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"A collection of original drawings illustrating the ornithology of the Orientals"
Collection of 190 pictures of birds in watercolor, pen, and pencil, by several artists, as well as 2 title pages, board, and spine. Includes birds found in Australia, India, and New Guinea.
A Miscellany of Deeds and Manorial, Estate, Probate and Family Documents
This collection of miscellaneous documents, written between the 13th to 19th centuries, mostly relate to land and property transactions and maintenance in England. The bulk of the documents are dated from the 16th through 19th centuries. The remaining documents concern legal and official matters, family papers, probate and wills, and accounts and business. The documents pertain to many of the counties in England, as well as some matters taking place in other parts of the British Isles.
Adversaria. The Common-Place-Book, by Robert Courthope Sims
Commonplace book, or a volume created to compile knowledge, kept by Robert Courthope Sims of Essex, England.
Arthur Moore collection
This collection consists of the correspondence and business records of Arthur Moore (1666?-1730) and his immediate family in England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
Assorted legal documents from Continental Europe
A collection of unrelated legal documents from different countries and other political entities in continental Europe, dating from approximately the 1300s to the early 1800s. Documents come from Germany, Austria, the Holy Roman Empire, Iberia, Italy, France, Belgium, and unknown geographic locations.
Codex by Girolamo Garzoni
Book on the divine right of the Holy Roman Empire, dedicated to Rudolph II, who was to become Emperor in 1576 and who had become Roman king in October 1577, and written by Girolamo Garzoni, a legal writer and auditor in Ferrara. At the end of the Latin form of his name, the word Auximate means from Osimo, Italy, his birthplace, though the volume may have been written in Austria.
Collection of Accounts of Political and Governmental events
Collection of 72 separately written accounts of Parliamentary debates, political law-cases, diplomatic correspondence, etc., bound together in two volumes. Most (perhaps all) are near-contemporary copies of the originals.
Commentarius triplex in triplicem Aristotelis philosophiam [A Commentary on Aristotle]
This collection consists of a single manuscript textbook on logic, probably written in either the Low Countries or Germany. On title-page verso: Commentarius triplex in triplicemn Aristotelis philoam raonalem, naalem, transnaalem. Increatae Trinitati Patri Filiq [?] Spiritui Sto. Humillime inscriptis sub auspicijs Trinitatis increatae. Jesu Mariae Josephi feliciter inititus sub praeside R. Patre Hanloh [or Hanloti or?] Anno.
Cum mota esset petitio ac dissentio inter Johannam [etc.]
This collection consists of a single legal document, an agreement whereby the lands of Sir Roger Lasceles are divided amongst his four daughters: Joan, wife of Thomas de Coiwen; Avis, wife of Robert le Conestable; Maud, wife of Robert de Tilliol; and Theophania, wife of Ralph son of Ranulph.
David Neave, Commentaries on Aristotle’s Organon, and on Porphyrus’ Eisagoge to Aristotle
Book of philosophy. Regulae quaedam de ratione disputandi; Praeludia in universam Aristotilis logicum; Comentarii in Isagogem Porphyrii; and commentaries or annotamenta on Aristotle's Categoriae, De interpretatione, Priora analytica, Posteriora analytica [incomplete], Topica, Sophistici elenchi.
Deeds of Hoon (Derbyshire) Manor
A collection of documents for Hoon (Derbyshire) Manor, England.
Diarium,1504-1506; 1513-1521. Paride Grassi, Bishop of Pesaro. Italy, copied 15--? or 16--?
Disputations in Vniuersam Ar[istotle]is Stagiritæ Logicam
Documents concerning the city of Sabbioneta (Italy)
Documents of Abbey Dore
Documents concerning land conveyed to Abbey Dore, Herefordshire, England, mostly dating to the 13th century. Relates primarily to the Abbey's granges called Lincoyt and Lanveyr located near Grosmont and the forest of Severenny, Upper Gwent (present-day Monmouthshire). Land was issued by Hubert de Burgh; Edmund, earl of Lancaster; and private persons.
Fletcher of Saltoun collection
A collection of books and manuscripts relating to the Fletcher of Saltoun Family, most of which have come from Saltoun Hall. Salton (Saitoun) is an estate east of Edinburgh, Scotland, in East Lothian (Haddington). The manuscripts are mostly estate account-books (1750-1806 and undated) but also include notes on agriculture (18th century), common-place books in English and Latin (18th century), and a paraphrase of the Corpus Iuris Civilis (1600s?).
Francisco de Salzedo devotional book
"Historia Flagellantium de recto et perverso flagrorum usu apud Christianos" manuscript
This is a manuscript draft dated 1691 for Jacques Boileau’s book, Historia Flagellantium. De recto et perverso flagrorum usu apud Christianos (Paris: Joseph Anisson, 1700). The manuscript consists of text written in one hand, with marginal notes and insertions added in a second hand, both apparently the hands of Boileau’s secretaries. The marginal notes and insertions were incorporated in the 1700 edition.
Historical documents of the Convento de la Madre de Dios
Index abecedarius: an alphabetical index to the first edition of the 'Species Plantarum' of Linnaeus
John Gould drawings
Preparatory manuscript artwork and separate lithographic prints for the bird books created by John Gould and the artists employed in his publication workshop in London, England, in the 19th century. Birds found in these books exist around the world, including in North and South America, Asia, Australia, the United Kingdom and continental Europe, the Himalayan mountains, New Guinea, and Papua.
Kaye family papers
This collection consists of estate documents, principally deeds, of the Kaye family of Woodsome in Yorkshire, England, from the 13th to 18th centuries, with the majority of documents dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. Some locations cited in these documents include Almondbury, Honley, Kirkheaton, Slaithwaite, Kirkburton, Huddersfield, etc.
Legal papers concerning church attendance, etc. of Norfolk Recusants
Legal papers: certificates and evidence taken concerning church attendance, etc. during the Protestant Reformation in Elizabethan England. Apparently originals, kept together after being issued by the Commission; include signatures. (Item 2 is a fair copy largely in a single hand.)
Legatio Cardinalis de Fussa ad Regem Aragonensem
Letters by Carl Linne and enclosed material
Unbound letter from Carl von Linne or Carl Linnaeus to Dr. de Sauvages [Francois Boissier de la Croix de Sauvages, 1706-1767], discussing botany, medicine, friendly scholarly gossip. Collection also includes portraits and supplementary 20th-century material.