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Add MS 6213
- Record Id:
- 032-003442417
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003442417
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100075949233.0x0003a4
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 6213
- Title:
- Volume consisting mostly original Letters, chiefly addressed to Professor Ward and Dr. Mead. Particluarly on the subject of editions of Ælian.
- Scope & Content:
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A volume in quarto, consisting mostly Original Letters, chiefly addressed to Professor Ward and Dr. Mead.
1. Ex Epistota George Wilh[em] Alberti ad Doctorem Natha[niel] Lardner, dated Osterodae, 9 December, 1751; relating to Proffessor Ward's being made LLD [Doctor of Law] and to a Pamphlet of Professor G.M Bose, suspected of favouring popery. f.1.See ‘Philosophical Transactions’. No. 496 §.7.
2. Ex Epistota George Ejusdem ad ---, dated Hanov. 1 Mart[March], 1754, concerning B[isho]p Clayton's "Journal from Grand Cairo to Mount Sinai," etc. f.2.
3. From Dr. Anthony Askew to Dr. Mead; concerning Gronovius's Edition of Ælian and his abilities as a scholar. Critical emendations of Euripides. Dated Leyden, 10 May, 1746. f.3.
4. From Abraham Gronovius to Professor Ward; thanks for Ward's assistance in preparing an edition of Justin. Dated Lugdunum Batavorum, 13, Kal. August, 1719. f.5.
5. Copy of a letter from Professor Bose to the President of the Royal Society. Requesting him to procure from Professor Ward, a collation of the Orations of Himerius with MSS in the Bodleian, etc. Dated Wittemb, 11/22 October, 1750. (Latin). f.6.
6. Copy of a letter from Professor Bose to Cromwell Mortimer Sec. R.S. Giving an account of his Treatises on the Solar Eclipse, and the Egyptian obelisk at Rome, with the attack on him as a supposed favorer of the papal power. Dated Wittemb. 28 October/ 8 November, 1750. f.8.
7. Printed "Praefamen" of Andrew Mayer, Professor Mathew to George Mathew Bose's correspondance relating to the Obelisk at Rome. Dated 18 August, 1751. f.10.
8. Ex Epistota. Dated Osterodae, 9 December, 1751 (the same as Art. 1). f.12.
9. From George Mathew Bose to Professor Ward; thanks for the collation of Himerius, death of his wife caused by the proceedings respecting his pamphlet on the Obelisk. Dated Wittemb, 6 Kal. Marcis. 1752. (Latin) f.13.
10. From Abraham Gronovius to Professor Ward; concerning his edition of Ælian, published by the Society for encourangement of Learning. Dated Lugdunum Batavorum, 4 Kal. November, 1740. (Latin). f.15.
11. From Abraham Gronovius to Professor Ward; thanks for a copy of Professor Ward's "Lives of the Gresham Professors" and his own edition of Ælian. Dated Lugdunum Batavorum, 5 Kal. November, 1741/2. (Latin). f.16.
12. From Abraham Gronovius to Professor Ward; critical remarks on the edition of Ælian. Dated Lugdunum Batavorum, 10 Kal. November, 1742. (Latin). f.17.
13. From Abraham Gronovius to Dr Isaac Lawson on the subject of critiques of Professor Ward's Ælian. Dated Lugdunum Batavorum, 26 February, 1742/3. (Latin). f.19.
14. From Abraham Gronovius to Professor Ward; on the subject of critiques of Professor Ward's Ælian. Dated Lugdunum Batavorum, 2 Non. April, 1743. (Latin). f.21.
15. From Abraham Gronovius to Professor Ward; thanks for Ward's assistance. Dated August, 1743. (Latin). f.23.
16. From Abraham Gronovius to Professor Ward; repetition of his thanks. Dated Lugdunum Batavorum, 3 Kal. Nov. (Latin). f.24.
17. From Abraham Gronovius to Professor Ward; relative to his edit of Ælian. Dated Leidis, 4 December, 1744. (Latin). f.25.
18. From Abraham Gronovius to Professor Ward; relative to his edit of Ælian. Dated Leidis, 5 eid, July, 1745. (Latin). f.27.
19. From Abraham Gronovius to Professor Ward; renewal of thanks with a present of Pomponius Mela. Dated Leidis, 8 Kal, August, 1748. (Latin). f.28.
20. From Abraham Gronovius to Professor Ward; thanks for the Professor Ward’s services about the Ælian. New Edition of Justin. Dated Leidis, 16 Kal, November, 1755. (Latin). f.29.
21. From Abraham Gronovius to Dr. Lawson; on the subject of his edition of Ælian. Dated Lugdunum Batavorum, Kal, April, 1743. (Latin). f.31.
22. From Abraham Gronovius to Dr. Richad Mead and Professor Ward; on the same subject [of his edition of Ælian]. Dated Lugdunum Batavorum, 5 Kal, July, 1745. (Latin). f.33.
23. From Abraham Gronovius to Dr. Richad Mead; on the same subject [of his edition of Ælian]. Dated Leidis, 6 Kal, August, 1746. (Latin). f.35.
24. From Abraham Gronovius to Dr. Richad Mead; on the same subject [of his edition of Ælian]. Dated Leidis, pr, non. Sept. 1747. (Latin). f.37.
25. From Abraham Gronovius to Dr. Richad Mead; on the same subject [of his edition of Ælian]. Dated Leidis, 12 Kal. November, 1747. (Latin). f.39.
26. From Abraham Gronovius to Dr. Richad Mead; on the same subject [of his edition of Ælian]. Dated Leidis, 6, Non. February, 1748. (Latin). f.41.
27. From J. Jensius to Professor Ward; tanking him for his trouble in correcting some verses for the former. Dated Rotterodami, 13 Kal. February, 1728. (Latin). f.43.
28. From C. B. Kayser to Professor Ward; relative to Ward’s edition of Maximus Tyrius. Dated Hannovere, pr. Kal. April, 1748. (Latin). f.44.
29. From Dr. Charles Mason to Professor Ward; concerning the collection of Himerius by the Reverend Samuel Peck of Trinity College Cambridge. Dated Hinchinbrook, 17 November, 1751. f.45.
30. From Dr. Charles Mason to Professor Ward(?); concerning the same subject of [the collection of Himerius by the Reverend Samuel Peck of Trinity College Cambridge]. Dated Trinity College, 11 December, 1751. f.46.
31. From James Peirce to Professor Ward. Thanks for Ward’s assistance in the former’s “Vindicia Fratr Diss[ertation] in Anglia, adv. Gul. Nicholsium”. Dated Neoburgi, 7 Kal, Maii, 1709. (Latin). f.47.
32. Copy of a letter from Gottlieb Wernsdorf to the Reverend Samuel Peck; concerning the former’s meditated edition of Himerius, and the Cambridge MS. Dated Dantisca in Prussia, Mart. 1752. (Latin). f.48.
33. From Gottlieb Wernsdorf to Professor Ward on the sam subject of [Gottlieb Wernsdorf’s meditated edition of Himerius, and the Cambridge MS]. Dated Dantisci, September, 1754. (Latin). f.50.
34. From W. Wilhelmius to Professor Ward; relating to his proposed admission into the Royal Society. Dated January, 1742/3 (Latin). f.52.
35. Notes in Professor Ward’s handwriting, concerning the MSS. Of Himerius preserved at Oxford, etc.
36. Collation of the ‘Panathenaica’ of Fabricius’ edition with the Cod. Langbaine, f.56.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003442417
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003442417
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume (56 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Undetermined
- Scripts:
- Undetermined
- Start Date:
- 1715
- End Date:
- 1754
- Date Range:
- c 1720-1754
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Quarto format. Including in the handwriting of Professor Ward.
- Publications:
- Reference to: Bishop [Robert] Clayton: "Journal from Grand Cairo to Mount Sinai,"; Abraham Gronovius's Edition of Ælian; Orations of Himerius; Professor Ward's "Lives of the Gresham Professors" and his own edition of Ælian; Gottlieb Wernsdorf’s Himerius;
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This catalogue description has been transcribed from the original [18th-19th-century] handwritten Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts and may contain inaccuracies. The handwritten catalogue is available in the Manuscripts Reading Room.
- Related Material:
- Note to see: ‘Philosophical Transactions’. No. 496 §.7. For the replies to the letters see ward’s Latin Correspondence MSS. Add. 6224, 6225.