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A Critical and Historical Account of the Art of Shorthand manuscript

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Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1887?.
Call number: mssHM 30400
Creator: Innes, Hugh W. and George Carl Mares(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of January 1994.
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Art in America : a critical and historical sketch

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Manuscript account of George Clymer

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The first 13 pages of Clymer's manuscript contain notes from his journals, with random observations, about his time in Southern California, including Santa Barbara, Los Angeles and Monterey. Clymer talks about the people he sees, their clothes, customs, dwellings, etc. He also describes California's weather, landscape, agriculture and crops. The remaining 83 pages are written in a narrative style and concern Clymer's time in South America, including Peru, Bolivia and Chile. Clymer also briefly discusses the political history of the area, touching on the Peru-Bolivian Confederation in the late 1830s, and mentioning the lengthy string of wars fought in Peru and elsewhere since independence from Spain; as well as, the effects of civil war in Bolivia. He also talks about his voyage in the Pacific, the sea creatures he sees, the calmness of the Pacific Ocean, etc. The manuscript has numerous corrections and additions, indicating that Clymer perhaps intended it for publication, or at least for a more personal public audience.

mssHM 72090

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Account of the state of France: manuscript

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Account of the state of France written by Sir George Carew after he returned from France in 1609.

mssHM 41951

Homilies on Ecclesiastes : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-120: [Hugh of St. Victor, Homilies on Ecclesiastes]: Prologue: Incipit prologus in omelias Magistri hugonis super ecclesiasten, Que de libro salomonis qui eccelesiastes dicitur nuper vobis coram disserui ... sed a vobis intellectu gaudeatis. Explicit prologus. Rubric: Incipit omelia prima. Verba eccelesiastes filii david regis iherusalem. Incipit: Titulus est libri iste in quo breviter et qualitas exprimitur ... Explicit: et utrum hec ipsam aliis post se profutura sint ignorant. Expliciunt omelie Magistri hugonis super ecclesiasten fideles utique et omni acceptione dignissime. In profesto beati Andree apostoli anno domini Mo cccco xliiio. [ff. 119v-120v blank].

mssHM 41761

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Historical account of discoveries and travels in Africa

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Historical miscellany : [manuscript]

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f. 1: [Verses in praise of Britain]: Rubric: Laudes Brytanniae. Incipit: De Brytanniae Laudibus quidam sic scripsit, Illa quidem longe caelebri splendore beata/ Glebis lacte favis supereminet insula cunctis. ff. 1-72v: [Henry of Huntingdon, Historia anglorum]: Incipit: Habet a miridie [sic] Galliam Belgicam cuius proximum littus transmeantibus aperit civitas quae dicitur Rutupi portus. Explicit: unde comparet quantae rex Stephanus audatiae et animi pericula non reformantis fuerit. ff. 73-87: [Decrees of William the Conqueror]: Rubric: Decreta Willelmi Bastardi et emmendationes quas posuit in Anglia. Incipit: Hic intimatur quid Willelmus rex Anglorum cum principibus suis constituit post conquisitionem Angliae. In primis quidam unum deum super omnia volumus per totum regnum nostrum venerari unam fidem christi semper inviolatam custodiri. Explicit: tamen in foro regio empto mercato suo cum testibus et cognitione vendentium. ff. 87v-88v: [Genealogy of the Norman dukes from Rollo through Stephen]: Incipit: Primus dux Normanniae Rollo qui et Robertus in baptismo dictus regnavit annis 30 ... Explicit: Huic successit Stephanus nepos eius annis 18. ff. 89-90v: [Matthew Paris, Lives of the Two Offas]: Rubric: Chronica monasterii Sancti Albani. Incipit: Habent chronica Sancti Albani quendam fuisse Merciorum regem Warmundum nominatum qui Warwicum civitatem condidit. Huic filium fuisse Offam primum qui usque ad annum fere trigessimum cum mutus permansisset. Explicit: ac si res esset fatalis quaesitu non invenitur. ff. 91-104v: [Thomas Walsingham, Gesta abbatum monasterii Sancti Albani]: Incipit: Willegodus primus abbas Sancti Albani, Offa rex cum ecclesiam conditam monachis multis variis e regionibus ob sanctitatem electis replesset. Explicit: Iohannes de Marins successit Romam profectus cum 4 monachi ubi confirmatus cum non parvam pecuniam consumpsisset reversus est anno 1302, rexit feliciter sex annos et 3/4 bonus et prudens cum fuisset antea prior 14 annos. Mortuus est anno 1308. [f. 104v blank].

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