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Manuscript newsletters from London

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Description: A series of 126 manuscript newsletters from London, January 23, 1689/90 to June 22, 1710 (with gaps), written by a number of professional scribes, mostly with the name of the addressee on the last page and many with franks and postmarks. Unbound and unnumbered.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1689-1710.
Call number: mssHM 30659
Provenance: Purchased from Sotheby, June 1967.
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De vita Caesarum : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-117v: [Suetonius, De vita Caesarum]: Incipit: Annum agens cesar sextumdecimum patrem amisit ... Explicit: abstinentia et moderatione insequentium principum. [Greek words entered by scribes; corrected throughout by the second scribe; the section 10, 1 - 12, 2 was omitted from its place on f. 96 and then inserted on ff. 97v-98 between parts of 20, 1]. [f. 118r-v, blank].

mssHM 45717

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Proceedings of a Court of Enquiry held at West Point, the second day of November 1780 in Pursuance of an Order from His Excellency General Washington, Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America to Major General Heath

Manuscripts

Two copies, both in Richard Varick's hand, of the proceedings of the court of inquiry that cleared him and David Franks of aiding Benedict Arnold. Copy A includes the text of The Interrogatories of Major Franks (1780, Nov. 19). Copy B ends with the text of Varick's speech to the court.

mssHM 893

Chronicle : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-135; ff. 135v-136v blank. [Robert of Gloucester]. [Chronicle]. Incipit: Engelond is swithe good I wene hit is lond beste/ In oon ende hit is yset: of þe world al in þe west. Explicit: þat of þe walische londe clanlich al out/ He wan þe seignorye nere hi no so prout. English. IMEV 727 . W. A. Wright, ed., The Metrical Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester. RS 86 (London 1887); HM 126 of the later recension; ff. 127v-135 correspond to Wright's Appendix XX, pp. 838-77.

mssHM 126

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Newsletters, postcards, and invitations (from Henry Evans)

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A collection of botanical prints and ephemera created by artist Henry H. Evans, dating from approximately the 1970s to the 1990s. Materials include linocut prints, calendars, catalogs, price lists, order forms, postcards, correspondence, and other ephemera. The collection contains approximately 150 prints, and all are signed, titled, dated, and editioned in pencil by the creator. A complete unbound print of Henry Evans' California Native Wildflowers (1976 to 1984) is included. Also included is a signed copy of Botanical prints: with excerpts from the artist's notebooks (1977). Botanical subjects depicted in the prints often include: poppies, roses, daffodils, daisies, violets, tulips, pomegranates, irises, bamboo, persimmons, camellias, lilies, and other flowers.

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Game at chesse : manuscript, 1624

Manuscripts

Thomas Middleton's game at chess, including the Prologue, partially in his own hand along with two other scribes. Paper, i, 54, ii leaves. Principally in a professional secretary hand, with the title-page (f. 1r), folios 21v-2r, 46r-54v (including the Epilogue), and two or three corrections elsewhere in Middleton's hand, as well as possibly the boxing of speakers' names in pencil or lead point; the Latin oration on f. 45r in another scribal hand. Written in 1624. Pencil foliation begins on initial blank leaf and continues through final blank leaves.

mssEL 34 B 17

Commentary on the Pauline epistles : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-129v: [Ambrosiaster, Commentary on the Pauline Epistles]: Rubric: Incipit Tractatus Sancti Ambrosii In Epistola Ad Romanos, Paulus servus ihesu christi. Incipit: Apud veteres [nostros ratione] nomina componebantur ut ysaac propter risum ... Explicit: ut securos illos faciat et erigat ne timeant que irrogari possunt a perfidis sed in persecutione alacres//. [This manuscript missing 4 quires after f. 112 (end of commentary on 2 Corinthians, all of Galatians, all of Ephesians, beginning of Philippians); missing one leaf after f. 126 (part of Colossians); missing undetermined amount after f. 127 (end of Colossians, all of 1 Timothy, beginning of 2 Timothy); missing undetermined amount after f. 129 (end of 2 Timothy, all of Titus, all of Philemon); 1 and 2 Thessalonians are copied before Colossians. Each epistle commentary remaining with incipit (Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, Colossians) is prefaced by a chapter list; the chapter lists in this copy of Ambrosiaster retain forms of the Vetus Latina recension].

mssHM 52435

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