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21. Kings MS 171

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Kings MS 171
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'HISTOIRE de Fredegonde, Princesse de Cherusque', having for an alternative title (f. 1) ' Histoire de la Princesse d'Hanover [Sophia Dorothea], Epouse de George I, Roi de la Grande Bretagne; les malheurs de cette infortunée Princesse, ses intelligences avec le Comte de Kunigsmark assassiné à ce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1730
Extent:
1 item

22. Kings MS 254

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Kings MS 254
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'STUDIO delle fortificationi et artiglierie dell'Alfiere Antonio Matteo Lancisi, alla Santità di nostro Signore Papa Clemente Xl ' [1700-1721], in a series of sixteen coloured plans (the last two representing artillery). F. 8 is the ' Pianta della fortezza di Ferrara '. The Pope's arms appear on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

23. Kings MS 294

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Kings MS 294
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TRANSCRIPTS by Henricus Pynyot, 'Philosophiæ studiosus' at Geneva, of the following academical lectures: (a) 'D. D. [Antonii] Legeri, in Academia Genevensi olim Philosophiæ at nunc S. S. Theologiae Professoris celeberrimi , Metaphysica'. f. 1 ;-(b) Eiusdem 'Ethicescursus'. f.27;-(C)'Pneumatologi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1714
Extent:
1 item

24. Kings MS 315

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Kings MS 315
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'EXERCITIA Etonæ habita in solenni Scholarium Electione, quum interesse dignaretur, quâ est erga literatos omnes voluntate, Wilhelmus, maximæ spei Princeps, Cumberlandiæ Dux.' Latin and English pieces in prose and verse declaimed at an election of scholars at Eton in presence of William, Duke ot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1734-1736
Extent:
1 item

25. Kings MS 430-431

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Kings MS 430-431
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'PENSÉES DETÂCHÉES sur divers sujets choisis de Politique et principalement sur des matieres de Gouvernement et de l'Art Militaire. Dediées a sa Majesté George [I] Roi de la Grande Bretagne'; by J-de la Menardière. Two volumes. With a 'Table des matieres' and a short introduction in each, and in vol. i the author's letter of dedication. Vol. ii has special reference to 'les affaires d'Angleterre'. Paper ; ff. 176, 107. Quarto. 73/4 x in. x 6 in. Circ. 1715- 1720. Bound in red morocco, sligh...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1715-1720
Extent:
2 items

26. Kings MS 433

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Kings MS 433
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'REMARKS, Historical and Political, collated from Books and Observation, humbly presented to the King's most excellent Majesty', by James Burgh [d. 1775]. With a dedicatory letter, 13 Aug. 1762. Holograph. Paper; ff. 131. Quarto. 91/2 in. x 7 in. A.D. 1762. Bound in blue morocco, tooled. Book-p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1762
Extent:
1 item

27. Kings MS 36-39

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Kings MS 36-39
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'DICTATA', or academical lectures in Latin on the 'Historiarum Epitome Horatii Tursellini' [Orazio Torsellini, d. 1599] comprised in ten books, and on the continuation of that work to the year 1650. Neither the name of the lecturer nor that of the University [Utrecht?] is given, but the lectures are introduced by a 'praefamen' on the general study of history, giving an account of 'Auctores necessarii ad Historiam Universalem', the last of those named being the Observationes of C. A. Rupertus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1723
Extent:
4 items

28. Kings MS 272

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Kings MS 272
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'AN ACCOUNT of the Trigonometrical operation for determining the difference of Longitude, &c., between the Royal Observatories of Greenwich and Paris': read before the Royal Society, 25 Feb. 1790, by Maj.- Gen. William Roy, F.R.S., with coloured plans and sections drawn by Thomas Vincent Rey...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Feb 1790
Extent:
1 item

29. Kings MS 273

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Kings MS 273
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'A COMPLETE COURSE of Navigation', comprising introductory rules, definitions, examples, &c., of Arithmetic (f. 2), Geometry (f. 17), Mensuration (f. 68), Trigonometry (f. 80), and Astronomy (f. 172). The actual treatise on Navigation (f. 214) is illustrated by six maps (the four continents,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

30. Kings MS 420

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Kings MS 420
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'STATUTA clarissimi ordinis Velleris Aurei e Galico in Latinum versa, subiunctis additionibus et declarationibus nonnullis per eiusdem ordinis Supremos et Proceres successiue editis': the statutes of the order of the Golden Fleece founded by Philip, Duke of Burgundy, in 1429. The original statut...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1532
Extent:
1 item