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2431. Sloane MS 3034

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3034
Title:
Maqālah fī istikhrāj irtifā‘ al-quṭb ‘alá ghāyat al-taḥqīq مقالة في استخراج ارتفاع القطب على غاية التحقيق Alhazen ابن الهيثم، الحسن بن الحسن
Scope & Content:
A short treatise describing a geometrical method for precisely determining latitude by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan known as Ibn al-Haytham (أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن known as ابن الهيثم, d c 1039). The Arabic text is accompanied by a Latin translation produced by Jacobus Golius (1596-1667) in 16...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Latin
Date Range:
2 Feb 1646
Extent:

Codex; ff. xxvii+12+ii

2432. Sloane MS 3255

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3255
Title:
Ahdname
Scope & Content:
This scroll contains a copy of an ahdname issued by I Sultan Ibrahim shortly after his accession to the throne, at the request of the Ambassador of King Charles I, Sir Sackvile Crow, in confirmation of the treaty granted by his antecedent III Sultan Murat to Queen Elizabeth I, renewed first by h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1051
Extent:
1 text, 1 f

2433. 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

2434. Sloane MS 788

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 788
Title:
Scope & Content:
Richard Smith, Secondary of the Poultry Compter, London: Treatises on the Plague; translated by: 1665. Writers of Manuscripts: Smith (Richard), Secondary of the Compter. Leonhard Fuchs: De medendis morbis, lib. iv., cap. 12: 17th cent.: Engl. transl.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

2435. Sloane MS 790

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 790
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Scope & Content:
Richard Smith, Secondary of the Poultry Compter, London: Treatises on the Plague; translated by: 1665. Writers of Manuscripts: Smith (Richard), Secondary of the Compter. Gabriel Biel: Sermons against the Pestilence: translated 1665.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1665
Extent:
1 item

2436. Sloane MS 1579

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1579
Title:
Scope & Content:
Sloane 1579 Codex membranaceus, in 8vo, ff. 114, sec XV; olim Roberti Tomsun peculium. 1. S. Hieronymi Presbyteri Stridonensis, sive cujuscumque sit, in Symbolum Apostolorum Expositio. ff. 3-50. Impress. exstat, sub titulo, 'Symbolum Ruffini,' inter Hieronymi Opera, ed. Paris, 1706, tom V. co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

2437. Sloane MS 1843

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1843
Title:
Scope & Content:
Sloane 1843 Paper, Quarto, ff. 53, XVII Century, in the handwriting of Sir Thomas Browne. Common-place book; containing a few quotations from the classics, extracts from medical writers, and questions touching anatomy, natural history and physic. ff. 1-53. Writers of Manuscripts: Browne (Sir ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

2438. Sloane MS 2235

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2235
Title:
Scope & Content:
Sloane 2235 Chartaceus, in 8vo., ff. 284, Sec. XVII. Collectanea quaedam medica. ff.1-284. Theodore Turquet de Mayerne, Baron; MD: Consilia et epistolæ medicæ: 1607-1653/4.: Lat. and Engl. Thomas Hodges: Medical receipts: 17th cent. includes: f. 23 Charles I of England: Præcripta medica ju...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

2439. Sloane MS 2302

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2302
Title:
Scope & Content:
J- Walduck: Letters on Barbados to J. Petiver: 1710-1712. James Petiver, FRS, Apothecary to the Charter-House: Letters on Barbados to, from J. Walduck: 1710, 1712.: Copies and Orig. Island of Barbados: Letters relating to, from J. Walduck to J. Petiver: 1711-1712.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1710-1712
Extent:
1 item

2440. Sloane MS 3985

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3985
Title:
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1-20, 21-37 b, 38-59, 60-80 Smyrna: Journals of voyages from, to Halicarnassus and Constantinople: 1679, 1682. ff. 1-20, 38-59 Halicarnassus, Asia Minor: Journal of voyage to, from Smyrna: 1679. ff. 1-59 Voyages and Travels: Journal of travels from Smyrna to Halicarnassus and back...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

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