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1451. Sloane MS 2992

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Sloane MS 2992
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Scope & Content:
Voyages and Travels: Account of the capture of an English crew by the natives of Magadoxa, and of their sojourn among them with map, and drawings of animals: 1700. Magadoxo, Zanzibar: Plan of the city, and account of the capture of an English crew by the inhabitants: 1700.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1700
Extent:
1 item

1452. Sloane MS 1145

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Sloane MS 1145
Title:
Manuscript containing botanical, musical and dramatic writings
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-34 Medicine. Botanical: Collectanea de oleis, balsamis, etc.: 17th cent. ff. 35-39 A collection of flageolet music entitled 'Lessons for the Flajolet', signed by Humphrey Rant, of Yelverton, Norfolk, 1674, and in tablature on two staves of six lines. Comprises: 'An Ayre' (f. 35), 'Sure,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume (84 folios)

1453. Sloane MS 2329

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Sloane MS 2329
Title:
John Taverner: Praelectiones musicae in aedibus Greshamensibus.
Scope & Content:
Autograph draft of lectures on music, in Latin and English, by John Taverner, Professor of Music at Gresham College, London. 1610/11.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1610/11
Extent:
1 volume (82 folios)

1454. Sloane MS 359

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 359
Title:
Chemical recipes
Scope & Content:
Collection of chemical recipes, in the hand of Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618), courtier, military and naval commander and author. Including accounts of experiments, and details of Raleigh’s ‘great Cordiall’. f. 1v: Table of contents. f. 2r-2v: Chemical notes, with a table of symbols. ff. 3a, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 16th century-early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1455. Sloane MS 858

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Sloane MS 858
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Scope & Content:
Voyages and Travels: Journal by J. Jourdain of a voyage to the E. lndies: 1607/8-1617. John Jourdain: Journal of voyage for the E. Indies, with addition of travels in Arabia, etc.: 1607/8-1617.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1607-1617
Extent:
1 item

1456. Sloane MS 1689

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Sloane MS 1689
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Sloane 1689 Paper, in folio, ff. 30, XVII Century; bound with No. 1704. Journal of a voyage, kept by Dr. Edward Browne, 1691/2, [imperfect]. ff. 1-30. Voyages and Travels: Journal of Dr. E. Browne's voyage from Madras to the Cape of Good Hope: 1691-1692.: Imperf. Browne, Navy Surgeon: Journa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

1457. Sloane MS 4088

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 4088
Title:
Acayıbu'l-mahlukat - عجائب المخلوقات
Scope & Content:
This volume contains Yazıcıoğlu Ahmet Bijan's abridged translation Acayıbu'l-Mahlukat. The author says in the preface that in the time of Alexander, the sages of the world had come together and described the wonders of the universe. In the age of Imām Shāfiᶜī, that work had been translated fro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 text, 73 ff

1458. Sloane MS 2400

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Sloane MS 2400
Title:
Psalter ('The Felbrigge Psalter')
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. [ii] recto: Added notes relating to Anne Felbrigge, the Felbrigge family, and their arms, written by Sir Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum. f. 1r: A number of former shelfmarks lined through, and an added paper label, featuring an 18...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

1459. Sloane MS 726

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Sloane MS 726
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Scope & Content:
Court of Rome: Della varieta et usanza de' vestiti di Nro. Sigre. et de Sigri. Cardinali per tutto l'anno: 17th cent. Costumes: Della varietà et usanza de' vestiti di Nro. Sigre. et de Sigri. Cardinali per tutto l'anno: 17th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

1460. Sloane MS 1131

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1131
Title:
Scope & Content:
Sloane 1131 Paper, in small 4to., ff. 52. XVII century. Written by various hands. 1. Observationes variae metaphisicae. ff. 2-10. 2. Some directions and excerpts concerning judicial astrology. ff. 11-37. 3. Tables of inheritance. f. 38. 4. Various charms, alchymical observations, medical r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

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