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Ante-nuptial contract, Corfu, Ionian Isles
Anthologion
Fragment only.
Anthologion of hymns and passages for instruction, composed by Peter Lampadarius Peloponnesius and others
Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury: Letters to Michael Aynsworth
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.
Anthony Askew: Notes on optics, hydrostatics and astronomy
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.
Anthony Barnett Papers
Literary correspondence and papers concerning Barnett's work as a poet, critic, editor and publisher.
Anthony Barnett, papers relating to the publication of 'Quiet Facts'
Anthony Dopping: Notebook
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
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).
Antoine Varillas: Histoire de Francois I, books 1-12, in anonymous Italian MS translation
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.
Antonio Bertolotti: Schiavitù in Roma
Antonio de Solis: Obras
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.
Antonio del Borgo: Paraphrases of Psalms 148-50, 123 (124), and 95 (96)
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.
Antonio Lotti: Letters to him
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.
Antonio Maisis: Certificate of creation, notary public
Volume contains certificate, in Latin, bearing large ornate coloured coat of arms. Loose leaves contain translation of text into Italian, and into English.
Antonio Maria Graziani: De Vita Ioannis Francisci Commendoni Cardinalis
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.
Anvil found on the site of the Van Rensburg massacre
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.
A.P.G. Austin photographs of the West Indies 1902-1922
Apocalypse de Saint Jean
Apollodorus Atheniensis, Bibliotheca (MS copy in Latin translated by Benedictus Aegius Spoletinus) and extracts from Meidanii Proverbia Arabica, ed. H. A. Schultens
Appointment and release, Witcham, Cambridgeshire
Appointment as Chancellor of Exchequer, Westminster
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.
Appointment as Keeper of Rolls, Somerset and Westminster
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.