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531. Stowe MS 198

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Stowe MS 198
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LETTERS of Sir William Temple, Bart., written during his embassy at Brussels in 1665-1666, translated into French in 1730 by James Newsham, being the first sixteen letters (excepting those written originally in French) in Swift's edition of Sir W. Temple's Correspondence, 1700. The last letter i...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1730
Extent:
1 item

532. Stowe MS 566

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Stowe MS 566
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"AN ESTABLISHMENT of ordinary wages, patent fees, allowances, pensions, and other payments yearly allowed by us [George, Prince of Wales] unto our officers and servants of our Council, our chamber, our stables, and our household, as also unto the officers and servants of our dearest consort the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1719
Extent:
1 item

533. Stowe MS 663

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Stowe MS 663
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"LES PRINCIPES DU BLASON," by T[homas] Dingley; with penand ink drawings, consisting of heraldic illustrations, arms of a few French nobles, and drawings of animals and landscapes, and a frontispiece of Orpheus playing- to wild beasts. At the end, reversing the volume, is a "Sermon [by Thos. Len...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

534. Stowe MS 937

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Stowe MS 937
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CHARTULARY Of Pipewell Abbey, co. Northampton, compiled, and written by various hands, in the latter half of the 13th cent. Other chartularies of the same Abbey are in Cotton MSS. Otho B. xiv. and Calig. A. xii., xiii. The volume begins with quire vii., four leaves of quire vi. (ff. 69-72) being...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13th century-14th century
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1 item

535. Stowe MS 979

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Stowe MS 979
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"ELIS SAGA": the romance of Élie de Saint-Gille, in Icelandic. Transcribed by Grim Jonsonn Thorkelin from MS. 533, quarto, of the Arna-Magnæan Library at Copenhagen, which was used by E. Kölbing in his edition of Elis Saga og Rosamundu (Heilbronn, 1881): see his introd., pp. viii. x.-xiii. Paper...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Icelandic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

536. Stowe MS 976

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Stowe MS 976
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THE SHEPHERD'S PARADISE: a pastoral play in prose, in five acts, by Walter Montagu, written to be acted by Queen Henrietta Maria and the ladies of her Court. The present copy bears no title or author's name, but at the beginning is a list of the characters: "Saphira-Bellesa, the Quene; Bassalino...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1632
Extent:
1 item

537. Stowe MS 1068

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Stowe MS 1068
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NOTES on John Hunter's classification of the Animal Kingdom, taken (according to a statement at the end) "from a slight view of Mr. Hunter's experiments and preparations. They are, in the first place, imperfect; in the next, they way be erroneous in many particulars." Paper; ff. 11. Belonged to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

538. Stowe MS 636

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Stowe MS 636
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"PEDIGREE of the most noble and ancient Bridges family"; taken from a MS. of William Burton, the antiquary (ob. 1657), and dedicated to [James Brydges, 3rd] Duke of Chandos, by Robert Chambers. Paper roll. A.D. 1783. Robert Chambers: Wrote: in 1783. James Brydges, Marquess of Carnarvon; 3rd Du...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1783
Extent:
1 item

539. Stowe MS 675

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Stowe MS 675
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NOTES on the origin and arms of English families, arranged in alphabetical order. The blazon of the arms of the Archbishops of Canterbury, which is a later addition is taken (see f. 5 b) from a MS. [N0. 555] in the Lambeth Library originally dedicated to Archbishop Whitgift, but continued to lat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

540. Stowe MS 132-137

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Stowe MS 132-137
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TRANSCRIPTS Of despatches, instructions to ambassadors, negotiations, treaties, etc., chiefly relating to the general history of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Six volumes. Vol. II. has on f. 2 an engraved portrait, " W. Delff sculpsit," of Sir Dudley Carleton, Ambassador at Venice and the Hague, etc. (ob. 1632), and on f. 1 the book-plate of Richard, lst Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. All the volumes bear the book-plate, dated 1701, of Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex. Paper; xviith ...
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Treaties: Negotiations, treaties, etc., relating to European history: 14th-17th centt. Records, Public: Transcripts of State papers on the general history of Europe: 16th. -17th centt. Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex: Book-plates. Bookplates: Capell (Algernon), Earl of Essex: 1701.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
14th century-17th century
Extent:
6 items

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