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John Stow survey of London: incomplete manuscript

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    Dell'elettricitá

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    The manuscript, written in Italian by an unknown author probably in the late 18th century appears to be text copied from another manuscript and is incomplete and unfinished. The manuscript deals with the topic of electricity.

    mssHM 75079

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    Account of Stow Park, England: manuscript

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    This manuscript is about Stow Park in Lincolnshire, England. It gives a descriptive and historical account of Stow and the nearby town Gainsborough. The manuscript appears to be part of a larger manuscript; it contains "Part VIII" and "Part IX," and the pages are p. 98-118. It is incomplete and it ends mid-sentence.

    mssHM 80991

  • King Johan : [manuscript]

    King Johan : [manuscript]

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    ff. 1-35; f. 35v blank. [John Bale] King Johan. Incipit: To declare the powres, & their force to enlarge/ the scriptur of god, doth flow In most abowndaunce. Explicit: Also to preserue hir most honourable counsell/ To the prayse of God, and glorye of the Gospell. Thus endeth the ii playes of kynge Iohan. English. Revisions and 2 added leaves (ff. 12, 14) in the first part (ff. 1-22), and all of the second part (ff. 23-35) in the author's hand. J. Payne Collier, ed., Kynge Johan: a Play in Two Parts by John Bale. Camden Society 2 (London 1838), the first edition, from this unique manuscript. J. M. Manly, ed., Specimens of the Pre-Shaksperean Drama (Boston 1897) 1:523-618 from Collier's edition. W. Bang, ed., Bales Kynge Johan nach der Handschrift in der Chatsworth Collection. Materialen zur Kunde des älteren englischen Dramas 25 (Louvain 1909) in facsimile with reference to verse numbers in Manly's edition. J. H. P. Pafford, ed., with assistance of W. W. Greg, King Johan by John Bale. Malone Society (Oxford 1931) in type-facsimile with plates of portions of ff. 1, 6, 23v, 32. B. B. Adams, ed., John Bale's King Johan (San Marino 1969). P. Happé, ed., The Complete Plays of John Bale (Cambridge, 1985-86).

    mssHM 3

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    Final concord between John Rabie, John Penticost and Judith, his wife: manuscript

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    This manuscript, which is in Latin, is a concord between John Rabie, John Penticost and Judith Penticost. It was drawn up in Sussex, England in 1625. The manuscript may be incomplete.

    mssHM 80992

  • A plan of the Fort of Beau Seiour with the attack in Iune 1755 [cartographic material]

    A plan of the Fort of Beau Seiour with the attack in Iune 1755 [cartographic material]

    Manuscripts

    Manuscript map depicting the Fort of Beauséjour, later Fort Cumberland and showing the road to Bay Vert. Copied by Samuel Holland, probably in 1756, from an original by John Brewse.

    mssHM 15424

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    Mercurius panegyricus : manuscript

    Manuscripts

    A manuscript copied out in an unknown hand; it appears to be a copy of a printed broadside found in: An Account of the Secret Services of Monsieur de Vernay... (RB 110713). This manuscript removed from Bridgewater volume 4/G 2 (HEH E-PV. 88854-92).

    mssHM 83591