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Great Britain | Colonial Administrative Service 53
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Fisher | Sir | Ronald Aylmer | 1890-1962 | Knight | statistician and geneticist 22
Phillipps | Sir | Thomas | 1792-1872 | Baronet | Antiquary, and Collector of MSS and Books 22
Berlin | Sir | Isaiah | 1909-1997 | Knight | historian and philosopher 21
Rhodes | Cecil John | 1853-1902 | imperialist, colonial politician and mining entrepreneur 20
Boyce | William | 1710-1779 | musician 18
Jenkins | John | 1592-1678 | composer 18
Conservative Party 17
Doll | Sir | William Richard Shaboe | 1912-2005 | Knight | epidemiologist and cancer researcher 17
Gielgud | Sir | Arthur John | 1904-2000 | Knight | actor and theatre director 16
Lowe | Edward | 1610-1682 | composer, music copyist, organist and writer on music 16
Olivier | Sir | Laurence Kerr | 1907-1989 | Baron Olivier | actor and director 16
University of Dar es Salaam 15
Purcell | Henry | c 1659-1695 | composer 14
Masahor | d 1890 | Sharif | opponent of Brooke rule in Sarawak also known as Musahor/Musahore 13
Wilberforce | William | 1759-1833 | MP, Philanthropist 13
Acland | Sir | Henry Wentworth | 1815-1900 | 1st Baronet | physician 12
Dugdale | Sir | William | 1605-1686 | Knight | antiquary and herald 12
Gladstone | William Ewart | 1809-1898 | statesman 12
Lawes | William | 1602-1645 | musician and composer 12
Madden | Sir | Frederic | 1801-1873 | Knight | antiquary and palaeographer 12
Simpson | Christopher | c 1602/1606-1669 | composer 12
Strong | Sir | Roy Colin | b.1935 | Knight | art historian and broadcaster 12
Talbot | William Henry Fox | 1800-1877 | MP, pioneer of photography 12
Stukeley | William | 1687-1765 | antiquary and natural philosopher 11
Twining | William | 1934-2025 | professor of Law 11
University of East Africa -- Administration 11
University of Ghana 11
Ayer | Sir | Alfred Jules | 1910-1989 | Knight | philosopher 10
Bodleian Library 10
Gilpin | William | 1724-1804 | Clergyman, educationist, biographer and topographer 10
Asquith | Herbert Henry | 1852-1928 | 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith | statesman 9
Bennett | Sir | William Sterndale | 1816–1875 | Knight | composer 9
Blow | John | 1648-1708 | composer 9
Bryce | James | 1838-1922 | 1st Viscount Bryce | British diplomat and politician 9
Finzi | Gerald Raphael | 1901-1956 | composer 9
Gibbons | Orlando | 1583-1625 | composer 9
Hailey | William Malcolm | 1872-1969 | 1st Baron Hailey 9
Handel | George Frederick | 1685-1759 | musical composer 9
Medawar | Sir | Peter Brian | 1915-1987 | Knight | medical scientist 9
Sadler | Sir | Michael Ernest | 1861-1943 | Knight | educational pioneer and art patron 9
Villiers | George William Frederick | 1800-1870 | 4th Earl of Clarendon | statesman 9
Bodley | Sir | Thomas | 1545-1613 | Knight | diplomat, scholar, and founder of the Bodleian Library 8
British Association for the Advancement of Science 8
Buckland | William | 1784-1856 | Dean of Westminster, geologist 8
Chapman | Robert William | 1881-1960 | English Scholar and Editor 8
Lewis | Clive Staples | 1898-1963 | writer 8
Macray | William Dunn | 1826-1916 | Rector of Ducklington, Antiquary, and Archivist 8
Robertson | William Scott | fl 1957-1967 | university administrator and lecturer in Divinity 8
Ruskin | John | 1819-1900 | author, artist, and social reformer 8
Savile | Sir | Henry | 1549-1622 | knight | mathematician 8
Shakespeare | William | 1564-1616 | Dramatist 8
Sherard | James | 1666-1738 | apothecary, botanist and amateur musician 8
Stoker | Sir | Michael George Parke | 1918-2013 | Knight | virologist 8
Anderson | Ava | 1896-1974 | née Bodley | wife of Viscount Waverley 7
Asquith | Margaret Emma Alice | 1864-1945 | née Tennant | Countess of Oxford and Asquith | political hostess and diarist 7
Betjeman | Sir | John | 1906-1984 | Knight | Poet Laureate and writer 7
Byrd | William | c 1540-1623 | musical composer 7
Charles I | 1600-1649 | King of England, Scotland and Ireland 7
Croft | William | 1677-1727 | organist and composer 7
Douce | Francis | 1757-1834 | Antiquary 7
Firth | Sir | Charles Harding | 1857-1936 | Knight | historian 7
Frith | Francis | 1822-1898 | photographer 7
Heath | Sir | Edward Richard George | 1916-2005 | Knight | prime minister 7
Hodgkin | Dorothy Mary Crowfoot | 1910-1994 | nee Crowfoot | chemist 7
Hyde | Edward | 1609-1674 | 1st Earl of Clarendon | Lord Chancellor 7
Lugard | Frederick John Dealtry | 1858-1945 | Baron Lugard of Abinger | colonial administrator, soldier and author 7
Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 7
Mayer | Sir | Robert | 1879-1985 | philanthropist and businessman 7
Ouseley | Sir | Frederick Arthur Gore | 1825–1889 | 2nd Baronet | Professor of Music at Oxford University 7
Parry | Sir | Charles Hubert Hastings | 1848-1918 | Knight | composer and musical writer 7
Spelman | Sir | Henry | 1564-1641 | Knight | Historian and Antiquary 7
Spender | Sir | Stephen Harold | 1909-1995 | Knight | poet 7
United Nations 7
Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 6
Baltzar | Thomas | 1631-1663 | violinist and composer 6
Barlow | Thomas | 1607-1691 | Bishop of Lincoln 6
Bassani | Giovanni Battist | c 1650-1716 | composer 6
Beckford | William | 1760-1844 | author, MP, art collector 6
Blunden | Edmund Charles | 1896-1974 | poet 6
Bourne | Samuel | 1834-1912 | photographer 6
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate 6
Butler | James | 1610-1688 | 1st Duke of Ormonde | soldier and statesman 6
Butterworth | George Sainton Kaye | 1885-1916 | composer and folk song collector 6
Buxton | Sir | Thomas Fowell | 1786-1845 | 1st Baronet | Philanthropist 6
Charles II | 1630-1685 | King of England, Scotland and Ireland 6
Conservative Party | Conservative Central Office 6
Corelli | Arcangelo | 1653-1713 | composer and violinist 6
Disraeli | Benjamin | 1804-1881 | Earl of Beaconsfield | statesman 6
Ducarel | Andrew Coltee | 1713-1785 | Antiquary 6
Edgeworth family | Edgeworthstown 6
Elizabeth I | 1533-1603 | Queen of England and Ireland 6
Guinness | Sir | Alec | 1914-2000 | Knight | actor 6
Hearne | Thomas | 1678-1735 | Antiquary and Nonjuror 6
Lacock Abbey | Wiltshire, England 6
Laud | William | 1573-1645 | Archbishop of Canterbury 6
Milner | Alfred | 1854-1925 | Viscount Milner | statesman 6
Oxfam GB 6
Oxford University | New College 6
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Archive of Bern Schwartz 655
Correspondence and papers of the Brooke Family of Sarawak 460
Archive of Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849), and the Edgeworth family, 17th-19th century 430
Archive of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet (1) 420
Archive of the Rt. Hon. Sir Roy Welensky, KCMG 388
Archive of the Fabian Colonial Bureau 288
Shrimpton's Oxford Caricatures 263
Archive of Sir Walter Bodmer and Lady Julia Bodmer 233
Archive of William Clark 208
Archive of Sir William Harcourt and Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt 187
Papers of Sir Isaiah Berlin, 1897-1998, with some family papers, 1903-1972 181
Conservative Party Archive: Conservative Central Office - Party Chairman's Office 177
Archive of the University of Oxford 171
Archive of Ferdinand Stephen Joelson (1893-1979), author, editor of East Africa and Rhodesia journal 154
Archive of Dame Margery Freda Perham 142
Bodleian Library Records 138
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Gough Collection 131
Papers of Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881) and of his family 131
Archive of the Dashwood Family of West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire 126
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Music manuscripts from the Library of St Michael's College, Tenbury Wells 121
Archive of Aldred F.G.B. Lumley (Earl of Scarbrough) relating to the Royal Niger Company 112
Correspondence and papers of Lady Violet Bonham Carter, 1892-1969, and other family papers, 1852-2000 107
Walter Benington photographic portraits 102
Papers of Edward Max Nicholson 101
Topographical collections, correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Phillipps 99
Conservative Party Archive: Conservatives in the European Parliament 98
Archive of the Brookes of Sarawak 84
Papers of George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, with papers of related families 84
Archive of Sir James Bland Burges, mainly 1772-1824, with papers of the Burges and Head families 83
Archive of the Oman family 81
Archive of the Anti-Slavery Society 78
Archive of the Oxford Group 78
Radcliffe Trust Archive 69
Archive of William Henry Fox Talbot and the Talbot family 66
Conservative Party Archive: Printed and Published Material: Conservative Party (and affiliated groups) pamphlets 66
Gift of Michael G. and C. Jane Wilson 64
Papers of the Harcourt family 61
Philip and Rosamund Davies U.S. Elections Campaigns Archive 60
Archive of William Gilpin and family 59
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Conservative Party Archive: Party Political Broadcasts, Speeches and Press Releases 58
Dodsworth Manuscripts 58
The Marconi Archives 58
Additional papers of Sir William Harcourt and Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, with other papers of Mary Ethel Harcourt, Viscountess Harcourt, and Edward William Harcourt 57
Archive of Charles Sturt 57
Archive of Sir Denis Wright 57
Archive of John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn 55
Archive of Sir Edward Penley Abraham 55
Dr. William Cohn Bequest, Oxford University History of Art Department 55
Archive of Sir David Keir 54
Diaries of Harriet Acworth and her husband, William Acworth, Evangelical Clergyman 54
Archive of Joseph Houldsworth Oldham, D.D. 53
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Carte Papers 49
Conservative Party Archive: Conservative Research Department 49
Conservative Party Archive: Private papers: Keith Joseph 49
Douce Manuscripts 49
Records of grants made by Oxfam ('project files') 49
Correspondence and papers of Sir Maurice William Ernest de Bunsen and his family 48
Archive of Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner, 1824-1955 47
Archive of Harold Macmillan 47
Archive of Sir (D'Arcy) Patrick Reilly, 1914-1999 with some family papers, 1885-1963 46
Archive of the Colenso Family 46
Conservative Party Archive: Photographic Collection 45
Archive of Robert Henry Brand, Baron Brand 44
Letters to John and John Bowyer Nichols, booksellers and antiquaries 44
Wight Manuscripts 44
Laudian Collection 43
Archive of Sir Eyre Crowe 42
Higher Education in Anglophone Tropical Africa 42
Wood Manuscripts 42
Archive of Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison 41
Archive of Cyril Dean Darlington (1903-1981) 41
Weld Family Papers 41
Dugdale Manuscripts 40
Papers of Sir James Augustus Henry Murray (1837-1915), editor of the Oxford English Dictionary 40
Archive of David Astor 39
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology: Historical Papers 38
The M. Deneke Mendelssohn Collection 38
Archive of Roger Bannister 37
Additional papers of Sir Cecil Clementi 36
Harcourt estate and family papers, late 12th cent.-1967 36
Taylor Family Papers, 1798-1895 36
The John Dillwyn Llewelyn collection of Talbot photographic materials 36
Archive of Charles Alfred Coulson (1910-1974) 35
Archive of Sir Edmund Monson, 1st Baronet 35
Archive of the North Family 35
Archive of Francis John Stephens Hopwood, Baron Southborough 34
Archive of Sir Matthew Nathan 34
Papers of Sir Rex Hunt 34
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Index cards and notes compiled by Albinia de la Mare: 'Miscellaneous', 1978-1990 and n.d. [c.1965-2000]

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Shelfmark: MS. 18746/58
Includes sub-headings: Donato Acciaiuoli, Pierfilippo Pandolfini, Tedaldo Della Casa, Traversari, Fonzio, Tanaglia, Manetti; Cesena shelfmarks; Cesena manuscripts, aspects of production; Seneca; 'space for arms left blank'; foliation / decoration; Watson, Catalogue (1979), addenda; speed of writing / copying; prices for second hand manuscripts; Vespasiano's Greek scribes; Agnolo Manetti; Alberti; Tanaglia; Sotheby's, 6 Dec 1988, lot 23 (now Florence, Archivio di...
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1978-1990 and n.d. [c.1965-2000]

Instructions to Papal ambassadors, 17th century

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. D. 633
(fol. 1) 1. "Instruttione al card. Farnese, che fù. poi Paulo terzo quando ando legato all’ Imperatore Carlo V dopo il salto di Roma". (fol. 57) 2. Instructio data cardinali Contareno legato Pauli III in Germaniam. (fol. 73) 3. "Instruttione per Spagna di card. Farnese a visitare l’Imperatore per la morte dell’ Imperatrice", 19 May 1539. (fol. 79) 4. Lettera de N....
Extents: 168 Leaves
Dates: 17th century

Items removed from 1989 diary, bulk: Bulk, 1989, [1979], 1988-1989

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Shelfmark: MS. 12864/45
Press cuttings and correspondence on subjects including: Mary Whitehouse; morality; the BBC; the Broadcasting Standards Council; drinking on television; Coronation Street; television programme The Firm; The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie; the 25th anniversary of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association; Sky TV and British Satellite Broadcasting; radio programme The Mary Whitehouse...
Extents: 1 box
Dates: Majority of material found in Bulk, 1989; [1979], 1988-1989

Items removed from 1994 diary, bulk: Bulk, 1994, 1991, 1994

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Shelfmark: MS. 12864/55
Press cuttings and correspondence on subjects including: Mary Whitehouse and her retirement as president of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association; the BBC; violence, sex and swearing on television; pornography; use of painting L'Origine du monde by Gustave Courbet on the front cover of novel Adorations perpétuelles by Jacques Henric; true crime television programmes; Mastermind; David Alton's proposed...
Extents: 1 box
Dates: Majority of material found in Bulk, 1994; 1991, 1994

"A journal of my life while in the Marshalsea, Southwark;" being a diary kept by a musician, a trumpeter and flute-player

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. D. 34
He mentions his Water-Music, his having written songs, etc.; his having a pension; his accidental missing of various legacies and gifts intended for him by Dr. Thompson, Mr. Hill "now Lord Hilsborough," Lord Drogheda, the late Duke of Portland, and Mr. Dorman. His sister’s name was Mrs. Thurman. He gave a benefit-concert in the Town Hall, Greenwich, 5 Sept. 1728, which was not very successful. At fol. 13 a note from W. Acton addressed to Mr....
Extents: 255 Leaves
Dates: 30 May 1728 to 23 Sep 1729

Journal of travels in France and Germany by some young English nobleman

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. D. 76
The diarist left London 3 May 1649, and was convoyed from Deal to Dieppe by order of the Parliament in the Nonesuch frigate. He stayed at Saumur (having instruction in fencing, singing, the guitar, dancing, and Latin) for the greater part of the year, from 18 June, 1649, to 22 July, 1650; then travelled again through various parts of France and Germany, spending three months at Geneva learning Latin and dancing, and the winter of 1651 at Munich learning German and geometry. There are rather...
Extents: 64 Leaves
Dates: 1649-1652

Kalendarium, sive registrum, obituum monialium de abbatia de Florida Valle, vulgo Fleurival, in Flandria prope Tornacum, 16th century

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. D. 898
In saeculo sextodecimo usque ad annum 1584; in quo etiam obitus parentum earum commemorantur. Praemissa et subjuncta sunt haec:— (fol. 1b, 2) i. Invocationes B. M. V., et orationes variae pro defunctis. (fols. 64b-65b) ii. Catalogus abbatissarum ab anno 1218 ad annum 1570. (fols. 68-9) iii. "Dit was het conuent doen die reformatie begonnen wert anno M CCCC...
Extents: 94 leaves; fols. 70-78, 81-85, 88-93 are blank.
Dates: 16th century

"La critica della morte, overo l’ apologia della vita, e le Ricette dell’ arte ch’ accrescono i languori della natura; tradotto dall’ Inglese; dedicato all’ ill[ustrissi]mo abbate Giacomo Botti, agente dell’ altezza serenissima di Modena in Colonia, 1694", 1 Oct 1694

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. D. 492
The English title of the book ("Ricette dell’ arte") professed to be translated does not appear; and it has not been traced. The dedication is signed N. N., and is dated at Cologne, 1 Oct. 1694. On the reverse of fol. 2 is a statement that "Fredericus Gualdus," a German, "melius dicam, Hermetici orbis princeps," died 22 May, 1682, aged 90. And at fol. 15 is "Racconto ai successe di signor Federico Gualdi, diretto da traduttore ad sign. Preciesto di Ternan," followed...
Extents: 43 Leaves
Dates: 1 Oct 1694

La vie de Madame Guyon, early 18th century

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. D. 525
An original MS. in two parts. The first part (written in a very small close hand) ends with chapter x of part III as printed; the second part, by a different hand, extends to the end of the book. There follows, on four leaves, in a third hand, an index with the following title: "Court indice de la vie de M[adam]e Guion écrite par ordre du P. la C. son directeur. La premiére partie fut copiée sur l’original par M. de Piallier (le gros) et revue et corrigée par Fautheur elle...
Extents: 199 Leaves
Dates: early 18th century

A Latin academic note-book by Nicholas Dudson, 1613 to 1614

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. D. 986
The book largely consists of phrases collected from various writers. The principal other contents are as follow:— (fol. 2) i. The first three eclogues of Virgil in English verse. (fol. 16) ii. "Verses of Lelii translated into English verse"; [being W. Lily’s Carmen de moribus prefixed to his Latin grammar]. Beg. "O child which now my seholler...
Extents: 186 Leaves
Dates: 1613 to 1614

"A letter to a member of Parliament concerning the hardships and abuses of prisons, particularly of the King's Bench, from one that is now prisoner there"

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. C. 802
In the handwriting of Hilkiah Bedford, who was imprisoned in 1714 as the supposed author of Harbin's Hereditary Right. Followed (fols. 15–35) by a rough draught of the tract, to which a note of the author's at the beginning of the volume refers, which states that the latter part was "written two or three years after the first, so that as to point of time it is not all of a piece." Two envelopes of letters addressed to Dr. Hickes...
Extents: 44 Leaves
Dates: Majority of material found in 1714

Letters from Henry Holland to Peter Holland, 1799-1814

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Shelfmark: MS. 16087/4
Comprises letters written by Henry Holland to his father, Peter Holland, with a few letters to his [step] mother, Mary (née Whittaker). Some letters bear pencil marks/annotations as if for editing [it is unclear who may have made the edits, whether Henry or possibly Maria Edgeworth (see MS. 16087/2, letter from Saba Holland, 1847), or whether these were made much later] and many have partial typescript transcriptions (c.1962). Early letters from Newcastle relate to Henry's...
Extents: 1.0 box (5 folders)
Dates: 1799-1814

Letters, songs, etc., late 17th century

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. D. 431
On a fly-leaf is the name "Arthur Squibb." (fols. 1-50, 84-5) 1. Forms of letters on French, on various subjects; 67 in number. (fols. 51-55) 2. Eight French amorous "chansons." (fols. 56, 85b) 3. Nine Béarnais [?] quatrains: i. "Houna nena monchache / Y debuen paraser / Pregontaue a son mare / Quie cose ere oder." (fols. 57-83) 4. Sixteen forms of...
Extents: 138 leaves, of which fols. 101-121 are blank
Dates: late 17th century

Letters to the Provincial of the Jesuits by Mr. Edw. Turner of the Jesuites coll. at Holbeck

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. D. 1283
The letters (copies, very badly written) are described as follows by archbp. Sancroft in a note on fol. 1: "This book conteins several letters written [in] the year 1677 to the Provincial of the Jesuits by Mr. Edw. Turner of the Jesuites coll. at Holbeck, being bitter complaints and invectives against He[ton], who had been F. Rector there for 3 years befo[re]. They mention a large narrative of all his cri[mes], but yt is wanting. Yet even these letters discov[er] many of their practises, and...
Extents: 50 leaves, of which fols. 23–29 are blank
Dates: Dec 1677 to Jan 1678

List of benefices in the county of York, with their common reputed value, value in the king's books, rates towards a subsidy of 4s. in the pound, and names of incumbents and patrons

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. B. 457a
At the end is written: "Finis. Decemb. 9, 1696, per Tho.—," the name being erased. In the sale catalogue of Tho. Rawlinson's library (p. 23,) the initials are given as J. B. But the following note is written on a fly-leaf at the beginning of the volume: "This MS. was compiled, as suppos'd, by Tho. Sands, A.M., prebendary of Wighton in the cathedral church of York, installed 26 July, 1690. He was, as I conceive, rector of one of Malpas' medieties, and died 1717, being also subchantor, and...
Extents: 17 Leaves
Dates: Majority of material found within late 17th century

Lists of the members of 29 of the Livery Companies of London, containing the autograph signatures of all the members and of the servants of the Companies, in or about the year 1650

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. D. 24
The Companies comprise the twelve greater Guilds, followed by these:— Bakers. Blacksmiths. Brewers. Cutters. Dyers. Embroiderers. Fruiterers. Joiners. Leathersellers. Musicians. Pewterers. Plaisterers. ...
Extents: 35 Leaves
Dates: 17th century

Macaulay; The Historian, Statesman, and Essayist. Anecdotes of his life and literary labours, with some account of his early and unknown writings (2nd ed., London, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, 1860), with notes and letters of Augustus De Morgan, 1861-1869, former owner of the book

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. e. 3588
The volume includes: (fols. ii a-b) a tipped-in letter, 1 Aug. 1861, from Monsieur de Senarmont, probably Henri Hureau de Senarmont (1808-62), professor of physics and librarian at L'École Polytéchnique, Paris, requesting De Morgan's help in finding an article on optics allegedly written for the journal Revue Europeenne by the physicist Augustin Fresnel (1788-1827). The letter has an endorsment by De...
Extents: 141 Leaves
Dates: 1860-1869

Manuel Lyndo, Astronomical tracts, 16th century

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. D. 501
The leaves are numbered as formerly being fols. 210–235 in a larger volume. (fol. 1b) 1. "Regimento facil e proveitoso pera saberem em que altura estam pello sol ao meo dia; feito per Manuel Lyndo;" with tables for a cycle of four years. (fol. 11b) 2. "Regimento pera tomar altura do poolo em todo tempo que ouuer sol; feito per Manuel Lyndo;" with a finely-drawn figure of an...
Extents: 22 leaves, besides certain ones blank
Dates: 16th century

Medical, chemical, and astrological pieces, Written in various hands in the late 16th century in England

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Shelfmark: MS. Marshall 15
Medical, chemical, and astrological pieces: Fols. 1, 21v, 49v, 52v, 65v, 71. Medical recipes, chiefly in English, citing the following authors: Johannes de Vigo (fol. 16v), [Eustachius] Quercetanus (fols. 17, 17v, 65v), Ernacus (fol. 17v), William Burges (fol. 75v) Fol. 24v. alchemical directions dealing chiefly with mercury, silver, and gold Fols. 29v, 53v. 'The degrees...
Extents: 104 Leaves
Dates: Written in various hands in the late 16th century in England