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Islington Literary and Scientific Society: Contributions book
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8408
Scope and Contents
'Contributions. Manuscripts consisting of original compositions in prose and verse; copies of rare documents; literary curiosities; &c.', circa 100 manuscript pages. There is a contents page at the start of the volume, and a page of members' signatures, headed by 'John Nicholl, Chairman', at the end. The volume also includes a few heraldic drawings and diagrams. Each composition is in the hand of its author and is signed by them at the end. The principal contributor is the antiquary John...
Dates:
1838-1843
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István Werboczy: Tripartitum opus iuris
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8686
Scope and Contents
A law book on the corpus of the customary law of the medieval kingdon of hungary. Printed, with substantial manuscript additions.
Dates:
1561
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Italian Accounts of the Political Situation in Spain and Italy, 1630-1644
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8930-8931
Scope and Contents
Transcripts from the 17th century of accounts of political and military events in Spain and Italy, 1630-44. The volumes have the book-plates of H.E. Napier and Thomas Hodgkin. The transcripts are accompanied by letters, regarding their provenance: John Bohn to Thomas Hodgkin (1875), Luigi Firpo to Edward C. Hodgkin (1978), and Edward C. Hodgkin to the London Library (1992).
Dates:
1642-1644
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Italian Arias
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6002
Scope and Contents
(fo. 1v) blank; (fo. 2v) 'Povere mie speranze'; (fo. 3v) 'So' che vauti un core ingrato so''; (fo. 5v) 'Donne vegni al balcon che l'orbo'; (fo. 6v) 'La violetta vergognosetta'; (fo. 7v) 'Ah ritorna e ta' dell' oro alla terra'; (fo. 8v) 'Dormia sul margine d'un ruscelletto supinae'; (fo. 9v) 'Pur nel sonno al mentalora vien cole'; (fo. 10v) 'Rondi nella amira pieta fula dolce sua'; (fo. 12v) 'Sulla piazza miei signori ecco qua l'onto'; (fo. 13v) Ho sparso tante lagrime per animo lirti'; (fo....
Dates:
1700-1800 (circa)
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File
Italian History
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4438
Scope and Contents
'Delle historie memorabili contiene le Guerre d'Italia de' nostri tempi', possibly in the author's own hand.
Dates:
1656 (Circa)
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Italian songs for treble voice and accompaniment
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2685
Scope and Contents
29 songs
Dates:
1850 (Circa. Year inferred from 19th-century hand)
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Italian translation of Aristotle's Physica Libri Octo
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.735
Scope and Contents
Includes disputations and questions. pp. 2 and 396-7 suggest that the MS. was compiled as an exercise by a student residing in Cagliari, Sardinia. Inside front cover: 'Samuel Sandars 1869', and note by Sandars, whose bookplate is at p. i.
Dates:
1695
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File
Italian writings on Venice in 1618
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4446
Scope and Contents
'Congiura dei Spagnuoli contro la republica di Venezia' and other writings relating to Venice in 1618.
Dates:
1700 (Circa)
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Items left by D H A Ratcliffe
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RATC
Scope and Contents
Two naval cartoons of Admiral Jackie Fisher and Jellicoe (?) by Spy, originally published in "Vanity Fair". Also a certificate for crossing the Equator aboard HMS Sansovino (20 December 1945).
Dates:
1895 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Churchill Archives Centre
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Ivan Pososhkov: Concordance to his works
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8552
Scope and Contents
A word-processed concordance of the works of Ivan Pososhkov, in two folders, 'A to NE' and 'NE to end'.
Dates:
1972
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Ivory from the mainland and Arab door
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3047D
Scope and Contents
191 x 291 mm. A mounted print showing two Swahilis holding a huge pair of elephant tusks in front of an intricately carved Arab doorway in Zanzibar.
Dates:
1900 - 1910
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Iwan Müller: Grand solo pour clarinette
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8878
Scope and Contents
Published parts; manuscript score and arrangements probably by E.W. Whinfield. In a portfolio signed by Whinfield.
Dates:
1823-1861 (Circa)
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J. Burdon-Sanderson: Annotated part of ''Handbook for the physiological laboratory''
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9558
Scope and Contents
His part, 'Physiology', pp.165-339, of E. Klein, J. Burdon-Sanderson, Michael Foster, T. Lauder Brunton, Handbook for the physiological laboratory (London, 1873), author's copy, interleaved, with textual revisions for a new edition, including a note by A.V. HILL. [New edition may be the New American Edition c1884]
Dates:
1873 (Post 1873)
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J. H. Prynne Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10144
Scope and Contents
The collection principally consists of Prynne's literary papers and correspondence, together with documents relating to his career as an academic.
Dates:
1936 - 2019
Conditions Governing Access:
Access to some files is restricted for reasons of confidentiality or in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. The restictions are not noted in this online catalogue, and those planning to consult the collection are strongly advised to contact the Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts well in advance of their visit to establish the accessibility of the files in which they are interested.
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Cambridge University Library
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J. Harvey Bloom: Notes on seals attached to the Buxton Charters
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5958.18
Dates:
1921
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J. Le Bret to the Earl of Gloucester, Sturmer, Essex
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.759
Dates:
1250 (Circa)
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J. Stuart Glass : Mechanical Sciences Tripos notebooks
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8700
Scope and Contents
Mechanical Sciences Tripos notebooks compiled by James Stuart Glass of Queens' College, Cambridge.
Dates:
1940-1942
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Jackson and Archer scrapbook
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 114
Scope and Contents
This volume of c. 160 pages was compiled by Arthur C. Hunter, and was later passed to Lady Jackson. It contains material on Sir Frederick Jackson, Governor of Uganda (1911-1917), and his nephew Sir Geoffrey Archer, who served as Governor of Somaliland (1914-1923), Governor of Uganda (1923), and Governor-General of the Sudan (1924-1926). There are a few letters to A. C. Hunter from F. J. Jackson, but most of the items are printed cuttings. The scrapbook provides a record of the...
Dates:
1888 - 1932
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Jacob Leveen: Correspondence and papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8272
Scope and Contents
Correspondence; notebooks; texts and drafts of lectures and addresses; negatives; glass slides; diaries of hours and duties at the Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts, 1914-1938; and papers regarding the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Dates:
1914-1958
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Jacobus Perizonius: Dictata Clarissimi D. D. J. Perizonii in C. Suetonium Tranquillum De 12 Caesaribus
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.93
Scope and Contents
fo. 1: 'Said to have belonged to Professor Te Water's Library bt in 1849.' (Hand of M. J. Routh, president of Magdalen College, Oxford (d. 1854) to whom the volume evidently belonged.) Inside front cover: '611/5', '5s nett', '2', '754', and on a folded strip of the vellum cover '£2.2.0'.
Dates:
1701
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Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet: Relation de la conference d'entre Monsieur l'Eveque de Condom et Monsieur Claude
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2935
Scope and Contents
Work first printed 1682. Present copy appears to be a transcript from an early edition. inside front cover: bookplate of J. Lee, Doctor's Commons, May 1830. 'B 5/20' in pancil. fo. 1v: 'No. 112 - Library of the Revd J. H. Renouard Trinity College Cambridge May 1830.'
Dates:
1720 (Circa)
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Jagat Kautuka Kalpavallī
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10295
Scope and Contents
A collection of mathematical and logical problems given in their original Sanskrit with an (Indian) English translation and striking, well executed black and white and grey wash illustrations.
Dates:
1 Aug 1821
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Fonds
'Jaggers'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 347
Scope and Contents
'"Jaggers" or the Railway Transport Officer', a story centred on the character John Jaggers, a man of great wealth derived from Rhodesian gold and East Indian rubber who invests successfully in South America's railways. The bulk of the book deals with his work as a Railway Transport Officer in World War I, and includes reflections on world affairs and the Empire. The introduction to the story is dated February 1933, and refers to Foucar's novel 'The wandering clerk or a romance of the...
Dates:
1933
Conditions Governing Access:
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Jamaica 1959-1982
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3073E
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints intended for the exhibition 'Commonwealth in Focus' but received too late for inclusion. The subjects into which the collection is divided were chosen by the National Library of Jamaica, and are based on the headings used for the sections of the 'Commonwealth in Focus' exhibition. All measure either 250 x 200 mm or 370 x 300 mm. Various photographers.
Dates:
1959 - 1982
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'Jamaican ants'
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 354
Scope and Contents
A book recording facts and observations about Jamaican ant species. It also includes two imaginative stories, perhaps intended for children, to explain their behaviour. It is illustrated by pen and ink sketches and water colours (50 pages).
Dates:
1890 - 1944
Conditions Governing Access:
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