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"A collection of original drawings illustrating the ornithology of the Orientals"

 Collection
Call Number: MS Q14
Overview

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.

Dates: After 1801?

A Miscellany of Deeds and Manorial, Estate, Probate and Family Documents

 Collection
Call Number: MS 239
Overview

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.

Dates: 1230-1900 (bulk 1461-1860)

Adversaria. The Common-Place-Book, by Robert Courthope Sims

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS B40
Overview

Commonplace book, or a volume created to compile knowledge, kept by Robert Courthope Sims of Essex, England.

Dates: approximately 1755-1769 or later

Arthur Moore collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 143
Overview

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.

Dates: 1503-1857 not inclusive (bulk 1680s-1730s)

Assorted legal documents from Continental Europe

 Collection
Call Number: MS 220
Overview

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.

Dates: 14th century-early 19th century

Codex by Girolamo Garzoni

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS C110
Overview

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.

Dates: 1575

Collection of Accounts of Political and Governmental events

 Collection
Call Number: MS E205
Overview

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.

Dates: Events date from 1558-1640; writings separately copied 17th century (nearly contemporary)

Commentarius triplex in triplicem Aristotelis philosophiam [A Commentary on Aristotle]

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS C127
Overview

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.

Dates: 1684?

Cum mota esset petitio ac dissentio inter Johannam [etc.]

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS C150
Overview

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.

Dates: 1301 - 1302

David Neave, Commentaries on Aristotle’s Organon, and on Porphyrus’ Eisagoge to Aristotle

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS D124P
Overview

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.

Dates: January 28, 1646-March 5, 1647

Deeds of Hoon (Derbyshire) Manor

 Collection
Call Number: MS 52
Overview

A collection of documents for Hoon (Derbyshire) Manor, England.

Dates: 1323 to 1733+

Diarium,1504-1506; 1513-1521. Paride Grassi, Bishop of Pesaro. Italy, copied 15--? or 16--?

 Collection
Call Number: MS E53
Overview Book: official diary kept by the Pope's master of ceremonies. Chronological account of ceremonies attended by the Pope, both liturgical and political: includes minutes of consistories and conclaves, and of audiences with foreign and clerical dignitaries; texts of documents; liturgical texts; lists of qualified persons, duties, etc. Also contains notes of interesting events, deaths, etc., anecdotes, and some of Grassi's personal opinions. Dates Covered: May 26, 1504-August 26, 1506 (part of...
Dates: 15--? or 16--?

Documents concerning the city of Sabbioneta (Italy)

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS E9
Overview 172 documents (and similar papers) bound in 1 volume: architectural, urban planning, government, history. Proclamations, financial accounts, letters, contracts, narratives, and official documents issued by or concerning this planned city. Most are from the reign of Vespasiano Gonzaga, Sabbioneta's duke (1531-1591) who turned a village 12 miles SW of Mantua into a model city, and most are concerned with the construction of public buildings, especially the Porta Vittoria, the Porta Imperiale,...
Dates: 1537 - 1778

Documents of Abbey Dore

 Collection
Call Number: MS Q80
Overview

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.

Dates: approximately 1215-approximately 1300

Fletcher of Saltoun collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 109
Overview

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?).

Dates: approximately 1600-1806

Francisco de Salzedo devotional book

 Collection
Call Number: MS B50
Overview Devotional book kept and in part written by Francisco de Salzedo. The first part is titled "Cartilla de la doctrina religiosa" and includes at the end a parallel between the canonical hours and the hours of Christ's passion; a Latin poem beginning "Matutina ligat Christum"; and the meaning of the Mass. The second part, entitled "Consejos y documentos espirituales pertenecientes & la Mystica Theologia" by Pedo de la Piftuela contains 7 tracts on prayer, meditation, and the amorous union...
Dates: copied 1744

"Historia Flagellantium de recto et perverso flagrorum usu apud Christianos" manuscript

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS E279
Overview

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.

Dates: December 1691

Historical documents of the Convento de la Madre de Dios

 Collection
Call Number: MS C238
Overview This book contains memoranda from the Convento de la Madres deo Dios in Torrelaguna (Toledo archdiocese, province of Madrid). It includes notarial transcriptions of documents that the monastery found it necessary to remember, jottings of events, inventories, etc., added to cover the history of the monastery. It appears to have been destroyed in 1809, during the Peninsular War between Bourbon Spain and Napoleon Bonaparte; it was suppressed in 1835 under a royal decree suppressing monasteries...
Dates: approximately 1520 - [early 19th century]

Index abecedarius: an alphabetical index to the first edition of the 'Species Plantarum' of Linnaeus

 Collection
Call Number: MS P649
Overview This manuscript and associated papers by the botanist, William Philip Hiern (1839-1925), form a record of the production of his Index abecedarius: an alphabetical index to the first edition of the 'Species Plantarum' of Linnaeus. The manuscript includes the title, introduction and text of the index, copied by an amanuensis but bearing the author's signature, corrections and other annotations. The manuscript was probably written early in 1906, because the author's pencil annotation on the...
Dates: 1906

John Gould drawings

 Collection
Call Number: Gould
Overview

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.

Dates: approximately 1830-1895

Kaye family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 240B
Overview

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.

Dates: approximately 1200-1770

Legal papers concerning church attendance, etc. of Norfolk Recusants

 Collection
Call Number: MS 106
Overview

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.)

Dates: 1591

Legatio Cardinalis de Fussa ad Regem Aragonensem

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS D122
Overview Correspondence and documents between Cardinal de Foix, legate to Alfonso V; Alfonso V, king of Aragon (died 1458); and Pope Martin V (1368-1431). Dates covered in the volume are 1424-1430. Concerns the Council of Tortosa, 1429, in which Foix persuaded Alfonso and other backers of Clement VIII (1380?-1446), the anti-pope at the time, to support Martin V. This narrative apparently compiled on Foix's orders from his archives: see last leaf of manuscript. Places mentioned in the manuscript...
Dates: 1424-1430 [written 17th century?]

Letters by Carl Linne and enclosed material

 Collection
Call Number: MS P188
Overview

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.

Dates: 1740

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Ellis, Ralph N. (Ralph Nicholson), 1908-1945 2
James I, King of England, 1566-1625 2
Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778 2
Albrecht, William Price, 1907-1986 1
Alfonso, King of Aragon, V, 1396-1458 1
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Arce, Joanne Josepho 1
Aristotle 1
Beaumont family 1
Boileau, Jacques, 1635-1716 1
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Burgh, Hubert de, -1243 1
Caesar, Julius, Sir, 1558-1636 1
Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649 1
Cini, Giulio, active 16th century 1
Convento de la Madre de Dios (Torrelaguna, Spain) 1
Convento della SS. Annunziata (Florence, Italy) 1
Copley family 1
Cossoni, Michaele 1
Crosley family 1
Dore (Abbey : Herefordshire, England) 1
Dorset, Thomas Sackville, Earl of, 1536-1608 1
Elizabeth, Queen of England, I, 1533-1603 1
England and Wales. Exchequer 1
England. Court of Star Chamber 1
Fletcher (Family : active 17th century-19th century : Fletcher, Andrew, 1655-1716 : Saltoun, Scotland) 1
Fletcher, Andrew, 1722-1779 1
Fletcher, Henry, -1803 1
Foix, Pierre de, 1386-1464 1
Förster, Ambrosius 1
Garzoni, Girolamo, active 16th century 1
Gould, Elizabeth, 1804-1841 1
Gould, John, 1804-1881 1
Grassi, Paride, -1528 1
Great Britain. Parliament 1
Griffith, William J. (William Joyce), 1908- 1
Guilford, Francis North, 1673-1729 1
Guilford, Francis North, Baron, 1637-1685 1
Guilford, Francis North, Earl of, 1704-1790 1
Haghe family 1
Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art 1
Hiern, William P. (William Philip), 1839-1925 1
Hofmann & Freeman Antiquarian Booksellers 1
Hudson, William, 1577 or 1578-1635 1
Kaye (Family : 1200-1770 : Yorkshire, England) 1
Kenneth Spencer Research Library 1
Lancaster, Edmund, Earl of, 1245-1296 1
Lascelles, Roger de, approximately 1232-1297 1
Le Vieil (Professor of philosophy) 1
Macro, Cox, -1767 1
Maidment, James, 1793-1879 1
Martin, Pope, V, 1368-1431 1
Medici family 1
Moore family. 1
Moore, Arthur, 1666?-1730 1
Neave, David, active 1646-1647 1
Nettleton family 1
North (Family : England) 1
North and Grey, Charles North, Baron, 1635-1690 1
North and Grey, Katherine North, Lady, died 1694 1
North and Grey, Maria Margaretha North, Lady, 1690-1762 1
North, Ann, Dame, active 1728 1
North, Dorothy, -1618 1
North, Dudley North, Baron, 1581-1666 1
North, Dudley North, Baron, 1602-1677 1
North, Dudley, 1641-1691 1
North, Dudley, 1684-1729 1
North, Edward North, Baron, 1496?-1564 1
North, Elizabeth, 1647-1730 1
North, Frances 1
North, Frances, 1647-1678 1
North, Francis, 1704-1790 1
North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792 1
North, Georgina, 1798-1835 1
North, Henry, Sir, 1556-1620 1
North, John, 1588-1652 1
North, Maria, 1793-1841 1
North, Montagu, 1649-1710 1
North, Roger North, Baron, 1530-1600 1
North, Roger, 1651-1734 1
North, Roger, approximately 1585-1652 or 1653 1
North, Susan, Baroness, 1797-1841 1
North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601? 1
North, William North, Baron, 1678-1734 1
Ospitaliere di Santo Spirito (Puglia, Italy) 1
Petrus, de Simonis 1
Placentinua, Franciscus 1
Priestman, Brian 1
Rader, Matthäus, 1561-1634 1
Riss, Loretta D. 1
Riss, Robert B. (Robert Bailey), 1927-2005 1
Rogers, Peter, active 1647 1
Rosenthal, Bernard M. 1
Royal African Company 1
Sabbioneta (Italy) 1
Sacco, Angelo Michele 1
Salzedo, Francisco de, active 1744 1
Sauer, Gordon C. (Gordon Chenoweth), 1921- 1
Sayvile family 1
Scotland. Court of Session 1
Sherfield, Henry, -1634 1
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