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Morland, Sir Samuel, 1625-1695 (1st Baronet, natural philosopher and diplomat)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1625 - 1695

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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Fragments on Mathematical Subjects by Cassini, Craig and Morland, c 1722

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3971.4: 77-82
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Transcripts of mathematical and astronomical letters and papers, apparently made for the use of Isaac Newton, in various hands. Included are copies of works by R.F. Slusius, Antonio Monforte, Jacques Ozanam, G.W. Leibnitz, E.W. von Tschirnhaus, Henry Oldenburg, T.F. de Lagny, G.D. Cassini, John Craig and S. Morland.

Dates: c 1722
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
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Waldensian documents, Late fourteenth to early sixteenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.15.29-Dd.15.34
Scope and Contents

These are the Waldensian MSS. given to the University by Samuel Morland with Dd.03.25-38, marked by him A-F, and long supposed to be lost. They were for a time erroneously described as Spanish, and were considered of no interest till their identification by H. Bradshaw, M.A., Fellow of King's, in 1862. See his full description of them in the Communications to the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 2, pp. 203-218, reprinted in Dr Todd's Books of the Vaudois (1865), pp. 210-223.

Dates: Late fourteenth to early sixteenth century
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Waldensian documents, Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.25-38
Scope and Contents

Waldensian Manuscripts, presented, together with other and more ancient documents, 'to the publick Library of the famous University of Cambridge in August 1658,' by Samuel Morland, according to the heading of the Catalogue appended to the Contents of the 'History of the Evangelical Churches of the valleys of Piedmont,' fol. London, 1658, by the Donor. See also Dd.15.29-35.

Dates: Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

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