Miscellaneous papers (maps, charts, journals, drawings, extracts and the like, some printed), by or collected by Thomas Shaw, Written chiefly in the second quarter of the 18th century by T. Shaw

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Miscellaneous papers (maps, charts, journals, drawings, extracts and the like, some printed), by or collected by Thomas Shaw, including:

Fols. 217, 394, 396. plans, etc. of the Pyramids
Fols. 58, 466. Notes, surveys, etc. relating to Lower Egypt by capt. John Dove, about A.D. 1725, and capt. Andrew Elton, Aug. 1728
Fol. 362v. vocabulary of the (African) language of the Kabyles
Fol. 388. fragments of an English work on Physiognomy, written early in the 18th cent., with woodcuts from J. B (ulwer)'s Man transform': (1653)
Fol. 118, cf. 155. Spanish letter from padre Francisco Ximenez, administrator of the hospital of San Juan de Matha, A.D. 1732
Fol. 372. letter from Henry Loftus, May 12, 1693
Fol. 370. Latin letter from Joseph Shaw, about A.D. 1730

A longer list of contents will be found in the manuscript catalogue of this MS.

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MS. Add. D. 27

Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. VI, no. 27811-27812

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