Add MS 6219

A Volume of miscellaneous Papers in quarto, of 76 folios, many relating to ancient Inscriptions, with copies of letters, etc. viz.

1. Letter from Professor Ward to Roger Gale, containing remarks on the latter’s paper on an Ancient Chirogrpah. Dated (1735/5). Folio 1.See Philosophical Transactions. No. 441. Page 211.

2. Extract from Mr Gale’s Reply to the last (not dated). Folio 2b.

3. Letter from Professor Ward to Dr. P[emberton?] Remarks on some Latin medical work by the latter. Dated 4 March, 1745. Folio 4.

4. Extract of a letter from the same to Mr Machin, see Royal Society on a passage in 2 Kings VIII 53 and another in Clemens Alex. Strom. [Clement of Alexandria: The Stromata] Lib. 1. § 145. Dated 29 April, 1751. Folio 6.

5. Letter from the same to Dr. Pemberton; expecting the Jewish Feasts. Dated 20 May, 1751. Folio 7.

6. Rough draught of a letter from the same to --- recommending Mr John Heywood to him. Dated G[resham]. C[ollege]., 9 October, 1758. Folio 8.

7. An Explication of the Inscription upon the Altar found some years since at Overborough in Lancashire, the Ancient Bremetonacre. Folio 9.See Gent[leman]s. Mag[azine]. For 1759. Page. 407.

8. Copy of Latin Inscription “Laribus Domesticis Sacrum”, taken from a copper late belonging to Dr. Richard Rawlinson. Folio 12.

9. Memoranda by Professor Ward, resepecting the Lares. Folio 13.

10. Engraving of a votive Latin inscription from the Philosophical Transactions. No.494. Folio 14.

11. Critical remarks by Professor Ward on a Latin inscription. Folio 15.

12. Extract of a letter from Mr. Thomas Blackburne to Me Peter Collinson. Dated Malta 2 June, 1749, with a copy of a Roman inscription on an Ægytian obelisk, and remarks on it. Folio 16.See Gente[lman]s. Mag[azine]. Vol. xxix. Page 559.

13. Observations on the Catacombes, taken from [Jean] Mabillon’s dissertation Sur le Culte des Saints Incomus, Folios 18.

14. “Viro Reverendo Christiano Ludovico Finne, Ecclesiae Vratislaviensis Reformatae in Silisia Pastori Georgins Benson”. Respecting the subscription in Scotland and England for his Church etc. Dated London, 5 Kal, December, 1752. (copy). Folio 22.

15. “Illustrissimis et Nobiliss. Consulibus et Senatoribus Civitatis Hamburgensis C. G. eques auratus, Praetor, et Senatores Civitatis Londini”. Concerning an appeal in the Court of Admiralty, delivered to Leonard Bowles. Dated 13 June, 1753. (Copy). Folio 23.

16. “Reverendiss et Doctiss. Viris Andr. Shaw S. T. P. Rectori, Thomas Tullibeph et Jac[ob] Murison Collegiorum, Praefectis Thomas Simson Decano, caeterisq(?) Professor Ordinib. Universitatis S. Audr. Apud scotos, J. Stennet”. Thanks for his Diploma, conferred by them. (Copy). Folio 24.

17. Copy of a Latin Letter from Thomas Mole to --- respecting an exchange of books between himself and Cardinal Quirini (not dated). Folio 24b.See MS. Add. 6210. Folio 197.

18. Rough draught of a letter from the Sociey of Antiquaries to Dr. Clayton, Bishop of Clogher, excusing themselves from contributing to a scheme proposed by the Bishop in his ‘Journal to Mount Sinai’. Dated 22 November, 1753. Folio 25.

19. Copy of a letter from Joseph Ames, See Society of Antiquaries. inclosing the above. Dated November, 1753. Folio 26.

20. Copy of an address to Martin Folked Esquire, Pres.[ident of the] R[oyal]. S[ociety] from ---, author of some work on the value of precious stones. f.27.

21. Sketch of a small Roman Sepulchral stone in the collection of the Honourable Horace Walpole, brought from Italy, 1753. Folio 29.

22. Latin Inscription on an old Pedastal in Lady Peterborough’s Gardens near Southampton, in Dr. Ducard’s hand writing, anno, 1753. Folio 31.

23. Copies of four Roman Inscriptions, communicated by Mr West and Mr Hollis, to Professor Ward. Folios 32, 33.

24. Copy of a Latin inscription on a plate found at the village of Monteu, near Turin. Folio 34.

25. Extracts from Mr Baker’s translation of an Italian Dissertation on the last inscription, by Gio.Paolo Ricolos and Ant[oni] Rivantella, intitled “ Il sitodell’ Antica Citta – d’Industria scoperto”. 4to[quarto], Torino (1745). Folio 35.

26. Copies in a French hand, of several Roman Inscriptions at Lausanne, and Geneva. Folio 36.

27. Description and sketch of a figure on a marble medallion found on the shore of Baice. Folio 37.

28. Copy of a Greek inscription, received from Mr Hall. Folio 38.

29. “Richardus Meade Fratri suo charissimo Jacobo” In general affectionate terms. Dated sexton non. Maij, 1690. (Copy). Folio 39.

30. “Nobiliss et clariss. Viro Cromwello Mortimero, qui Concessini Philosophorum in Anglia ab Actis. H. Boerhaave”. In terms of compliment, and thanks. State of his health. Dated 1738, (Copy). Folio 40.

31. “Reverendo viro Claudio Capperonier, Licenciato Theologo Parisiensi, et Regis Graecar. Litt. Professori Michael Maittaire”. Containing instances of Professor Burman’s insolence, selected from Burman’s Epistles. (Copy). Folio 41.

32. “Michael Maittaire Joanni Christiani Seiz, Franco-Germano” Written in an ironical strain, in reply to the latter’s assertions respecting the Invention of Printing, in his Historica Erratio. Dated London, Pr. Kal. Jan, 1742. (copy). Folio 43.

33. Latin letter from George Watts to the Bishop of --- complaining of ill-treatment (not dated). Folio 49.

34. Two letters from Mr Thomas Armstrong to his father Thomas Armstrong, in Sherborn, Dorset, the first Dated Leyden, October, 1798, and the second, Leyden, November, 1709. Containing his journal of two Tours through Brabant and Flanders. Folios 51-76b.