journey of Henri -Auguste, Seigneur de la Ville-aux-Clercs, later Comte de Brienne (1594-1666), to England, 20 Nov 1624-15 Jan 1625, as Ambassador Extraordinary to ratify the articles of marriage between Henrietta Maria and the Prince of Wales, afterwards Charles I. Alo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1624-1699
Extent:
1 volume

45. Sloane MS 93

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 93
Title:
Gabriel Harvey's letters and poems
Scope & Content:
ff. 1*r–104r: Volume of holograph transcripts of letters and poems by Gabriel Harvey, of Saffron Walden, Fellow of Pembroke and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1573–1578. It includes his poems upon the death of the poet George Gascoigne (1534–1577), an account (either fictional or truthful) of the sedu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1573-1578
Extent:
1 volume

46. 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

47. 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

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