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Ante-nuptial contract, Corfu, Ionian Isles
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3625
Dates:
1848
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Anthologion
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3051
Scope and Contents
Fragment only.
Dates:
1650 (Circa)
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Anthologion of hymns and passages for instruction, composed by Peter Lampadarius Peloponnesius and others
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6197
Dates:
1800 (Circa)
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury: Letters to Michael Aynsworth
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6093
Scope and Contents
Transcribed by R. Flexman, 48 folios: (fo. 1) former class mark in pencil; (fo. 1v) note of sale; (fo. 2) title; (fo. 2v) list of contents; (fo. 3) R. Flexman: introduction; copies of letters, 25 February 1707 - 10 July 1710; (fo. 40v) notes on the letters.
Dates:
1707-1710 (Transcribed circa 1768)
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Anthony Askew: Notes on optics, hydrostatics and astronomy
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9316
Scope and Contents
Thomas Rutherforth, Ordo institutionum physicarum in privatis lectionibus, Cambridge, 1743, followed by 241 pages of notes on optics, mechanics, hydrostatics, and astronomy, in the hands of several writers, which probably include Anthony Askew. At the end are printed diagrams from Rutherforth's book.
Dates:
1743 (Circa)
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Anthony Barnett Papers
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10056
Scope and Contents
Literary correspondence and papers concerning Barnett's work as a poet, critic, editor and publisher.
Dates:
1960-2010 (circa)
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Anthony Barnett, papers relating to the publication of 'Quiet Facts'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10022
Dates:
c. 1979
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Anthony Dopping: Notebook
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.711
Scope and Contents
Notes mainly relating to Trinity College, Dublin. Including: disputations and speeches in Trinity College, 1662-83; speech on Irish rebellion, delivered 23 Oct. 1662; speech on death of Lewis Culme; miscellaneous verses, including those upon death of John Bradshaw and upon restoration of Charles II; 'The first beginning of the Presbiterians'; 'Directions to my parishoners July 28 1672'; 'Rules proposed to my selfe in the visiting my parishoners'; note of act for securing property to Anthony...
Dates:
1662-1683 (Circa)
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Anthony Lynton: A shotte consuminge by fyre any matter apt to burne that may be seene within the reache of any Peece of Artyllerie invented
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2656
Scope and Contents
fo. 1: '63' (in 17th-cent. hand). fo. 2v: dedication to Charles, Lord Howard of Effingham, William Cecil, Lord Burghley, and to Sir Francis Walsingham. fo. 9v: 'Tho. Dabitott' (several times, in 16th-cent. hand).
Dates:
1588 (Paper)
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Antoine Varillas: Histoire de Francois I, books 1-12, in anonymous Italian MS translation
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3841-3842
Scope and Contents
Probably made from 1st French edn (The Hague, 1684). Translation apparently unprinted. fos xiii, xiv, 395, 396: blank. fo. 397v: 'Bufin' (17th cent.) and scribbling in Italian.
Dates:
1685 (Circa)
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Antonio Bertolotti: Schiavitù in Roma
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6261
Scope and Contents
In typescript, with an English translation by Sedley Taylor, 'Slavery in Rome from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century', 189 folios. (Fo. i) Title, 'La Schiavitù in Roma dal Secolo XVI al XIX.', by Antonio Bertolotti; (fo. 1) typescript of Bertolotti's text, in Italian; (fo. ii) title of the English translation by Sedley Taylor; (fo. 1) text of Taylor's translation; (fo. 65*) documents to illustrate the text, in Latin and English; (fo. 113) translator's preface, in English; (fo. 117)...
Dates:
1903
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Antonio de Solis: Obras
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7823
Scope and Contents
A collection of sixty-six pieces, including poems, sonnets, romances and epigrams, in the hands of two scribes. There is a table of contents at the end.
Dates:
1650 (Circa)
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Antonio del Borgo: Paraphrases of Psalms 148-50, 123 (124), and 95 (96)
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.736.1
Scope and Contents
Includes a dedication to and poem in honour of Louis XIV. Inside front cover: bookplate of Samuel Sandars. On a flyleaf are pasted slips from French and English booksellers' catalogues, the vol. being lot 13 in the former, and lot 1086 in the latter.
Dates:
1680 (Circa)
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Antonio Lotti: Letters to him
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6264
Scope and Contents
Transcript of Letters from the Academy of Ancient Musick at London to Sigr. Antonio Lotti of Venice with his answers and testimonies (London, 1732), 42 folios. The versos are blank throughout.
Dates:
1900 (Circa: item is a copy of the original of 1732.)
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Antonio Maisis: Certificate of creation, notary public
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9488
Scope and Contents
Volume contains certificate, in Latin, bearing large ornate coloured coat of arms. Loose leaves contain translation of text into Italian, and into English.
Dates:
1665
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Antonio Maria Graziani: De Vita Ioannis Francisci Commendoni Cardinalis
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4518
Scope and Contents
Written in a French hand, 356 folios: (fo. 11) title; (fo. 12) text in four books; (fo. 345) index. The biography provides historical details about the period and includes an account of Cardinal Commendone's arrival in England. This copy is probably transcribed from the printed edition.
Dates:
800-1500
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Anvil found on the site of the Van Rensburg massacre
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305W
Scope and Contents
250 x 185 mm. A photograph showing the anvil which is said to have been found circa 1850. Further details are to be found on the back of the photograph.
The massacre took place in July 1836 on the banks of the Limpopo, forty miles from its confluence with the Olifants River. Information on Johannes Jacobus Janse Van Rensburg (1779-1836) has only been co-ordinated in the 1950s and 1960s.
Dates:
1880 - 1940
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A.P.G. Austin photographs of the West Indies 1902-1922
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307I
Scope and Contents
Photographs on three disbound album sheets, relating chiefly to the eruption of Mont Pelé, Martinique, on 8 May 1902 when Austin was sent back to find out what had happened to the members of the Colonial Bank. They are by A.P.G. Austin and others and the majority are small snapshots. Captions have been added, chiefly by comparison with the photographs listed in Y307E. Numbers 1-17 were taken on St Pierre between 11 and 14 May (according to a note on the pages) presumably by Austin, with...
Dates:
1902 - 1922
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Apocalypse de Saint Jean
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10271
Dates:
1930 - 1931
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Apollodorus Atheniensis, Bibliotheca (MS copy in Latin translated by Benedictus Aegius Spoletinus) and extracts from Meidanii Proverbia Arabica, ed. H. A. Schultens
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3870
Scope and Contents
Apollodorus Atheniensis is fos 1-172. Watermark date 1819. Text written on left half of recto, the right half being used occasionally for notes. Some further notes on verso, which is usually blank. Each of the three books of the text is preceded by a table of contents, the leaves being numbered 1*, 1**, 47*, 47**, 105*, 105** (a half leaf), 105***. Fos 171-2 misplaced after fo. 104. Extracts from Meidanii Proverbia ArabicaII is on fos 173-98. Watermark date 1811. Latin and Arabic in parallel...
Dates:
1811-1819
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Appointment and release, Witcham, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.1825
Scope and Contents
In consideration of #80, Henry Wilks of Ely, miller, conveys his c2 acres fen or marsh ground in Cow Crofts, Witcham, number 65 in the 'Map and Lot Book relating to the Littleport and Downham District', to William Nix of Chatteris, gent. Reversion during lifetime of purchaser to William Say esq of Downham Market. Lease (for one year at peppercorn rent) signed and sealed by Henry Wilks, witnessed by L Dench and James Dench, duty stamp. Release in form of tripartite indenture, similarly signed...
Dates:
10 Oct. 1838-11 Oct. 1838
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Appointment as Chancellor of Exchequer, Westminster
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3961
Scope and Contents
Letters patent appointing Frederick, Lord North, chancellor of the exchequer, in place of William, Lord Mansfield. Cased pendant great seal; duty stamps. Various endorsements of enrolment.
Dates:
6 Oct. 1767 (7 George III)
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Appointment as Keeper of Rolls, Somerset and Westminster
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.3962
Scope and Contents
Letters patent appointing Frederick, Lord North, keeper of the rolls of the peace in the county of Somerset, in place of Percy [Wyndham-O'Brien], earl of Thomond. Cased pendant great seal; duty stamps.
Dates:
9 Mar. 1774 (14 George III)
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Appointment, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2429
Dates:
1865
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Appointment, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.2431
Dates:
1865
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