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Birch, William2
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Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)2
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Les trois justaucorps, conte bleu, tiré de l'anglois du Révérend Mr. Jonathan Swif [sic]... : Avec Les trois anneaux, nouvelle tirée de Bocace

Macé, René (1752); Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Macé, René (1752)

1721

"Les trois justaucorps", by René Macé, is an adaptation of Jonathan Swift's "Tale of a tub" Cf. BMC, BN Cat. Publication in Dublin is doubtful. Possibly published in the Hague by T. Johnson. Cf. T...

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Miscellany notebook on theological subjects, including summaries of controversial works, compiled possibly by William Birch

Birch, William

c.1560

Contains: (1) ff.1-5: various jottings, including some proverbial sayings in Hebrew on ff.3-4r; (2) ff.8-106: headed 'Bucerus' and apparently a summary of his works in Latin, dated 1551 on f.106v; (3)...

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Les trois justaucorps, conte bleu, tiré de l'anglois du Révérend Mr. Jonathan Swif [sic]... : Avec Les trois anneaux, nouvelle tirée de Bocace

Macé, René (1752); Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Macé, René (1752)

1721

"Les trois justaucorps", by René Macé, is an adaptation of Jonathan Swift's "Tale of a tub" Cf. BMC, BN Cat. Publication in Dublin is doubtful. Possibly published in the Hague by T. Johnson. Cf. T...

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Miscellany notebook, mainly containing summaries of Greek and Latin works by Aristotle, Cicero, Homer, and Hesiod, compiled by William Birch, with notes in English by Anthony Higgin

Birch, William

c.1550-1607

Contains miscellaneous notes, mainly summaries in Latin of works of Aristotle, Cicero, Homer, and Hesiod, as follows: (1) ff.1-27: Ex Ethicis lib.1, cap.1 (- to lib.3); (2) ff.28-9: Verba similia, nom...

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Anonymous miscellany of short Latin compositions on various literary themes and philosophical maxims

c.1575

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 5...

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Title: Lib 1, Ode 9 by Mr Dryden

Date(s): 1685 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 123

Contents: Translation of Horace, Odes I.9, on the need to enjoy the present moment, with particular reference to the pleasures of youth

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Title: A hugh and cry after fair Amoret. 1696

Author: Congreve, William; or

Attribution: E. D---t

Date(s): 1696

Manuscript: Lt q 38

Contents: Lighthearted satire on a coquettish girl, probably Mary Berkeley, daughter

of Viscount Fitzhardinge (thus identified in the margin)

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Archive Judaica Item

Seder shel Rosh ha-shanah ke-minhag ḳ.ḳ. Liślaś. סדר של ראש השנה כמנהג ק׳׳ק לישלאש. [Services for the New Year according to the rite of Lisle].

410 [1649 or 1650]

Hebrew title supplied from title page. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 29. Variant titles: Maḥazor minhag Liśle le-R...

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Indenture re a statute staple of £1,000

16 Jun 1593

1 Thomas Willmer of Lincoln's Inn, esquire 2 Sir Henry Constable of Burton Constable, knight, and William Middleton of Stockeld, esquire HC acknowledges debt of £1,000 to TW, but HC and WM to rep...

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