Sloane MS 648

includes:

• f. 1 Theology: A preface to the businesse of a man of Germanie, who desireth aide for the destruction of the oppressors, and the deliverance of the oppressed Christians, by a well wisher of the wellfare of mankinde: 17th cent.
• ff. 2-9 Nicholas Gibbon, DD, Rector of Sevenoaks and Corfe Castle: Tender of, unto the Christian Church for the reconciliation of differences: circ. 1640.: Lat. and Engl.
• ff. 10-17 b Joachimus Polemann: Letters from: 1659, 1660.: Germ.: Extracts.
• f. 18 Inscriptions: Inscription carved on a stick: 17th cent.
• ff. 19, 39 Prophecies: Prophecy referring to battles at Sherwood Forest and Dunsmore Heath: 17th cent.: Lat.
• f. 20 Cranden House, Northamptonshire: Note of subject carved in 1642, 1647 and 1648 over the chimney pieces of the park lodge of: 17th cent.
• ff. 22-29 b Philippe de Nautonier, de Castelfranc; Minister in Upper Languedoc: Prædictiones e verbo Dei de excidio Babylonis mysticæ anno hoc 1654; de Turcarum extrema profligatione anno 1663; et de fine mundi 1672 ;: 17th cent.
• f. 23 Oliver Cromwell of England: Fatidicum anagramma nominis ejus: 1654.
• ff. 30, 67, 77 Stephen Melisch, of Prague: Account of visions, nos. XXX, XXXVII, LVIII-LX, seen by: 1659, 1660.: Germ. and Lat.
• f. 31 Prophecies: Explanation of a prophecy found in the Prodromus Fratrum Roseæ Crucis conc. the success of God's word in 1641 in England: 1639.
• ff. 32, 37 Paul Grebner: Prophecy taken out of a MS. of, by J. Meade: 17th cent.: Lat. and Engl.
• ff. 32, 37 Joseph Mede, Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge: Prophecy taken by, out of a MS. of P. Grebner: 17th cent.: Lat. and Engl.
• f. 34 Prophecies: Prophetic warning to Italy against France in the time of Pope Urban VIII.: 17th cent.: Lat. verse.
• f. 36 Conrad Bergius: Letter of, "De authore Templi": 17th cent.: Lat.: Extract.
• f. 38 Prophecies: Prophecies against the Bourbon Kings of France by a man at Breda: 1651.
• f. 41 America: Correspondence conc. two Indians lodged with Dr. Haberfield at the Hague, professing themselves to be members of a new society of Christians called "Societas Coronæ Equestris ordinis": 1643.
• ff. 43, 43 b Visions: Accounts in letters to Mr. Hartlib from Breslaw and Berlin of two supernatural appearances: 1653.
• f. 44 Visions: Account of a vision seen by an old man in a village near Sneech in Friesland: 1661.
• f. 45 Prophecies: Prophecy in October, 1658, respecting the restoration of Charles II.: 1660.
• f. 46 Theology: Letter on the possibility of inferior spirits being commissioned by God to reveal future events: 1661.
• f. 47 Ludwig Friedrich Gifftheyl: Prophecies relating to Germany, etc.: 17th cent.
• f. 49 James I of England: An address to the King and Parliament of Great Britain to support Germany in her religious troubles: 17th cent.
• ff. 51-56 b, 58-59 b Theology: Exhortation to the Roman Catholic Kings of Spain and France and the Princes of Italy: 17th cent.: Lat. and Engl.
• f. 57 Ludwig Friedrich Gifftheyl: Declaration or manifestation of the causes of the destruction in England, addressed to: 17th cent.
• f. 57 England General Chronicles and History: "Manifestation of the causes of the destruction in England": 17th cent.
• f. 61 Meteorology: Account of mock suns and strange rainbows seen in London in 1554/5, and in Sussex in 1636/7: 17th cent.
• f. 61 b George Hakewill, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford: Notice of a strange apparition in the air in London in 1554, mentioned by, in his Apology, lib. 2, cap. 7, sect. 6: 17th cent.
• ff. 63, 69 Nicolaus Drabicius: Revelationes quædam: 1659, 1661.
• f. 68 T- P-: Letter to S. Hartlib: 1659.
• f. 70 Nicolaus Drabicius: Letter to -: 1658.: Lat.: Copy.
• f. 72 England, Ecclesiastical History: Treatise on the reformed Church of England: [1654].: Lat.: Imperf.
• ff.74-76b Visions: Letter on the works of authors respecting visions and revelations: 1654.: Lat.
• ff. 78-88 Societies; ROSICRUCIANS: Fraternitatis Roseæ Crucis Buccina jubilei ultimi: 1618.
• f. 89 Abraham von Franckenberg: Letter to S. Hartlib: 1646.: Lat.: Copy.
• f. 91 Athanasius Kircher: Idea sive lchnographia OEdipi Ægyptiaci: 17th cent.
• ff. 93-98 b Magnetism: Mystical observations on: 1658.
• f. 99 Visions: Observations on the Lapis Angelicus and Evangelicus: 1660.
• ff. 101-140 b A- Franc- de Monte: "Oculus Sidereus, or a new opened starlight and farresight, for the fundamental discovery of the never-beleeved relations about the motion of the globe of the earth": 17th cent.
• ff. 141-144 b Sixtus Hirschmann à Tugendtleben: Petitions to the Protector, O. Cromwell, relative to a plan of union among the Protestant churches: [1653-1657].
• ff. 141-146 Oliver Cromwell of England: Petitions to, from S. Hirschman à Tugendtleben: n.d.: Lat.
• ff. 147-151 Philip Zigler: Anonymous letter to Dr. Wunderlich concerning: 1632.: Lat.
• ff. 147-151 Dr Wunderlich: Anonymous letter to, conc. P. Zigler: 1632.: Lat.
• f. 152 Brewer: The harmony of heavenly mysteries answerable each to other, according to: 17th cent.
• ff. 153-159 Theology: Dissertatio utrum Urim et Thummim in Monte data an arte perfecta fuerint: 17th cent.
• ff. 160-172 Prophecies: Astronomia et Prognostica spiritualis: 17th cent.
• f. 173 Theology: Quædam de Theologia mystica: 17th cent.