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31. Add MS 33747

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(Gr. xxv.) YEAR-BOOK of Robert le Wright, recording under each day events that occurred on it from the Birth of Christ to A.D. 1675. The writer, son of Richard le Wright (ob. 5 Dec. 1634), Clerk of tho Jewel House to James I. and Charles I., and Jane Grenville, his wife (ob. 21 Sept. 1621), wa...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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[c 1609-c 1658]
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1 item

32. Add MS 33745

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(Gr. xlii.) " A DECLARATION setting forth how and by what means the lawes and statutes of England from time to time came to bee of force in the kingdome of Ireland " ; written in 1641 (f. 46). With the note at the end, in the same band, "per Bolton, Hibern. Cancellarium, vt dicitur," i.e. Sir Ri...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1770
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1 item

33. Add MS 33742

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(Gr. xiv.) "AN ACCOUNT of the affairs of Scotland relating to the Revolution in 1688, as sent to the late King James II. when in France," by Colin Lindisay, Earl of Balcarres. Printed with the above title at London, 1714, the author's name being given as " the Earl of B-." The present copy has n...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
18th century
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1 item

34. Add MS 33771

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(Gr. xlix.) " OBSERVATIONS on some of the most remarkable remains of Antiquity in Ireland, represented in upwards of sixty views and plans taken in a tour through that kingdom in the year 1746. By Thomas Wright, of Durham." The author alludes in the preface to a previous work, Louthiana, or an I...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1748
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1 item

35. Add MS 33769

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John Norden, 'An Exact Description of Essex'
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Autograph presentation copy with manuscript map of Essex (f. 3), by John Norden, cartographer (c. 1547-1625). With a dedicatory address to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565-1601), whose arms and quarterings are emblazoned on f. 4. Presented by John Norden ‘in the interims of the fittes of...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1594
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1 volume

36. Add MS 33764

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(Gr. xxxiii.) AN ACCOUNT of Russia, 1767 ; "written by Sir Geo. Macartney, while ambassador in Russia." Published anonymously under the above title, London, 1768. The present copy is without the tables, and is otherwise less full than the printed text. It includes (f. 51) the account of "The pre...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1767-1768
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1 item

37. Add MS 33767 A

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(Gr. xxvi.) " VIAGGIO di Cosmo 3. in Inghilterra, 1669": narrative by Lorenzo, Count Magalotti, of the travels in England of Cosmo III. de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, when Hereditary Prince. Transcribed from the original MS. in the Laurentian Library at Florence. An English version was publi...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
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1 item

38. Add MS 33744

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(Gr. lvi.) TRACTS relating to Ireland, viz.:- 1. " Obsidio et expugnatio propugnaculi Duncanon Catholicis Copiis feederatorum ordinum Hiberniæ, sub Thoma Preston imperatore generali, anno 1644, dietim descripta stilo, relatore F. Bonaventura Barron Clonmelensi," etc.: a diary, in Latin, of the...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
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1 item

39. Add MS 33755

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(Gr. Iii.) " HIE HEBT sich an das fuch des edeln Ritters vn landtfarers Marcho polo " : a transcript from the rare edition in German of the Travels of Marco Polo printed at Nuremberg in 1477, taken from a copy in the Imperial Library at Vienna and certified as exact by B. Kopitar, " Biblioth. Pa...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
1817
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1 item

40. Add MS 33763

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(Gr. xxxiv.) "IDEA di una nuova Istoria Generale dell' America Settentrionale," etc. A translation in Italian by - Mac Egan, Colonel in the Neapolitan service, from the Spanish work, Idea de una nueva Historia General de la America Septentrional, of Lorenzo Boturini-Benaduci, Madrid, 1746. See T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1750
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1 item